Professor Hongying Meng
Professor

Summary

Hongying Meng is a full professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Brunel University of London. Before joining Brunel, he held research positions in several UK universities including University College London (UCL), University of York, University of Southampton, University of Lincoln, and University of Dundee. He received his BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degree in Communication and Electronic Systems all from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. After that, he worked as a postdoc researcher and then a lecturer at Electronic Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China before coming to UK. His research area includes signal processing, computer vision, affective computing, artificial intelligence, neuromorphic computing and Internet of Things. His research is funded by EPSRC, EU Horizon 2020, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, etc. He has published more than 200 academic papers with more than 9000 citations (Google Scholar h-index 42). He has developed 2 different emotion recognition systems that won AVEC2011 and AVEC2013 international challenge competitions respectively. He is an IEEE Senior Member since 2017 and an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS). He is also an associate Editors-in-Chief for Digital Twins and Applications (IET). He was recognized as one of the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars by Aminer in 2022 and Top Scholar (within the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide) by ScholarGPS in 2024. He was also listed as a Top 2% Scientist of the World (Stanford/Elsevier, single-year data sets) in 2023, 2024 and 2025 and one of the World's Best Scientists by Research.com in 2025. 

Responsibility

Duties

• Professor in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence
• Director of Transnational Education (TNE)  Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT) Programme (China)

Membership of research centres at Brunel

• Institute of Digital Futures 
  • Centre for AI: Social and Digital Innovation 
  • Intelligent Digital Economy and Society
• Institute of Health, Medicine and Environments
• Electronic Systems Research Group

Distinctions

• World's Best Scientists in Computer Science Discipline by Research.com in 2025.
• Top 2% Scientist of the World (Stanford/Elsevier, single-year data sets) in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
• Top Scholar (within the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide) by ScholarGPS in 2024.
• The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Multimedia by Aminer, 2022.
• Recipient of "Best Entry for the Affect Recognition Sub-Challenge" (winner), Third International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC2013) at international conference ACM Multimedia 2013, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
• Recipient of audio sub-challenge prize (winner), First International Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge (AVEC2011) at international conference ACII2011, Memphis, USA, 2011.