Wei Xiang

Profile

Professor Wei Xiang is Founding Chair and Head of Discipline Electronic Systems and Internet of Things Engineering. He is an elected Fellow of the IET (FIET) and a Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust).

He was responsible for establishing Australia's first Bachelor of Engineering major in Internet of Things Engineering, which was successfully acredited by Engineers Australia in November 2016. Due to his instrumental leadership in establishing Australia’s first accredited Internet of Things Engineering degree program, he was selected into Pearcy Foundation’s Hall of Fame in October 2018. He received the TNQ Innovation Award in 2016, and PearceyEntrepreneurship Award in 2017, and Engineers Australia Cairns Engineer of the Year in 2017. He was a co-recipient of four Best Paper Awards at WiSATS’2019, WCSP’2015, IEEE WCNC’2011, and ICWMC’2009. He has been awarded several prestigious fellowship titles. He has been named a Queensland International Fellow by the Queensland Government, an Endeavour Research Fellow by the Commonwealth Government of Australia, a Smart Futures Fellow by the Queensland Government, and a JSPS Invitational Fellow jointly by the Australian Academy of Science and Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (2014-2015). He is the Vice Chair of the IEEE Northern Australia Section. He was an Editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2015-2017), and is an Associate Editor for Springer’s Telecommunications Systems. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers including 3 academic books and 130 journal articles, six of which are ESI Top 1% Highly Cited papers. He has severed in a large number of international conferences in the capacity of General Co-Chair, TPC Co-Chair, Symposium Chair, etc.

His research areas include the Internet of Things, machine learning for the Internet of Things, machine learning for computer vision, and big IoT data analytics.

PhD Scholarship Opportunities

I am an experienced PhD supervisor, having graduated 12 PhD students as principal and co-supervisors. I am interested in receiving inquiries from prospective PhD and Masters by Research candidates, who are interested in the research areas of the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning for IoT, machine learning for computer vision, etc. Scholarship funding is available through the Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA), the James Cook University Postgraduate Research Scholarships, the Australia Awards, and the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC).

To apply for a JCU Competitive PhD Scholarship, here is How to Apply. Closing deadlines: 31 September 2019.

I am also supervising two postdoctoral research fellows. If you are a recent PhD graduate and want to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship, opportunities exist through the Australian Research Council (DECRA) and Endeavour Research Fellowship. Please contact me for details.

Publications

I have over 250 publicaitons in refereered journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Most of them are published by the Institute of Electricla and Eletronics Engineers (IEEE), which represents the highest academic standards in the eletrical & eletronic, and telecommunications engineering disciplines. I have published extensively in some world's top-ranked journals in my areas such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, etc. Moreover, six of my publications are rated by the Web of Science ESI (Essential Science Indicators) as Highly Cited Papers (top 1% citation in the chosen field).

You are welcom to follow my publications at the dblp computer science bibliography and ResearchGate.