The BCML Lab @ Heriot-Watt University

Note: we are in the process of adding new members. If you think you should be added into this page, please let Dr Wei Pang know.


Lab Lead


Dr. Wei Pang

Dr. Wei Pang

BCML Lab Leader, Associate Professor in Computer Science

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Dr Wei Pang is an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University,...


Academic Members


Dr. Michael Lones

Dr. Michael Lones

Associate Professor in Computer Science

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Dr Michael Lones is an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt Univer...

Prof. George M. Coghill

Prof. George M. Coghill

Emeritus Professor in Computer Science at Aberdeen University

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Prof George M Coghill is Emeritus Professor at Aberdeen University. Previously he was a member of the Intelligent ...

Dr Chengjia Wang

Dr Chengjia Wang

Assistant Professor

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Dr Chengjia Wang is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. He earned his Ph.D. degr...

Dr Dongdong Chen

Dr Dongdong Chen

Assistant Professor

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Dr Dongdong Chen is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. He received his PhD in c...


Research Associates, Research Assistants


Yingfang Yuan

Yingfang Yuan

Research Associate on the PRIME project

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Yingfang (James) is a Research Associate who is currently working on the EPSRC funded PRIME project. His PhD was f...

Junhao Song

Junhao Song

Research Programmer on the RAInS project

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Junhao Song is a research programmer working on the RAInS project in 2022. Previously he also took a summer intern...


PhD students


Chiu Pang (Danny) Fung

Chiu Pang (Danny) Fung is a PhD student who is currently working on immune-inspired approaches to explainable and ...

Qin Jiang

Qin Jiang

PhD student

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Qin Jiang is a PhD student who is currently working on mutli-objective graph learning. Her PhD is funded by the pr...

Kefan Chen

Kefan Chen

PhD student

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Kefan Chen did his MSc project with Dr Wei Pang, and he was awarded an MSc Distinction degree at Aberdeen Univesit...

Yonghan Zhang

Yonghan Zhang

PhD student

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Yonghan Zhang is a PhD student who is currently working on immune-inspired machine learning approaches to optimise...

Konstantinos Gavriilidis

Konstantinos Gavriilidis is a PhD student supervised by Prof Helen Hastie FRSE (first supervisor) and Dr Wei Pang....

Ioana Gherman

Ioana Gherman

PhD student based at Bristol

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Ioana Gherman is a PhD student based at Bristol. She is supervised by Dr Lucia Marucci (lead supervisor, Bristol),...

Sitong Li

Sitong Li

PhD student

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Sitong Li is a PhD student supervised by Prof Mike Chantler (first supervisor) and Dr Wei Pang. His PhD is funded ...

Yuchen Pan

Yuchen Pan

PhD student

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Yuchen Pan, supported by the James Watt Scholarship at Heriot-Watt University, is undertaking his PhD under the gu...


MSc students


Zhewen Wei

Zhewen Wei

MSc student

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Zhewen Wei is a MSc student who is currently working on dynamic topic modelling. His MSc project is supervised by...


Academic Visitors


Yeqi Hu

Yeqi Hu

PhD student at Ocean University of China

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Yeqi Hu is funded by China Scholarship Council as a visiting student to visit the BCML lab from Dec 2022 to Dec 20...

Hong Wang

Hong Wang

Lecturer at Wuhan University of Technology

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Hong Wang is funded by China Scholarship Council as a visiting scholar to visit the BCML lab from 2022 to 2023.


Past Research Associates and Research Assistant


Wenjun Wang

Wenjun Wang

Former PDRA at Heriot-Watt and Aberdeen

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Dr Wenjun Wang was a former PDRA (2018-2021) line managed by Dr. Wei Pang. He worked on the EPSRC funded Manufactu...

Thomas Gey

Thomas Gey

Former Research Developer and MSc student

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Thomas Gey was a former Research Developer (2020) line managed by Dr. Wei Pang. He worked on the Cancer UK funded ...

Severin Fichtl

Severin Fichtl

Former Research Programmer and PhD student

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Dr. Severin Fichtl was a former Research Programmer (2016-2017) working on the AIRSYB project funded by Royal Soci...

Adeniyi Abdul

Adeniyi Abdul

Former RA on the Indyref project

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Dr Adeniyi Abdul was a former Research Assistant (2015-2016) working on the Indyref project funded by ESRC. He was...

David Emele

David Emele

Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Indyref project

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Dr David Emele was a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2015) working on the Indyref project funded by ESRC...

Ioannis Christofilogiannis

Ioannis Christofilogiannis is a 5th year undergraduate student in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (E...


Former PhD students


Abubakr Awad

Abubakr Awad

Data Scientist at Tesco

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Dr. Abubakr Awad is currently a Data Scientist at Tesco. He was a PhD student (2017-2020) working on Physarum Pol...

Musa Karatu

Musa Karatu

Teaching Fellow at Aberdeen University

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Dr. Musa Karatu is currently a Teaching Fellow at Aberdeen University. He was a PhD student (2016-2020) working on...

Anthony Chapman

Anthony Chapman

Data Mining and AI Engineer at GDi

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Dr. Anthony Chapman is currently a Data Mining and AI Engineer at GDi. He was a PhD student (2017-2021) working on...

Muhammad Usman

Muhammad Usman

Research Programmer at Heriot-Watt

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Dr. Muhammad Usman was a PhD student (2018-2022) supervised by Dr Wei Pang (lead supervisor) and Prof. George M. C...

Debinal Rajan

Debinal Rajan

PhD student

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Debinal was a PhD student who worked on clustering of heterogenious information networks. Her PhD was funded by th...

Atiku Abubakar

Atiku Abubakar

PhD student based at Aberdeen

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Atiku Abubakar’s PhD project is about qualitative model learning and automated scientific discovery. His PhD was f...

Adinath Ghadage

Adinath Ghadage

PhD student based at Aberdeen

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Adinath Ghadage was a PhD student working on fairness in machine learning. His PhD was funded by the Indian Govern...

Luc Frachon

Luc Frachon

PhD student

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Luc Frachon was a PhD student who worked on immune-inspired Neural Architecture Search. He was supervised by Dr We...

Alice Scarpa

Alice Scarpa was a PhD student who worked on AI as applied in Ecology. She was supervised by Prof Justin Travis (2...

Sylvia Farong Wang

Sylvia Farong Wang

Research Assistant at Xiamen University

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Dr. Farong Wang was a PhD student (2018-2020) working on knowledge graph and machine learning, based at Aberdeen U...


Former MSc and Undergraduate Students


Rachana Patel

Rachana Patel

Former MSc student

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Dr. Rachana Patel did her MSc placement project with ST in 2021. She was supervised by Dr Wei Pang (academic super...

Edvinas Byla

Edvinas Byla

Former BSc student

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Edvinas Byla did his honor project with Dr Wei Pang at Aberdeen University in 2019. The paper he published with We...

Rob Stone

Rob Stone

Former MSc student

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Rob Stone did his MSc placement project with Peachy Mondays in 2021. He was supervised by Dr Wei Pang and an indus...

Agne Zainyte

Agne Zainyte

Former MSc student

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Agne Zainyte did her MSc project on accoutable machine learning with Dr Wei Pang in 2021. She published one works...

Miruna Clinciu

Miruna Clinciu

Former MSc student

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Miruna Clinciu did her MSc placement project with Chevron at Aberdeen in 2018. She was supervised by Dr Wei Pang a...

Zayn Shuman

Zayn Shuman

Former Undergraduate Intern from Bath

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Zayn Shuman received BSc Mathematics (Hons) from University of Bath in 2022. He was funded by the prestigious MACS...


Past Visitors


Qing Liu

Qing Liu

Lecturer at Xi'an University of Technology

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Dr. Qing Liu visited SMML lab at Aberdeen in 2018 through the Royal Society funded project titled “Physarum Intell...

Shahadate Rezvy

Shahadate Rezvy

Lecturer at York St. John University

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Dr. Shahadate Rezvy visited the BCML lab from February 2020 to June 2020 through the CRUK funded project titled “E...

Juho Rousu

Juho Rousu

Professor in Computer Science at Aalto University

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Juho Rousu is a Professor of Computer Science at Aalto University, Finland. He was hosted by Dr Wei Pang at Aberde...