Staff Profile
Dr Bo Wei
Senior Lecturer in Computing
- Email: bo.wei@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://bowei20222023.github.io/
- Address: 1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5TG, United Kingdom
Background
Research interests: AIoT (AI+IoT), IoT security, wireless sensing, mobile robotics, etc.
Bo Wei has been a senior lecturer (associate professor) in the School of Computing at Newcastle University. He was an assistant professor at Lancaster University and a postdoctoral research assistant at University of Oxford. He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 2015 from the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests are mobile systems, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, cyber security and wireless sensor networks. Bo regularly publishes papers in top conferences, such as Ubicomp, IPSN, SenSys, as well as IEEE/ACM transactions.
Bo is on the editorial board of Ad Hoc Networks Journal (2021 IF=4.816) and serves as Social Media Chair of CPS-IoT Week 2023. He has also been on technical program committees of more than 16 international conferences, including top-tier conferences, such as IPSN’23, EWSN’22, ECAI’20, MASS’18, etc. Bo was also the session chair of BuildSys’20 and IROS’20. Bo has been a guest editor of several special issues as well.
The full publication list is available at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sm0c2cgAAAAJ .
Publications
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Articles
- Feng X, Luo C, Wei B, Zhang J, Li J, Wang H, Xu W, Chan MC, Leung VCM. Time-Constrained Ensemble Sensing With Heterogeneous IoT Devices in Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2023, 24(11), 12949-2960.
- Wei B, Xu W, Gao M, Lan G, Li K, Luo C, Zhang J. SolarKey: Battery-free Key Generation Using Solar Cells. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 2023, 20(1), 1-24.
- Zhang J, Dia Y, Chen J, Luo C, Wei B, Leung V, LI J. SIDA: Self-Supervised Imbalanced Domain Adaptation for Sound Enhancement and Cross-Domain WiFi Sensing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2023, 7(3), 140.
- Opara C, Chen Y, Wei B. Look before you leap: Detecting phishing web pages by exploiting raw URL and HTML characteristics. Expert Systems with Applications 2023, 236, 121183.
- Hamad RA, Yang L, Woo WL, Wei B. ConvNet-based performers attention and supervised contrastive learning for activity recognition. Applied Intelligence 2023, 53(8), 8809-8825.
- Feng X, Li L, Wang T, Xu W, Zhang J, Wei B, Luo C. CoBC: A Blockchain-based Collaborative Inference System for the Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2023, epub ahead of print.
- Xu W, Xue W, Lin Q, Lan G, Feng X, Wei B, Luo C, Li W, Zomaya AY. PrivGait: An Energy-Harvesting-Based Privacy-Preserving User-Identification System by Gait Analysis. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2022, 9(22), 22048-22060.
- Zhang J, Chen Z, Luo C, Wei B, Kanhere SS, Li J. MetaGanFi: Cross-Domain Unseen Individual Identification Using WiFi Signals. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2022, 6(3), 152.
- Wei B, Trigoni N, Markham A. IMag+: An Accurate and Rapidly Deployable Inertial Magneto-Inductive SLAM System. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2022, 21(10), 3644-3655.
- Hamad RA, Yang L, Woo WL, Wei B. Cross-Domain Activity Recognition Using Shared Representation in Sensor Data. IEEE Sensors Journal 2022, 22(13), 13273-13284.
- Wei B, Li K, Luo C, Xu W, Zhang J, Zhang K. No Need of Data Pre-processing: A General Framework for Radio-Based Device-Free Context Awareness. ACM Transactions on Internet of Things 2021, 2(4), 29.
- Emami Y, Wei B, Li K, Ni W, Tovar E. Joint Communication Scheduling and Velocity Control in Multi-UAV-Assisted Sensor Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2021, 70(10), 10986-10998.
- Zhang J, Wei B, Wu F, Dong L, Hu W, Kanhere SS, Luo C, Yu S, Cheng J. Gate-ID: WiFi-Based Human Identification Irrespective of Walking Directions in Smart Home. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2021, 8(9), 7610-7624.
- Hamad RA, Kimura M, Yang L, Woo WL, Wei B. Dilated causal convolution with multi-head self attention for sensor human activity recognition. Neural Computing and Applications 2021, 33(20), 13705-13722.
