Weitao Xu

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

City University of Hong Kong (CityU)

Biography

I'm an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of New South Wales (UNSW) from June 2017 to August 2019. I obtained my PhD degree from the University of Queensland in 2017 (advised by Prof. Neil Bergmann and Prof. Wen Hu. I received my B.E. degree in Communication Engineering and M.E. degree in Communication and Information System both from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University (SDU) , China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively.

[Recruitment] I'm leading the S2MC lab@CityU and we're looking for self-motivated PhD students to join us. I have relatively broad research interests, but generally my previous research focuses on IoT such as smart sensing, IoT security, IoT+AI, wireless network etc (please visit our group website for more details). For current available PhD positions in my group. please visit Recruitment for more information.

Email: weitaoxu@cityu.edu.hk

Interests

Internet of Things (IoT)
Mobile Computing
IoT Security
Wearable Devices
Low-power Wide-area Network (LPWAN)

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2017
University of Queensland
MEng in Information System, 2013
Shandong University
BEng in Communication Engineering, 2010
Shandong University

Experience

Assistant Professor

City University of Hong Kong

Aug 2019 – Present Hong Kong

Postdoc

University of New South Wales

Jun 2017 – Aug 2019 Sydney, Australia

Research Assistant

Australia CSIRO

Oct 2013 – Dec 2014 Brisbane, Australia

News

*2021.10 I'm so honoured to receive 2021 ACM SIGBED China Rasing Star Award!

*2021.10 Congrats to Tony, we received the 2021 Ubicomp CPD Workshop Best Paper Award!

*2021.5 Our paper entitled “No Need of Data Pre-processing: A General Framework for Radio-Based Device-Free Context Awareness” has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Internet of Things!

*2021.1 We have two papers accepted by IPSN 2021!

*2020.10 Our Paper “Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Gait Recognition using Piezoelectric Energy Harvester” has been accepted by TMC (IF: 5.115)!

*2020.10 Our Survey “Key Generation for Internet of Things: A Contemporary Survey” has been accepted by CSUR (IF: 7.99)!

*2020.07 Invited to serve on the TPC of EWSN 2020!

*2020.06 Our paper entitled “Nephalai: Towards LPWAN C-RAN with Physical Layer Compression” has been accepted by Mobicom 2020!