Academic visitors

Find out about the visitors from collaborating universities and institutions that are currently being hosted by the School of Engineering and Computer Science.

Below is a list of all current and expected visitors. If you would like more information about a visitor, please talk to the Local Contact. If any details are incorrect, inform the School Office.

  • Lindsay Groves
    21/02/2020 to 20/12/2026
    Research Field: Formal Software Development, Computational Logic, Programming Language Theory, Concurrency
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • James Noble
    22/02/2022 to 31/07/2027
    Research Field: Object-Oriented Software Design
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Bryan Ng
    15/03/2022 to 01/09/2025
    Research Field: Software Defined Networking, Analytics, Big Data, Stochastic process, 802.11, SDN
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Ian Welch

  • Alex Potanin
    16/08/2022 to 30/06/2025
    Research Field: Cyber Security, Programming Languages
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Tony McLoughlin

  • David Pearce
    01/10/2022 to 30/06/2025
    Research Field: Programming Languages, Compilers, Program Analysis, Software Verification
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Nan Li - CO322
    14/11/2022 to 30/04/2025
    Research Field: Evolutionary Deep Learning, Neural Architecture Search
    Home Institution: North University of China
    Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

  • Mansoor Shafi
    10/03/2023 to 05/07/2027
    Research Field: Wireless Communication Systems
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Peter Andreae
    15/04/2023 to 31/12/2026
    Research Field: Artificial Intelligence
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Xinxin Xu - CO322
    20/10/2023 to 18/10/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Fangfang Zhang

  • Ajay Kapur
    13/11/2023 to 16/11/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

  • Shaolin Wang
    21/12/2023 to 31/07/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Shaojin Geng - CO348
    23/04/2024 to 29/10/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Damien O'Neill
    08/08/2024 to 30/08/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Andrew Lensen

  • Christopher McGavin
    12/11/2024 to 12/11/2025
    Research Field: digital policy and artificial intelligence.
    Home Institution: VUW
    Local Contact: Dr Andrew Lensen

  • Tao Shi
    23/01/2025 to 31/01/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

  • Guanqun Ai - CO322
    06/02/2025 to 29/08/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Local Contact: Dr Aaron Chen

  • Wan-Duo Ma
    20/02/2025 to 20/02/2028
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Emily Jin - AM411
    27/02/2025 to 30/09/2025
    Research Field: Information and Telecommunication Engineering
    Home Institution: Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
    Local Contact: Prof Winston Seah

  • Daniele Gambetta - AM411
    03/03/2025 to 01/05/2025
    Research Field: Generative AI models
    Home Institution: University of Pisa
    Local Contact: Prof Ali Knott

  • Leon Wieprecht - AM411
    03/03/2025 to 30/05/2025
    Research Field: Adaptive Genetic Algorithms for Real-Time IoT Workflow Scheduling under Uncertain Resource Availability
    Home Institution: UPPSALA UNIVERSITY
    Local Contact: Dr Aaron Chen

  • Paul Teal - AM221
    03/03/2025 to 30/06/2027
    Research Field: Signal Processing and Communications
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Harisu Abdullahi Shehu - AM221
    05/03/2025 to 31/12/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Georgia Dix

  • Chen Wang - CO322
    31/03/2025 to 30/11/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
    Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

  • Tianlei Ma - CO322
    17/04/2025 to 15/04/2026
    Research Field: Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Image processing, Target detection
    Home Institution: Zhengzhou University
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Haoran Gu - CO353
    01/07/2025 to 30/06/2026
    Research Field: Evolutionary computation and learning and generative AI for multi-objective optimisation and decision making
    Home Institution: Xidian University
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Junhua Zhu - CO322
    01/09/2025 to 31/08/2026
    Research Field: AI, Evolutionary Computation,  renewable energy
    Home Institution: Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
    Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue