June 2024-May 2025 (12 months) Innovate UK project on AugmentAero – collaborative AI solutions to improve productivity in Aero maintenance. Project funding £1.2m – Principal Investigator (PI)
Feb – June 2024 (5 months) Research England project on inclusive design of SENDIASS. Project funding £12,800 – Co-Investigator (CoI)
Feb-July 2023 (6 months) Web Science Institute Research Pilot Project on Inclusive Image-based Conversational Search. Project funding £14, 204 - Principal Investigator (PI)
2017 –2021 (4 years) H2020 Marie Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) Project called QUARTZ (Quantum Information Access and Retrieval Theory) with a consortium of 7 EU Universities and 6 international partners, No. 721321. Project funding €3.3m – Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) at University of Bedfordshire.
2018-2021 (3 years) Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) funded by Innovate UK, Ref: KTP011508. Project funding £257,587. University of Bedfordshire in Partnership with Me Learning Limited aim to develop a smart online learning platform for Me Learning’s customers --- Principal Investigator (PI).
2016-2019 EU Regional Development Fund on ICT Escalator Project . Consultancy project with 6 SMEs. Project funding £2000 – Principal Investigator (PI)
2015-2019 EU Regional Development Fund on Innovation Bridge Project. Innovative consultancy project with 16 SMEs. Project funding £7000 – Principal Investigator (PI)
Feb 2015 – Feb 2018 (3 years) Beijing Higher Education Academy funding on ubiquitous learning project with The Open University in China. Project funding RMB 200,000 equivalent to about £20,000 – Principal Investigator (PI).
Oct 2015 – July 2016 (9 months) University of Bedfordshire Learning Excellent Grant on Developing digital Learning Communities, Project funding £1600 – Principal investigator (PI)
Oct 2013 – Oct 2014 (1 year) University of Bedfordshire Learning Excellent Grant on Game Based Learning project with Bletchley Park, Project funding £4000 – Principal investigator (PI)
Oct 2013 – Oct 2014 (1 year) AHRC Grant on World War I (WWI) Cultural Heritage project with Luton Culture, Project funding £16,000 – Co Principal-investigator (CoI)
July 2013 – Oct 2013 (3 months) Technology Strategy Board (TSB) UK Innovation Voucher Funding on Online Crime Risk Assessment with Deepnet Security, Project funding £5000 – Principal Investigator (PI)
Wenxiang Cai – PhD – First Supervisor – Ongoing
Ruishi Wang - PhD - Second Supervisor - Ongoing
Maofeng Wei – PhD – First Supervisor – Ongoing
Jamilah Alamri – PhD – First Supervisor – Ongoing
Anning Shen – PhD – Second Supervisor - Ongoing
Yue Zheng – PhD – First Supervisor – Ongoing
Haoran YI – PhD – Second Supervisor – Ongoing
Amer Kareem - PhD - First Supervisor – Awarded in August 2024
Amit Kumar Jaiswal - PhD - First Supervisor - Awarded in July 2023
Sehrish Khan - PhD - First Supervisor - Awarded in July 2023
Mahmoud Artemi - PhD - First Supervisor - Awarded in November 2022
Karen Chessum - PhD – First/Second Supervisor – Awarded in March 2021
Przemyslaw Maslowski - MRes - Second Supervisor – Awarded Nov 2020
Sebastian Grygiel - MRes - Second Supervisor - Awarded in March 2019
Sharvaani Ramkissoon - PhD - Second Supervisor - Awarded in April 2018
Fahad Alanezi - PhD - Second Supervisor - Awarded in July 2017
Saranya kanjaruek - PhD - Second Supervisor - Awarded March 2017
Ahmad Alenezi - PhD - First Supervisor - Awarded in July 2016
Muhammad Kamran Abbasi - PhD - Second Supervisor - Awarded in Oct 2015
Marwa Alghodi_PhD_ External Examiner at University of Wolverhampton, UK - 2025
Paula Reyero Lobo – PhD - External Examiner at The Open University, UK – 2024
Jing Qian – PhD – External Examination at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China - 2024
Ishrat Sami - PhD - External Examination at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK - 2023
Kirandeep Kaur – PhD – Internal Examination at University of Bedfordshire, UK - 2022
Gul Fatima Zaidi – MRes – Internal Examination at University of Bedfordshire, UK - 2022
Ankur Priyadarshi – PhD – External examination at Birla Institute of Technology, India - 2021
Dongshen Wang – PhD – External examination at University of Copenhagen, Denmark - 2021
Chi Zhang - PhD - External examination at Bournemouth University, UK - 2019
Abdulah Mohammedi - MRes - External examination at Middlesex University, UK - 2019
Noor Fazilla Abd Yusof - PhD - External examination at University of Aberdeen, UK - 2018
Emmanuel Effiok - PhD - Internal Examination at University of Bedfordshire, UK - 2018
Waleed Alabbas - PhD - Internal Examination at University of Bedfordshire, UK - 2018
Dr. Haiming Liu serves as the Chair of the Karen Spärck Jones Award and is the Membership Secretary of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS-IRSG). She has played a key role in organizing numerous conferences, workshops, and symposiums in various capacities, including Programme Chair, Tutorial Chair, Workshop Chair, Doctoral Symposium Chair, Session Chair, and Panel Chair. These events include prestigious conferences such as ECIR, CHIIR, BIRDS, ICTIR, FDIA, CIKM, JCDL, and more.
Dr. Liu is an Associate Editor for the Information Retrieval Research Journal (IRRJ) and the International Journal for Digital Libraries (IJDL) and has served on the program committees of many world-leading conferences. She has also reviewed articles for renowned journals and conferences, including SIGIR, ECIR, CHIIR, ICTIR, SIGIR-AP, JCDL, TOIS, JASIST, IJDL, IIiX, ICMR, CIKM, BIR, and ACM MM, among others.
She is a sought-after speaker and has delivered numerous talks, including keynote speeches, at conferences and institutions both nationally and internationally. Notable examples include her keynote at the 2014 Enterprise Search Europe, the 2017 Information Retrieval and Foraging Autumn School at Schloss Dagstuhl (attended by around 30 international PhD and Master's students), and the 2020 International Conference on Information Management, among others.
Dr Haiming Liu has extensive knowledge and experience working with SMEs, having collaborated on numerous consultancy projects funded by the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), the EU Regional Development Fund, and local councils. She has successfully delivered over 20 consultancy projects for SMEs, including Me Learning, Tacit Sims, and North27, as part of the Innovation Bridge and ICT Escalator projects. Additionally, she completed an Innovation Voucher Project with Deepnet Security, funded by TSB, focusing on risk analysis for online crime.
Currently, Dr Liu is leading a £1.2 million Innovate UK-funded project with AugmentAero to enhance aircraft maintenance productivity using AI and AR technologies.
Beyond her work with SMEs, Dr Liu has contributed to knowledge transfer projects with cultural institutions such as Bletchley Park and Luton Culture. Her initiatives include engaging students in learning codebreaking through computer games at Bletchley Park and enhancing student learning at Luton Culture museums through virtual reality and user-centred access to digitized WWI data.
She also served for eight years on the Biztech Management Board; a business networking hub dedicated to advancing digital skills for businesses.
In addition to translating her own research into practice, Dr Liu serves as the Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence, where she leads efforts to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Through networking, collaboration, and innovation, she is driving impactful advancements in the field.