Human Machine Intelligence Research Group
Welcome to our research group page. We are supported by a variety of UKRI, EU, and Defence & Securities funding. Full list of grants is here. Access to our and wider university labs relevant to our group is here.
The centre I lead has 10 academic staff and 16 research fellows. It broadly has 3 areas: Data-driven Human-Machine Intelligence, Model-driven Assurance, and Integration-driven Advanced Air Mobility. It hosts several national and sector critical labs (1 of UK's 6G nodes, 1 of the largest drone arenas, human factors based cockpit & C2, fully integrated UTM/ATM with air traffic control, delivering research capability to UK and UK Plc.
The research group in my area within the centre is diverse and consists of 18+ members from 9 countries:
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Academic Staff (2):
Yang Xing (Senior Lecturer) - applied AI for engineering
Adolfo Perrusquia (Lecturer) - reinforcement learning for engineering
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Research Fellows (6):
Deepak Panda (RAEng IC Fellow 2023-25) - autonomy and AI
Yun Tang (EPSRC TAS-S and EPSRC 6G CHEDDAR, 2024-26) - distributed autonomy across heterogeneous continuum
Mengbang Zou (EPSRC 6G CHEDDAR, 2024-26) - resilience of dynamic networked systems
Jinsheng Yuan (EPSRC CHEDDAR 2025-26) - contextualised ML pipelines
Mariusz Winsinewski (Leonardo CDAS 2023-25, EPSRC CHEDDAR 2025-26) - XAI for trustworthy optimisation
Paris Chatzithanos (Leonardo CDAS 2023-25) - trustworthy learning for autonomous navigation
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Ph.D. Students (11):
Danny Holt (2021-25, EPSRC DTP with Saab) - XAI based radar signal classification for UTM
Dimitris Panagopoulos (2023-27, EPSRC iCASE with Thales) - human machine teaming for search & rescue
Yifan Yang (2023-26) - civil aviation safety for air mobility on demand
Lakhepatil Ajinkya (2023-27, EPSRC TAS-S) - causal learning for trustworthy autonomy
Sorin Negru (2023-26) - Hybrid PNT navigation
Jamal Mazar (2023-26) - space wireless networks
Cillian Wang (2023-26) - compressive sensing and control in aircraft wings
Minqing Qiu (2024-27) - narrative based mapping in remote areas
Ugurcan Celik (2024-27, EPSRC iCASE with BAE Systems) - physics-informed AI
Ben Russell (2025-28, EPSRC iCASE with BAE Systems) - combinatorial AI for defence
[Vacancy] (2025-28), Self-funded - 6G ORAN for distributed computing
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Ph.D. Students External (1):
Tabitha Watson (2021-25, Exeter University) - Climate induced migration modeling
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Previous PhD/Postdocs:
Academia - A. Al-Shami (Ass. Prof. @ S. Arkansas Uni.), I. Atthanayake (Lecturer @ Open Uni. Sri Lanka), G. Aquino (Lecturer @ Goldsmiths Uni. of London), H. Yuan (Lecturer @ Kingston Uni.), S. Qiu (Ass. Prof. @ Southwest Jiaotong Uni), N. Gupta (Ass. Professor @ Warwick Uni.), C. Pilgrim (Research Fellow @ UCL), M. Mazzamurro (Research Fellow @Aarhus Uni.), Z. Wei (Research Fellow @ Imperial College), M. Abbaszadeh (Research Fellow @ Imperial College), L. Wang (Ass. Prof. @ Northwestern Uni.), A. Sonea (Research Fellow @ Warwick Uni.), K. Fung Chu (Research Fellow @ Cambridge Uni)
Industry - N. Tkachenko (Data Scientist @ Lloyds Banking Group and Cambridge Uni.), G. Mosquera (Chief Data Scientist @ Alpha Analytics), S. Esfahani (Engineer @ Occuity), S. Chotvijit (Consultant @ NTT), G. Moutsinas (Researcher @ AlphaGrep), W. Qi (Wireless Engineer @Ranplan), S. Sun (Senior Data Scientist @ Micron Tech), C. Li (AI Engineer @ ByteDance), P. Geragersian (Project Manager @ Atkins), J. Ricketts (BAE Systems), A. Jin (Maybank)
Before applying or sending an email for any positions, please: (1) check and communicate your eligibility and how you meet basic requirements, (2) attach your academic CV. Otherwise I am almost definitely not going to respond.
