He has broad multi-disciplinary research interests in applied mathematics, statistics, and computer science, with main focus and applications in

• 🔎 image/signal/data processing
• 🔎 computer vision
• 🔎 machine learning
• 🔎 optimisation

In particular, he is also interested in, but not limited to

• segmentation and classification
• pattern recognition
• image reconstruction
• image registration
• wavelets

and their applications in, but not limited to

• digital imaging
• medical imaging
• remote sensing
• radio interferometric imaging
• big-data analysis

Associate Editor

• 2026–Present: Pattern Analysis and Applications (from Springer Nature).

• 2025–Present: Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (from Frontiers).

• 2021–Present: Software Impacts (from Elsevier).

Invited Conference Talks

• 30-min Talk, Recent Advances in Theories and Applications of Data Science, TSIMF, Sanya, China. 02–06 Dec. 2019

• 20-min Talk, 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), A Coruna, Spain. 02–06 Sept. 2019

• 20-min Talk, Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology (COSMO21), Valencia, Spain. 22–25 May 2018

• 45-min Talk, One Day on Compressive Sensing – Advances in theory, algorithms, and applications, Bath, UK. 01 June 2017

• 30-min Talk, Turing/LMS Workshop – Inverse Problems and Data Science, Edinburgh, UK. 08–10 May 2017

• 30-min Talk, The Eighth International Conference – Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation, Fethiye, Turkey. 23–28 May 2016

• 50-min Talk, The Third International Workshop on Image Processing Techniques and Applications, incorporating Mathematical Imaging with Biomedical Applications, Liverpool, UK. 06–08 July 2015

• 5-min Talk, Challenges in Dynamic Imaging Data, Cambridge, UK. 09–11 June 2015

• 30-min Talk, SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (SIAM-IS14), Hong Kong. 12–14 May 2014

• 30-min Talk, SPOC 2013 (Int. Conf. Signal Processing, Optimization and Compressed Sensing), Harbin, China. 27–31 Dec. 2013

• 25-min Talk, 9th Intl. Conf. on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR, 2013), Lund, Sweden. 19–21 Aug. 2013

• 30-min Talk, 11th European Congress of Stereology and Image Analysis 2013, Kaiserslautern, Germany. 08–12 July 2013

• 30-min Talk, The 9th East Asia SIAM Conference (EASIAM 2013), Bandung, Indonesia. 18–20 June 2013

• 15-min Talk, Student Paper Competition, IEEE-EMBS Hong Kong Chapter, HKPC Building, Hong Kong. 20 Aug. 2011

Visiting Scholar or Seminar Talks

• 1-hour Talk, The School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. 20 Nov. 2019

• 20-min Talk, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK. 19 Nov. 2019

• 40-min Talk, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. 15 Nov. 2019

• 40-min Talk, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK. 13 Nov. 2019

• 1-hour Talk, DAMTP, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. 11 Nov. 2019

• 30-min Talk, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. 01 July 2019

• 10-min Talk, (Astro Jamboree), Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Surry, UK. 13 Dec. 2018

• 1-hour Talk, DAMTP, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. 03 June 2016

• 1-hour Talk, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Surry, UK. 13 May 2016

• 30-min Talk, Department of Computer Science, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. 25 Feb. 2015

• 30-min Talk, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. 27 Jan. 2015

• 1-hour Talk, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. 22 Dec. 2014

• 25-min Talk, Division of Medical Physics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. 03 Dec. 2014

• 30-min Talk, VoxTox Progress Meeting, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. 08 Oct. 2014

• 25-min Talk, Young Scientist Award Competition, Hong Kong Institution of Science, Hong Kong. 06 Nov. 2013

• 1-hour Talk, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore. 25 June 2013

• 1-hour Talk, Institute of Biomathematics and Biometry of Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Munich, Germany. 14 May 2012

• 1-hour Talk, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universit"at Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany. 08 May 2012

• Uncertainty quantification and computational imaging workshop, Edinburgh, UK. 23–24 Apr. 2018}

• Variational methods and effective algorithms for imaging and vision, Cambridge, UK. (29th Aug 2017–20th Dec 2017). 05–08 Nov. 2017

• Poster, Workshop on New Mathematical Methods in Computational Imaging, Edinburgh, UK. 29 June 2017

• Poster, 3rd UCL Workshop on the Theory of Big Data, London, UK. 26–28 June 2017

• Poster, International BASP Frontiers workshop, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. 29 Jan.–03 Feb. 2017

• SKA – Delivering the Science, Cambridge, UK. 12–13 Apr. 2016

• SuSTaIn EdgeCutter One Day Workshop on High-dimensional Statistics, Inverse Problems and Convex Analysis, Royal Statistics Society, London, UK. 22 Mar. 2016

• Data Science and Health Alan Turing Institute Summit, Cambridge, UK. 21 Sept. 2015

• Software Carpentry Workshop, London, UK. 18–19 June 2015

• Computational Radiotheray Symposium, Cambridge, UK. 17 June 2015

• Cambridge SIAM Chapter Launch Conference, Cambridge, UK. 27 Apr. 2015

• Plant Sciences Department Research Day, Cambridge, UK. 11 Dec. 2014

• NC3Rs Follow-up Meeting, Oxford, UK. 19–23 Nov. 2014

• NC3Rs/POEMS Network Maths Study Group: Apply Mathematics to 3Rs problems, Cambridge, UK. 09–12 Sept. 2014

• A symposium to celebrate David Hanke's contribution to teaching and research in the Department, Cambridge, UK. 02 Sept. 2014

• Chemical Safety Training, Cambridge, UK. 15 July 2014

• Poster, Advances in Mathematical Image Processing (AIP), Annweiler, Germany. 30 Sept.–02 Oct. 2013

• International Conference on Scientific Computing: In honor of Prof. Tony F. Chan at his 60th birthday for his contributions to Scientific Computing, Hong Kong. 4–7 Jan. 2012

• Opening Workshop of the Forth International Summer School on Numerical Linear Algebra, Guiyang, China. 14–30 July 2011

• The 3rd Workshop on Numerical Algebra and Scientific Computation, Hong Kong. 26–27 Mar. 2011