The BCML Lab @ Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
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 is Professor at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. P...
Academic Members
Dr Michael Lones is Professor at the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinbur...
Prof George M Coghill is Emeritus Professor at Aberdeen University. Previously he was a member of the Intelligent ...
Prof John Woodward is Professor and Dubai Head of School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt Univ...
Dr Chengjia Wang is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. He earned his Ph.D. degr...
Dr Dongdong Chen is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. He received his PhD in c...
Dr Yingfang (James) is an assistant professor at Northumbria University. Previously, he was a Research Associate w...
Research Associates, Research Assistants
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 is a PhD student who is currently working on immune-inspired approaches to explainable and ...
Qin Jiang is a PhD student who is currently working on mutli-objective graph learning. Her PhD is funded by the pr...
Kefan Chen did his MSc project with Dr Wei Pang, and he was awarded an MSc Distinction degree at Aberdeen Univesit...
Yonghan Zhang is a PhD student who is currently working on immune-inspired machine learning approaches to optimise...
Sitong Li is a PhD student supervised by Prof Mike Chantler (first supervisor) and Dr Wei Pang. His PhD is funded ...
Yuchen Pan, supported by the James Watt Scholarship at Heriot-Watt University, is undertaking his PhD under the gu...
Alex Wang is funded by EastBio Doctoral Training Partnership, and he is supervised by Prof Mirela Delibegovic (FRS...
Esma Lounes is a PhD student supervised by Dr Mike Just (first supervisor) and Dr Wei Pang. She is currently work...
Amir Javadi Rad is a Ph.D. student at Heriot-Watt University, where he was awarded the prestigious James Watt Scho...
Ehsan Mohmmadipasand is a PhD student who is currently working on deep learning models. He was awarded a Graduate ...
Xiaolong Wu is currently a PhD student in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS) at Heriot-Watt U...
Miruna Clinciu is a PhD student at Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CDT-RAS) at the Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, ...
MSc students
Zhewen Wei is a MSc student who is currently working on dynamic topic modelling. His MSc project is supervised by...
Academic and Student Visitors
Tian Wang is a visiting student at the BCML lab from 2025 to 2026. Previously he was an honor student who is super...
Fan Li is a visiting PhD student at the BCML Lab from June 2026 to June 2027, supported by the China Scholarship C...
Zhongyu Yang is a visiting student at the BCML lab, focusing on multimodal agentic systems. Previously he was an u...
Xuanyu Yue is a visiting research student in the BCML Lab at Heriot-Watt University, collaborating with Prof. Wei ...
Past Research Associates and Research Assistants
Dr Wenjun Wang was a former PDRA (2018-2021) line managed by Dr. Wei Pang. He worked on the EPSRC funded Manufactu...
Thomas Gey was a former Research Developer (2020) line managed by Dr. Wei Pang. He worked on the Cancer UK funded ...
Andy Edmondson is working as a part-time RA on the EPSRC-funded PRIME project. In PRIME, he is using Machine Learn...
Vijaya Balan Jagadeesan is currently working as an AI research assistant on the EPSRC-funded PRIME project at Heri...
Dr. Severin Fichtl was a former Research Programmer (2016-2017) working on the AIRSYB project funded by Royal Soci...
Dr Adeniyi Abdul was a former Research Assistant (2015-2016) working on the Indyref project funded by ESRC. He was...
Dr David Emele was a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2015) working on the Indyref project funded by ESRC...
Ioannis Christofilogiannis is a 5th year undergraduate student in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (E...
Former PhD students
Dr. Abubakr Awad is currently a Data Scientist at Tesco. He was a PhD student (2017-2020) working on Physarum Poly...
Dr. Musa Taninu Karatu is currently a Teaching Fellow at Aberdeen University. He was a PhD student (2016-2020) wor...
Dr. Anthony Chapman is currently a Data Mining and AI Engineer at GDi. He was a PhD student (2017-2021) working on...
Dr. Muhammad Usman was a PhD student (2018-2022) supervised by Dr Wei Pang (lead supervisor) and Prof. George M. C...
Dr. Severin Fichtl was a former Research Programmer (2016-2017) working on the AIRSYB project funded by Royal Soci...
Dr. Debinal Rajan was a PhD student who worked on clustering of heterogeneous information networks. Her PhD was fu...
Dr. Atiku Abubakar’s PhD project focused on qualitative model learning and automated scientific discovery. His PhD...
Dr Yingfang (James) is an assistant professor at Northumbria University. Previously, he was a Research Associate w...
Dr. Adinath Ghadage was a PhD student working on fairness in machine learning. His PhD was funded by the Indian Go...
Dr. Luc Frachon was a PhD student who worked on immune-inspired Neural Architecture Search. He was supervised by D...
Alice Scarpa was a PhD student who worked on AI as applied in Ecology. She was supervised by Prof Justin Travis (2...
Dr. Farong Wang was a PhD student (2018-2020) working on knowledge graph and machine learning, based at Aberdeen U...
Dr. Konstantinos Gavriilidis was a PhD student supervised by Prof. Wei Pang, Prof. Helen Hastie FRSE, and Dr. Ioan...
Dr James Forrest is funded by EPSRC DTP award, and his PhD project is supervised by Dr Yaji Sripada (Aberdeen), Dr...
Dr. Hadeel Albalawi is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tabuk. She completed her PhD from 201...
Dr Ioana M Gherman was a PhD student based at Bristol from 2021 to 2025. She was supervised by Dr Lucia Marucci (l...
Former MSc and Undergraduate Students
Dr. Rachana Patel did her MSc placement project with ST in 2021. She was supervised by Dr Wei Pang (academic super...
Edvinas Byla did his honor project with Dr Wei Pang at Aberdeen University in 2019. The paper he published with We...
Rob Stone did his MSc placement project with Peachy Mondays in 2021. He was supervised by Dr Wei Pang and an indus...
Agne Zainyte did her MSc project on accoutable machine learning with Dr Wei Pang in 2021. She published one works...
Yu Zhou’s undergraduate and master’s research projects were both supervised by Prof. Wei Pang, and he continues to...
Zhaorui Jiang is a visiting student at the BCML Lab from September 2024 to present, supervised by Prof. Wei Pang a...
Past Visitors
Dr. Qing Liu visited SMML lab at Aberdeen in 2018 through the Royal Society funded project titled “Physarum Intell...
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 is funded by China Scholarship Council as a visiting scholar to visit the BCML lab from 2022 to 2023. Sh...
Dr. Shahadate Rezvy visited the BCML lab from February 2020 to June 2020 through the CRUK funded project titled “E...
Juho Rousu is a Professor of Computer Science at Aalto University, Finland. He was hosted by Dr Wei Pang at Aberde...
