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Dr Hua Mao

Assistant Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Dr. Hua Mao has been an assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University since July 2019. Before that, she was with the School of Computer Science at Sichuan University, China. She worked as a Lecturer, followed by an Associate Professor from Jan. 2014 – Dec. 2018. Dr. Mao received her Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2013. Her research interests include deep learning and AI.

Key Publications

DiPACE: Diverse, Plausible and Actionable Counterfactual Explanations, Sanderson, J., Mao, H., Woo, W. 25 Feb 2025, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Scitepress
GradCFA: A Hybrid Gradient-Based Counterfactual and Feature Attribution Explanation Algorithm for Local Interpretation of Neural Networks, Sanderson, J., Mao, H., Woo, W. 18 Mar 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
One-Step Adaptive Graph Learning for Incomplete Multiview Subspace Clustering, Chen, J., Mao, H., Woo, W., Liu, C., Wang, Z., Peng, X. 18 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Dynamic Graph Embedding via Meta-Learning, Mao, Y., Hao, Y., Cao, X., Fang, Y., Lin, X., Mao, H., Xu, Z. 1 Jul 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Explainable Deep Semantic Segmentation for Flood Inundation Mapping with Class Activation Mapping Techniques, Sanderson, J., Mao, H., Tengtrairat, N., Al-Nima, R., Woo, W. 26 Feb 2024, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Scitepress
Cross-View Graph Consistency Learning for Invariant Graph Representations, Chen, J., Li, Z., Mao, H., Woo, W., Peng, X. 20 Nov 2023
Deep Multiview Clustering by Contrasting Cluster Assignments, Chen, J., Mao, H., Woo, W., Peng, X. 21 Apr 2023
Deep Multiview Clustering by Contrasting Cluster Assignments, Chen, J., Mao, H., Woo, W., Peng, X. 6 Oct 2023, Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
Efficient Sparse Representation for Learning With High-Dimensional Data, Chen, J., Yang, S., Wang, Z., Mao, H. 1 Aug 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Explainable AI Evaluation: A Top-Down Approach for Selecting Optimal Explanations for Black Box Models, Mirzaei, S., Mao, H., Al-Nima, R., Woo, W. 20 Dec 2023, In: Information

Current and Recent Projects

COVER - Cooperative and intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles for emergency response applications, Chen, X. (Principal Investigator), Mao, H. (Co Investigator), European Commission, 01/07/23 - 30/06/27, £63,601.00

PGR Supervision

Jacob Sanderson Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Improving AI Interpretability through Advances in Counterfactual Explanations Start Date: 01/10/2023