Research output per year
Research output per year
BSc, MSc, PhD
BS8 1TW
Full list of publications since 1990 can be found from papers
Short Bio:
Weiru Liu holds Chair of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of Bristol. She held a number of senior management positions at the Faculty of Engineering between 2017 to 2023 (Associate Dean for TQEC (Research and Enterprise): March 2020 to August 2023; Engineering Faculty Research Director: August 2017 to May 2020 and Faculty International Director: May 2022 to August 2023). Prior to joining the University of Bristol in 2017, she held the Chair of AI at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), and was the Director of Research of the Knowledge and Data Engineering Research Cluster for 6 years. She has a sustained track record of securing peer-reviewed, highly competitive funding from a diverse range of funding bodies (over £58m as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator).
She was a member of UK EPSRC ICT Strategic Advisory Team (ICT SAT); was a member of UK Higher Education Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) Institutional Environment Pilot Panel; and was Turing Fellow between October 2021 to September 2023. Currently, she is Co-Director for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous and Robotic Systems: Towards Ubiquity (FARSCOPE-TU), 2019-2028; and holds the University Research Fellowship 2023/2024.
Internationally, she was a member of Academy of Finland AI and Data Science Review Panel (2020-2021) and was a member of an international committee for Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) - Digital Technologies (2019).
Research Interests:
Her research interests include: explainable AI, data-driven intelligent autonomous systems; smart cyber-physical systems; large-scale sensor network event modelling, reasoning and correlation in uncertain environments; information fusion under uncertainty, with a wide range of applications such as security, healthcare, robotics. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, chaired several international conferences, and was an invited keynote at a few international conferences.
1. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Our work in this space focuses on developing systems or tools to provide intuitive and interactive explanations to non-expert users.
2. Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Our theoretical research includes uncertain information modelling and fusion; event correlation and reasoning; belief modelling and revision; online planning under uncertainty; multi-criteria decision making under uncertainty. Specifically
3. Data mining, large-scale data analytics
We develop Machine Learning and Data Mining algorithms to discover knowledge. Recent work has been focusing on graph-based approaches for both historic and streaming data analytics, with numerous applications.
4. Theoretical aspects of Merging and Revising Uncertain and Inconsistent Knowledgebases
Our research includes developing fusion methods (merging operators) and algorithms for merging multiple knowledgebases (maybe with constrains), especially, propositional and possibilistic knowledgebases, stratified knowledgebases, imprecise probabilistic logic based knowledge bases, and heterogeneous uncertain information. We also develop revision strategies/operators for revising such knowledge/belief bases.
Recent research has progressed to providing a toolkit for identifying minimal inconsistent subsets and calculating inconsistency values of knowledgbases or individual formulae in large-scale knowledge bases. This research has also been extended to developing approaches for detecting inconsistencies in probabilistic knowledge bases (learned by other machine learning systems) and repairing such inconsistencies.
Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute
1 Oct 2021 → …
> REF2021 Institutional Environment Pilot Panel
1 Nov 2018 → 31 Dec 2022
> EPSRC ICT SAT member, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1 Jan 2017 → 1 May 2023
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Liu, W. (Principal Investigator)
1/12/24 → 30/11/26
Project: Research
Halford, S. (Principal Investigator), Southerton, D. (Co-Investigator), Manchester, H. (Co-Investigator), Evans, D. M. (Co-Investigator), Watson, D. L. (Co-Investigator), Anderson, B. (Co-Investigator), Cater, K. F. (Co-Investigator), Carver, N. (Co-Investigator), Clarke, P. H. (Co-Investigator), Dermott, E. (Co-Investigator), Facer, K. (Co-Investigator), Hauert, S. (Co-Investigator), Liu, W. (Co-Investigator), Liveley, G. (Co-Investigator), McQuillan, D. (Co-Investigator), O'Kane, A. A. (Co-Investigator), Owen, R. (Co-Investigator), Parker, M. (Co-Investigator), Preist, C. W. (Co-Investigator), Schien, D. (Co-Investigator), Sriprakash, A. (Co-Investigator), Milivojevic, S. (Co-Investigator), Hussain, R. (Co-Investigator), Gutierrez Lopez, M. (Researcher), Cheilan, L. (Researcher), Thomas, L. M. (Researcher), Van Isacker, T. (Researcher), Valladares Celis, C. (Researcher), Atkins, E. (Student), Knight, E. W. (Student), Pykett, J. (Co-Investigator), Pitts, H. (Co-Investigator), Williamson, B. (Co-Investigator), Lagedamont, M. (Co-Investigator), Dowse, M. (Researcher), Brand, J. F. (Student), James, R. (Student), Okafo, D. (Student), Horsley, N. (Researcher), Jansen, A. H. (Administrator), Stevenson, T. P. (Other ), Hill, J. M. (Manager), Abu-Aisheh, R. (Researcher), Bo, H. (Researcher), Hemming, R. (Researcher), Huang, L. (Researcher) & Ward, K. J. (Other )
1/05/22 → 30/04/27
Project: Research, Parent
Liu, W. (Principal Investigator)
1/12/20 → 30/11/23
Project: Research, Parent
Liu, W. (Advisor)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion
Liu, W. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
Liu, W. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk