Professor Haiping Lu
Head of AI Research Engineering
School of Computer Science
Professor of Machine Learning
Director of the UK Open Multimodal AI Network
Member of the Machine Learning research group
h.lu@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (CS)
Profile
Professor Lu is the Head of AI Research Engineering at the Centre for Machine Intelligence and Turing Academic Lead at the University of Sheffield. He is also the Director of the UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN), funded by the EPSRC and building on the Meta-Learning for Multimodal Data interest group at the Alan Turing Institute. He received his BEng and MEng from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2001 and 2004 respectively, and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2008. His awards include a Turing Network Development Award, an Amazon Research Award, and joint Wellcome Trust Innovator and NIHR AI in Health and Care awards.
For more details, including requirements for PhD enquiries, and to explore selected projects, team profiles and research outputs, please visit https://haipinglu.github.io/
- Research interests
Professor Lu’s research focuses on advancing translational multimodal AI technologies to address challenges in healthcare and scientific discovery. His work in multimodal AI explores foundational models, generative AI, domain adaptation and transfer learning. In healthcare, his research includes brain and cardiac imaging, with a growing focus on cancer diagnosis and treatment. In scientific discovery, he investigates applications in protein engineering and drug and materials discovery. Professor Lu also leads the development of the open-source software library PyKale, part of the PyTorch ecosystem, which facilitates accessible machine learning for interdisciplinary research.
- Full contact details
Professor Haiping Lu
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP