B.Sc.(Eng), M.Sc., Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- dewei.yi@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
Prospective PhD students and academic visitors interested in Computer Vision, AI-enabled Healthcare, Hybrid Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Applied Machine Learning, Intelligent Vehicles, Medical Image Processing, Personalised Systems (e.g., healthcare and wellbeing), 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 is now Senior Lecturer (associate professor), 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 40+ high-quality research papers including IEEE Transactions (10+), Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology(TRC), Computer Networks. 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, TRC, and Accident Analysis and Prevention, and top conferences, such as IJCAI, ITS, and ICUAS. He is an Outstanding Reviewer for TRC;
Research experiences
2023/08 - now: Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
2020/04 - 2023/07: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
Qualifications
- Fellow of HEA2023 - AdvanceHE
Internal Memberships
Director of MSc AI Programme
Director of MSc Robotics and AI Programme (in CS)Latest Publications
Real-time Semantic Segmentation of Solar Photovoltaic Arrays for Autonomous UAV Flights
Contributions to Conferences: PapersTemporal properties of self-prioritization
Entropy, vol. 26, no. 3, 242Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCoordinate-Aware Mask R-CNN with Group Normalization: A Underwater Marine Animal Instance Segmentation Framework
Neurocomputing, 127488Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2024.127488
Smartphone-based extendable telematic data collection app
Software Impacts, vol. 19, 100601Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRobust distance measurement using illumination map estimation and MAHNet in underground coal mines
Measurement Science and TechnologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/ad25e0
- Research
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Research Overview
- AI-enabled Healthcare
- Embedded AI in Healthcare
- 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
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Computing Science.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: Computing Science.
I have many PhD students working on AI, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning based projects, including brain-inspired machine learning, medical image processing, fairness in machine learning, explainable AI, personalised federated learning, knowledge graph, and natural language generation for driving safety.
My graduated PhDs:
Dr Debinal Bakyavathi Rajan
Dr Sami Hamid Al Sulaimani
Dr Adinath Abhimanyu Ghadage
Supervisees
- MISS YIREN LI
- MR INIAKPOKEIKIYE THOMPSON
- MR ZHUOEN LU
- MR MOHAMMED LAWAL
- MS VALERIJA HOLOMJOVA
Funding and Grants
- PI (Aberdeen), Smartawl 5.0, Fisheries Innovation & Sustainability (FIS), £408K, April 2023 – September 2024.
- Co-PI (CS), Achieving Self-directed Integrated Cancer Aftercare (ASICA) In Melanoma: Developing And Enhancing The Intervention Using Evidence From The Pilot Study And Emergent Technologies, Cancer Research UK (CRUK), £422K .
- 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, Fisheries Innovation & Sustainability (FIS), £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.
- Co-PI (CS), ASICA USA Pilot, CONVERGE award, $10,000, May 2023 – March 2024.
- Co-PI (CS), A pilot study to assess international potential for ASICA, Knowledge Exchange and Commercialisation (KEC) Award , £8,000.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
CS5060: Foundation of Artificial Intelligence
CS5062: Machine Learning
CS502K: Symbolic AI
CS5917: Project in Artificial Intelligence
CS5097: Introduction to Programming (Sep)
CS5097, CS5098: Database Systems and Big Data
CS551T: Project in Artificial Intelligence
CS551M: MEng Project
CS551N: Introduction to Programming (Jan)
CS4594: Single Honours Erasmus Computing Project
CS4525, CS4529: Single Honours Computing Project
CS3028: Principles of Software Engineering
CS3528: Software Engineering and Professional Practice
- Publications
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Spectral analysis and mapping of blackgrass weed by leveraging machine learning and UAV multispectral imagery
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 192, 106621Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDeep Ensembles for Semantic Segmentation on Road Detection
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsApplication of a Brain-Inspired Deep Imitation Learning Algorithm in Autonomous Driving
Software Impacts, vol. 10, 100165Contributions to Journals: ArticlesProbabilistic Faster R-CNN with Stochastic Region Proposing: Towards Object Detection and Recognition in Remote Sensing Imagery
Neurocomputing, vol. 459, pp. 290-301Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAerial Visual Perception in Smart Farming: Field Study of Wheat Yellow Rust Monitoring
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 2242-2249Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImplicit Personalization in Driving Assistance: State-of-the-Art and Open Issues
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 397-413Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/tiv.2019.2960935
- [ONLINE] Warwick University repository
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Blockchain technology in current agricultural systems: From Techniques to Applications
IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 143920-143937Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA machine learning based personalized system for driving state recognition
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 105, pp. 241-261Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.05.042
- [ONLINE] Loughborough University repository
Trajectory Clustering Aided Personalized Driver Intention Prediction for Intelligent Vehicles
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 3693-3702Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2018.2890141
- [ONLINE] Loughborough University repository
Locust Recognition and Detection via Aggregate Channel Features
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings