Research Activities

Research Funding

• 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) 

PhD and MRes Supervision 

• 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 – Ongoing (passed the viva on 1st Nov 2023)

• 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

PhD and MRes Examination

Haiming has done a large number of internal PhD 1st year and 2nd year reviews. In addition, Haiming has examined a number of PhD reviews and viva internally and externally: 

• 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 - 2021 

• Chi Zhang - PhD - External examination at Bournemouth University - 2019

• Abdulah Mohammedi - MRes - External examination at Middlesex University - 2019

• Noor Fazilla Abd Yusof - PhD - External examination at University of Aberdeen - 2018

• Emmanuel Effiok - PhD - Internal Examination at University of Bedfordshire - 2018

• Waleed Alabbas - PhD - Internal Examination at University of Bedfordshire - 2018

Research Services

Haiming is the Chair of the Karen Spärck Jones Award. Haiming is a membership secretary of BCS Information Retrieval Special Group (BCS-IRSG). Haiming has organized a large number of conferences, workshops and symposium as a programme chair, tutorial chair, workshop chair, doctoral symposium chair, session chair and panel session, such as ECIR, CHIIR, BIRDS, ICTIR, FDIA, CIKM, JCDL etc. Haiming is an associate editor for “International Journal for Digital Libraries (IJDL)”. She has also been a member of programme committee for many world-leading conferences and reviewer for prestigious journals, such as SIGIR, ECIR, CHIIR, ICTIR, SIGIR-AP, JCDL, TOIS, JASIST, IJDL, IIiX, ICMR, CIKM, BIR, ACM MM, etc. Haiming has given many talks including keynote speeches at conferences and institutions nationally and internationally, for example, she gave a keynote talk at the 2014 Enterprise Search Europe, and at the 2017 Information Retrieval and Foraging Autumn School at Schloss Dagstuhl, attended by around 30 international PhD and Master students, and at the 2020 International Conference on Information Management, etc.

Knowledge Transfer to Industry

Haiming has considerable knowledge and experience in working with SMEs. She has worked with many SMEs on consultancy projects that were funded by UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), EU Regional Development Fund and local councils. For example, Haiming successfully completed an innovation voucher project with Deepnet Security on risk analysis for online crime, which is funded by TSB; she has completed over 20 consultancy projects with SMEs such as Me Learning, Tacit Sims and North27, etc. for Innovation Bridge project and ICT Escalator Project, which are funded by EU Regional Development Fund and the local councils. Apart from working with the SMEs, Haiming has also been working on knowledge transfer projects with museums, namely Bletchley Park and Luton Culture. For example, Haiming worked on how to engage students to learn code breaking with Bletchley Park using computer games; she also worked on user-centred information access for digitised WWI data and using virtual reality technology to enhance students’ learning during their visit at Luton Culture museums.  Haiming is also a member of Biztech management board, which is a business networking hub for business digital skill development.