Professor Haiping Lu
School of Computer Science
Professor of Machine Learning
Director of the UK Open Multimodal AI Network
Head of AI Research Engineering
Member of the Machine Learning research group
Full contact details
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Professor Lu is the Head of AI Research Engineering at the Centre for Machine Intelligence and Turing Academic Lead at the ±¬ÁÏTV. He is also the Director of the UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN), funded by the EPSRC and building on the Meta-Learning for Multimodal Data interest group at the Alan Turing Institute. He received his BEng and MEng from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2001 and 2004 respectively, and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2008. His awards include a Turing Network Development Award, an Amazon Research Award, and joint Wellcome Trust Innovator and NIHR AI in Health and Care awards.
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- Research interests
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Professor Lu’s research focuses on advancing translational multimodal AI technologies to address challenges in healthcare and scientific discovery. His work in multimodal AI explores foundational models, generative AI, domain adaptation and transfer learning. In healthcare, his research includes brain and cardiac imaging, with a growing focus on cancer diagnosis and treatment. In scientific discovery, he investigates applications in protein engineering and drug and materials discovery. Professor Lu also leads the development of the open-source software library PyKale, part of the PyTorch ecosystem, which facilitates accessible machine learning for interdisciplinary research.
- Publications
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Books
- . Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Journal articles
- . Gigascience, 14.
- . Methods, 242, 97-112.
- . Nature Machine Intelligence, 7(6), 876-888.
- . GigaScience, 13(2024).
- . Computers in Industry, 161.
- . Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023: 26th International Conference, Vancouver, October 8-12, 2023, Proceedings, 14226.
- . Knowledge-Based Systems, 278.
- . European Respiratory Journal, 62(2).
- . IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 33(12), 7774-7788.
- . World Scientific Annual Review of Artificial Intelligence, 1.
- . Nature Machine Intelligence, 5(2), 126-136.
- . Pattern Recognition, 133.
- . IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
- . Radiology, 304(3), E56-E56.
- . Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 9.
- . Radiology, 305(1).
- . European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 3(2), 265-275.
- . Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 24(1).
- . Pattern Recognition, 128.
- . Signal Processing, 196.
- . ERJ Open Research, 8(1).
- . European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, 22(Supplement_2).
- . European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, 22(Supplement_2).
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- . IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 51(7), 3496-3509.
- . Diagnostics, 11(4).
- . Pattern Recognition, 117.
- . European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, 22(2), 236-245.
- . Medical Image Analysis, 70.
- . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 30(6), 1803-1817.
- . Pattern Recognition, 88, 729-738.
- Domain Independent SVM for Transfer Learning in Brain Decoding.
- . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 29(10), 4744-4757.
- . IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(6), 504-516.
- . IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 60(2), 461-469.
- . Pattern Recognition, 44(7), 1540-1551.
- . IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 57(12), 2936-2946.
- . IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 5(1), 118-132.
- . IEEE Systems Journal, 3(4), 440-450.
- . EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2009, 1-11.
- . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(11), 1820-1836.
- . Pattern Recognition, 42(7), 1237-1247.
- . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(1), 103-123.
- . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 19(1), 18-39.
- . EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2008(1).
- . International Journal of Image and Graphics, 05(01), 67-87.
- . IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 11(2), 228-231.
- . Nature Machine Intelligence.
- . Nature Machine Intelligence.
- . Nature Machine Intelligence, 5(2), 98-100.
- . IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Book chapters
- , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 238-248). Springer Nature Switzerland
- , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 296-306). Springer Nature Switzerland
- , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 22-31). Springer Nature Switzerland
- , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 265-273). Springer International Publishing
- , Advanced Signal Processing (pp. 303-330). CRC Press
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 100-117). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 136-169). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 194-217). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 170-193). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 48-77). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 30-47). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 78-99). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 218-233). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Multilinear Subspace Learning (pp. 118-135). Chapman and Hall/CRC
- , Biometrics (pp. 21-45). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Conference proceedings
- . 2025 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp 1-7), 14 July 2025 - 18 July 2025.
- Leveraging artificial intelligence for predicting placebo vs treatment response in painful diabetic neuropathy. DIABETOLOGIA, Vol. 67 (pp S444-S444)
- . 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp 1-8), 30 June 2024 - 5 July 2024.
- Leveraging LLMs for Post-OCR Correction of Historical Newspapers. 3rd Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages, LT4HALA 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings (pp 116-121)
- . Abstracts (pp A25.1-A25)
- . 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 2704-2710). Las Vegas, NV, USA, 6 December 2022 - 6 December 2022.
- . CIKM '22: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (pp 4274-4278). Atlanta GA USA, 17 October 2022 - 21 October 2022.
- . Proceedings of 2022 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC) (pp 1638-1642). Glasgow, Scotland, 11 July 2022 - 11 July 2022.
- . American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 205 (pp a2285-a2285). American Thoracic Society 2022 International Conference, 13 May 2022 - 13 May 2022.
- . WSDM '22: Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (pp 1386-1394). Virtual Event (Phoenix, AZ, USA), 21 February 2022 - 21 February 2022.
