Academic Staff

Toby Breckon is a Professor in the Department of Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Durham University and an academic tutor at St. Chads College. Within the department(s), he leads research in computer vision, image processing and robotic sensing, with a strong emphasis on generalized machine learning and pattern recognition techniques, in addition to research-led teaching within the…

Farshad Arvin is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. He received his BSc degree in Computer Engineering in 2004, an MSc degree in Computer Systems Engineering in 2010, and a PhD in Computer Science in 2015. Background Before joining Durham in 2022, Farshad was a Lecturer…

Amir Atapour-Abarghouei is an Assistant Professor within the VIViD (Vision, Imaging and Visualisation in Durham) research group in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at Durham University in the UK. Prior to his current position, he was a lecturer at the School of Computing at Newcastle…

I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Durham University, UK. My research interests are generally in computational intelligence and its applications to biomedical science. In recent years, I have been working on machinery computing and learning, and accessible medical imaging for cardiac.

Dr. Hu is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. Before joining Durham in 2023, he was a Lecturer at University College London and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Manchester. His research interests include swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems, cooperative path planning, distributed control,…

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science of Durham University. I have a degree in mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a PhD in mathematics from the University of Southampton. Before joining Durham University I was a lecturer at the Department of Creative Computing…

Assistant Professor in Visual Computing at Durham University. External Scientist at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). Stuart’s research focus is on Visual Reasoning to understand the layout of visual content from Iconography (e.g. Sketches) to 3D Scene understanding and their implications on methods of interaction. He is currently a…

Dr Stamos Katsigiannis is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of Durham University. His research interests lie in the fields of bioinformatics, health informatics, affective computing, image analysis, machine learning, image and video quality, and GPU computing. Before joining Durham, he was a Postdoctoral…

I am an Associate Professor and member of the ViVID Group at the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. My primary research interests lie in the field of computer graphics, in particular applied visual perception to rendering and display hardware, with a strong focus on near-eye displays and virtual…

Frederick Li received both a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Computing Studies and a Master of Philosophy from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Graphics from City University of Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Professor at University of Durham. Prior to the current…

Yang Long is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Durham University. He is also an MRC Innovation Fellow aiming to design scalable AI solutions for large-scale healthcare applications. His research background is in the highly interdisciplinary field of Computer Vision and Machine Learning. While he is passionate…

Nikos Mavrakis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Durham University. He holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens (Greece, 2014), a M.Sc in Space Studies from KU Leuven (Belgium, 2015) and a Ph.D in Robotics from University of Birmingham…

Dr Al Moubayed is an Associate Professor at the department of computer science at Durham University, and Head of Applied Machine Learning and AI at Evergreen Life. Her main research interest is in Explainable Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Optimisation. Dr Al Moubayed received her PhD from Robert Gordon…

Professor Paolo Remagnino has worked in computer vision and artificial intelligence for over 30 years. Professor Remagnino research is on the development of innovative methods for image and video interpretation, making wide use of pattern recognition, machine and deep learning and distributed intelligence techniques. Professor Remagnino has published over 180…

Prof. Hubert P. H. Shum is a Professor of Visual Computing and the Director of Research of the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, specialising in modelling spatio-temporal information with responsible AI. He has authored over 180 research publications in the fields of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning…