Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- mingjun.zhong@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
I have been a Lecturer in Machine Learning at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen since June 2020.
My research interests include Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Engineering, Computational Statistics, Computational Sustainability, Machine Learning for Medical Science, etc. If you want to explore more about my research, please check My Publications.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Currently, I am serving as the director of the MSc IT programme and a Tutor.
- External Memberships
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- I serve as an Associate Editor for the journal Neural Processing Letters.
- I serve as a Review Editor for the journal Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Statistics section).
- I am a FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)
- I review grants for multiple funding bodies, a variety of international journals and several prestigious machine learning and artifial intellegence conferences.
- Research
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Research Overview
My research interests are mainly (application-driven) machine learning and computational statistics. My research mission is to understand patterns and phenomena observed in real-world data by devising probabilistic and statistical machine learning methodologies.
Current Research
Currently I am working on the following application domains and inferential machine learning algorithms:- Healthcare data
- Energy Efficiency
- Spectroscopy data
- Data Engineering
- Foundation Models
- Self-Supervised Learning
- Causal Inference
- Markov chain Monte Carlo
Supervision
I have been supervising a number of PhD students.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
I am teaching the following courses
2025-2026:
- CS5062 Machine Learning
- CS5079 Applied AI
- CS4042 Data Engineering
- CS4049 Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining
- CS3524 Distributed Systems and Security
- CS551R & CS5942 MSc IT project
2024-2025:
- CS5062 Machine Learning
- CS5079 Applied AI
- CS4048 Robotics
- CS3524 Distributed Systems and Security
- CS551Q Enterprise Software Development
- CS551R & CS5942 MSc IT project
- Publications
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Interpretation and Reporting of Predictive or Diagnostic Machine Learning Research in Trauma & Orthopaedics
Bone and Joint Journal, vol. 103B, no. 12, pp. 1754-1758Contributions to Journals: Articles面向变电设备金属锈蚀检测的分层嵌套标注方法
Journal of Southeast University (English Edition), vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 350-355Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1003-7985.2021.04.002
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The IDEAL household energy dataset, electricity, gas, contextual sensor data and survey data for 255 UK homes
Scientific Data, vol. 8, no. 1, 146Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Lightweight Neural Network for Energy Disaggregation Employing Depthwise Separable Convolution
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/iSPEC53008.2021.9735713
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Load Disaggregation Based on Sequence-to-point Network with Unsupervised Pre-training
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EI252483.2021.9713549
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Lightweight Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Employing Pruned Sequence-to-Point Learning
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3427771.3427845
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Trust-region variational inference with gaussian mixture models
Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-60Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/3455716.3455879
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AREA: An adaptive reference-set based evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective optimisation
Information Sciences, vol. 515, pp. 365-387Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2019.12.011
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Transfer Learning for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1419-1429Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2019.2938068
- [ONLINE] University of Lincoln Repository
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Neural Control Variates for Monte Carlo Variance Reduction
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46147-8_32
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