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Dr Bing Zhai

Assistant Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science. My research agenda is to develop practical AI tools to solve time-series data challenges in real-world applications.  I am particularly interested in time series data analysis, e.g., biosignal analysis, computational behaviour analysis and healthcare applications. I am also interested in AI for good, computer vision and audio/speech analysis. 

In essence, it is to model the practical problems using mathematical languages and develop machine learning algorithms for the optimal solution, bridging the gap between signal/data and human-understandable knowledge. In particular, I have experience developing ML/DL algorithms for biosignal data-based applications in physical behaviour assessment and health and well-being monitoring. 

I was a research associate at the School of Computing at Newcastle University, working on the IDEA-FAST project (€40 million) to identify digital endpoints and biomarkers of sleep disturbance and fatigue. During this time, I obtained my PhD in data science for healthcare from the School of Computing, Newcastle University. 

At Northumbria University, I currently conduct sleepiness and fatigue research using machine learning methods and collaborate with more than a dozen research institutions on the IDEA-FAST project.

Website: https://bzhai.github.io/

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Bing Zhai

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Correction to: Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning for Multi-modal Generative Vision Models with Möbius-Inspired Transformation (International Journal of Computer Vision, (2025), 10.1007/s11263-025-02398-3), Duan, H., Shao, S., Zhai, B., Shah, T., Han, J., Ranjan, R. 21 Apr 2025, In: International Journal of Computer Vision
  • DSleepNet: Disentanglement Learning for Personal Attribute-agnostic Three-stage Sleep Classification Using Wearable Sensing Data, Zhai, B., Duan, H., Guan, Y., Phan, H., Woo, W. 13 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • Explainable Colon Cancer Stage Prediction with Multimodal Biodata through the Attention-based Transformer and Squeeze-Excitation Framework, Ogundipe, O., Zhai, B., Kurt, Z., Woo, W. 12 Mar 2025, In: Current Bioinformatics
  • Mapping the Habitation Patterns and Socio-ecological Dynamics of Kittiwakes along the River Tyne, Jin, J., Ozbil Torun, A., Zhai, B. 17 Jun 2025, Urban Morphology in the age Artificial Intelligence, Torino, Italy, Politecnico di Torino
  • Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning for Multi-modal Generative Vision Models with Möbius-Inspired Transformation, Duan, H., Shao, S., Zhai, B., Shah, T., Han, J., Ranjan, R. 13 Mar 2025, In: International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Rethinking Brain Tumor Segmentation from the Frequency Domain Perspective, Shao, M., Wang, Z., Duan, H., Huang, Y., Zhai, B., Wang, S., Long, Y., Zheng, Y. 12 Jun 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • Challenges and opportunities of deep learning for wearable-based objective sleep assessment, Zhai, B., Elder, G., Godfrey, A. 4 Apr 2024, In: npj Digital Medicine
  • Enhancing Cardiovascular Risk Prediction: Development of an Advanced Xgboost Model with Hospital-Level Random Effects, Dong, T., Oronti, I., Sinha, S., Freitas, A., Zhai, B., Chan, J., Fudulu, D., Caputo, M., Angelini, G. 18 Oct 2024, In: Bioengineering
  • Performance Drift in Machine Learning Models for Cardiac Surgery Risk Prediction: Retrospective Analysis, Dong, T., Sinha, S., Zhai, B., Fudulu, D., Chan, J., Narayan, P., Judge, A., Caputo, M., Dimagli, A., Benedetto, U., Angelini, G. 12 Jun 2024, In: JMIRx med
  • Real-World Measures of Cardiorespiratory Function Can Stratify Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome Participants with Persistent Fatigue, Hinchliffe, C., Zhai, B., Macrae, V., Walton, J., Ng, W., Del Din, S. 15 Jul 2024, 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Piscataway, US, IEEE

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