Dr. Hyung Jin Chang

I am on sabbatical for Oct 2025-Sep 2026 and working at Microsoft (I am still accepting PhD students starting in 2026).

I am an Associate Professor of the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham and leading the Human-Centred Visual Learning Lab (HCVL). I am also affiliated to the Institute of Data and Artificial Intelligence (IDAI) and Birmingham Robotics Institute, and I was the University Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Before joining the University of Birmingham, he was a Research Associate at Imperial College London and received his BSc and PhD degrees from Seoul National University.

My research focuses on Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence, with a particular emphasis on enabling machines to understand, learn from, and interact with humans in the physical world. I develop methods at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, aiming to advance technologies such as human behaviour understanding, gaze and attention modelling, and human-robot interaction. My work seeks to build AI systems that can perceive and reason about people more naturally, ultimately enabling more intuitive and effective collaboration between humans and intelligent machines.

I am always looking for fully motivated & talented PhD students!