Xi Yang received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics with Finance, M.Sc. degree with distinction in Computer Science and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of Liverpool. Currently, she is a PhD. She is currently a lecture in the Department of Computer Science at the Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her main research area is statistical machine learning included dimensionality reduction, unsupervised latent variable methods, and the Bayesian statistics; Applications of Bayesian machine learning to network modelling, and data analysis.