Jingyi Zhang

Supervisors: Prof. Anthony Steed (Deputy Head, Department of Computer Science), Prof. Ifat Yasin (Vice-Dean – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Faculty of Engineering)

Modules: Machine Learning for Visual Computing | Image Processing | Computer Graphics | Machine Vision | Numerical Optimisation | Perception and Interfaces | Robot Vision and Navigation | Virtual Environment

Thesis: “Supporting Co-Presence in Virtual Environments by Actor Control of Multiple Avatars”, Supervisor: Prof. Anthony Steed Developed to a Paper submitted to ISMAR 2023

Thesis: “Removal of Artefacts in Digitised Medical Optical Microscopy”, Supervisor: Prof. Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes

• Conducted Research on comparing agent representation in mixed reality. Developed to a Paper submitted to VRST 2023.

• Collaborated with senior researchers to produce demo of Volumetric video and motion capture technique.

• Responsible for writing group project plan and progress report.

• Wrote speech scripts and PPT for technology conference.

• Wrote an industry survey about metaverse techniques and companies.

• Developed a speech to speech translation software for conference use by calling Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service API, and released the tutorial in official account to promote it and the Neural Speech Service. Wechat Article

• Used MXchip and Raspberry Pi as the physical device, popularized the scientific applications of the Internet of Things, Microsoft Azure, Power BI through small projects such as Auto Voice Weather Forecast and Word Cloud, which was published on country's biggest video-sharing site. Bilibili Video

• Wrote a tutorial about how to train a reinforcement learning agent with Azure Machine learning and its future applications.

• Conducted research on the AI ecosystem and contributed to industry reports.

• Project matchmaking with AI startup companies.