SIGMA
Research Group in Edinburgh
Welcome to the SIGMA (Sensing ImaGing and leMAM)rning group in Edinburgh. We aim to advance scientific imaging and discovery to better observe, understand and improve the world by developing groundbreaking machine learning and signal processing approaches.
Academic Members
- Dr. Dongdong Chen
- Prof. Mike Davies, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Dr. Julian Tachella, CNRS, ENS-Lyon, France.
PhD students
- Amir Javadi Rad (James Watt Scholarship)
- Yonghan Zhang with Dr. Wei Pang (HWU) and Dr. Robert Nicol (STMicroelectronics Ltd)
- Theo Harrison-Drummond (UoE&HWU, CDT) with Dr. Chengjia Wang (HWU)
- Fauzy Othman with Dr. Phil Bartie (HWU). Graduated (Now Petronas).
MSc students
- Thribhuvan Garimella (2025 Fall)
- Junaid Ishfaq (2025 Fall)
- Vishal Sonar (2025 Fall)
- Jeevesh Joshi (2025 Spring)
- Jamie Garrity (2025 Spring)
- Barat Ben (2024, dissertation ranked 1st)
- Lobjoie Augustin (2024)
- Bengrine Abdelkarim (2024)
- Han Zhang (2023)
- Ketaki Patil (2023)
Undergraduates (Honours) students
- Jeremy Ho (Sep 2025)
- Wenbo Geng (Sep 2025)
- Robin Preedy (Sep 2025)
- Zhang Wen (Since Sep 2024, rank 2nd dissertation, now MSc at Tsinghua University, China)
- Yifan Deng (Since Sep 2024, now PhD at Zhejiang University, China)
- Jiangwei Xie (Since Sep 2024, rank 1st dissertation, now MSc at Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
- Boye Zhang (Since Sep 2024, now MSc at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
- Jiahui Kang (Since Sep 2024, now MSc at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
- Muduo Xu (09/2023-06/2024, now MSc at New York University, USA)
- Jiahao Wei (09/2023-06/2024, now MSc at UCL, UK)
- Keyu Chen (09/2023-06/2024, now MSc at UCL, UK)
Student Collaborators
- Heyi Li (Microsoft/UoE, Since Jan 2018)
- Zixiang Zhao (ETH/Harvard/XJT, Since Sep 2022)
- LiLi Kong (SCU, Since Nov 2022)
- Chaoqun Niu (SCU, Since Nov 2022)
- Hongjie Wu (SCU, Since Nov 2022)
Contact
We welcome students/researchers who would like to work or visit the SMILE group in Edinburgh! If you are interested in our research topics or potential collaborations, please email me with your thoughts.