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 28/03/2025
    Research Field: Software Defined Networking, Analytics, Big Data, Stochastic process, 802.11, SDN
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Ian Welch

  • Rita Garcia
    18/07/2022 to 30/06/2025
    Research Field: Engineering Education.
    Home Institution: Unity/WETA in NZ
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • 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

  • Frank-Peter Schilling
    01/11/2022 to 31/10/2025
    Research Field: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
    Home Institution: Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • 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

  • Joaquim Jorge
    15/12/2022 to 31/12/2025
    Research Field: Computer graphics
    Home Institution: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa (IST/UL)
    Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

  • Wan-Duo Ma
    01/02/2023 to 28/02/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Mansoor Shafi
    10/03/2023 to 09/03/2025
    Research Field: Wireless Communication Systems
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

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

  • Peter Lai
    03/07/2023 to 30/06/2026
    Research Field: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • Fei Ming - CO348
    01/09/2023 to 15/04/2025
    Research Field: Evolutionary computation
    Home Institution: China University of Geosciences
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • 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

  • Yoonsang Lee - AM422
    01/02/2024 to 14/02/2025
    Research Field: Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Generative models for human motion synthesis Home Institution: Hanyang University
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Taehyun Rhee

  • Bilian Cheng - AM422
    01/03/2024 to 31/03/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: Jiangnan University
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

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

  • Tianlei Ma - CO322
    01/07/2024 to 30/06/2025
    Research Field: Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Image processing, Target detection
    Home Institution: Zhengzhou University
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Paul Teal - AM423
    01/07/2024 to 30/06/2027
    Research Field: Signal Processing and Communications
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

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

  • Guanqun Ai - AM413
    02/09/2024 to 29/08/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Local Contact: Dr Aaron Chen

  • Ulf Brefeld - CO334
    01/10/2024 to 28/02/2025
    Research Field: Machine Learning
    Home Institution: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
    Local Contact: Dr Heitor Gomes

  • Minghao Shang - CO348
    01/10/2024 to 30/09/2025
    Research Field: scheduling and power optimisation
    Home Institution: Xidian University
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Emily Jin - AM422
    03/10/2024 to 30/09/2025
    Research Field: Information and Telecommunication Engineering
    Home Institution: Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
    Local Contact: Prof Winston Seah

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

  • Daniele Gambetta - AM221
    01/12/2024 to 01/05/2025
    Research Field: Generative AI models
    Home Institution: University of Pisa
    Local Contact: Prof Ali Knott

  • John Lewis
    16/12/2024 to 15/12/2027
    Research Field: Machine learning, both its fundamentals, and applications to computer visions, image and video processing.
    Home Institution: Nvidia Research
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Leon Wieprecht - AM221
    20/01/2025 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

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

  • Reinhard Koch - CO322
    30/01/2025 to 08/03/2025
    Research Field: Computer Vision, Image Processing, 3D Reconstruction
    Home Institution: Kiel University, Germany
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Simon Moore - AM422
    01/02/2025 to 16/03/2025
    Research Field: Computer architecture, particularly secure and rigorously-engineered processors and subsystems.
    Home Institution: University of Cambridge
    Local Contact: Prof Neil Dodgson

  • Adrian Morales - CO348
    03/02/2025 to 14/03/2025
    Research Field: Multi-Objective Hyper-Heuristics
    Home Institution: Tecnologico de Monterrey
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • Neal Glew - CO260
    03/02/2025 to 14/03/2025
    Research Field: Programming Languages and Software Engineering
    Home Institution: Google, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Anslow

  • Guenther Raidl - CO334
    15/02/2025 to 15/03/2025
    Research Field: scheduling and combinatorial optimisation
    Home Institution: TU Wien, Austria
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Ying Xu - CO334
    01/04/2025 to 30/09/2025
    Research Field: Evolutionary Computation and machine learning
    Home Institution: Hunan University
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • Yan Xing - CO334
    01/05/2025 to 30/04/2026
    Research Field: Deep learning application in 3D Reconstruction, Image Processing, Depression detection, and solving partial differential equations; Quaternion Algebra, etc.
    Home Institution: Department of Mathematics,  Hefei University of Technology
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Elena Barbera Gregori - AM421
    01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025
    Research Field: Elena is researching online learning.
    Home Institution: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    Local Contact: A/Prof Karsten Lundqvist

  • Shengluo Yang - CO322
    01/09/2025 to 30/08/2026
    Research Field: Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation
    Home Institution: University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
    Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

  • Rong-Kai Xu - CO322
    01/10/2025 to 30/11/2026
    Research Field: Computer Graphics
    Home Institution: Beijing Institute of Technology
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang