Di Wu (Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 2013)

Professor of Computer Science

Vice Director, Key Laboratory for Embedded and Network Computing of Hunan Province

Director, Data Intelligence and Service Collaboration Lab (DISCO)

Director, Future Intelligence and Design Cross-Disciplinary Center (FINDx)

Hunan University

Changsha, 410082, China

Primary email: dwu AT hnu DOT edu DOT cn

Secondary email: dwu3 AT ics DOT uci DOT edu

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Di Wu is a Professor at Hunan University, the Vice Director of the Key Laboratory for Embedded and Network Computing of Hunan Province, the Chief Scientist of Wondershare (a leading software company in Generative AI) and the Founder of ExponentiAI Innovation. He is also the Director of Data Intelligence and Service Collaboration (DISCO) Lab, the Director of Future Intelligence and Design Cross-Disciplinary (FINDx) Center, the Director of HNU-DJI Innovation Lab, a Research Staff with the National Engineering Research Center for Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, and currently affiliated with the School of Robotics and the School of Design jointly at Hunan University for cross-disciplinary research. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine in 2013 with interdisciplinary research background across Computer Science, Transportation Engineering, and Interaction Design, and now holds the position as an Adjunct Researcher at the University of California Transportation Center, working with Prof. Amelia C. Regan. Prior to join Hunan University, he was a Research Staff at the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cites (ICRI-Cities), and a Research Associate in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, working with Prof. Julie A. McCann, from 2014 to 2015. He also had experiences as a Student Research Associate at the Stanford Research Institute working with Carolyn Talcott, a Staff Research Associate at the University of California-Irvine working with Lichun Bao and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, a Visiting Researcher at IBM Research, and a Staff Member at the Surveying and Mapping Institute of Hunan Province. Di has actively served on many conference committees, and has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems since 2015. His research interests include future networking, intelligent analytics, and smart architecture. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and CCF.

Research Interests

·         Future Networking: Crowdsensing, Mobile IoT/V2X, 5G and Beyond

·         Intelligent Analytics: Spatial-Temporal Learning,  Multimodal Interaction, Generative AI

·         Smart Architecture: Cyber-Physical-Social Systems, Edge Computing, Programmable Cities

Education

·         Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 2009-2013.

·         M.S. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 2009-2012.

·         Visiting Student, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 2007-2009.

·         M.E. in Communication and Information System, School of Computer and Communication, Hunan University.

·         B.E. in Communication Engineering, School of Computer and Communication, Hunan University.

Academic Experiences

·         Professor of Computer Science, Hunan University, Changsha, China, 2019-Present

·         Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China, 2015-2019

·         Research Staff, Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cites, London, UK, 2014-2015.

·         Research Associate, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK, 2014-2015.

·         Assistant Specialist, Department of Computer Science, Donald Bren School of ICS, University of California, Irvine, USA, 2013-2014.

·         Student Research Associate, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, USA, 2012-2014.

·         Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Donald Bren School of ICS, University of California, Irvine, USA, 2009-2013.

·         Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Donald Bren School of ICS, University of California, Irvine, USA, 2009-2012.

·         Staff Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA, 2007-2009.

·         Visiting Researcher, IBM Research - China, 2011.

Selected Publications

Journals:

·         X. Li, H. Deng, J. Ouyang, H. Wan, W. Yu, D. Wu, "Act as What You Think: Towards Personalized EEG Interaction through Attentional and Embedded LSTM Learning", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023.

·         J. Ouyang, M. Yu, W. Yu, Z. Qin, A. Regan, D. Wu, "TPGraph: A Spatial-Temporal Graph Learning Framework for Accurate Traffic Prediction on Arterial Roads", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023.

·         D. Wu, Q. Guan, Z. Fan, H. Deng, T. Wu, "AutoML with Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Fast Hyperparameters Optimization in Efficient IoT Time Series Prediction", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022.

·         D. Wu, Z. Zeng, F. Shi, W. Yu, T. Wu, Q. Liu, "Human as a Service: Towards Resilient Parking Search System with Sensorless Sensing", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022.

·         Z. Tan, N. Dai, Y. Su, R. Zhang, Y. Li, D. Wu, S. Li, "Human-Machine Interaction in Intelligent and Connected Vehicles: A Review of Status Quo, Issues and Opportunities", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022.

·         D. Wu, H. Xu, Z. Jiang, W. Yu, X. Wei, J. Lu, "EdgeLSTM: Towards Deep and Sequential Edge Computing for IoT Applications", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021.

·         D. Wu, X. Huang, X. Xie, X. Nie, L. Bao, Z. Qin, "LEDGE: Leveraging Edge Computing for Resilient Access Management of Mobile IoT", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2021.

·         J. Xiao, Z. Xiao, D. Wang, C. Liu, V. Havyarimana, D. Wu, "Vehicle Trajectory Interpolation Based on Ensemble Transfer Regression", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2021.

·         D. Wu, L. Lambrinos, T. Przepiorka, D. I. Arkhipov, Q. Liu, A. C. Regan, J. A. McCann, "Enabling Efficient Offline Mobile Access to Online Social Media on Urban Underground Metro Systems", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020.

·         D. Wu, Z. Jiang, X. Xie, X. Wei, W. Yu, R. Li, "LSTM Learning with Bayesian and Gaussian Processing for Anomaly Detection in Industrial IoT", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020.

·         V. Havyarimana, Z. Xiao, A. Sibomana, D. Wu, J. Bai, "A Fusion Framework based on Sparse Gaussian Wigner Prediction for Vehicle Localization using GDOP of GPS Satellites", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020.

·         Y. Huang, Z. Xiao, D. Wang, H. Jiang, D. Wu, "Exploring Individual Travel Patterns Across Private Car Trajectory Data", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020.

·         D. Wu, X. Nie, E, Asmare, D. I. Arkhipov, Z. Qin, R. Li, J. A. McCann, K. Li, "Towards Distributed SDN: Mobility Management and Flow Scheduling in Software Defined Urban IoT", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2019.

·         F. Shi, D. Wu, D. I. Arkhipov, Q. Liu, A. C. Regan, J. A. McCann, "ParkCrowd: Reliable Crowdsensing for Aggregation and Dissemination of Parking Space Information", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2019.

·         Z. Qin, D. Wu, Z. Xiao, Z. Qin, "Modeling and Analysis of Data Aggregation Path in Mobile Convergecast for Industrial IoT", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2018.

·         D. Wu, D. I. Arkhipov, M. Kim, C. L. Talcott, A. C. Regan, J. A. McCann, N. Venkatasubramanian, "ADDSEN: Adaptive Data Processing and Dissemination for Drone Swarms in Urban Sensing", IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2017.

·         Y. Zhao, Y. Li, D. Wu, N. Ge, "Overlapping Coalition Formation Game for Resource Allocation in Network Coding Aided D2D Communications", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2017.

·         D. Wu, Q. Liu, Y. Li, J. A. McCann, A. C. Regan, N. Venkatasubramanian, "Adaptive Lookup of Open WiFi using Crowdsensing", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2016.

·         F. Xu, Y. Lin, J. Huang, D. Wu, H. Shi, J. Song, Y. Li, "Big Data Driven Mobile Traffic Understanding and Forecasting: A Time Series Approach", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2016.

·         D. Wu, D. I. Arkhipov, Y. Zhang, C. H. Liu, A. C. Regan, "Online War-driving by Compressive Sensing", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2015.

·         J. Luo, J. Hu, D. Wu, R. Li, "Opportunistic Routing Algorithm for Relay Node Selection in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2015.

·         D. Wu, Y. Zhang, L. Bao, A. C. Regan, "Location-based Crowdsourcing for Vehicular Communication in Hybrid Networks", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2013.

Conferences:

·         D. Wu, Z. Yu, N. Ma, J. Jiang, Y. Wang, G. Zhou, H. Deng, Y. Li, "StyleMe: Towards Intelligent Fashion Generation with Designer Style", The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023.

