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Wei Cheng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Systems |
Biography
Wei received his Ph.D from the George Washington University. His research interests span the areas of smart transportation systems and edge computing. In particular, he is working on smart street infrastructure digitization, localization in GPS-denied environments, and public safety networks. His research have been funded by NSF and NIST. He served as the technical program committee chair/member and the editorial board member for several top international conferences and journals, respectively.
Current Research
Projects
- HCI & Security: Utilize nano biomatric sensors such as muscle sensors, eye
trackers, and taste sensors for security and control applications.
- Smart Transportation: AI for automatic street
parking sign reading, navigation, and parking.
- Emergent Acoustic
Communication: Acoustic
based solutions for localization and communication with mobile devices.
Student Recruitment
- Ph.D. Students:Students, who are interested in
pursuing their Ph.D. in the Tacoma School of Engineering and Technology or
the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UW, please
email me your CV. Funding is available for U.S. citizens and permanent
residents, who will work in the area of cybersecurity.
- M.S. Students: Graduate students at UW
Tacoma are welcomed to contact me to conduct
thesis, capstone projects, or independent research.
- B.S. Students: I am recruiting students
for Undergraduate Research
Selected Products [My
Google Scholar]
Smart Street
Parking
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Application |
Features
& Key Findings |
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Build Street Parking Map Street Parking Planning & Navigation Smart Car Autonomous Parking City Traffic and CO2 Reduction |
Automatically read street parking sign
via cam Street parking circling navigation Street parking open spot detection Street parking rule data |
Automatically read street parking signs, symbols, and calculate the maximal
allowed parking time based on the time of arrival. The first two videos can be
played in 4K.
HCI & Security [Ref. 1]
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Application |
Features
& Key Findings |
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Device Control Security Service |
Nano EMG for finger movement detection Finger movement based control Finger movement based authentication Finger movement based key pairing |
Device Positioning
and Navigation in GPS-denied Environments [Ref. 1][Ref. 2][Ref. 3][Ref. 4][Ref. 5]
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Application |
Features
& Key Findings |
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Search & Rescue Indoor Navigation, Public Safety Networks Drone Swarm, Vehicle Swarm, Smartphone Underwater Networks, Space Exploration |
Smartphone based acoustic
communication Infrastructure free Quick autonomous organization and localization Theoretically proved the localizability
equivalence between centralized and distributed implementations. Theoretically proved the localizability
equivalence via altitude/depth awared projection 3-5cm fast phone-to-phone ranging accuracy |
Each symble represents a smartphone. There are six
phones. The picture shows each phone's view of the network.
Fast Resilence Networking [Ref. 1][Ref. 2][Ref.
3]
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Application |
Features
& Key Findings |
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Smart Community, Public Safety Networks Super Dense Wireless Networks |
Unicast based route discovery Check the existence of mulipath in a
small constant time Channle assignment complexity
analysis |
RFID based
Information Track [Ref.
1][Ref. 2][Ref. 3]
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Application |
Features
& Key Findings |
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Smart Transportation |
Resilence to weather and light
conditions Full unmanned vehicle support Lane level navigation Smart parking Security enhancement |
Grants
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Sponsor: |
NSF NIST |
Teaching Experience
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Undergraduate: |
Computer Organization Computer Architecture Senior Project Design |
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Graduate: |
Network Security Wireless and System Security Applied Distributed Computing |
Service Experience
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School/Department: |
Undergraduate Committee Graduate Committee ABET Assessment Coordinator Faculty Search Committee (Chair) |
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University: |
UWT Faculty Affairs Committee UWT Distinguished Research Award Committees Computer Literacy Seminar |
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Synergistic Activities: |
EBM: IJCN, IJSNet TPC Chair: WASA 2018, WUWNet 2016
(vice), WTS 2014 Workshop Co-Chair: ICCCN 2015 Guest Editor: IoT Journal, WCMC, TNSE, JWCN, etc. TPC: INFOCOM, ICCVE, ICC, WUWNet,
etc. |
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Last updated in September,
2021 |