Consistently publishes in top-tier conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH Asia, ICML, BMVC) and journals (e.g., IJCV, TIP, TVCG, TCSVT). Received a Best Paper Award at British Machine Vision Conference 2015. Associate Editor of IEEE TPAMI, Programme Chair for BMVC 2021, and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Computer Science - Computer Vision.
Research Experience
Founded and currently leads the MSc in AI programme at Surrey, having previously established the MSc in AI programme at Queen Mary University of London. Served as Area Chair for conferences such as CVPR'22 and ICCV'21.
Education
PhD in 2008 from the University of Bath; MSc (with Best Dissertation Award) in 2004 from the University of Cambridge; BSc (First Class Honours) in 2003 from the University of Bath.
Background
Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey. Leads the SketchX Lab within CVSSP, focusing on understanding how human sketch data can explain the operation of visual systems and benefit computer vision and cognitive science.
Miscellany
Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, full member of the EPSRC review college. Reviews for other international funding bodies like Czech Science Foundation and Sao Paulo Research Foundation of Brazil.