Xinheng Wang PhD FIET

Professor

Prof. Wang was the founding Head of Department of Mechatronics and Robotics. He is an IET Fellow and a senior member of IEEE. He is also a team leader of Talented Jiangsu Innovation and Entrepreneur Programme. He has broad academic working experience in China, England, Wales, and Scotland for more than 20 years. He has extensive research experience in Internet of Things (IoT), wireless mesh networks, indoor positioning, big data analytics, and applications for smart cities. Along with more 30 research projects sponsored from EU, UK EPSRC, Innovate UK, China NSFC, and industry, his research in each area has led to an impactful industrial product. For example, the smart trolley, which has been deployed at more than 10 airports in China, he has developed with industrial partner is the first in the world to provide an IoT solution aiming at providing intelligent airport services for passengers. His collaborative research in acoustic localisation with Zhejiang University has won the first place in Microsoft Indoor Localisation Competition in sound group. He has 220+ publications and filed dozens of patents, including 6 granted patents in the US, Japan, and South Korea, and 18 granted patents in China. His research has been classified as World Leading at the UK's REF assessment. The highest citation number of a single technical paper on Google Scholar is over 600. Overall citation is over 4200.

He is currently leading a university-industry collaborative research centre "XJTLU-uGo Robotics Research Centre" with sponsorship from industry of multi-million yuan to develop robots for passenger services and airport services. To this end, some significant achievements have been made, including a Deep SLAM and Navigation system where accuracy of localization could reach 3 cm in real-world applications and response time for path planning could be reduced to milli-second level from dozen of seconds. Apart from research in robotic SLAM and navigation, his other research interests include intelligent manufacturing and healthcare. In intelligent manufacturing, he is investigating a system dubbed as VisionTwin to integrate industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), edge computing, machine vision, digital twin, and artificial intelligence to promote the intelligence of manufacturing. One application example is condition monitoring of overhead power lines, where a 3-dimensional space could be created on a typical 2-D camera. In healthcare, he has led a team to develop a novel application of diagnosing COVID-19 on smartphones by monitoring users' breathing. In addition, he is investigating technologies for motion and posture detection of users indoors by acoustic analysis on smartphones. He is also working on digitalisation of traditional Chinese Medicine.

He is currently organizing two international conferences, HCCS and CollaborateCom. If you would like to collaborate with me on research or study with me for a PhD degree, feel free to contact me.


  • PhD in Electrical Engineering & Electronics, Brunel University, UK, 2001
  • MSc in Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 1994
  • BEng in Electrical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 1991


  • Professor, head of Department of Mechatronics and Robotics, School of Advanced Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Sept. 2019-
  • Professor, Department of EEE, School of Advanced Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, July 2019- Aug. 2020
  • Professor of Computing/Director of Research and Enterprise, School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London, UK , Nov. 2017 - June 2019
  • Professor in Networks/Discipline Lead in Computer Networks, School of Engineering and Computing, University of the West Scotland, Scotland, UK, Feb. 2013 - Nov. 2017
  • Senior Lecturer in Wireless Communications/Director of Postgraduate Studies (Communications), College of Engineering, Swansea University, UK, Sept. 2007 - Feb. 2013
  • Senior Lecturer in Mobile Computing – Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University, UK, June 2004- Aug. 2007
  • Senior Research Fellow – Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, Kingston University, UK, May 2003 - May 2004
  • Research Fellow – Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University, UK, June 2001 - April 2003
  • Visiting Research Fellow – Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southampton, UK, Jan. 1997 - Sept. 1998
  • Lecturer – State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation for Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, June 1994 - Jan. 1997


  • Intelligent and Connected Vehicles
  • Airport Robotics
  • Intelligent manufacturing
  • Edge computing
  • Digital twin
  • Acoustic localisation, communications and sensing
  • Healthcare
  • Motion and posture detection
  • Indoor positioning and data services
  • Condition monitoring of power systems


