Weiren Yu
Weiren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. He was awarded an Honorary Visiting Fellow by the Department of Computing at Imperial College. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Sydney). During his years at UNSW, he was also a Research Assistant at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and National ICT Australia (NICTA). After that, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Adaptive Embedded Systems Engineering (AESE) Laboratory in the Department of Computing, Imperial College. He collaborated with NEC Europe Ltd and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial, working on an IoT project “Big Data Technologies for Smart Water Systems”.
He is a recipient of seven Best Paper Awards, including one Best Research Paper Award for ECSA 2016, two CiSRA (Canon Information Systems Research Australia) Best Research Paper Awards for ICDE 2014 and VLDB 2013 respectively, one One of the Best Papers of ICDE in 2013, and three Best (Student) Paper Awards for APWEB 2010, WAIM 2010 and WAIM 2011, respectively. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
Email:weiren.yu@warwick.ac.uk