Dr.-Ing. Wanli Yu

Scientific Assistant/Postdoc

Integrated Digital Systems, ITEM
University of Bremen (NW1)
Otto-Hahn Allee 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

Tel. +49 (0) 421 218 62523
Fax. +49 (0) 421 218 9862523
Office: W3100, NW1
wyu (at) uni-bremen.de

Research Areas

My current research interests are including but not limited to the following areas:

  • Low-power embedded sensor networks, Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile edge/fog computing, distributed systems and computing, network performance optimization, energy aware task allocation and scheduling, convex optimization.

Teaching

LPWSN: Low Power Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks

Projects, Bachelor and Master theses

I am offering master projects, bachelor and master theses. For students who are interested to these topics, please do not hesitate to email me with your CV and transcript attached.

  • Smart UAVs
    It involves obstacles recognization, real-time localization, autonomous reaction to the environments.
  • BIND: Bike Friend
    It involves developing smart IoT system and designing machine learning algorithms for bikes to prevent from stealing and accident occuring.
  • Adaptive task allocation and scheduling for energy-, latency- and security-critical industrial IoT applications

Publications:

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1299-6223
Google Scholar

  1. Wanli Yu; Yanqiu Huang; Yuan Yang; Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Combining Simulated Annealing for Task Allocation with Data Security"  19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 19-21 June, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS-IoT58021.2023.00033 ©IEEE
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  2. Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang, Ardalan Najafi, Jinming Sun, Yarib Nevarez, Alberto Garcia-Ortiz;(POSTER) DNN Task Allocation for Edge-Aided IoT"  19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 19-21 June, 2023, Best Poster Paper Award, DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS-IoT58021.2023.00027 ©IEEE
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  3. Ardalan Najafi; Wanli Yu; Yarib Nevarez; Amir Najafi; Andreas Beering; Karl-Ludwig Krieger; Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Acoustic Emission Source Localization using Approximate Discrete Wavelet Transform"  12th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST), 28-30 June, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/MOCAST57943.2023.10176952 ©IEEE
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  4. Ardalan Najafi; Amir Najafi; Julia Müller; Wanli Yu; Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Approximate Computing in Critical Applications: ECG Arrhythmia Classification"  12th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST), 28-30 June, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/MOCAST57943.2023.10176813 ©IEEE
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  5. X. Yu, F. Dong, B. Xia, S. Yang, E. Ding and W. Yu. "An Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Rotating Machinery Based on Supervised Domain Adaptation With Manifold Embedding."  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3222012  Preprint
  6. X. Yu, H. Yin, L. Sun, F. Dong, K. Yu, K. Feng, Y. Zhang and W. Yu. "A New Cross-domain Bearing Fault Diagnosis Framework Based on Transferable Features and Manifold Embedded Discriminative Distribution Adaption under Class Imbalance."  IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3248950  Preprint
  7. Y. Nevarez, A. Beering, A. Najafi, A. Najafi, W. Yu, Y. Chen, K.L. Krieger and A. Garcia-Ortiz. "CNN Sensor Analytics With Hybrid-Float6 Quantization on Low-Power Embedded FPGAs."  IEEE Acess, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3235866  Preprint
  8. X. Yu, Y. Wang, Z. Liang, H. Shao, K. Yu and W. Yu. "An Adaptive Domain Adaptation Method for Rolling Bearings Fault Diagnosis Fusing Deep Convolution and Self-Attention Networks."  IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2023.3246494  Preprint
  9. Xiao Yu, Zhongting Liang, Youjie Wang, Hongshen Yin, Xiaowen Liu, Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang. "A wavelet packet transform-based deep feature transfer learning method for bearing fault diagnosis under different working conditions."  Measurement, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2022.111597  Preprint
  10. W Yu, A Najafi, Y Huang and A Garcia-Ortiz. "Combination of Task Allocation and Approximate Computing for Fog Architecture based IoT."  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3040892  Preprint
  11. J. Sun, Y. Huang, W. Yu and A. Garcia-Ortiz. "Nonlinear System Identification: Prediction Error Method vs Neural Network."  2021 10th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST). DOI: 10.1109/MOCAST52088.2021.9493336  Preprint
