An academic with over 40 years (since 1983) of research and teaching experience in 5 British Universities and 2 Chinese Universities.

His research interests include Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Distributed, Generative and General AI, LLM and NLP, AI Ethics, HeXie theory, Knowledge Engineering, Agent and Multi-agent Systems, Grid Computing and HCI. He has published over 100 Journal and Conference papers. He has served as a number of academic journal editors and international conference technical committee members. He has obtained over 200K fundings from government and industry.

He has supervised 5 PhD students to completion and large number of masters. He has taught modules include AI, Disruptive Technologies, Big Data Analytics, Semi-structured Databases, and Technologies for e-Commerce for both UG and PG levels. He has published a textbook in title of "Foundation for Big Data Analytics: Concepts, Technologies, Methods and Business" (ISBN:978-7-03-058148-8).

He has wide industrial connections and worked with IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Baidu and iFlyTek, etc. He has extensive experience in consulting, application development and industrial solution providing using Data Science and Enginering knowledge, Artificial Intelligence, and Knowledge Graphs in the fields of business, industry, finance and governments.

He is a public speaker who delivers speeches, talks and seminars at Multi-billion, multi-national companies and international stages. He delivered industrial short disruptive technological courses for government agencies, business executives and high-level managers.

AI Ethics, Distributed AI, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Web Science, Multi-agents Cooperation, HCI, E-commerce, Grid Computing, VR/AR and IOT. 

1983 Computer high-level language compiler development

1985 Large-scale oil depot management system development

1987 Large satellite monitor and control system development

1994 Weightless Neural Network Associative Processor (C-nnap) development

1995 Advance Distributed Associative Memory (ADAM) research and development

1998 Multiple agents’ cooperation with Shifting Matric Management (SMM)

1999 Digital Document Discourse Environment (D3E) project development

2000 Scholarly Ontology project (SchaLonto)

2002 Cork Project – User-centric requirements engineering

2004 OGSA-DAI – Open Grid Service Architecture – Data Access and Integration

2005 Grimories – Open Grid registry

2006 OMII – Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (developing grid middleware)

2007 G-Lite: Construct knowledge concept maps

2008 GridSAM – Open Grid computation and process management (scheduling)

2009 Doctor’s assistant (AI agent for EHR creation)

2010 Knowledge Graph based on collective intelligence

2015 Video content understanding and recommendation

2016 Knowledge Graph construction and alignment for knowledge-intensive organisations

2017 Big Data analytical platform research using multiple-agent approaches

2018 Public Security Case Records Understanding with Machine Learning and Knowledge Graph

2020 Develop a Framework for Environmental Action Decision Support (FEADS)

2021 Developing an Edge Impulse AI solution for IoT

2023 Comfy workers: A smart accommodation booking and invoice system

2024 HeXie Management Research Centre Knowledge Base project