Staff Profile

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) in Applied Computing, First Class; PhD in AI (2021), UEA, UK.

Experience

Sep. 2023 - present, Lecturer in Data Engineering & AI, School of Engineering, Newcastle University.

Jan. 2021 - Sep. 2023, Research Associate at NEOLab, School of Engineering, Newcastle University.

May 2019 - Dec. 2020, Research Assistant at Open Lab, School of Computing, Newcastle University.

Memberships

Member of IEEE; Member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Research Interests

A member of the Intelligent Sensing and Communications (ISC) group, specialising in computer vision, artificial intelligence and deep learning. His research profile can be viewed on Google Scholar.

Research Funding

UKRI-GCRF and Newton Fund Consolidation Account (GNCA): Deep Lakes (CoI; £20,921; 10/22 - 03/23).

Guest Lecturer for CSC8637 Deep Learning, School of Computing, Newcastle University

• Articles

  • Wang Z, Yu S, Duan H, Wang S, Long Y, Shao L. Rethinking Multi-Focus Image Fusion: An Input Space Optimisation View. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2026, 35, 1321-1336.
  • Li C, Wang S, Long Y, Zhang H. Learning to transport for open set domain generalization. Pattern Recognition 2026, 174, 112988.
  • Jiang C, Ye Q, Wang S, Wu Z, Zhang H. Learning clique-based inter-class affinity for compositional zero-shot learning. Pattern Recognition 2026, 173, 112819.
  • Zhu Y, Li M, Ye Q, Wang S, Xin T, Zhang H. RobustEMD: Domain robust matching for cross-domain few-shot medical image segmentation. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2025, 167, 103197.
  • Wang Z, Zhao L, Zhang J, Song R, Song H, Meng J, Wang S. Multi-Text Guidance Is Important: Multi-Modality Image Fusion via Large Generative Vision-Language Model. International Journal of Computer Vision 2025, 133, 4646-4668.
  • Jiang C, Wang S, Long Y, Li Z, Zhang H, Shao L. Imaginary-Connected Embedding in Complex Space for Unseen Attribute-Object Discrimination. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2025, 47(3), 1395-1413.
  • Cheng Z, Wang S, Long Y, Zhou T, Zhang H, Shao L. Dual Interspersion and Flexible Deployment for Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2025, 44(6), 2732-2744.
  • Zhu Y, Wang S, Zhou T, Li Z, Zhang H, Shao L. Cross-domain Few-shot Medical Image Segmentation via Dynamic Semantic Matching. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2025, 34, 6669-6682.
  • Duan H, Wang S, Ojha V, Wang S, Huang Y, Long Y, Ranjan R, Zheng Y. Wearable-based Behaviour Interpolation for Semi-supervised Human Activity Recognition. Information Sciences 2024, 665, 120393.
  • Zhu Y, Wang S, Xin T, Zhang Z, Zhang H. Partition-A-Medical-Image: Extracting Multiple Representative Sub-regions for Few-shot Medical Image Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 2024, 73, 5016312.
  • Jiang C, Ye Q, Wang S, Shen Y, Zhang Z, Zhang H. Mutual Balancing in State-Object Components for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning. Pattern Recognition 2024, 152, 110451.
  • Cheng Z, Wang S, Xin T, Zhou T, Zhang H, Shao L. Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation via Generating Multiple Representative Descriptors. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 2024, 43(6), 2202-2214.
  • Duan H, Long Y, Wang S, Zhang H, Willcocks C, Shao L. Dynamic Unary Convolution in Transformers. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2023, 45(11), 12747-12759.
  • Wang S, Peppa MV, Xiao W, Maharjan SB, Joshi SP, Mills JP. A second-order attention network for glacial lake segmentation from remotely sensed imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2022, 189, 289-301.
  • Wang S, Ren Y, Parr G, Guan Y, Shao L. Invariant Deep Compressible Covariance Pooling for Aerial Scene Categorization. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2021, 59(8), 6549-6561.
  • Wang S, Guan Y, Shao L. Multi-Granularity Canonical Appearance Pooling for Remote Sensing Scene Classification. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2020, 29, 5396-5407.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Li C, Wang S, Zhang H. Learning a Fix and Explore Framework for Continuous Generalized Category Discovery. In: 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26). 2026, Singapore: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
  • Hobson J, Merzouk S, Wang S, Mills J, Bhowmik D. In Pursuit of Onboard Satellite Constellation Processing: A Simulated Earth Observation Study. In: The 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys Workshop '26). 2026, Cambridge, UK: ACM. In Press.
  • Zhu Y, Wang S, Xin T, Zhang H. Few-shot Medical image segmentation via a region-enhanced prototypical transformer. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2023. 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco: Springer.