I am a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI. Prior to that I was a Research Associate at the Turing, working with Prof. Mark Birkin on the Shocks and Resilience project for COVID-19. I obtained both my PhD and undergraduate (1st class) degrees in the Department of Computer Science at University of Warwick.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Spatio-temporal Analysis. I am passionate about developing innovative ML/AI systems and new methodologies to better understand the intricate spatial-temporal dynamics of urban environments. In particular, my work focuses on the modelling, analysis and inference of the complex processes, structures, interactions, and evolution of our cities as they unfold across space and time.

I am always seeking motivated and talented students to join my research group. If you are interested, please drop me an email with your CV. Scholarships are available from University of Exeter.

News

• Jun 2026: Our paper titled "Foundation Model for Conditional Trajectory Generation with Unstable Context Availability" is accepted to ACM TIST.
• Mar 2026: Our paper titled "Road Network Generation From Noisy Trajectories With Graph Latent Diffusion Models" is accepted to IEEE T-ITS.
• Jan 2026: Our paper titled "TRACE: Trajectory Recovery with State Propagation Diffusion for Urban Mobility" is accepted to WWW 2026.
• Jan 2026: Our paper titled "HALO: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Large-Scale Adaptive Traffic Signal Control" is accepted to WWW 2026.
• Jan 2026: Our paper titled "CityVerse: A Unified Data Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models in Urban Computing" is accepted to WWW 2026.
• Jan 2026: Welcome Mohan Ren to our group as a PhD student!
• Sep 2025: Our paper titled "IMU Alignment using Maximum Likelihood Estimation" is accepted to IEEE Sensors Journal.
• Apr 2025: Our paper titled "High-Fidelity Road Network Generation with Latent Diffusion Models" is accepted to IJCAI 2025.
• Apr 2025: Our paper titled "BGM: Demand Prediction for Expanding Bike-Sharing Systems with Dynamic Graph Modeling" is accepted to IJCAI 2025.
• Sep 2024: Welcome Fengming Yao to our group as a PhD student!
• Sep 2024: Welcome Yaqiao Zhu to our group as a PhD student!
• Aug 2024: Our paper titled "Robust spatio-temporal demand prediction for bike-sharing systems with dynamic hierarchical structure" is accepted to CCF T-PCI.
• Sep 2023: Welcome Jinming Wang to our group as a PhD student!
• Apr 2023: Welcome Yixuan Zhao to our group as a PhD student!
• Jan 2023: Welcome Fermin Orozco Cagigas to our group as a PhD student!
• Nov 2022: Our paper titled "Fleet rebalancing for expanding shared e-mobility systems: A multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach" is accepted to IEEE T-ITS.
• Nov 2021: Our paper titled "Deployment optimization for shared e-mobility systems with multi-agent deep neural search" is accepted to IEEE T-ITS..

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Contact

Dr. Man Luo
Department of Computer Science
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4PY
E: m dot luo at exeter.ac.uk