Dr. Zhiwen Yu is currently a
professor and vice dean of the
School of Computer Science, Northwestern
Polytechnical University, P. R. China. He received his B.Eng, M.Eng and
Ph.D. degree of Engineering in computer science and technology in 2000, 2003 and 2005 respectively from the Northwestern
Polytechnical University. He has worked as a research fellow at
the Academic Center for
Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto
University, Japan from Feb. 2007 to Jan. 2009, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Information Technology Center,
Nagoya
University, Japan in 2006-2007. He has been a visiting researcher at the Context-Aware Systems Department,
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R),
Singapore from Sep. 2004 to May 2005. He has been an Alexander von
Humboldt Fellow at the Mannheim
University, Germany from Nov. 2009 to Oct. 2010.
He is the associate editor or editorial
board of ACM/Springer Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC),
Entertainment
Computing (Elsevier),
International
Journal of Social Network Mining (IJSNM,
Inderscience), International
Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (IJMUE,
SERSC), and International Journal of Technology
Enhanced Learning (IJTEL,
Inderscience).
He serves as the guest editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems
and Technology, ACM
Multimedia Systems Journal, Multimedia Tools and Applications
(Springer),
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier), and Cybernetics
and Systems (Taylor & Francis). He is the General
Chair of the First International
Symposium on Social and Community Intelligence (SCI
2011), China, the 2011 International
Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness (SAGAware
2011), China, and the 2009 International Workshop on
Personalization
in Mobile and Pervasive Computing (PMPC
2009), Italy. He is the Program
Chair of the 5th International Conference on Human-Centric
Computing (HumanCom 2012),
the
7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC
2010), China, the International Workshop on Information Fusion and Dissemination in Wireless
Sensor Networks (SensorFusion'07/09),
and the IEEE International Workshop on Smart
Homes for Tele-Health (SmarTel'07/09).
He serves as the Workshop Chair of the
13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp
2011), China, the Publicity Chair of the
8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing
and Communications (PerCom 2010), Germany,
and the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008),
Australia. He has also served as PC member for a number of
conferences, e.g., IEEE PerCom, IJCAI, DEXA, GLOBECOM, IEEE CCNC, Euro-Par,
MobiQuitous, ACM SAC, EuroITV, MMSP, IEEE
ICPS, KES, IEEE AINA,
EUC, ICOST, GPC, ICESS, MUE, MoMM, etc.
Dr. Yu has published around 100 scientific papers in refereed journals and
conferences, e.g., ACM
Computing Surveys,
IEEE
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Computer,
IEEE PerCom, etc. His research interests cover pervasive computing, context-aware systems,
human-computer interaction, mobile social networks, intelligent information technology, and personalization. Zhiwen Yu is a
senior member of IEEE, a member of
ACM, a senior member of CCF (China
Computer Federation) and CCF
Pervasive Computing Technical Committee. He received the Humboldt
Fellowship in 2008, the CCF Young Scientist Award in 2011, the UIC 2009 Best Paper Award, and the
CCF Excellent Doctoral Dissertation
Award in 2006.
Selected
Publications:
Zhiwen
Yu, Zhiyong Yu, Xingshe Zhou, Christian Becker, and
Yuichi
Nakamura,
Tree-based
Mining for Discovering Patterns of Human Interaction in Meetings, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2012.
Daqing Zhang, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu, The Emergence of Social and Community
Intelligence, IEEE
Computer, Vol. 44, No. 7, July 2011, pp. 21-28.
Zhiwen Yu and Yuichi Nakamura, Smart Meeting Systems: A Survey of
State-of-the-Art and Open Issues, ACM
Computing Surveys, Vol. 42, No. 2, Article 8, February 2010.
Zhiwen
Yu, Zhiyong Yu, Hideki Aoyama, Motoyuki Ozeki, and Yuichi Nakamura, Capture,
Recognition, and Visualization of Human Semantic Interactions in
Meetings, The 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
(IEEE PerCom 2010), March 29 - April 2, 2010, Mannheim, Germany, pp.
107-115.
Zhiwen
Yu, Yuichi Nakamura, Daqing
Zhang, Shoji Kajita, and Kenji Mase, Content Provisioning for Ubiquitous
Learning, IEEE
Pervasive Computing, Vol. 7, No. 4, October-December 2008,
pp. 62-70.
Zhiwen
Yu, Daqing Zhang, Xingshe Zhou, Chung-Yau Chin, and Zhiyong
Yu, An OSGi-Based Infrastructure for Context-Aware Multimedia Services, IEEE
Communications Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 10, October 2006,
pp. 136-142.
Zhiwen
Yu, Xingshe Zhou, Daqing Zhang, Chung-Yau Chin, Xiaohang
Wang, and Ji Men, Supporting Context-Aware Media Recommendations for Smart
Phones, IEEE
Pervasive Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3, July-September 2006, pp.
68-75.
Zhiwen
Yu, Xingshe Zhou, Yanbin
Hao, and Jianhua Gu, TV
Program Recommendation for Multiple Viewers Based on User Profile Merging,
User Modeling and User-Adapted
Interaction,
Springer Press, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 63-82.
Zhiwen
Yu
and Xingshe Zhou, TV3P: An Adaptive Assistant for
Personalized TV, IEEE
Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 50, No.
1, February 2004, pp. 393-399.
