Yu Guan
I am an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science (DCS), University of Warwick. I received my PhD degree from DCS, Warwick in 2015, and later worked as RA and lecturer in Newcastle University, before moving back to Warwick at 2022.
Research:
My research agenda is centred on machine learning for practical applications. That is, I develop robust machine learning algorithm for data modelling (e.g., for time-series sensor data, image/video data, etc.) and processing with an emphasis on solving the challenges facing in various real-world scenarios, to bridge the gap between theoretical research of machine learning and its practical applications. I am particularly interested in Computational Behaviour Analysis (e.g., activity/action recognition, 3D pose estimation, crowd counting/modelling), AI healthcare (e.g., wearable-based sleep modelling and health assessment), Applied Machine Learning (e.g., cross-modal learning, physics informed learning). Currently, I am the Associate Editor of ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). I've published 70+ peer-reviewed papers including top-venues like IEEE T-PAMI, T-IP, CVPR, ECCV, ACM IMWUT, ACM Multimedia, etc. My paper (collaborated with Prof. Thomas Ploetz, Georgia Tech) "Ensembles of Deep LSTM Learners for Activity Recognition using Wearable" ranks top-1 in citations in IMWUT (out of 1200+ papers)!
A full list of my publications can be found via my google scholar citationLink opens in a new window.
PhD Opportunities:
[New Post, 24/25 Entry] WiFi-Vision Cross-Modality learning for Human Activity Recognition
Eligibility: The studentship covers fees at home rate. EU/International applicants are welcome to apply but will be required to cover the difference between home and EU/international fees.
Grants:
- 2020-2025, EPSRC, “Centre for Digital Citizens – Next Stage Digital Economy Centre” (Co-Investigator), Total award value: £3.80M
- 2019-2024, Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), “IDEA-FAST: Identifying Digital Endpoints to Assess Fatigue, Sleep, and Activities daily living in Neurodegenerative disorders and Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases”, (Co-Investigator) total award value: 21M Euros
- PI, 2021-2022, Newcastle-Cambridge Open Activity Collaboration. Total award value: £100K
- 2020-2023, EPSRC, “EnAble: Developing and Exploiting Intelligent Approaches for Turbulent Drag Reduction”, (Co-Investigator) Total award value: £627K
- 2019-2020, Action Medical Research (AMR),“Can Wrist-worn accelerometers help Children with Hemiplegic CP increase the use of their affected upper limb in a naturalistic setting?” (Co-Investigator) Total award value: £42K
- 2015-2020, EPSRC, “DERC: Digital Economy Research Centre” (Co-Investigator) Total award value: £4.05M
- 2015- 2020, EPSRC, “EPSRC Centre – Combatting Criminals in the Cloud” (Co-Investigator) Total award value: £2.03M
Teaching:
22/23-present, UG3 CS355 Digital Forensics (Module Leader) DCS, University of Warwick
23/24-present, UG3/MSc CS345/912 Sensor Networks and Mobile Data Communications, (Co-teaching with Prof. Victor Sanchez), DCS, University of Warwick.
17/18-21/22, MSc Machine Learning (Module Leader), School of Computing, Newcastle University
I am also supervising the UG/MSc projects in DCS, and more project details can be found here: UG3 Projects, MSc Projects.