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Professor Hongying Meng
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There is a full CSC scholarship opportunity for Chinese students for 2026 entry (Oct. 2026). The detailed information is here: Brunel University of London and the China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship 2026/27. Please send me an email with your CV if you are interested. 

  • Classification and early diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) 
  • Development of AI-powered bacterial diagnostic device for rapid pathogen identification
  • Human emotion sensing and recognition from multiple modalities for intelligent human computer interaction
  • Human brain modelling and reasoning with health applications
  • Development of advanced autonomous driving systems based on machine learning and multi-modality fusion
  • Spiking Neural Networks for next generation AI and its application
  • 3D image processing, reconstruction, recognition algorithm development and its applications in intelligent HCI
  • Neuromorphic-computing models (software & hardware) and its applications
  • Deep learning and edge computing for Internet of Things (IoT) system design and implementation
  • Digital Twin development for real-world applications

If you are interested in doing a PhD or Postdoc under my supervision related to any of the above topics, please feel free to send me an email with your CV and your brief proposal. Please also regularly check the PhD funding opportunities and other scholarships, studentships and bursaries at Brunel (It will be regularly updated).

PhD projects for research students

Research supervision

Current sesearch students as primary supervisor

Current research students as second supervisor

  • Ahmad Ibrahim Abdallah Alshdaifat (PhD, with Prof W Balachandran)
  • Xiaoyu Huang (PhD, with Dr M Wang)

Former research students

  • Tianhao Wang (PhD, Primary supervisor, with Dr L Gan, "Bearing Fault Detection Using Machine Learning on Vibration and Sound Signals", Awarded in 2025) 
  • Ioana Cretu (PhD, Primary supervisor, with Prof A. Khir and Prof W. Balachandran, "The Development of a Temporary Cardiac Pacing Simulator: A Training Tool to Enhance the Management of Post Cardiac Surgical Patient Care", Awarded in 2025) 
  • Sarfraz Hussain (PhD, Second supervisor, with Prof M. Li, "Optimising resource allocation for computational offloading in a mobile edge environment", Awarded in 2024)
  • Bodor Almatrouk (PhD, Primary supervisor, with Dr M. R. Swash, "Disparity Estimation and Enhancement from Holoscopic Elemental Images", Awarded in 2024)
  • Sebin Jung (PhD, Primary supervisor, with Prof  S, Qin and Prof M. Li, "Assistant System Design and Development for the Elderly Driver Using Emotion and Heart Rate Sensing", Awarded in 2024)
  • Nicole Hooker (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Prof K. Hone, "Negotiation skills training intervention based on automated recognition of human emotion and nonverbal behaviour", Awarded in 2022)
  • Kareem Mohamed Sherif Ali Sayed Ali (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Prof J. Cosmas, "Contextually and Identity Aware 5G Services", Awarded in 2022)
  • Babak Hosseininezhad Rahi (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Prof M. Li, “View-Invariant Gait Person Re-identification with spatial and temporal attention”, Awarded in 2022)
  • Zeng Fan  (PhD, Primary supervisor, with Dr J Rudlin, "Various Modulated Hybrid Pulse Compression for Advanced Ultrasound Technology and Its Non-destructive Testing Applications", Awarded in 2022)
  • Ivars Dzalbs (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Dr T. Kalganova, “OptPlatform: Metaheuristic Optimisation Framework for Solving Complex Real-world Problems”, Awarded in 2021)
  • Chuqi Cao (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Dr M. R. Swash, "Holoscopic 3D Perception For Autonomous Vehicles", Awarded in 2021) 
  • Juvaria Syeda (PhD, Primary supervisor, with Dr J Rudlin, "AI based Automated Detection, Measurement and Classification of Pits and Cracks on Rail Axles for Microscopic Visual Inspection in Non-Destructive Testing", Awarded in 2021)
  • Ioannis Intzes (PhD, Primary Supervisor, with Prof J. Cosmas, "Improvements in Image Compression and RFTransmission forWireless Capsule Endoscopy", Awarded in 2020)
  • Baobing Zhang (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Prof M. Li, "Gaussian Process Based Transfer Learning for Online Multiple-Person Tracking and Building Blocks for Deep Learning", Awarded in 2020)
  • Monica Simone Mendes Pereira (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Prof. K. Hone, "Communication Skills Training Intervention based on Automated Recognition of Human Emotion and Non-verbal Behaviour", Awarded in 2020.)
  • Yi Liu (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Dr M. R. Swash, "Micro-gesture Recognition based on Horoscopic 3D Imaging System", Awarded in 2020.)
  • Fan Zhang  (PhD, Primary Supervisor, with Dr N. Boulgouris, "Music Emotion Recognition Based on Feature Combination, Deep Learning and Chord Detection", Awarded in 2019.)
  • Jingxin Liu  (PhD, Primary Supervisor, with Prof A. Nandi, "Brainwave-Based Human Emotion Estimation using Deep Neural Network for Biofeedback", Awarded in 2019.)
  • Rui Qin  (PhD, Primary Supervisor, with Dr A. Mousavi, "Automatic Recognition of Human Behaviour in Sequential Data", Awarded in 2019.)
  • Cheng Xu (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Prof J. Cosmas, "Enhancement and Performance Analysis for 3D Beamforming Systems", Awarded in 2018.)
  • Yona Falinie (PhD, Primary Supervisor with Dr L. Gan, "Artificial Intelligence System for Continuous Affect Estimation from Naturalistic Human Expressions", Awarded in 2018.)
  • Asim Jan (PhD, Primary Supervisor, with Prof A. Khan, "Deep Learning Based Facial Expression Recognition and Its Applications", Awarded in 2017.)
  • Chao Liu (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Prof A. Nandi, "Consensus clustering framework for analysing fMRI datasets", Awarded in 2017.)
  • Saeed Turabzadeh (MPhil, Primary Supervisor, "Automatic emotional state detection and analysis on embedded devices", Awarded in 2015.)
  • Zhechen Zhu (PhD, Second Supervisor, with Prof A. Nandi, "Automatic classification of digital communication signal modulations", Awarded in 2014.)