OUR TEAM

Current Team

Professors

Zheng Liu

Professor

Dr. Zheng Liu joined the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) in 2015. His research interests include condition assessment, computer and machine vision, pattern recognition, machine learning. Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE and SPIE fellow.

Nezih Mrad

Adjunct Professor

Nezih Mrad received his Ph.D. degree from The Pennsylvania State University (USA) in 1995.,He is currently an Operational Research Scientist at Centre for Security Science (CSS) of Defence R&D Canada of the Department of National Defence in Canada. His research work mainly focuses on the development of advanced technologies in support of military and aerospace platforms life extension and management. (Based on document published on 15 May 2013).

Postdoctoral research fellow

Rakiba Rayhana

Postdoctoral reseach fellow

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. My interest lies in condition monitoring and prognostic, data analysis and machine learning. I have completed my Msc in Electrical Engineering from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,Uk and received my bachelor's from BRAC University, Bangladesh

Ling Bai

Postdoctoral reseach fellow

Ling Bai is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. She received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology in 2022 and completed joint training Ph.D. at McMaster University with CQUPT. Her main research interests include object detection and segmentation, point cloud processing, structure from motion, V-SLAM, crack detection, 2D/3D computer vision and applications, 3D scene reconstruction and understanding, multi-sensor fusion, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle, etc.

Ph.D. Students

Hao Liu

Ph.D. Student

Hao Liu is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, under the supervision of Professor Zheng Liu. He earned a Master's degree in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and holds a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Beihang University. His research primarily focuses on Data Science in Healthcare, Information Fusion, and Machine Vision.

Yanshuo Fan

Ph.D. Student

Yanshuo received her Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of British Columbia. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus under the supervision of Prof. Zheng Liu. Her research interest mainly focus on Deep Learning and Machine Learning.

Jiatong Ling

Ph.D. Student

I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, supervised by Prof. Zheng Liu. I got my Bachelor's degree and master's degree from China University of Petroleum - Beijing. My research interests include data analysis and data fusion.

Yue Cao

Ph.D. Student

I received my Bachelor's degree at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, and continue my study as a Ph.D. student at UBCO, supervised by Prof. Zheng Liu. My research interests include computer vision, data fusion, and deep learning.

Yu Hu

Ph.D. Student

Yu Hu is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Zheng Liu. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering at NWAFU and his Master’s degree in Mechanical Science & Engineering at HUST, where he focused on Ultrasonic and Electromagnetic NDT. His research explores innovative approaches in Computer Vision, Vision Language Model, and Deep Learning.

Lixin Tu

Lixin Tu

Ph.D. Student

Lixin TU is a Ph.D. student at the Intelligent Sensing, Diagnostics, and Prognostics Research Lab, School of Engineering, UBCO. His current research interests include deep learning applications in water pipe leak detection.

Master's Students

Heqingg Zhang

Master's Student

I received my BASc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada. Currently, I am a master’s student at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, supervised by Dr. Zheng Liu. My research interests include Machine Learning, Data fusion and Precision Agriculture.

Tiancheng Liu

Tiancheng Liu

Master's Student

I received my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia Okanagan and am currently pursuing my M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at UBC Okanagan under the supervision of Prof. Zheng Liu. My research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and robotic control.

Shuo-Yen (Ian) Tu

Shuo-Yen (Ian) Tu

Master's Student

Shuo-Yen (Ian) Tu is a master’s student in Electrical Engineering. He received his B.Sc. degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. His research interests include Computer Vision and Multimodal Image Fusion using Machine Learning. He aims to apply his research to practical applications in the industry.

Zirui Lin

Zirui Lin

Master's Student

I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of California, San Diego and am currently working on my master's degree under the supervision of Prof. Zheng Liu. My main interests are in large language modeling and automated driving technologies

Alumni

Postdoctoral research fellow

Ke Feng

Postdoctoral reseach fellow

Ke Feng is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He received a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2021. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Technology Sydney in 2021. His main research interests include digital-twin-based RUL prediction, vibration analysis, structural health monitoring, dynamics, tribology, signal processing, and machine learning.

Ph.D. Graduates

Xiang Peng

Ph.D. Graduate

Xiang obtained his B.Eng. from China University of Mining and Technology, and M.Sc. from Beihang University. His PhD research at UBC focuses on data intergration, data analysis, and machine learning.

Ran Zhang

Ph.D. Graduate

I am a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at University of British Columbia Okanagan, supervised by Prof. Zheng Liu. I got my Bachelor degree at Xidian University, Xi'an, China and master degree at Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. My research focus on computer vision and fault diagnosis.

Zhila Bahrami

Ph.D. Graduate

I am a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at University of British Columbia Okanagan, supervised by Prof. Zheng Liu. I got my Bachelor degree at Kurdistan University, Iran and master degree at Kurdistan University, as well. My research would focus on Computer vision specifically damage classification and detection.

