Mission 1: Equip machines with perceptual and cognitive machinery to read, reason and respond like empathic partners.

• give robots the ability to perceive, express and regulate emotion, adding an affective layer to every exchagne. 
• anchor AI decisions in validated cognitive models so that systems logic mirrors human thought.
• co-create control loops that keep humans optimally 'in the loop.'
  • E.g., surgery-grade medical interaction - port these empathic - cognitive advances into the OR, where millimetre precision meets millisecond feedback.

Mission 2: guarantee that every agent-to-agent and human-to-agent loop is trustworthy, information-rich and retrieval-fast.

• liveness detection - verify the authenticity of the interacting subject in real time, blocking spoofing attacks at the gate. 
• adaptive information retrieval - align user intent with content in sub-second latency, acting as the system's information concierge. 
• hyperspectral imaging - capture spectral signatures beyond the visible to harden biometric security and enable pixel-level lesion mapping.

Mission 3: turn algorithms into dependable, real-time, source-aware machines.

• embedded software engineering - develop safety-critical firmware for robotics, biometric terminals and spectral imagers that meet hard real-time dealines. 
• cross-Pillar Hardware/Software Co-design - deliver the drives, middleware and compute substrates that let Pillars 1 and 2 run flawlessly under strict power, size and safety constraints. 

• XJTLU University Academic Board Member, 2025-
• XJTLU PHCI Programme Director, 2025-
• XJTLU SAT School Work Placement Officer, 2022-2025
• Xi'an ACM Chapter, Vice Chair, 2025 - 2027
• ACM-W Suzhou, Member, 2025-2027
• Xi'an ACM Chapter, Treasurer, 2024-2025
• ACM CARES Steering Committee, Committee Member, 2022-
• Lifetime Member, Chinese Association of Automation
• Senior Member, IEEE, ACM, China Computer Federation
• Member, Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Chinese Society for Stereology, China Ordnance Society, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Chinese Information Processing Society of China
• Assistant Professor, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2022-2025
• Senior Researcher, Norwegian Maritime Competence Center, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, 2020-2021
• Postdoc, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, 2017-2019
• Research Fellow, Universitetet i Oslo, 2013-2017
• Consultant(PLM), Parametric Technology Corporation, 2012-1013
• Associate Consultant(PLM), Parametric Technology Corporation, 2009-2010

• First Prize in Natural Science, Suzhou Association for Artificial Intelligence, Suzhou Science and Technology Association(Municipal-level), 2026/苏州市人工智能自然科学奖一等奖、苏州市人工智能学会，2026。
• Winning Prize in the 18th China Chengdu International Software Design and Application Competition, jointly issued by Chengdu Municipal People's Government, Sichuan Provincial Department of Education and Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, 2024/第18届中国国际软件设计与应用大赛优胜奖，成都市人民政府/四川省经济和信息化厅/四川省教育厅，2024年。
• Double Innovation Doctor under Jiangsu Provincial Talent Program, JSSCBS20230474, Talent Office of CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, 2024/江苏省人才计划双创博士，JSSCBS20230474, 江苏省委人才办公室, 2024年
• Best SURF supervisor, XJTLU, 2024.
• Excellence Award in the 1st Air Force Creative Challenge, Awarded by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force, 2023/首届空军创意挑战赛，优秀奖，授予单位：中国人民解放军空军，2023年
• The Eighth China International "Internet Plus" University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Bronze Award, Ministry of Education/第八届中国国际“互联网+”大学生创新创业大学，铜奖，授予单位：教育部， 2023年
• Best paper award. The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing. (CCF B)，2023年
  
• Regonised Associate Chair. ACM CHI conference 2023 (CCF A)，2023年
• Regonised reviewer. Ocean Engineering (SCI Q1)，2022年
• Best paper award. The 18th ACM SIGGraph International Conference on Virutal-Reality and Its Applications in Industry. 2022年
  
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council (CSC) ID: ZF2016045003/2016 年度国家优秀自费留学生奖学金 教育部国家留学基金委编号 ID: ZF2016045003
• 2013. PhD Fellowship, The Research Council of Norway/挪威研究理事会, ca. 2.56M RMB（约2560000人民币）

Joining us:

We seek to recurit highly qualified individuals from China and from around the world. We offer studentships. I will be happy to help you explore topics and programs that would suit your background and aspirations. 

Ph.D. Students - You should have an excellent academic record, a Master's degree from a recognized program, and deep interest and commitment in pursuing research. Writing skills are important. 

Summer Studentships - I typically have openings for several summer positions in research projects for senior undergrads. You should have high academic standing. This is an excellent opportunity for learning about the research environment and graduate school while being gainfully employed. Masters students interested in contributing to our research projects are also welcome. Please send me your resume by email to register your interest. Having some of the following as background would be helpful but not essential:

• programming experience
• real-world work experience
• mulitimodal learning and representation
• machine learning, data science
• AI, knowledge-based systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, AI programming
• software engineering work experience
• cognitive science, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology

However, ethusiasm, self-motivation, and dedication are essential :-)

Current Postgraduates and Undergraduates (UoL):

• Y3 PhD student, 1(Primary)
• Y2 PhD, 2(Primary)
• Y1 PhD, 2(Primary), 2(Co)
• 5 Ongoing BS students(Computer Science, UoL, UK)

Postgraduates and Undergraduates as co-supervisor/external supervisor:

• 5 PhD students (Osaka, GeorgiaTech, Xidian University and Xi'an Jiaotong University), 4 MS students (XJTU, Xidian, ZZULI), 3 BS students (SJTU)

Completed PhD, MS and BS students:

• 1 Completed PhD(co-advisor, NTNU), 1 completed MS student (NTNU, Norway), 25 completed MS students(UoL, UK), and 13 completed BS students(UoL, UK).

Current teaching:

• CPT412 Human-Robot Interaction; PG
• CPT105 Introduction to Programming in Java; UG, ca. 900 students per academic year
• SAT306 Final Year Project; UG
• SAT405 MRes Final Year Project; PG
• SAT406 MSc Final Year Project; PG

Taught:

• CPT302 Multiagent Systems; UG