[Sep 2024]: PDI Lab has been awarded one InnovateUK grants "PestGPT 2.0: Enhancing Mobile Intelligence with Knowledge Guided ChatGPT for Sustainable Pest Management" in collaboration with Mutus-tech and ADAS. The grant is totally £100k (of which £50k to Sheffield) and Prof Po Yang is the PI of the project.  

[Sep 2024]: PDI Lab has been awarded two InnovateUK grants "Development of an AI-driven Imaging Analysis System with Low-cost Equipment for Fast Onsite Quantification of Plant-parasitic Nematodes" and "PPNMix: Knowledge Distillation empowered Automatic Molecular Identification Pipeline for Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Complex Mixtures" in collaboration with SparkSoft. The two grants are totally £200k (of which £70k to Sheffield) and Prof Po Yang is the PI of the project.  

[Nov 2023]: PDI Lab has been awarded an InnovateUK FIP Follow-on grant "Knowledge Distillation empowered Mobile Intelligence Solution for Sustainable Management of Crop Pests and Soil Health" in collaboration with RSK ADAS Ltd and Mutus-Tech. The grant is £320k (of which £103k to Sheffield) and Prof Po Yang is the PI of the project.  

[August 2023]: PDI Lab has been awarded an InnovateUK FIP grant "AI-enhanced Climate-Smart Fertiliser Management for Sustainable and Resilient Farming" in collaboration with Harper Adams University, Velcourt and Mutus-Tech. The grant is £870k (of which £280k to Sheffield) and Prof Po Yang is the PI of the project.  

[Dec 2022]: PDI Lab has been awarded an InnovateUK FIP grant "Adaptive AI-enabled and Context-enhanced Mobile Intelligence for Climate-smart Pest Management to Optimise Sustainable and Resilient Farming" in collaboration with Liverpool University, RSK ADAS Ltd and Mutus-Tech. The grant is £480k (of which £160k to Sheffield) and Prof Po Yang is the PI of the project.  

[Dec 2022]: One paper "Robust Temporal Smoothness in Multi-Task Learning" accepted by AAAI-2023.

[Nov 2022]: PDI Lab has been awarded a BBSRC grant "NemaRecognition: An AI-and molecular-driven pipeline for throughput plant parasitic nematode recognition" in collaboration with Harper Adams University and RSK ADAS Ltd. The grant is £75k (of which £35k to Sheffield) and Prof Po Yang is the PI of the project.  

[Oct 2022]: Dr Kang Liu joined PDI Lab . 

[Sep 2022]: PDI Lab has been awarded a EPSRC-IAA grant "AI-enabled and Context-enhanced Mobile Intelligence for Sustainable Pest Management in Arable Crops" in collaboration with SparkSoft Ltd. The grant is £65k and Dr Po Yang is the PI of the project.  

[May 2022]: One paper "Multi-task Learning with Adaptive Global Temporal Structure for Predicting Alzheimer's Disease Progression" accepted by CIKM-2022.

[Nov 2021]: Zhipeng Yuan has joined PDI Lab for his PhD study. 

[Nov 2021]: Muhammad Senoyodha Brennaf has joined PDI Lab for his PhD study. 

[April 2021]: Lei Niu has joined PDI Lab for his PhD study. 

[Jan 2021]: One COVID-19 paper " The effect of multiple interventions to balance healthcare demand for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks: a modelling study " accepted by Scientific Report.

[Dec 2020]: Malak Alqulaity has joined PDI Lab for her PhD study. 

[Oct 2020]: Shunbao Li has joined PDI Lab for his PhD study.

[Sep 2020]: PDI Lab has been awarded an Innovate UK grant under their scheme UK-China: Precision For Enhancing Agricultural Productivity. 

The project is with Ant Data Ltd on the topic of Farmer-centred Interoperable Mobile-Cloud System: Integrating Data from Farming Activities and Environmental Information for Sustainable Fertiliser Management. The project summary follows: Sustainable fertiliser management and reducing farming emissions have become a high-priority agriculture issue in China. The Chinese government has commenced strong support for innovating novel Internet of Things (IoT) enabled smart farming technologies to enhance productivity and reduce emissions. However, due to low education level and geographic dispersion of farmers, practical effectiveness and economic benefits of these technologies are too low. This project will aim at providing a comprehensive holistic approach to dealing with sustainable fertiliser management by enhancing the deployment and use of farmer-centred interoperable mobile-cloud systems that offers access, collection, aggregation and analysis of farm data. This collaboration between Ant Data Ltd, Velcourt and Sheffield University in the UK and CAS and Jiangxi Tian-Ren Ltd in China will stimulate growth of the UK and Chinese market, provide safer working conditions, creating job opportunities and allowing local growers to receive a greater return for their produce.

The grant is £669k (of which £165k to Sheffield) and Dr Po Yang is the technical director of the project.  

[July 2020]: One COVID-19 paper "Feasibility study of mitigation and suppression strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks in London and Wuhan" accepted by PloS one.

[July 2020]: One COVID-19 paper "Rolling Interventions for Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks in the UK to Reduce Healthcare Demand" accepted for KDD 2020's "AI For Covid-19" initiative 

[July 2020]: PDI Lab has been awarded an WUN (World Universities Network) research development fund awards: Isolation-Care Tele-Robotic System and its efficient utilization for the prevention of nosocomial infection of the COVID-19, Research Team: The University of Sheffield (Dr Po Yang, Computer Science); The University of Sydney; Zhejiang University. The grant is £10K and Dr Po Yang is the Principle Investigator of the project.  

[June 2020]: Ruoling Peng has joined PDI Lab for his PhD study.

[Feb 2020]: Yu Zhang has joined PDI Lab for his PhD study.