Professor Dezong Zhao (JWSE) awarded Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
Published: 18 August 2025
The James Watt School of Engineering’s Professor Dezong Zhao is one of eight UK researchers who have been awarded Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Fellowship will enable Professor Zhao to focus on a new project, called ‘A Leap Towards Scalable Autonomous Vehicles through Data-efficient AI’, which will harness the power of AI to help ensure self-driving cars can travel safely on public roads.