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Dr Deepayan Bhowmik

Director of Research; Senior Lecturer in Data Science.

Background

Deepayan Bhowmik is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and the Director of Research at Newcastle University's School of Computing. 

He obtained a PhD in Image Processing from the University of Sheffield (UK).

Before joining Newcastle, he was a lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Stirling and Sheffield Hallam University, a research associate at Heriot-Watt University and the University of Sheffield, and a systems engineer at ABB Ltd.

Research

Deepayan Bhowmik's research focuses on fundamental image and signal processing and its applications. His research interests include image and signal analysis, computer vision, artificial intelligence, neuromorphic vision systems and intelligent vision systems design on heterogeneous hardware (Edge AI).  

His research is applied to a wide range of domains, including (but not limited to) media security & forensics, remote sensing for earth observation and AI in space research.

His current research aligns with multiple UN sustainability goals (SDG), including #2: Zero Hunger, #5: Gender Equality, #6: Clean Water and Sanitation, #12: Responsible Consumption and Production and #14: Life Below Water.

Deepayan is heavily involved in developing the most recent JPEG Trust international standard that deals with Media Authenticity.

Current research support:

  1. [2025-28] Sage Plc.: Centre for Trust in Digital Economy. [PI][£200,000]
  2. [2025-29] EPSRC: North East Space Communications Accelerator (NESCA) [Newcastle PI][£2,500,000].
  3. [2024-28] PhD Studentship | Airbus, EPSRC: Smart Earth Observation satellite constellation [CoI][£140,000].
  4. [2024-28] PhD Studentship | EPSRC: Explainable End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Racing, [CoI][£90,000].
  5. [2024-28] PhD Studentship | Newcastle University: Multimodal Sensing and Data Fusion for Agricultural Robots, [CoI][£90,000].
  6. [2024-28] PhD Studentship | Sage Plc, EPSRC: Mitigating Hallucinations of Large Language Models (LLMs) [CoI][£130,000].
  7. [2024-29] UK Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR), [CoI].
  8. [2023-25] Innovate UK KTP: Food Recognition and Monitoring for Patient Wellbeing (INFORM), [PI][£196,000].
  9. [2023-27] PhD Studentship | ST Microelectronics, EPSRC: Efficient coding for heterogeneous hardware, [PI][£133,000].
  10. [2023-27] PhD Studentship | Airbus: Tackling fake satellite imagery, [PI][£122,000].
  11. [2023-27] PhD Studentship | Newcastle University: Neuromorphic Vision System (NEVIS), [PI][£80,000].
  12. [2023-27] PhD Studentship | EPSRC Geospatial CDT: AI in Geospatial Archaeology for big-data in ancient landscapes, [CoI][£122,000].

Past research support:

  1. [2024-25] UK Space Agency: Multimodal remote sensing to tackle blue-green algae in Northern Ireland. [CoI][£120,000]
  2. [2024-25] Newcastle University Global Partnership Fund (GPF): AI-enabled Earth Observation framework [PI][£19,750].
  3. [2024] Innovate UK AKTP: Citrus surveillance using embedded computer vision (CURIOUS), [PI][£31,000].
  4. [2024] SFC: AI to diagnose salmon gill health, [Newcastle PI][£36,000].
  5. [2023-24] Newcastle University SAgE faculty capital infrastructure: Hyperspectral camera & GPU server, [PI][£65,000].
  6. [2023] DASA: Neuromorphic Vision System (NEVIS) [PI][£50,000].
  7. [2022] NERC: Energy-aware heterogeneous computing at scale (ENERGETIC), [Newcastle PI][£120,000].
  8. [2022-23] Scottish Enterprise: Food Recognition and Monitoring for Patient Wellbeing (INFORM), [PI][£120,000].
  9. [2021-2025] EU-MSCA-RISE: Exponential Analysis Empowering Innovation, [CoI][EUR 777,000].
  10. [2021-22] RAEng: Multimodal data analytics for biodiversity monitoring, [Stirling PI][£30,000].
  11. [2020-24] RAEng: Multimodal signal processing for environmental monitoring [Newcastle PI][£300,000].
  12. [2020-21] SFC, Industry: Mobile screenshot organiser, [CoI][£10,000].
  13. [2020] Falcon Food Services: Automated food recognition, [PI][£5,000].
  14. [2020] Uni. of Stirling: Escalator equipment grant, [CoI][£18,500].
  15. [2019-2023] PhD studentship | SRUC, Uni. of Stirling: Improving animal health in the marine ecosystem through signal processing, [PI][£79,000].
  16. [2019-2022] PhD studentship | ST Microelectronics, Uni. of Stirling: Embedded imaging on heterogeneous system, [PI][£93,000].
  17. [2019-20] Stirling SPARK Pump priming research fund: Novel Mathematical Methods For Improving Resolution of Earth Observation Data, [PI][£11,750].
  18. [2019-20] Scottish Funding Council: Targeted Advertising with Computer Vision (TACV), [PI][£5,000].
  19. [2017-18] Sheffield Hallam Uni. Impact fellowship: Low power machine vision system on FPGA, [PI][£4,500].
  20. [2016-17] EPSRC-Digital Catapult: Self-Embedding Watermarking for Media Copyright Protection (SeWMediaCoP), [PI][£25,000].
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