Professor Maozhen Li
Vice-Dean of the NCUT TNE programme/Professor

Research area(s)

High Performance Computing

• MPI, Grid computing, Cloud computing

Big Data Analytics

• Data intensive applications with MapReduce/Hadoop
• smart grids, spam filtering, image annotation, information retrieval, financial risk management

Knowledge and Data Engineering

• Context aware mobile computing, knowledge discovery with rough sets, Semantic Web, ontology alignment

Data Mining and Machine Learning

• Deep learning for human re-dientification based on walking patterns
• Mobile sensing for large scale urban air quality estimation, which explores real-time and fine-grained air quality information (PM2.5, PM10, SO2) throughout a city, based on the (historical and real-time) air quality data reported by constructing large-scale mobile sensing nodes (e.g. low-cost sensors) and a variety of data sources observed in the city, such as meteorology, traffic flow, structure of road networks, and point of interests (POIs).

Grants

Project details

• PI, £458K, Industry Funding, Video Data Driven AI for Enhancing Operation Safety in Smart Manufacturing, Oct. 2020 – Sept. 2023, in collaboration with Shandong East Engineering Tools Limited, China (A research project looking at high performance real-time deep learning algorithms for abnormal operation detection and classification).
• CI, £195K, Innovate UK, KTP Project in Collaboration with HAES Systems Limited, Real Time Communication for Resilient Fire Alarm Systems, March 2019 – Feb 2021.
• CI, €730K, EU Horizon 2020, Z-BRE4K - Strategies and Predictive Maintenance models wrapped around physical systems for Zero-unexpected-Breakdowns and increased operating life of Factories (Project ID: 768869), October 2017 – March 2021 (17 partners) (A multidisciplinary project looking at large scale predictive models for smart manufacturing).
• CI, €680K, EU Horizon 2020, IoRL, Internet of Radio-Light (Project ID: 761992), June 2017 – May 2020 (20 partners) (A multidisciplinary project looking at cloud computing and software defined networking for wireless communication in smart buildings empowered by lights).
• CI, €700K, EU Horizon 2020, TDX-ASSIST: Coordination of Transmission and Distribution data eXchanges for renewables integration in the European marketplace through Advanced, Scalable and Secure ICT Systems and Tools (Project ID: 774500), October 2017 – September 2020 (12 partners) (A multidisciplinary project looking at big data analytics mainly on data variety and veracity of smart power networks).