Teng Wang

Ph.D. Graduate

I received the Bachelor’s degree from Hefei University of Technology and Master’s degree from Shandong University. I am Currently a Ph.D candidate at The University of British Columbia, Canada. My research interests include machine monitoring, prognostics, digital twin and health management.

Amirhossein Zaji

Ph.D. Graduate

Amirhossein Zaji is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has completed his BSc. in Civil Engineering from Razi University, Iran and MSc. in Water and Hydraulic Structures Engineering from Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran.

Junchi Bin

Ph.D. Graduate

Junchi Bin received the B.Sc. in eletrical engineering from dual-degree program of Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA and Chang'An University, Shaaxi, China in 2016 and the M.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada, 2019. Junchi Bin is currently a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at The University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada, where he works under Prof. Dr. Zheng Liu. His research interests include data fusion/mining, urban computing and machine learning .

Hongguang Yun

Ph.D. Graduate

I completed my PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, supervised by Prof. Zheng Liu. I got my Bachelor degree and master degree at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. My research focused on Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation and machine learning based fault detection of materials.

Rui Wang

Ph.D. Graduate

I completed my PhD in Electrical Engineering at UBC, supervised by Prof. Zheng Liu. I hold a Bachelor degree from Nanjing Tech University and a Master degree from Simon Fraser University. My research primarily focused on building a reliable intelligent system with the power of AI algorithms and distributed system designs.

Mohammad Zihaib Khan

Ph.D. Graduate

Mohammad Zihaib Khan completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) under the guidance of Dr. Zheng Liu. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Section at University Polytechnic, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, with 7.5 years of teaching and research experience. He did his B.Tech in Electronics Engineering in 2009 and M.Tech in Electronics Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems Design) in 2012 from Aligarh Muslim University, India. During his academic journey, he has contributed multiple papers in referred international conferences and journals. His areas of interest include Analog Signal Processing, Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Master's Graduates

Shuo Liu

Master's Graduate

Shou Liu research on Data analysis and Machine Learning models.

Chengkai Zhang

Master's Graduate

I received the B.Eng. in the interdisciplinary area of electrical engineering and computer science from the Hohai University, Nanjing, China. From July 2016 to October 2016, I was invited to join Prof. Huosheng Hu's Robotics research team as an academic visitor in the University of Essex, Colchester, UK. I am currently an AWS Certified Developer - Associate, and was honored with the University of Graduate Fellowship (UGF) by UBC in 2018. In 2018, I led a team which won the 2nd position award in 2017-2018 IEEE International "Sensor and Measurements" Student Contest. My research areas include Trajectory analysis, Cloud service development, IoT, Data-driven anomly detection.

Uchenna Anyaoha

Master's Graduate

Uchenna Anyaoha received his B.Eng degree in Civil Engineering from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. He is currently a research graduate student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Zheng Liu with research interest in Machine Learning, IoT systems, Optimization and Predictive analysis.

Yutong Jiao

Master's Graduate

Hi, I’m Yutong. I received my B.Eng degree in the Information Science and Technology Institute from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China. Currently I'm a master student in the University of British Columbia. I’m now doing the water pipeline inspection project and also opensource platform project for medical clinic.

Jing Lin

Master's Graduate

I obtained my B.Eng. from Jiangnan University in China and the major was automation. I am proficient in PLC and SCM for system control based on my undergraduate study. I proceeded my graduate study in UBCO since the September 2018 and my research fields are data migration, data analysis and machine learning.

Wells Wang

Master's Graduate

Wells Wang research interest lies in Data Science, Data Visualization.

Fangrui Liu

Master's Graduate

Fangrui recieved his B.Eng degree in Information Security from Beijing University of Technology, China. He is currently a M.A.Sc student at the University of British Columbia, supervised by Prof. Zheng Liu. His research interest is Computer Vision and Deep Learning.

Meng Kang

Master's Graduate

I received my B.Eng degree in both Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China and University of Detroit Mercy, US. I used to write algorithms for mobile robots and robot arms. Currently I am a M.A.Sc student at the University of British Columbia supervised by Dr.Zheng Liu

Usama Ansari

Master's Graduate

I am a PhD student working on the Data Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms. I like to work with raw data and extract knowledgeable information from it.

Fang Shi

Master's Graduate

She received B.Eng in Electrical Engineering at Fuzhou University on 2016, and M.A.Sc in Electrical Engineering at UBCO on 2018. Her research interest includes ensemble learning and data mining.

Zhenyu Ma

Master's Graduate

I received my B.Eng degree in both Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China and University of Detroit Mercy, US. Currently, I am a M.A.Sc student at the University of British Columbia supervised by Dr. Zheng Liu. My research focus on computer vision, intelligent monitoring and IoT systems.

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