Dr. Dougherty, Alan William

About

Dr. Dougherty earned his Master of Engineering (MEng) in Electronic Engineering from King’s College London, UK, in 2013. He completed his PhD at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019, during which he was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship.

Selected publications

• Y. Sun, Z. Zhang, Z. Luo, A. W. Dougherty, M. H. Yip, Y. K. Choi, and C. Wu, “SAILS: A synchronous accessible immersive online learning system for young learners,” in Proceedings of the 16th ACM multimedia systems conference, in MMSys ’25. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, pp. 148–158.
• A. W. Dougherty and J. You, “A kernel-based adaptive fuzzy c-means algorithm for m-FISH image segmentation,” in 2017 international joint conference on neural networks (IJCNN), IEEE, 2017, pp. 198–205.
• Y. Sun, A. W. Dougherty, Z. Zhang, Y. K. Choi, and C. Wu, “MixSynthFormer: A transformer encoder-like structure with mixed synthetic self-attention for efficient human pose estimation,” in Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision (ICCV), 2023, pp. 14884–14893.
• M. Sun, A. W. Dougherty, B. Huang, Y. Li, and C.-H. Yan, “Accelerating atomic catalyst discovery by theoretical calculations-machine learning strategy,” Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 10, no. 12, p. 1903949, 2020.
• M. Sun, T. Wu, A. W. Dougherty, M. Lam, B. Huang, Y. Li, and C.-H. Yan, “Self-validated machine learning study of graphdiyne-based dual atomic catalyst,” Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 11, no. 13, p. 2003796, 2021.
• M. Sun, T. Wu, Y. Xue, A. W. Dougherty, B. Huang, Y. Li, and C.-H. Yan, “Mapping of atomic catalyst on graphdiyne,” Nano Energy, vol. 62, pp. 754–763, 2019.
• Y. Guo, D. Tao, J. Cheng, A. W. Dougherty, Y. Li, K. Yue, and B. Zhang, “Tensor manifold discriminant projections for acceleration-based human activity recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 1977–1987, 2016.