Dr. Zhiwen Yu is currently a
professor at 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 is the Associate Editor of the
International
Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (IJMUE) and
International Journal of Technology
Enhanced Learning (IJTEL),
and Editorial Board of theInternational
Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT)
and Journal of
Information Processing Systems (JIPS).
He serves as the guest editor of ACM
Multimedia Systems Journal, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer),
Multimedia Tools and Applications
(Springer),
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier), and Cybernetics
and Systems (Taylor & Francis). He is the Co-Organizer of the 2009 International Workshop on
Personalization
in Mobile and Pervasive Computing (PMPC
2009), Italy. He is the Program
Chair of 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 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, DEXA, EuroITV, MMSP, IEEE ICPS, KES, ACM SAC, IEEE AINA,
UIC, EUC, ICOST, GPC, ADCOM, PerEL, ICESS, MUE, ICYCS, MoMM, CARPE,
IE, PCC, etc.
Dr. Yu has published around 70 scientific papers in refereed journals and
conferences, e.g., ACM
Computing Surveys,
IEEE
Pervasive Computing, IEEE Communications Magazine, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction,
IUI, PERVASIVE, ICMI, etc. His research interests cover pervasive computing, context-aware systems,
human-computer interaction, intelligent information technology, and personalization. Zhiwen Yu is a member of the
IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, CCF (China
Computer Federation), and CCF
Pervasive Computing Technical Committee. He received a Humboldt
Fellowship in 2008, the UIC 2009 Best Paper Award, and the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation
Award from China
Computer Federation in 2006.
Selected
Publications:
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, June 2010.
Zhiwen Yu, Changde Li, Xingshe Zhou, and Haipeng Wang, A
Service-Oriented Platform for Ubiquitous Personalized Multimedia
Provisioning, Journal
of Universal Computer Science,
Springer Press, 2009.
Zhiwen
Yu, Xingshe Zhou, and Lei Shu, Towards a Semantic Infrastructure
for Context-Aware E-Learning, Multimedia Tools and Applications,
Springer Press, 2009.
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.
Zhiwen Yu, Zhiyong Yu, Yusa Ko, Xingshe Zhou, and Yuichi
Nakamura,
Inferring Human Interactions in Meetings: A Multimodal Approach, The
6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
(UIC 2009), pp.
14-24,
LNCS,
Springer-Verlag,July 7-9, 2009,
Brisbane, Australia. (Best paper award)
Zhiyong Yu, Zhiwen Yu, Xingshe Zhou, and Yuichi Nakamura, Handling
Conditional Preferences in Recommender Systems, The 14th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009),
pp. 407-412, February 8-11, 2009, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.
Call
for Papers: ACM/Springer
Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (indexed
by SCI-E),
Special Issue on "Context-Aware Middleware and Applications",
2010 (Deadline:
Dec. 1, 2009)
Call
for Papers: The
7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC
2010), October 26-29, 2010, Xi'an, China (Deadline:
Apr. 30, 2010)
