Principal Investigator

Dr. Chen Feng in academic gown

Dr. Chen Feng

Lecturer in Machine Learning (Assistant Professor), Queen's University Belfast

Dr. Feng founded the QUB ML Lab in September 2025 and works on robust machine learning, computer vision, and AI safety under imperfect information. He was previously a Research Fellow in Machine Learning at University College London with Prof. Miguel Rodrigues, and holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London supervised by Prof. Ioannis Patras and Dr. Georgios Tzimiropoulos, an MSc from Tsinghua University, and a BSc from Nankai University.

He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Computational Intelligence Letters, serves on the editorial boards of CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems, the International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, and Big Data and Cognitive Computing, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. A full biography, publication record, and service record are available on his personal website.

Current Members

PhD Student (as 2nd supervisor)

Tadiyos Hailemichael Mamo

Joined
2025
Previous institution
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Research
Causal representation learning

PhD Student

Zhengli Shi

Joined
2026
Previous institution
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Research
Safety and reliability of large language and multimodal models

PhD Student

Zihan Xu

Joined
2026
Previous institution
University of Bristol
Research
Foundation models for multimodal data

Visiting Student

Yan Han

Joined
2026
Previous institution
Northeastern University (China)
Research
Robust learning for medical imaging

Visiting Student

Haimei Lu

Joined
2026
Previous institution
South China University of Technology
Research
Low-level vision with large models

Selected Collaborators