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Trustworthy AI<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Neural Differentiation in Deep Networks: A Theoretical Framework for Expressivity and Representational Diversity<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nB Wang, R Jiang<\/strong><\/a>, 2026 IEEE\/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)<\/span><\/p>\n

Energy Landscape-Aware Vision Transformers: Layerwise Dynamics and Adaptive Task-Specific Training via Hopfield States<\/a>
\n<\/strong>R Xia, R Jiang<\/a><\/strong>, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) 39<\/span><\/p>\n

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A manifesto of open challenges and interdisciplinary research directions<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nLongo, L., Brcic, M., Cabitza, F., Choi, J., Confalonieri, R., Ser, J. D., Guidotti, R., Hayashi, Y., Herrera, F., Holzinger, A., Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, Khosravi, H., Lecue, F., Malgieri, G., P\u00e1ez, A., Samek, W., Schneider, J., Speith, T. & Stumpf, S., 30\/06\/2024, In: Information Fusion. 106, 102301.<\/span><\/p>\n

Explainable artificial intelligence: an analytical review<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nAngelov, P.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Almeida Soares, E.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Arnold, N.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Atkinson, P.<\/strong><\/a>, 1\/09\/2021, In: WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 11, 5, 13 p., e1424.<\/span><\/p>\n

User-Centric Democratization towards Social Value Aligned Medical AI Services<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nZhang, Z.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a019\/08\/2023,\u00a0Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023.<\/em> Elkind, E. (ed.).\u00a0International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence,\u00a0p. 6326-6334.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quantum and Post-Quantum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Red Team Cryptanalysis of Lattice-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography Using Transformers<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nHu, E., Bouridane, A.\u00a0&\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, TechRxiv.<\/em> June 05, 2025. DOI: 10.36227\/techrxiv.174910091.18242062\/v1<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enable Quantum Graph Neural Networks on a Single Qubit with Quantum Walk<\/a>
\nZhu, Y.<\/a><\/strong>, Bouridane, A., Ni, Q.<\/a>&Jiang, R.<\/a><\/strong>, 2025, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Towards Quantum Image Generation on Single Qubit using Quantum Information Bottleneck<\/a>
\n<\/a>Zhu, Y.<\/a>, <\/a><\/strong>Bouridane, A., Celebi, M. E., Konar, D.,\u00a0Angelov, P.,\u00a0Ni, Q.\u00a0&\u00a0<\/a>Jiang, R.<\/a>, <\/strong>2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alz-QNet: A Quantum Regression Network for Studying Alzheimer\u2019s Gene Interactions<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Konar, D.,\u00a0 Sreekumar, N., Jiang, R.<\/a><\/strong>, Vaggarwal, V., 2025, Computers in Biology and Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quantum Face Recognition with Multi-Gate Quantum Convolutional Neural Network<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nZhu, Y.<\/strong><\/a>, Bouridane, A., Celebi, M. E., Konar, D.,\u00a0Angelov, P.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Ni, Q.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 28\/06\/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Efficient Quantum Image Classification Using Single Qubit Encoding<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nEasom-Mccaldin, P., Belatreche, A., Bouridane, A., Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a> & Almaadeed, S., 29\/02\/2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

