People

Leadership Team

Ioannis Patras

Prof Ioannis Patras

Professor of Computer Vision and Human Sensing
Head of The Centre for Multimodal AI

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Multimodal AI, Affective Computing, NLP
Emmanouil Benetos

Dr Emmanouil Benetos

Reader in Machine Listening
Director of Research for the School of EECS, Deputy Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI and Music
Communications and Dissemination Lead of The Centre for Multimodal AI

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Machine listening, Audio signal processing, Machine learning, Music information retrieval, Multimodal AI
Shaogang Gong

Prof Shaogang Gong

Professor of Visual Computation
Head of Computer Vision Group
Industrial Engagement Lead of The Centre for Multimodal AI

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Multimodal Artificial intelligence, Object Recognition, Action Recognition, Video Analysis
Simon Lucas

Prof Simon Lucas

Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Head of Game AI Research Group
External Engagement Lead of The Centre for Multimodal AI

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence, Games, Simulation, Reinforcement Learning, Evolutionary Computation
Massimo Poesio

Prof Massimo Poesio

Professor of Computational Linguistics
Impact Lead of The Centre for Multimodal AI

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Computational linguistics / NLP, Games and NLP, Anaphora / Coreference, Disagreement and NLP, Brain data, Dialogue and interaction
Qianni Zhang

Dr Qianni Zhang

Senior Lecturer
PhD/PDRA Engagement Lead of The Centre for Multimodal AI

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Machine learning and computer vision, Medical image computing, Image and video analysis, Virtual reality