·         X. Li, J. Chen, J. Ouyang, H. Deng, S. Velipasalar, D. Wu, "ToThePoint: Efficient Contrastive Learning of 3D Point Clouds via Recycling", The IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023.

·         S. Choi, J. Yim, S. Kim, Y. Jin, D. Wu, Z. Jin, "VibPath: Two Factor Authentication with Your Hand’s Vibration Response to Unlock Your Phone", ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2023.

·         D. Wu, J. Ouyang, N. Dai, M. Wu, H. Tan, H. Deng, Y. Fan, D. Wang, Z. Jin, "DeepBrain: Enabling Fine-Grained Brain-Robot Interaction through Human-Centered Learning of Coarse EEG Signals from Low-Cost Devices", ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2022.

·         W. Yu, J. Yang, M. Zhang, D. Wu, "CoSimHeat: An Effective Heat Kernel Similarity Measure Based on Billion-Scale Network Topology", The ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2022.

·         D. Wu, T. Xiao, X. Liao, J. Luo, C. Wu, S. Zhang, Y. Li, Y. Guo, "When Sharing Economy Meets IoT: Towards Fine-grained Urban Air Quality Monitoring through Mobile Crowdsensing on Bike-share System", ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2020.

·         S. Zhang, Y. Li, X. Liu, S. Guo, B. Ding, W. Wang, J. Wang, D. Wu, "Towards Real-time Cooperative Deep Inference over the Cloud and Edge End Devices", ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2020.

·         Z. Tu, R. Li, Y. Li, G. Wang, D. Wu, P. Hui, L. Su, D. Jin, "Your Apps Give You Away: Distinguishing Mobile Users by Their App Usage Fingerprints", ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2018. Distinguished Paper Award

·         F. Shi, Z. Qin, D. Wu, J. A. McCann, "MPCSToken: Smart Contract Enabled Fault-Tolerant Incentivisation for Mobile P2P Crowd Services", The 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2018.

·         D. Wu, D. I. Arkhipov, T. Przepiorka, Y. Li, Q. Liu, "From Intermittent to Ubiquitous: Enhancing Mobile Access to Online Social Networks with Opportunistic Optimization", ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2017.

·         B. Guo, Y. Ouyang, C. Zhang, J. Zhang, Z. Yu, D. Wu, Y. Wang, "CrowdStory: Fine-Grained Event Storyline Generation by Fusion of Multi-Modal Crowdsourced Data", ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2017.

·         D. Wu, D. I. Arkhipov, T. Przepiorka, Q. Liu, J. A. McCann, A. C. Regan, "DeepOpp: Context-aware Mobile Access to Social Media Content on Underground Metro Systems", The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017.

·         K. Liu, D. Wu, X. Li, "Enhancing Smartphone Indoor Localization via Opportunistic Sensing", The 13th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2016. Best Paper Award

·         D. Wu, D. I. Arkhipov, E. Asmare, Z. Qin, J. A. McCann, "UbiFlow: Mobility Management in Urban-scale Software Defined IoT", The 34th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2015.

·         D. Wu, Q. Liu, Y. Zhang, J. A. McCann, A. C. Regan, N. Venkatasubramanian, "CrowdWiFi: Efficient Crowdsensing of Roadside WiFi Networks", The 15th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference (Middleware), 2014.

Ph.D. Dissertation:

·         Di Wu, "Location-based Services in Vehicular Networks", University of California, Irvine, Dissertation Committee: Prof. Amelia C. Regan (Chair), Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Prof. Wenlong Jin

Selected Research Projects

·         Anomaly Detection and Adaptive Network Control in Edge Computing (National Natural Science Foundation of China), 2020/01-2023/12, PI

·         5G and Edge Computing Driven Human-Computer Interaction for Product Design (National Key R&D Program of China), 2019/12-2022/11, PI

·         Mobile Access Schemes for Software Defined IoT in Urban Multinetwork Spaces (National Natural Science Foundation of China), 2017/01-2019/12, PI

·         Intelligent Design and Supply Chain Management for the Customization of Chinese Style Clothing (Key R&D Program of Hunan Province), 2022/01-2024/12, PI

·         Modeling Theories and System Designs for Safety-Critical Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems (National Natural Science Foundation of China), 2020/01-2024/12, Co-PI

·         Architecture Aware Program Optimization Approaches (National Key R&D Program of China), 2016/07-2018/06, Co-PI

·         Automatic Construction Techniques for 3D Modeling with COTS RGB-D Devices (Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee), 2017/09-2019-09, Co-PI

·         Multi-Modal Fusion for the Natural Interaction of Robots (National Key R&D Program of China)

·         Sustainable Connected Cites (Intel Collaborative Research Institute, Imperial College London, University College London, Future Cities Catapult, EU FP7, EU Horizon 2020)

·         Sustainable Transportation (University of California Transportation Center, UC Office of the President, University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, University of California Center on Economic Competiveness in Transportation)

·         A Logical Framework for Self-Optimizing Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (National Science Foundation)

·         Principles and Foundations for Fractionated Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (Office of Naval Research)

·         Dependability Techniques for Instrumented Cyber-Physical Spaces (National Science Foundation)

·         Adaptive Network Assimilations Through System Reconfigurability (National Science Foundation)

·         Cross-Layer Networking Protocol Design in Ad Hoc Networks with Multi-Channel Multi-Radio Communication Capabilities (Raytheon Company)

Selected Awards

·         ACM UbiComp Distinguished Paper Award in 2019

·         HuXiang Youth Talent Program of Hunan Province in 2018

·         Yuelu Scholar Program of Hunan University in 2017

·         IEEE SECON Best Paper Award in 2016

·         Hundred Talents Program of Hunan Province in 2015

·         UCI Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship in 2012

·         UCI ICS Fellowship in 2009

·         Raytheon Company Research Stipend Award in 2007

Professional Services

Associate Editor:

·         IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2015-Present)

Guest Editor:

·         IEEE Access, Special Section on "Intelligent Logistics Based on Big Data", 2020

Technical Program Committee Member:

·         IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017 (Atlanta, USA), 2016 (San Francisco, USA)  -- CCF A

·         IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Vienna, Austria, 2018 -- CCF B

·         ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference (Middleware), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2017 -- CCF B

·         IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2017 (Barcelona, Spain), 2016 (Beijing, China), 2015 (Portland, Oregon, USA) -- CCF B

·         IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), London, UK, 2016 -- CCF B

·         IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Singapore, 2018 -- CCF C

·         IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2016 (Brasilia, Brazil), 2015 (Dallas, USA) -- CCF C

·         IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2016 (Las Vegas, USA), 2015 (Nanjing, China), 2014 (Austin, Texas, USA) -- CCF C

·         IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2016 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), 2015 (London, UK) -- CCF C

·         IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2015 -- CCF C

·         IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Maui, Hawaii, USA, 2018

·         IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2015

Journal Reviewer:

·         IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (CCF A)

·         IEEE Transactions on Computers (CCF A)

·         IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (CCF A)

·         IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (CCF A)

·         ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (CCF B)

·         Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (CCF B)

·         Computer Networks (CCF B)

·         Computer Communications (CCF C)

·         Wireless Networks (CCF C)

·         Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

·         IEEE Transactions on Big Data

·         IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

·         IEEE Sensors Journal

·         IEEE Systems Journal

·         IEEE Communications Magazine

·         IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

·         IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

·         IEEE Access

Useful Links

Recent Research Collections:

·         DJI Guidance SDK

·         OpenDaylight: Open Source SDN Platform

·         IoT-LAB: Large-scale Open IoT Testbed

·         DeepMind: Research Blog

·         A Beginner's Guide to Recurrent Networks and LSTMs

CS Conferences and Journal Statistics:

·         A Simple Conference Tracker

·         CSRankings: Computer Science Rankings

·         CCF: Computer Science Journals and Conferences Ranking

·         Networking Conferences Statistics

·         Networking Journals and Conferences Ranking

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