CV

Professor Weisi Guo
Chair of Human Machine Intelligence

 

Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems

Cranfield University

College Road, Cranfield

MK43 0AL, UK

024 765 22223
weisi.guo@cranfield.ac.uk

Education

 

2007 - 2011  PhD in Computer Science

University of Cambridge

• EPSRC Project EP/E012108/1

 

2007  MA (Cantab)

University of Cambridge

 

2001 - 2005  MEng in Engineering

University of Cambridge

 

1999 - 2001 Bedford School

 

 

Experience

 

2019 -  Chair of Human Machine Intelligence

Cranfield University, UK

• Director of Grand Challenge: Smart Living

• Head of Applied AI Group
   

2019 - 2022 Honorary Professor
University of Warwick, UK

2017 - 2019 Associate Professor

School of Engineering

University of Warwick, UK

• Turing Fellow at Alan Turing Institute

• Head of DEN Lab

• Exchange Prof. at New York University (CUSP)

• Warwick Institute for Science of Cities (EPSRC CDT)

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2012 - 2017 Assistant Professor

School of Engineering

University of Warwick, UK

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2011 - 2012 Research Associate

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

University of Sheffield, UK

• EPSRC Project EP/G064105/1

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2005 - 2007 2G & 3G Radio Engineer

T-Mobile International, UK

 

 

Awards

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International Awards:

• Bell Labs Prize
  Finalist (2014),
  Semi-Finalist (2016, 2019)

• IET Innovation Award
  Winner (2015)

• IEEE - Best Paper (2014)

• IEEE - Exemplary Reviewer (2018)

• IEEE - Best Student Project (Silver 2015)

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Faculty Awards:

• Merit Pay (2012, 2016, 2017, 2018)

• Best Lecturer (2016)

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Grant Summary

 

• PI on £4.7m
  Funders: EPSRC, H2020, InnovateUK, Royal Society, DSTL, Lloyd's Register Foundation, Alan Turing Institute.

• Investigator on £16m of external funding

• Coordinator on €1.1m H2020 project

• CI on EPSRC CDT, flagship UK InnovateUK projects

• Supervisor: 36 PDRA years, 18 PhDs

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Publication & Citation Summary

 

• 116 Journal Papers
  Q1/Q2 (JCR) - 95; IEEE/ACM - 75, IET - 10, IOP - 1, ASCE - 1; RS - 4, NPG - 6
  1st /corresponding author - 49, without PhD supervisor - 114
  Impact factor (JCR): total - 500, mean - 4.3
  3 featured / cover articles,
  2 IEEE recommended reading, 1 IEEE Prize nomination,
  1 top 10% cited, 1 most downloaded
  1 Nature commentary: Retool AI to Forecast and Limit Wars

• 72 Conference Proceedings
  IEEE/ACM - 69, Flagship IEEE - 33

• 4 Book Chapters

• Citations (Google Scholar): 4000+, h-index 31, i10-index 90
  
   

Professional Activities

 

• Grant Reviewer
  UKRI: EPSRC (Full Peer-Review College), ESRC, MRC, Future Leader Fellowships
  NSF, NSERC, H2020, Royal Society, Leverhulme, DAAD, Fulbright

• Editorships
  Royal Society Open Science (2019-)
  IEEE Open Journal of Comm. Society (2019-)
  IEEE Trans. Molecular Bio. & Multi-Scale Comm. (2019-)
  IEEE Access (2018-)
  IEEE JSAC MBMC Series (2014-15)

• Conference Chair
  IEEE ICC 2020 - Big Data Track 
  IEEE ICC 2019, IEEE CIT 2015, IEEE WCNC 2013, IEEE VTC 2010

• Conference TPC
  IEEE Globecom (2012, 2017-20), IEEE ICC (2017-20)
  AAAI (2020), IEEE Big Data (2013), IEEE VTC (2012)

• Journal Reviewer 
  NPG: Nature, Nature Communication, Nature Machine Intelligence
  IEEE: JSAC, TWC, TCOM, TVT, CM, WC, CL, WCL, TMBMC, TNBS

• Standardisation Panel
  IEEE P1906.1 - Nanoscale and Molecular Comm. Framework 

• Memberships
  IEEE - Senior Member
  HEA - Fellow

• Higher Education & Training Activities
  External Examiner for UG and PG courses (Exeter, 2019-)
  External Examiner for PhD (Sheffield)
  Skill Workshop Organiser (Alan Turing Institute: Microsoft Azure)