Professor Weisi Guo 
Chair of Human Machine Intelligence

 Visiting Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute

SMIEEE, FHEA, FRSS

​Cambridge: MEng, MA, PhD 

Address: F411 (1st floor iMech), 

Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems,

SATM, Cranfield University, 

MK43 0AL, UK

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Tel: 01234 758304

 

Websites (Official): Cranfield, Turing, Warwick

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Email: 

Vision & Expertise - As human society is becoming increasingly inter-connected, human and machine intelligence is more closely interfaced than ever. Our networked society faces serious challenges from the human and natural world. My expertise is in: data science, communication systems, and machine learning. My research designs data-driven solutions for socio-cyber-physical ecosystems. I specialise in how AI and information systems can be designed for specific challenging environments or tasks, complementing human domain knowledge. The application areas include:
 

• Cyber - Communication in Extreme Environments:
  Domains: 5G & 6G ultra-dense deployment [C1], UAV communication [C2], biological communication [C3]
  Methods: stochastic geometry [C4], smart meta-surface [C5], molecular encoding [C6]
  Key Papers: "Robust Fuzzy Learning for Partially Overlapping Channels Allocation in UAV Communication Networks,"
  C. Fan, B. Li, J. Hou, Y. Wu, W. Guo, C. Zhao, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2020 [Link]
  "Mutual Information and Noise Distributions of Molecular Signals using Laser Induced Fluorescence," IEEE Globecom, 2019 [Link]
  Key Grants: [EPSRC] TAS-S Trustworthy Autonomous Systems-Security (EP/V026682/1, 2020-24)
  [H2020] DAWN4IoE - Data Aware Wireless Network for Internet-of-Everything (778305, 2017-21)
  [H2020] Mo-IoNT - Molecular Internet-of-Nano-Things (792799, 2018-20)
   

• Physical - Networked & Autonomous Critical Systems:
  Domains: telecommunications [P1], water distribution [P2], air-ground transportation [P3, P4]
  Methods: autonomous robots [P5], resilience [P6] and graph signal processing [P7] for Digital Twin sensing
  Key Papers: "Sampling and Inference of Networked Dynamics using Log-Koopman Nonlinear Graph Fourier Transform," Z. Wei, B. Li, C. Sun, W. Guo, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2020 [Link]
  "Optimal Sampling of Water Distribution Network Dynamics using Graph Fourier Transform," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2019 [Link]
  "On the Accuracy and Efficiency of Sensing and Localization for Robotics," Z. Wei, B. Li, W. Hu, W. Guo, C. Zhao, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,2020 [Link]
  Key Grants: [EPSRC] CoTRE - Complexity Twin for Resilient Ecosystems (EP/R041725/1, 2018-20)
  [Turing LRF] CHANCE - Coupled Human and Natural Critical Ecosystems (2017-21)
  [UKRI] COCKPIT 5G - Crowd Blackspot Intelligence for 5G Rollout (29634, 2019-20)
  [H2020] GreenML5G - Green Machine Learning for 5G & Beyond Resource Optimisation (891221, 2020-22)
   

• Social - Human Response to Physical & Digital Environments:
  Domains: demand prediction [S1], social experience analytics [S2], conflict networks [S3], refugee migration
  Methods: clustering [S4], NLP [S5], deep learning [S6], network science [S7]
  Key Papers: "Retool AI to Forecast and Limit Wars," Nature, 2018 [Link]
  "Gang Confrontation: The case of Medellin (Colombia)," J. Botero, W. Guo, G. Mosquera, A. Wilson, S. Johnson, G. Aguirre-Garcia, L. Pachon, PLOS ONE, vol.14(12), Dec 2019 [Link]
  "Common Statistical Patterns in Urban Terrorism," W. Guo, Royal Society Open Science, vol.6(9), Sep 2019 [Link]
  Key Grants: [EPSRC] Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science and Progress (EP/L016400/1, 2014-22)
  [EPSRC] Patterns of City Formation & Development (EP/N509796/1, 2018-22)
  [Turing D&S] GUARD - Global Urban Analytics for Resilient Defence (2017-19, extension: 2019-21)

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Track-record - I obtained MEng, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. Since 2012, I have built an award-winning team at the University of Warwick, where I remain an honorary professor. From fall 2019, I joined Cranfield University (mech engineering: QS world 39, ARWU world 41, REF 2) at the Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems [Link]. I will work closely with the new £65m Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC). 

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Excellence - I have been PI on over £4m and an investigator on over £16m of research funding. ​I was a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute from 2017 and remain a researcher there. I have published over 100 journal papers (total IF 450+) and 60+ IEEE/ACM conference papers, with 3700+ citations (h-index 28). This includes a Nature commentary, a top 10% cited paper, and several cover issues in Royal Society and IEEE journals. I am also an IET Innovation Award winner and been a runner-up in the Bell Labs Prize three times. I currently serve as editor on 3 IEEE & 1 Royal Society journals and track chair for IEEE ICC 2020 - Big Data. I also serve as reviewer for EPSRC, NSF, H2020, NSERC, Royal Society, and Leverhulme.

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Life - I have worked in an UNHCR refugee camp in Africa, been part of the victorious Cambridge Varsity archery team, solo climbed two of the highest sub-continent peaks, and served as badminton captains at both Cambridge and Sheffield. I have completed both the full London (2007) and full Sahara (2010) marathons.