  12. W Yu, A Najafi, Y Nevarez, Y Huang and A Garcia-Ortiz. "TAAC: Task Allocation Meets Approximate Computing for Internet of Things."  2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180895  Preprint
  13. W. Yu, O. Akinlolu, Y. Sander, Y. Huang and A. Garcia-Ortiz. "SATA: An Intelligent Security Aware Task Allocation for Multihop Wireless Networks."  2020 9th International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST). DOI: 10.1109/MOCAST49295.2020.9200239  Preprint
  14. Z. Liu, T. Chen, E. Ding, Y. Liu and W. Yu. "Attention-based Convolutional LSTM for Describing Video."  IEEE Access, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3010872  Preprint
  15. Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Optimal task allocation algorithms for energy constrained multihop wireless networks."  IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2916591  Preprint
  16. Yanqiu Huang, Wanli Yu, Enjie Ding and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "EPKF: Energy Efficient Communication Schemes based on Kalman Filter for IoT."  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2900853  Preprint
  17. Yanqiu Huang, Wanli Yu, Alex Leong and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Poster: Event-triggered State Estimation Meets Duty Cycling Protocol."  in Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2019), Beijing, China, Feb 25-27, 2019.
  18. Yanqiu Huang, Wanli Yu, Muhammad Usman, Shengdi Wang and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Analysis of optimal reconstruction methods based on incomplete information from sensor nodes using Kalman filter."  IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2849643  Preprint
  19. Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. " Energy aware task allocation in WSNs"  in Habib M. Ammari The philosophy of mission-oriented sensor networks and systems, Springer, 2018.
  20. Wanli Yu. "Energy aware task allocation algorithms for wireless sensor networks."  Phd thesis, pp. 1-163, June. 2018. DOI: http://d-nb.info/1124975799
  21. Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Joint task allocation approaches for hierarchical wireless sensor networks."  2018 International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST 2018), Thessaloniki, Greece, May 7-9, 2018, pp. 1-4.
  22. Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Distributed Optimal On-line Task Allocation Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks."  IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol.18, no. 1, pp. 446-458, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2768659  Preprint
  23. Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Modeling Optimal Dynamic Scheduling for Energy-Aware Workload Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks."  2016 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2016), pp. 116-118, May 26-28 2016, Washington DC, USA. DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS.2016.39  Preprint.
  24. Yanqiu Huang, Wanli Yu and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "PKF-ST: A Communication Cost Reduction Scheme Using Spatial and Temporal Correlation for Wireless Sensor Networks."  International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2016), TU Graz, Austria, 15 Feb.-17 Feb, 2016, pp. 47 - 52, ISBN:978-0-9949886-0-7. DOI: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2893719 Preprint
  25. Yanqiu Huang, Wanli Yu and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Analysis of PKF: A communication cost reduction scheme for wireless sensor networks."  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.15, no. 2, pp. 843-856, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2479234 
  26. Wanli Yu, Yanqiu Huang and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "An Altruistic Compression-scheduling Scheme for Cluster-based Wireless Sensor Networks."  12th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), June 22-25 2015, Seattle, USA, pp. 73-81. DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2015.7338293  Preprint
  27. Yanqiu Huang, Wanli Yu and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "Accurate Energy-Aware Workload Distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Detailed Communication Energy Cost Model."  Journal of Low Power Electronics, Vol.10, no. 2, pp. 183-193, 2014. DOI: 10.1166/jolpe.2014.1315 Preprint
  28. Yanqiu Huang, Wanli Yu and Alberto Garcia-Ortiz. "PKF: A communication cost reduction schema based on Kalman filter and data prediction for Wireless Sensor Networks."  26th IEEE International SOC Conference (SOCC), pp. 73-78, Sept. 4-6, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/SOCC.2013.6749663 Preprint