Professor Yifeng Zeng

Associate Head of School

School: Computer Science

Currently, Prof. Zeng is in the sabbatical leave.

Dr. Yifeng Zeng is a Professor and the Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange&UoA 11 Lead in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. He is leading the Autonomous Systems research group. His main research interests include intelligent agents, probabilistic graphical models, deep learning, computational intelligence, digital education and social networks. He received the EPSRC New Investigator Award in 2019 and has managed a number of Innovate UK projects in the past years.

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Key Publications

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Automate Legibility through Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Zeng, B., Pan, Y., Tang, J., Zeng, Y. 10 Mar 2026, In: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
BiO-HMC: Dynamic Human-Machine Collaboration for Consensus Decision-Making via Bilevel Optimization, Pan, Y., Zhao, S., Yu, S., Liu, Z., Zeng, Y., Liu, H., Lin, M. 14 Mar 2026, Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, United States, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Contrastive generative learning for enhanced multiagent decision-making under uncertainty, Pan, Y., Xiang, X., Zeng, Y., Ma, B., Liu, G., Ong, Y. 1 Mar 2026, In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
DARKAN: Daily Activity Recognition Using Optimized Wavelet-Based Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks, Li, J., Xu, M., Tu, W., Zeng, Y., Huang, Z., Valkama, M., Song, C. 1 May 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Exploiting Data and Knowledge to Refine Bayesian Network Learning towards Tsunami Risk Analysis, Zeng, Y., Pan, Y., Ji, Y., Yu, S., Lu, H. 18 Feb 2026, In: Data Science and Engineering
Generative Methods for Solving Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams, Pan, Y., Xiang, X., Ma, B., Zeng, Y., Liu, G. 1 Apr 2026, In: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Modelling exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using GRU-based analysis of cough sounds, Kumari, A., Pandya, S., Megaritis, D., Vogiatzis, I., Zeng, Y. 6 Jun 2026, In: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
SPLoc: High-Precision Underwater Tunnel Robot Position Measurement via Structural-Prior Modeling, Guan, M., Jiang, L., Sun, R., Huang, Z., Zhang, D., Chen, Z., Song, C., Zeng, Y., Li, Q. 1 May 2026, In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal
TransHAR: Towards Intent-Aware Transformer-Based Human Activity Recognition in Intelligent IoT Communication Systems, Huang, Z., Xu, M., Li, Q., Luo, F., Li, J., Zeng, Y., Jeon, G. 1 May 2026, In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal
VKTNet: A Hybrid Visual Kolmogorov-Arnold Transformer Network for Pedestrian Intention and Trajectory Prediction, Huang, Z., Zhang, J., Song, S., Zhang, J., Li, J., Zhao, L., Zeng, Y., Li, J. 3 May 2026, ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Piscataway, United States, IEEE

Current and Recent Projects

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Turing Network Development Awards at Northumbria University, Ho, E. (Principal Investigator), Zeng, Y. (Co Investigator), Alan Turing Institute, 01/02/22 - 30/09/22, £24,871.00

PGR Supervision

Alpana Kumari ??Machine Learning and Data Analytics to Improve Patient-Care Outcomes in People with COPD Start Date: 01/10/2021
Buxin Zeng Plan Legibility of Intelligent Agents Start Date: 01/03/2021 End Date: 27/06/2025

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