Professor Longzhi Yang

Head Of School

School: Computer Science

I am a Professor at Northumbria University. Prior to joining the University, I worked on an EU FP7 project Integrated In Silico Models for the Prediction of Human Repeated Dose Toxicity of COSMetics to Optimise Safety (COSMOS) at Bradford University. Before that, I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University) in 2011.

I am currently the Director of Education at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. My research focuses on Artificial/Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity/Digital Forensics, Robotics, Planning/Scheduling, Automatic Control, Additive/Responsive Manufacturing, Decision Making Support and their real-world applications especially under uncertain environment. My research has been founded by EPSRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, RAEng, Newton Fund, Royal Society, and other industry partners.

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Key Publications

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A Review of Supervised Learning for (Workplace) Mental Health and Wellbeing, Venugopal, R., Roll, D., Flynn, M., Bell, P., Yang, L. 21 Jan 2026, In: Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Exclusive Lasso Assisted Two-Stage Fuzzy-Rough Feature Selection, Qu, Y., Tan, Y., Qiu, L., Yang, L., Shang, C., Shen, Q. 16 Mar 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
From Numerals to Letters: A Meta Learning-based Robotic Calligraphy System, Chang, X., Guo, Z., Chao, F., Yang, L., Shang, C., Copner, N., Finlayson, C., Shen, Q. 3 Feb 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
3C: Confidence-guided clustering and contrastive learning for unsupervised person re-identification, Zheng, M., Qu, Y., Li, D., Shang, C., Yang, L., Shen, Q. 7 Aug 2025, In: Neurocomputing
From Nearest-Neighbour Classification to Attention, Ma, C., Qu, Y., Yang, L. 7 Jul 2025, 2025 17th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI), Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
Insider Threat Detection Using GCN and Bi-LSTM with Explicit and Implicit Graph Representations, Yumlembam, R., Issac, B., Jacob, S., Yang, L., Krishnan, D. 22 Dec 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Leveraging ensemble clustering for privacy-preserving data fusion: Analysis of big social-media data in tourism, Iam-On, N., Boongoen, T., Naik, N., Yang, L. 1 Jan 2025, In: Information Sciences
Network Intrusion Detection by Adaptive Deep Metric Learning, Qu, Y., Zhang, Q., Zheng, M., Yang, L. 23 Jul 2025, Cloud Computing, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
Optimisation of multiple clustering based undersampling using artificial bee colony: Application to improved detection of obfuscated patterns without adversarial training, Maneerat, T., Iam-On, N., Boongoen, T., Kirimasthong, K., Naik, N., Yang, L., Shen, Q. 1 Jan 2025, In: Information Sciences
Safe Reinforcement Learning for Power Allocation of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems in Electric Vehicles using PPO and Predictive Safety Filter, Xu, X., Zhang, L., Lai, J., Yang, L., Xiao, J. 3 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

Current and Recent Projects

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COVER - Cooperative and intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles for emergency response applications, Chen, X. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), European Commission, 01/07/23 - 30/06/27, £63,601.00
KTP 3-D printed Models, Hackney, P. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/12/21 - 31/03/24, £195,944.00
Help to Grow Management 2021-2024, Wales, J. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), Chartered Association for Business Scholars, 01/09/21 - 31/03/28, £2,310,820.00
SportsAid Trust KTP, Sutherland, M. (Principal Investigator), Yang, L. (Co Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/11/19 - 31/10/21, £171,567.00

Professional Activity

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Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 21th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) 2022
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 19th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence 2019
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: 8th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing 2018
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: BMVC 2018 - British Machine Vision Conference 2018

PGR Supervision

Yi Tan Improving data engineering and mining through AI-based sampling strategies Start Date: 01/10/2025
Hao Xu Decision Making for Offshore Wind Development through AI Start Date: 01/10/2024