Dr Bing Zhai

Assistant Professor

School: Computer Science

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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Key Publications

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Decoding visual neural representations by multimodal with dynamic balancing, Sun, K., Miao, X., Zhai, B., Duan, H., Long, Y. 1 Feb 2026, In: Expert Systems with Applications
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. 2026, In: Current Bioinformatics
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. 1 Jul 2025, In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
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, Turin, 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. 1 Jul 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. 1 Nov 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

Current and Recent Projects

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'Navigating Urban Ecologies: Mapping the Habitation Patterns and Socio-ecological Dynamics of Kittiwakes along the River Tyne, Jin, J. (Principal Investigator), Zhai, B. (Co Investigator), Arts & Humanities Research Council, 01/02/25 - 31/01/26, £102,445.00

PGR Supervision

Sarah Alshahrani A Dual-Head Multimodal Architecture for Phrase-Level Grounding and Lung Disease Localization in Chest X-rays Start Date: 20/06/2024