2025

2025

• [June 2025] Leader at the Emerging Industry Leaders Program hosted by Griffith University and sponsored by Microsoft.

• 🎉 [June 2025] Our A* journal article “TraNCE: Transformative Nonlinear Concept Explainer for CNNs”, has just been published on IEEE Xplore. IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (TNNLS, Impact factor: 10.2). Full read

To cite

U. E. Akpudo, Y. Gao, J. Zhou and A. Lewis, “TraNCE: Transformative Nonlinear Concept Explainer for CNNs,” in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 10156-10170, June 2025, doi: 10.1109/TNNLS.2025.3556019.

• 🎉 [June 2025] Our A* journal article titled “CoPISan: Contrastive Perceptual Inference and Sanity Checks for Concept-based CNN Explanations” has been fully acceptedby IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI, Impact factor: 20.8).

• [Apr. 2025] Invitation to present “SeeFinish: Intuitive Concept Explanation Taxonomy for CNNs in Visual Categorization Tasks” in fulfilment of Griffith University’s Thesis and Candidature Review Milestone (TCRM) requirement.

• [Apr. 2025] Invitation to present “Seeing is Believing: Bridging Cognition and CNNs for Contrastive Concept Explanation with Axiomatic Foundations” at the 5th Griffith University ECR Cross-Institute Symposium, aimed at fostering collaboration among research institutes at Griffith University.

• [Mar. 2025] A* Journal Major Revision Invitation, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI, Impact factor: 20.8)

• [Mar. 2025] A* journal paper acceptance, IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (TNNLS, Impact factor: 10.2). Read PrePrint of TraNCE: Transformative Non-linear Concept Explainer for CNNs.

• [Feb. 2025] Served as an Invited Reviewer for the 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

• [Jan. 2025] Reviewed 2 papers for IEEE Transactions on Reliability

2024

• [Nov. 2024] Presented 2 conference papers at the 2024 International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications (ICONIC)

• [Oct. 2024] Selected as an Emerging Industry Leader at the Griffith EILP program

• [Sep. 2024] Served as an Invited Reviewer for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

• [Sep. 2024] Served as an Invited Reviewer for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

• [Aug. 2024] A new collaboration with an industrial partner.

• [Aug. 2024] Published collaboration work at Data & Policy Journal

• [Jul. 2024] Poster presentation at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

• [Mar. 2024] Paper accepted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

2023

• [Nov. 2023] Oral presentation at the at the 38th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2023)

• [Nov. 2023] Oral presentation at the at the The International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2023

• [Sep. 2023] Published collaboration work at SSRN Journal

• [Feb. 2023] Published collaboration work at Healthcare Journal

2022

• [Dec. 2022] Panellist, “Towards an Inclusive Data Governance Policy for the use of AI in Africa”, Data for Policy 2022– Ecosystems of Innovation and Virtual-Physical Interactions, Hong Kong, Seattle and Brussels.

• [Sep. 2022] Panel invitation to Data For Policy 2022 conference, “Towards an Inclusive Data Governance Policy for the use of AI in Africa”,Policy 2022– Ecosystems of Innovation and Virtual-Physical Interactions, Hong Kong, Seattle and Brussels.

• [Sep. 2022] Joined the ARC Research Hub for Driving Farming Productivity and Disease Prevention and Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS)

• [Jul. 2022] Commenced PhD at The School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University

• [May. 2022] Received York University International Graduate Research Scholarship, 2022.

• [April. 2022] Received Griffith University International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and Griffith University Postgraduate Research Scholarship

2021

• [Nov. 2021] Received Greydient Project Scholarship with Politecnico de Milano, Italy

• [Dec 2021] Received Huddersfield Postgraduate Research Scholarship, United Kingdom

• [Oct 2021] Received Daewoong Foundation Scholarship

• [April 2020] Best Paper Award from Brain Korea 21 (BK21) and Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea

• [Jan 2021] Tutor, DRL First Winter Workshop organised by Defense Reliability Laboratory, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea

2020

• [Nov 2020] Participated in the Kwater & UNESCO i-WSSM Fall Program on Water Management – Renewable Energy, Deajeon Korea

• [Nov 2020] Kwater & UNESCO i-WSSM Capacity Building program on Innovative Technology Applications for Water Security, Deajeon Korea

• [Aug 2020] Machine Learning Summer School Indonesia (MLSS-INDO)

• [Jul 2020] Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School

• [Feb 2020] The Second International Conference on AI in information and communication (ICAIIC 2020)

2019

• [Jul 2020] Best Paper Award from the 5th International Conference on Materials and Reliability (ICMR 2019)

• [Jul 2020] Oral presentation at the 5th International Conference on Materials and Reliability (ICMR 2019)

• [Aug 2019] Oral Presentation at the 2019 International UNIMAS STEM 12th Engineering Conference (EnCon 2019)

• [Feb 2019] Won the KIT Graduate School Scholarship

• [Feb 2019] Won the Defense Reliability Lab Graduate School Scholarship