About me
Research
I’m a PhD research student at the Institute for Imaging, Data and Communications at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof Mike Davies.
I’m developing unsupervised ML methodologies for solving inverse imaging problems. These problems appear in many critical imaging scenarios: accelerating medical imaging, higher resolution Earth observation, electron microscopy etc. We rarely have ground truth in the real world - how do we know what a black hole is supposed to look like before ever imaging a black hole - motivating the need for provable unsupervised techniques. My interests include computer vision, inverse problems, unsupervised deep learning, physics-informed ML, compressed sensing, medical imaging and Earth observation.
Check out my CV and Google Scholar.
Publications
- A. Wang, M. Davies, “Perspective-Equivariant Imaging: an Unsupervised Framework for Multispectral Pansharpening”, in preprint, arXiv:2403.09327 [cs.CV], 2024. Blog.
- J. Walsh, O. Kesa, A. Wang et al., “Near Real-Time Social Distance Estimation in London”, The Computer Journal, 2023. Winner of OUP Wilkes Award 2024. Press. Blog.
- P. Houdouin, A. Wang et al., “Robust Classification with Flexible Discriminant Analysis in Heterogeneous Data”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022. Blog.
Workshops & Conferences
- 10-06-2024 | “Perspective-Equivariant Imaging: an Unsupervised Framework for Pansharpening”, Maths4DL Geometric Deep Learning workshop lightning talk & poster, University of Cambridge.
Data Scientist
Check out my project portfolio.
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Activism
I’m an activist for better access to the outdoors for everyone. I founded ESEA Outdoors UK (about), a grassroots community to advocate for better representation, diversity and inclusion in the outdoors.
I’ve also joined the National Trails UK Board as a Trustee, where my interest is in enabling underrepresented and marginalised people to access nature. The UK is facing a triple nature, climate and social crisis and landscapes such as National Trails are crucial for fighting biodiversity loss, improving health and wellbeing and promoting sustainable tourism.
I’m also interested in UK land access rights.
Writing
- 18-06-2024 | BMC Summit magazine | Diversity in the Mountains at the Great Lakeland 3 Day
- 21-03-2024 | BMC | East and Southeast Asian people go outdoors too
- 18-09-2023 | Earth.org | Why Improving UK Land Access Rights Is Important For A More Sustainable Outdoors
- 16-02-2023 | Earth.org | Comparing Urban Environmental Sustainability Indicators In Europe
Speaker
- 14-07-2024 | Love Trails Festival | Land Access: the need for a true Right to Roam with Eben Muse (BMC), Jon Moses (Right to Roam) and Amy-Jane Beer
- 12-07-2024 | Love Trails Festival | The Outsiders Project: remarkable people doing remarkable things with Phil Young, Rotimi Odukoya (Clmbxr) and Trina Dawkins.
- 07-07-2024 | Timber Festival | Using community to tackle racism in the outdoors: an ESEA perspective
- 05-05-2024 | SCARPA Great Lakeland 3 Day | Diversity & inclusion in the outdoors
- 28-11-2020 | Kendal Mountain Literature Festival | Open Mountain - Space and Isolation