- Zhang J, Wu F, Wei B, Zhang Q, Huang H, Shah SW, Cheng J. Data Augmentation and Dense-LSTM for Human Activity Recognition Using WiFi Signal. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2021, 8(6), 4628-4641.
- He X, Hussain Shah SB, Wei B, Liu Z. Comparison and Analysis of Network Construction Methods for Seismicity Based on Complex Networks. Complexity 2021, 2021, 6691880.
- Alkassar S, Abdullah MAM, Jebur BA, Abdul-Majeed GH, Wei B, Woo WL. Automated diagnosis of childhood pneumonia in chest radiographs using modified densely residual bottleneck-layer features. Applied Sciences 2021, 11(23), 11461.
- Zhang J, Yang Q, Shen Y, Wang Y, Yang X, Wei B. A differential privacy based probabilistic mechanism for mobility datasets releasing. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 2021, 12(1), 201-212.
- Rodriguez-Rodriguez I, Rodriguez J-V, Woo WL, Wei B, Pardo-Quiles D-J. A comparison of feature selection and forecasting machine learning algorithms for predicting glycaemia in type 1 diabetes mellitus. Applied Sciences 2021, 11(4), 1742.
- Shen Y, Du B, Xu W, Luo C, Wei B, Cui L, Wen H. Securing Cyber-Physical Social Interactions on Wrist-Worn Devices. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 2020, 16(2), 19.
- Hamad RA, Yang L, Woo WL, Wei B. Joint learning of temporal models to handle imbalanced data for human activity recognition. Applied Sciences 2020, 10(15), 5293.
- Luo C, Wu J, Li J, Wang J, Xu W, Ming Z, Wei B, Li W, Zomaya AY. Gait Recognition as a Service for Unobtrusive User Identification in Smart Spaces. ACM Transactions on Internet of Things 2020, 1(1), 5.
- Xu W, Zhang X, Yao L, Xue W, Wei B. A multi-view CNN-based acoustic classification system for automatic animal species identification. Ad Hoc Networks 2020, 102, 102115.
- Wei B, Hu W, Yang M, Chou CT. From real to complex: Enhancing radio-based activity recognition using complex-valued CSI. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 2019, 15(3), 35.
- Wei B, Ali Hamad R, Yang L, He X, Wang H, Gao B, Woo WL. A deep-learning-driven light-weight phishing detection sensor. Sensors 2019, 19(19), 4258.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- Wei B, Xu W, Li K, Luo C, Zhang J. i2Key: A Cross-sensor Symmetric Key Generation System Using Inertial Measurements and Inaudible Sound. In: 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2022. 2022, Milano, Italy: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Xu W, Li Z, Xue W, Yu X, Wei B, Wang J, Luo C, Li W, Zomaya A. InaudibleKey: Generic Inaudible Acoustic Signal based Key Agreement Protocol for Mobile Devices. In: IPSN '21: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2021). 2021.
- Emami Y, Wei B, Li K, Ni W, Tovar E. Deep Q-Networks for Aerial Data Collection in Multi-UAV-Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks. In: 2021 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2021. 2021, Virtual: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Wei B, Xu W, Luo C, Zoppi G, Ma D, Wang S. SolarSLAM: Battery-free loop closure for indoor localisation. In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020). 2020, Las Vegas, NV, USA: IEEE.
- Romuald Fotso Mtope F, Wei B. Region-DH: Region-based Deep Hashing for Multi-Instance Aware Image Retrieval. In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020). 2020, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
- Opara C, Wei B, Chen Y. HTMLPhish: Enabling Phishing Web Page Detection by Applying Deep Learning Techniques on HTML Analysis. In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. 2020, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
- Zhang J, Wei B, Cheng J. HARaaS: HAR as a service using wifi signal in IoT-enabled edge computing: Poster abstract. In: SenSys 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. 2020, Virtual: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
- Wei B, Trigoni N, Markham A. IMag: Accurate and Rapidly Deployable Inertial Magneto-Inductive Localisation. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018). 2018, Brisbane, QLD, Australia: IEEE.