Professor 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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SpikePR: Position Regression with Deep Spiking Neural Network, Huang, Z., Zeng, Y., Poslad, S., Gu, F. 1 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Sensors Journal
A2GSTran: Depth Map Super-resolution via Asymmetric Attention with Guidance Selection, Zuo, Y., Xu, Y., Zeng, Y., Fang, Y., Huang, X., Yan, J. 1 Jun 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
A Multi-agent Cooperative Learning System with Evolution of Social Roles, Hou, Y., Sun, M., Zeng, Y., Ong, Y., Jin, Y., Ge, H., Zhang, Q. 1 Apr 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
A substructure transfer reinforcement learning method based on metric learning, Chai, P., Chen, B., Zeng, Y., Yu, S. 14 Sep 2024, In: Neurocomputing
Budgeted Sequence Submodular Maximization With Uniform and Non-Uniform Costs, Chen, X., Feng, L., Cao, X., Zeng, Y., Hou, Y., Zhang, Z. 1 Feb 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Causal-Driven Skill Prerequisite Structure Discovery, Yu, S., Zeng, Y., Yang, F., Pan, Y. 24 Mar 2024, Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, AAAI Press/International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
CFNet: Conditional filter learning with dynamic noise estimation for real image denoising, Zuo, Y., Yao, W., Zeng, Y., Xie, J., Fang, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W. 25 Jan 2024, In: Knowledge-Based Systems
Improved Demonstration-Knowledge Utilization in Reinforcement Learning, Liu, Y., Zeng, Y., Ma, B., Pan, Y., Gao, H., Zhang, Y. 1 May 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Improving Knowledge Learning Through Modelling Students’ Practice-Based Cognitive Processes, Gao, H., Zeng, Y., Ma, B., Pan, Y. 1 Jan 2024, In: Cognitive Computation
Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Legibility Automation in Intelligent Agents, Zeng, B., Zeng, Y., Pan, Y. 25 Jun 2024, 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 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