Prof Yifeng Zeng

Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

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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Intention recognition for multiple agents, Zhang, Z., Zeng, Y., Jiang, W., Pan, Y., Tang, J. 20 Feb 2023, In: Information Sciences
Symmetric Bayesian Personalized Ranking With Softmax Weight, Pan, Y., Ran, Q., Zeng, Y., Ma, B., Tang, J., Cao, L. 13 Mar 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Behavioral model summarisation for other agents under uncertainty, Pan, Y., Ma, B., Tang, J., Zeng, Y. 1 Jan 2022, In: Information Sciences
Behavior Reasoning for Opponent Agents in Multi-Agent Learning Systems, Hou, Y., Sun, M., Zhu, W., Zeng, Y., Piao, H., Chen, X., Zhang, Q. 14 Jan 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Budgeted Sequence Submodular Maximization, Chen, X., Feng, L., Cao, X., Zeng, Y., Hou, Y. 16 Jul 2022, Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Darmstadt, Germany, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
Constrained Path Search with Submodular Function Maximization, Chen, X., Cao, X., Zeng, Y., Fang, Y., Wang, S., Lin, X., Feng, L. 9 May 2022, 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2022), Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
Discovering a cohesive football team through players’ attributed collaboration networks, Zeng, Y., Yu, S., Pan, Y., Chen, B. 12 Oct 2022, In: Applied Intelligence
Diversifying agent's behaviors in interactive decision models, Pan, Y., Zhang, H., Zeng, Y., Ma, B., Tang, J., Ming, Z. 1 Dec 2022, In: International Journal of Intelligent Systems
Ev-IDID: Enhancing Solutions to Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams through Evolutionary Algorithms, Ma, B., Pan, Y., Zeng, Y., Ming, Z. 2022, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Exploiting Spatial Attention and Contextual Information for Document Image Segmentation, Sang, Y., Zeng, Y., Liu, R., Yang, F., Yao, Z., Pan, Y. 2022, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 26th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2022, Proceedings, Springer

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

Luca Crosato Human-centric autonomous vehicle decision-making and control for natural vehicle pedestrian coordination. Start Date: 01/08/2022
Alpana Kumari Artificial Intelligence and data analytics to improve patient-care outcomes in geriatric population Start Date: 01/10/2021
Buxin Zeng Plan Legibility of Intelligent Agents Start Date: 01/03/2021

Qualifications

Engineering PhD December 31 2005
Member Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 2020

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