Welcome to the SMILE (Sensing, iMagIng and LEarning) research 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)
• Fauzy Othman with Dr. Phil Bartie (HWU)

MSc students

• Barat Ben (2024, dissertation ranked 1st)
• Lobjoie Augustin (2024)
• Bengrine Abdelkarim (2024)
• Han Zhang (2023)
• Ketaki Patil (2023)

Undergraduates (Honours) students

• Zhang Wen (Since Sep 2024, now MSc at Tsinghua University, dissertation ranked 1st)
• Yifan Deng (Since Sep 2024, now PhD at Zhejiang University)
• Jiangwei Xie (Since Sep 2024, now MSc at Beijing Institute of Technology, dissertation ranked 2nd)
• Boye Zhang (Since Sep 2024, now MSc at Northwestern Polytechnical University)
• Jiahui Kang (Since Sep 2024, now MSc at Xi’an Jiaotong University)
• Muduo Xu (09/2023-06/2024, now MSc at New York University)
• Jiahao Wei (09/2023-06/2024, now MSc at UCL)
• Keyu Chen (09/2023-06/2024)

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.