Prof Feng Tian focuses his research on machine learning, with particular interest in developing advanced approaches on representation learning and data clustering. He is a prolific researcher with more than 100 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, including top-tier venues such as International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics and ACM Transactions on Modelling & Computer Simulation. In addition to his research, Prof Tian is deeply committed to teaching and enjoys interacting with students. His teaching interests include programming, data structure, algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Before joining DKU, Prof Tian was a faculty member at Bournemouth University in the UK and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He holds a B.Eng. and Ph.D. from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.