Biography

Prospective PhD students and academic visitors interested in Hybrid intelligent Systems and Robotics, Applied Machine Learning, Intelligent Vehicles, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Personalised Systems, Vision-based Semantic Understanding, Remote Sensing, Precision agriculture, etc. are encouraged to contact me by email with your full CV. You will receive both high-level and in-depth technical guidance for high-quality research including prestigious journal publications.

Dr Dewei Yi was born in China in 1991. He is now a UK Lecturer (tenure track assistant professor equivalently) in Machine Learning, School of NCS, at University of Aberdeen (UoA), U.K. He received a PhD degree in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, U.K. in 2018. He was awarded School Research Student Development Fund in 2017; From Jul/2019 to Jan/2020, Dr Yi worked as a research fellow of Warwick Manufacturing Group at University of Warwick.

He has published about 20+ high-quality research papers including IEEE Transactions (10+), Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology (1), Computer Networks (1). He has also established a stable collaboration with several universities and institutes such as University of Warwick, Loughborough University, Aberystwyth University, NIAB-EMR, CABI, and AVL Powertrain Ltd.

He also served as a Track co-chair for IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022) and a guest editor of Electronics Journal. In addition, he also serves research community actively as a reviewer for several international journals, such as IEEE-TIE, IEEE-TVT, IEEE-TITS, Transportation Research Part C, and Accident Analysis and Prevention, and top conferences, such as IJCAI, ITS, and ICUAS. He is an Outstanding Reviewer for Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology; 

Internal Memberships

Director of MSc AI Programme

Research Overview

• Hybrid Intelligent Systems and Robotics
• Applied Machine Learning
• Generalised AI
• Intelligent Vehicles
• Personalised Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
• Vision-based Semantic Understanding
• Remote Sensing
• Precision Agriculture

Funding and Grants

• Co-PI (CS), The Personalised healthy ageing: AI-based approach to predicting changes in self-perception and the relationship to cognitive decline, UKRI BBSRC, £103K .
• PI (Aberdeen), Smartawl 4.0, Marine Fund Scotland, £157K, October 2021 – March 2022.
• PI, Individual Facial Biological Age Estimate for Healthy Ageing (SF10206-57), Internal Funding to Pump-Prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact, University of Aberdeen, 6,322.18 GBP, June 2021 - July 2021.

Teaching Responsibilities

CS5060: Foundation of Artificial Intelligence

CS5062: Machine Learning

CS502K: Symbolic AI

CS5917: Project in Artificial Intelligence

CS5097, CS5098: Database Systems and Big Data (2021-2022)

CS4594: Single Honours Erasmus Computing Project

CS4525, CS4529: Single Honours Computing Project

CS3028: Principles of Software Engineering

CS3528: Software Engineering and Professional Practice