3-D Quantum-Inspired Self-Supervised Tensor Network for Volumetric Segmentation of Medical Images<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nKonar, D., Bhattacharyya, S., Gandhi, T. K., Panigrahi, B. K. & Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 31\/08\/2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Towards Building a Facial Identification System Using Quantum Machine Learning Techniques<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nEasom-Mccaldin, P., Bouridane, A., Belatreche, A. & Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a030\/04\/2022,\u00a0In:\u00a0Journal of Advances in Information Technology.\u00a013,\u00a02,\u00a0p. 198-202\u00a05 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Depth, Robustness and Performance Using the Data Re-Uploading Single-Qubit Classifier<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nEasom, P., Bouridane, A., Belatreche, A. & Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a031\/12\/2021,\u00a0In:\u00a0IEEE Access.\u00a09,\u00a0p. 65127-65139\u00a013 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neural Computing and Brain Study<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Modeling Brain Aging with Explainable Triamese ViT: Towards Deeper Insights into Autism Disorder<\/span><\/a><\/strong>
\nZhang, Z., Aggarwal, V., Angelov, P., Jiang, R. 27\/05\/2025 In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 14 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Private Facial Prediagnosis as an Edge Service for Parkinson’s DBS Treatment Valuation<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, Chazot, P. L., Pavese, N., Crookes, D., Bouridane, A. & Celebi, M. E., 30\/06\/2022, In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robust Brain Age Estimation based on sMRI via Nonlinear Age-Adaptive Ensemble Learning<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nZhang, Z.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Zhang, C.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Williams, B.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Jiang, Z.<\/strong><\/a>, Li, C.-T., Chazot, P. L., Pavese, N., Bouridane, A. & Baghdadi, A., 31\/08\/2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shallow Unorganized Neural Networks Using Smart Neuron Model for Visual Perception<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0& Crookes, D.,\u00a031\/10\/2019,\u00a0In:\u00a0IEEE Access.\u00a07,\u00a0p. 152701-152714\u00a014 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Delve into Neural Activations: Towards Understanding Dying Neurons<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, Z.<\/strong><\/a>, Wang, Y., Li, C.-T.,\u00a0Angelov, P.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 1\/08\/2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deep salience: Visual salience modeling via deep belief propagation<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0& Crookes, D.,\u00a01\/01\/2014,\u00a0Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.<\/em> Vol. 28. No. 1. 2014. doi:10.5555\/2892753.2892936<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Financial Computing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WALDATA: Wavelet transform based adversarial learning for the detection of anomalous trading activities<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nSafa, K., Belatreche, A., Ouadfel, S. & Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 1\/12\/2024, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 255, Part C, 124729.<\/span><\/p>\n

Medical Computing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A deep learning architecture for multi-class lung diseases classification using chest X-ray (CXR) images<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nAlshmrani, G.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Ni, Q.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Pervaiz, H.<\/strong><\/a> & M. Elshennawy , N., 1\/02\/2023, In: Alexandria Engineering Journal. 64, p. 923-935 13 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hyper-Dense_Lung_Seg: Multimodal-Fusion-Based Modified U-Net for Lung Tumour Segmentation Using Multimodality of CT-PET Scans<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nAlshmrani, G.<\/a>,\u00a0Ni, Q.<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/a>,\u00a020\/11\/2023,\u00a0In:\u00a0Diagnostics.\u00a013,\u00a022,\u00a023 p., 3481.<\/span><\/p>\n

DRPO: A Deep Learning Technique for Drug Response Prediction in Oncology Cell Lines<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nShahzad, M.<\/strong><\/a>, Kadani, A. Z. U. A., Tahir, M. A., Malick, R. A. S. &\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 31\/10\/2024, In: Alexandria Engineering Journal. 105, p. 88-97 9 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Towards Robust Diagnosis of COVID-19 using Vision Self-attention Transformer<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nMehboob, F., Rauf, A., Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, Saudagar, A. K. J., Malik, K. M., Khan, M. B., Hasnat, M. H. A., AlTameem, A. & AlKhathami, M.,\u00a026\/05\/2022,\u00a0In:\u00a0Scientific Reports.\u00a012,\u00a012 p., 8922.<\/span><\/p>\n