- . Proceeding of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 641-644). Houston, TX, USA (Online), 9 December 2021 - 9 December 2021.
- . 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp 3728-3735), 9 December 2021 - 12 December 2021.
- . Imaging (pp PA356-PA356)
- . Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2021) (pp 985-988). Virtual conference, 13 April 2021 - 13 April 2021.
- . Pulmonary hypertension (pp 1469-1469)
- . CIKM '20: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (pp 1813-1822). Online conference, 19 October 2020 - 19 October 2020.
- . Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020 , Vol. 12262 (pp 253-262). Lima, Peru, 4 October 2020 - 4 October 2020.
- . Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 34(4) (pp 6957-6964). New York, USA, 7 February 2020 - 7 February 2020.
- Multilinear Regression for Embedded Feature Selection with Application to fMRI Analysis. Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp 2562-2568). San Francisco, 4 February 2017 - 4 February 2017.
- Bilinear Probabilistic Canonical Correlation Analysis via Hybrid Concatenations. 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 (pp 2949-2955). San Francisco, 4 February 2017 - 4 February 2017.
- EcoICA: Skewness-based ICA via Eigenvectors of Cumulant Operator. Proceedings of The 8th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (pp 445-460). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Proper Inner Product with Mean Displacement for Gaussian Noise Invariant ICA. Proceedings of The 8th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (pp 398-413). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- . 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). Vancouver, BC, Canada, 24 July 2016 - 29 July 2016.
- Probabilistic rank-one matrix analysis with concurrent regularization. Ijcai International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2016-January (pp 2428-2434)
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- Semi-orthogonal multilinear PCA with relaxed start. Ijcai International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2015-January (pp 3805-3811)
- Learning canonical correlations of paired tensor sets via tensor-to-vector projection. Ijcai International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp 1516-1522)
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- . 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (pp 6060-6063), 28 August 2012 - 1 September 2012.
- . 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (pp 8275-8278), 30 August 2011 - 3 September 2011.
- . Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 1777-1780)
- . 2009 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (pp 1-8), 5 July 2009 - 7 July 2009.
- . 2009 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (pp 6599-6602), 3 September 2009 - 6 September 2009.
- . Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning - ICML '08 (pp 616-623), 5 July 2008 - 9 July 2008.
- . 2007 Biometrics Symposium (pp 1-6), 11 September 2007 - 13 September 2007.
- . 2007 Biometrics Symposium (pp 1-6), 11 September 2007 - 13 September 2007.
- . 2007 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (pp 78-81), 21 October 2007 - 24 October 2007.
- . 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (pp 1009-1012), 9 July 2006 - 9 July 2006.
- . 2006 Biometrics Symposium: Special Session on Research at the Biometric Consortium Conference (pp 1-6), 19 September 2006 - 21 August 2006.
- . 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06) (pp 776-779)
- . 2006 5th IEEE Conference on Sensors (pp 66-69), 22 October 2006 - 25 October 2006.
- Secure data hiding in binary document images for authentication. Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 3 (pp III806-III809)
- . 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. ICME '03. Proceedings (Cat. No.03TH8698) (pp III-101), 9 July 2003 - 9 July 2003.
- Effective and Efficient Fingerprint Image Postprocessing. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision Icarcv 2002 (pp 985-989)
- . CIKM'17: ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings. Pan Pacific Singapore, 6 November 2017 - 6 November 2017.
- . 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR06) (pp 249-256)
- . Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2003. ISCAS '03., Vol. 3
- . Object recognition supported by user interaction for service robots, Vol. 4 (pp 239-242)
- . 2002 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. (pp 300-303)
Preprints
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- Missing-Modality-Aware Graph Neural Network for Cancer Classification.
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- Grants
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- CD3: Cancer Data Driven Detection, Cancer Research UK, 04/2025 - 03/2030, £446,926, as PI
- UKOMAIN: UK Open Multimodal AI Network, RCUK, 01/2025 - 12/2027, £2,005,679, as PI
- , EPRSC, 10/2023 - 03/2025, £445,540, as Co-PI
- Turing Network Fund, The Alan Turing Institute, 02/2023 - 07/2023, £10,000, as PI
- Developing a machine learning tool to improve diagnostic and treatment response assessment on cardiac MRI data, Wellcome Trust, 10/2019 - 09/2023, £639,783, as Co-PI
- Learning Representations of Higher-Order Structures for Networks via Tensor Embedding, Amazon, 04/2019 - 03/2020, £46,923, as PI
- , EPSRC, 01/2018 - 07/2019, £100,730, as PI
- Dimensionality Reduction for Learning Correlations between Big Multidimensional Data, HK RGC ECS 22200014, HK$831,737, as PI.
- Learning Independent Components with Tensor-based Modelling for Big fMRI Data, HK RGC GRF 12200915, HK$695,861, as PI.
- Relaxation Methods in Principal and Discriminative Component Analysis for Tensor Data, HK RGC GRF 12248616, HK$695,861, as PI.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Professor Lu serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. He leads the development of a course on "An Introduction to Transparent Machine Learning", part of the Alan Turing Institute’s online learning courses in responsible AI.
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