Role for 2D image generated 3D face models in the rehabilitation of facial palsy<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nStorey, G., Jiang, R.<\/a>\u00a0& Bouridane, A.,\u00a010\/08\/2017,\u00a0In:\u00a0HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY LETTERS.\u00a04,\u00a04,\u00a0p. 145-148\u00a04 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Live-Cell Tracking Using SIFT Features in DIC Microscopic Videos<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R. M.<\/strong><\/a>, Crookes, D., Luo, N. & Davidson, M. W., 09\/2010, In: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 57, 9, p. 2219-2228 10 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Privacy and Security<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Computational Model for Reputation and Ensemble-Based Learning Model for Prediction of Trustworthiness in Vehicular Ad Hoc Network<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nAlharthi, A.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Ni, Q.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0& Khan, M. A.,\u00a015\/10\/2023,\u00a0In:\u00a0IEEE Internet of Things Journal.\u00a010,\u00a020,\u00a0p. 18248-18258\u00a011 p., 20.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Privacy-Preservation Framework based on Biometrics Blockchain (BBC) to Prevent Attacks in VANET<\/a><\/strong><\/span>
\nAlharthi, A.<\/a>,\u00a0Ni, Q.<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a04\/06\/2021,\u00a0In:\u00a0IEEE Access.\u00a09,\u00a0p. 87299-87309\u00a011 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deep Biometrics<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/a> (Editor), Li, C.-T. (Editor), Crookes, D. (Editor), Meng, W. (Editor) & Rosenberger, C. (Editor), 2020, Cham:\u00a0Springer.\u00a0311 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Privacy-Protected Facial Biometric Verification Using Fuzzy Forest Learning<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, Bouridane, A., Crookes, D., Celebi, M. E. & Wei, H.-L.,\u00a01\/08\/2016,\u00a0In:\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.\u00a024,\u00a04,\u00a0p. 779-790\u00a012 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotion recognition from scrambled facial images via many graph embedding<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, Ho, A. T. S., Cheheb, I., Al-Maadeed, N., Al-Maadeed, S. & Bouridane, A., 1\/07\/2017, In: Pattern Recognition. 67, p. 245-251 7 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Face Recognition in the Scrambled Domain via Salience-Aware Ensembles of Many Kernels<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, Al-Maadeed, S., Bouridane, A., Crookes, D. & Celebi, M. E., 1\/08\/2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 11, 8, p. 1807-1817 11 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Environmental Computing\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Self-Supervised Leaf Segmentation under Complex Lighting Conditions<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nLin, X., Li, C.-T., Adams, S., Kouzani, A. Z., Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, He, L., Hu, Y., Vernon, M., Doeven, E. H., Webb, L., Mcclellan, T. & Guskic, A., 31\/03\/2023, In: Pattern Recognition. 135, 14 p., 109021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marine Debris Detection in Satellite Surveillance using Attention Mechanisms<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nShen, A., Zhu, Y.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Angelov, P.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 3\/01\/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17, p. 4320-4330 11 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robust and Fair Undersea Target Detection with Automated Underwater Vehicles for Biodiversity Data Collection<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nDinakaran, R., Zhang, L., Li, C.-T., Bouridane, A. & Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 1\/08\/2022, In: Remote Sensing. 14, 15, 17 p., 3680.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deep Learning based Automated Forest Health Diagnosis from Aerial Images<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nChiang, C.-Y., Angelov, P.<\/strong><\/a>, Barnes, C. &\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 28\/07\/2020, In: IEEE Access. 8, p. 144064 – 144076 13 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Embodied AI, Robotics, Metaverse and Digital Twins<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Man-Vehicle e-Passport System using Biometric Blockchain towards Automated Border Control<\/span><\/strong><\/a>
\nXu, B., Ni, Q., Bouridane, A., & Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 06\/2025, In: Frontiers in Blockchain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exploring Simulation Environment for Interactive Task Learning towards Explainable Robotics<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nXia, R. Z., Zhu, Y. J., and Jiang, R. <\/strong><\/a>, 10\/2025, In: Frontiers in Robotics and AI.<\/span><\/p>\n

Multimodal Biometric Human Recognition for Perceptual Human-Computer Interaction<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, Sadka, A. H. & Crookes, D.,\u00a011\/2010,\u00a0In:\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews.\u00a040,\u00a06,\u00a0p. 676-681\u00a06 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leveraging Synthetic Data to Learn Video Stabilization Under Adverse Conditions<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nKerim, A.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0De Souza Ramos, W.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Soriano Marcolino, L.<\/strong><\/a>, Nascimento, E. R. &\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>, 24\/10\/2023, (Accepted\/In press) IEEE\/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Semantic Segmentation under Adverse Conditions: A Weather and Nighttime-aware Synthetic Data-based Approach<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nKerim, A.<\/strong><\/a>, Chamone, F.,\u00a0De Souza Ramos, W.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Soriano Marcolino, L.<\/strong><\/a>, Nascimento, E. R. & Jiang, R.<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a030\/09\/2022, (Accepted\/In press)\u00a0The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC).<\/em>\u00a014 p.<\/span><\/p>\n

Silver: Novel Rendering Engine for Data Hungry Computer Vision Models<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nKerim, A.<\/a>,\u00a0Soriano Marcolino, L.<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Jiang, R.<\/a>,\u00a015\/08\/2021, KDD <\/em>2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Automated 3-D Animation From Snooker Videos With Information-Theoretical Optimization<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nJiang, R.<\/a>, Parry, M. L., Legg, P. A., Chung, D. H. S. & Griffiths, I. W.,\u00a012\/2013,\u00a0In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND AI IN GAMES.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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