  • Honghao Gao, Binyang Qiu, Ye Wang, Si Yu, Yueshen Xu and Xinheng Wang, “TBDB: Token-Bucket-based Dynamic Batching to Resource Scheduling for Neural Network Inference Serving in Intelligent Consumer Electronics, IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics, published online on 5 Dec.2023 (SCI, IF=4.3 (2022), DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2023.3339633).
  • Yuchen Wang, Xinheng Wang, Ang Liu, Junqing Zhang, and Jinhua Zhang, “Ontology of 3D Modeling in Digital Twin: A Review, Analysis and Thinking”, Springer Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, published online on 27 Nov. 2023 (SCI, IF=8.3 (2022), DOI: 10.1007/s10845-023-02246-6)
  • Pampa Sadhukhan, Saptadipa Mazumder, Sara Paiva, Chandreyee Chowdhury, Pradip K. Das, Keshav Dahal, and Xinheng Wang, “IRT-SD-SLE: An Improved Real-time Step Detection and StepLength Estimation using Smartphone Accelerometer”, IEEE Sensors Journal, published online on 9 Nov. 2023. (SCI: IF=4.325 (2023), DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3330097
  • Peisong Li; Ziren Xiao; Xinheng Wang; Kaizhu Huang; Yi Huang; Honghao Gao, EPtask: Deep Reinforcement Learning based Energy-efficient and Priority-aware Task Scheduling for Dynamic Vehicular Edge Computing, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, published online on 03 October 2023 (SCI, IF=8.2 (2022), DOI: 10.1109/TIV.2023.3321679))
  • Liming Shi, Xinheng Wang, Limin Yu, Wenwu Wang, Zhi Wang, Muddesar Iqbal, Charalampos C. Tsimenidis, and Shahid Mumtax, "A long-range aerial acoustic communication scheme", Elsevier Physical Communication, published online on 30 June 2023, 102135 ((SCI, IF=2.379, DOI: 10.1016/j.phycom.2023.102135)
  • Hucheng Wang, Zhi Wang, Rushi Lan, Lei Zhang, Xiaonan Luo, and Xinheng Wang, “A Highly Sta-ble Fusion Positioning System of Smartphone under NLoS Acoustic Indoor Environment”, accepted by ACM Transactions of Internet Technology, March 2023. (SCI, IF=3.989 (2023))
  • Yu Jiang, Xiaolong Xu, Honghao Gao, Adele Rajab, Xiao Fu, Xinheng Wang, “LBlock-chainE: A Lightweight Blockchain for Edge IoT-enabled Maritime Transportation Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp.2307-2321, Feb. 2023, published online on 16 March 2022. (SCI, IF=6.492 (2022), DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2022.3157447).
  • Vassilis Tsakanikas, Tasos Dagiuklas, Muddesar Iqbal, Xinheng Wang, and Shahid Mumtaz, “An intelli-gent model for supporting edge migration for virtual function chains in next generation internet of things”, Springer Nature, Scientific Report, 13, 1063 (2023), published online on 19 Jan. 2023. (SCI, IF=4.996 (2021). DOI:/10.1038/s41598-023-27674-5)
  • Ziren Xiao, Chang Liu, Shan Luo, Kaizhu Huang, Honghao Gao, Xiaolong Xu, and Xinheng Wang, “A Collaborative and Dynamic Multi-Source Single-Destination Navigation Algorithm for Smart Cities”, Elsevier Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, vol.56, March 2023, published online on 14 Jan. 2023 (SCI, IF=7.632,. DOI: 10.1016/j.seta.2023.103032)
  • Chenru Jiang; Kaizhu Huang, Shufei Zhang, Jimin Xiao, Xinheng Wang, Zhenxing Niu and Amir Hussain, “Towards Simple and Accurate Human Pose Estimation with Stair Network”, IEEE Transac-tions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Published online on 9 December 2022 (SCI, IF=4.851, DOI: 10.1109/TETCI.2022.3224954.)
  • Chenru Jiang; Kaizhu Huang, Junwei Wu; Xinheng Wang; Jimin Xiao; Amir Hussain, PointGS: Bridging and Fusing Geometric and Semantic Space for 3DPoint Cloud Analysis, Information Fusion (SCI, IF=17.564, DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2022.10.016)
  • Jianbang Dai, Xiaolong Xu, Honghao Gao, Xinheng Wang, Fu Xiao, “SHAPE: A Simultaneous Header and Payload Encoding Model for Zero-Day Malware Applications Classification”, IEEE Trans. Network and Service Management, published online on 11 Oct. 2022. (SCI, IF=4.758, DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2022.3213758)
  • Hucheng Wang, Can Xue, Zhi Wang, Lei Zhang, Xiaonan Luo, and Xinheng Wang, “Smartphone-Based Pedestrian NLOS Positioning based on Acoustics and IMU Parame-ter Estimation”, IEEE Sensors Journal, published online on 29 June 2022 (SCI, IF=4.325, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3185248)
  • Mikhail Babenko, Andrei Tchernykh *, Bernardo Pulido-Gaytan, Arutyun Avetisyan, Sergio Nesmachnow, Xinheng Wang, Fabrizio Granelli, Towards the sign function best approximation for secure outsourced computations and control, MDPI Engineering Mathematics, published on 10 June 2022(SCI, IF=2.258, DOI:10.3390/math10122006))
  • Zhiang Chen; Muyun Li; Ruoyu Wang; Wenzhuo Sun; Jiayi Liu; Haiyang Li; Tianxin Wang; Yuan Lian; Jiaqian Zhang, and Xinheng Wang, “Diagnosis of COVID-19 via Acoustic Analysis and Artificial Intelligence by Monitoring Breath Sounds on Smartphones”, Elsevier Journal of Biomedical Informatics,2022 Jun;130:104078. (SCI, IF=6.317 (2022), DOI:10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104078))
  • Honghao Gao, Binyang Qiu, Ramon J. Duran Barroso, Walayat Hussain, Yushen Xu and Xinheng Wang, “TSMAE: A Novel Anomaly Detection Approach for Internet of Things Time Series Data Using Memory-Augmented Autoencoder”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (SCI, IF=3.894 (2022), DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2022.3163144)
  • Saptarshi Ghosh, Tasos Dagiuklas, Muddesar Iqbal, and Xinheng Wang, “A Cognitive Routing Frame-work for Reliable Communication in IoT for Industry 5.0”, IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, published on 7 Jan. 2022 (SCI, IF=10.215 (2021), DOI: 10.1109/TII.2022.3141403)
  • Pampa Sadhukhan, Supriya Gain, Keshav Dahal, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Nilkantha Garain and Xinheng Wang, “An Efficient Clustering with Robust Outlier Mitigation for Wi-Fi Fingerprint based Indoor Positioning", Applied Soft Computing Journal (SCI, IF=5.472 (2021), DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2021.107549
  • Peisong Li, Xinheng Wang, Honghao Gao, Xiaolong Xu, Muddesar Iqbal, and Keshav Dahal, “A Dynamic and Scalable User-centric Route Planning Algorithm Based on Polychromatic Sets Theo-ry”, IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transportation Systems. (SCI, IF=6.319(2020), DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3085026)
  • Ying Zhang, Zheming Zhang, Lei Chen, Xinheng Wang, “Reinforcement Learning-Based Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks”, IEEE Trans Vehicular Technology. (SCI, IF=5.379(2020), DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3058282)
  • Xiaolong Xu, Jiahan Zhao, Yang Li, Honghao Gao, and Xinheng Wang, “BANet: A Balanced Atrous Net Improved from SSD for Autonomous Driving in Smart Transportation”, IEEE Sensors Journal (SCI, IF=3.076 (2020), DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2020.3034356)
  • Haowei Lin, Xiaolong Xu, Juan Zhao, and Xinheng Wang, “Dynamic service migration in ultra-dense multi-access edge computing network for high-mobility scenarios”, EURASIP J Wireless Com Network 2020, 191 (2020) (SCI, IF=1.83 (2020), DOI: 10.1186/s13638-020-01805-2)
  • Elahe Naserian, Xinheng Wang†, Keshav Dahal, Jose Alcaraz-Calero, and Honghao Gao, “A Parti-tion-based Partial Personalized Model for Points of Interest Recommendations”, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (SCI, IF=3.29 (2020), DOI:10.1109/TCSS.2021.3064153)
  • Abid Hussain, Muddesar Iqbal, Sohail Sarwar, Muhammad Safyan, Zia ul Qayyum, Honghao Gao, and Xinheng Wang, “Servicing Delay Sensitive Pervasive Communication Through Adaptable Width Channelization for Supporting Mobile Edge Computing”, accepted by Elsevier Computer Communications (SCI, IF=2.766 (2020))
  • Yueshen Xu, Gao, Honghao; Xu, Yueshen; Yin, Yuyu; Zhang, Weipeng; Li, Rui; Wang, Xinheng, “Context-aware QoS Prediction with Neural Collaborative Filtering for Internet-of-Things Ser-vices”, IEEE IoT Journal, vol.7, issue 5, pp. 4532 – 4542, 2020 (SCI, IF=9.515 (2019), DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2956827).
  • Hong-Hsu Yen, Xinheng Wang, Dong Wang, and Hrng-Twu Liaw, “An Activation Based Routing Scheme in Molecular Nanosensor Networks”, IEEE Access Journal IEEE Access Journal, vol.7, pp. 144075 – 144089, 02 October 2019 (SCI, IF=4.098 (2018) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945070)
  • Ying Zhang, Peisong Li, and Xinheng Wang, “Intrusion Detection for IoT Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm and Deep Belief Network”, IEEE Access, published online on 07 March 2019, (SCI, IF=3.557 (2019), DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2903723).
  • Lei Zhang, Minlin Chen, Xinheng Wang, and Zhi Wang, "TOA Estimation of chirp signal in Dense Multipath Environment for Low-cost Acoustic Ranging", IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Meas-urement, published online on 25 July 2018. (SCI, IF=2.456 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2018.2844942)
  • Elahe Naserian, Xinheng Wang, and Xiaolong Xu, “A Framework of Loose Travelling Compan-ion Discovery from Human Trajectories”, IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, vol.17, no.11, 2018, pp.2497-2511. (SCI, IF=3.822, DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2018.2813369)
  • Elahe Naserian, Xinheng Wang, Keshav Dahal, Zhi Wang, and Zaijian Wang, “Personalized Loca-tion Prediction for Group Travellers from Spatial-Temporal Trajectories”, Future Generation Com-puter Systems, Vol. 83 (2018), pp.278-292 (SCI, IF=3.997 (2018), DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.01.024)
  • Lei Zhang, Danjie Huang, Xinheng Wang, and Zhi Wang, “Acoustic NLOS identification using acoustic channel characteristics for smartphone indoor localization”, Sensors 2017, 17(4), 727 (SCI, IF=2.677, DOI:10.3390/s17040727).
  • Xinheng Wang, Congcong Zhang, Fuyu Liu, Yuning Dong, and Xiaolong Xu, “Exponentially Weighted Particle Filter for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Based on Measurements of Magnetic Field”, IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol.66, issue 7, pp. 1658 – 1667, July 2017. (SCI, IF= 2.456, DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2017.2664538) (Listed one of the most popular documents in August 2017.)
  • X. Xu, L. Cao and X. Wang, "Adaptive Task Scheduling Strategy Based on Dynamic Workload Adjustment for Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 471-482, June 2016. (SCI, IF=3.882 (2018) DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2014.2323112)
  • Thomas Fankhauser, Qi Wang, Ansgar Gerlicher, Christos Grecos, and Xinheng Wang, “Web Scal-ing Frameworks for Web Services in the Cloud”, IEEE Trans. Services Computing, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 728-741, Sept.-Oct. 1 2016. (SCI, IF=1.985 (2014), DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2015.2454272)
  • Chunbo Luo, Cathryn Peoples, Gerard Parr, Sally McClean and Xinheng Wang, “Hybrid Demodu-late-Forward Relay Protocol for Two-Way Relay Channel”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Communica-tions, vol. 14, issue 8, pp.4328-4341, Aug. 2015. (SCI, IF=4.951 (2017), DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2419627)
  • Shancang Li, Lida Xu and Xinheng Wang, “Compressed Sensing Signal and Data Acquisition in Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol., Issue 4, Nov. 2013, pp. 2177 – 2186. (SCI, IF=6.764 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/TII.2012.2189222).
  • Chunbo Luo, Sally McClean, Gerard Parr, Qi Wang, Xinheng Wang, Christos Grecos, “A Com-munication Model to Decouple the Path Planning and Connectivity Optimization and Support Co-operative Sensing”, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology., vol. 63, issue 8, 14 Oct. 2014, pp. 3985 – 3997. (SCI, IF=4.066 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2014.2305474)
  • X. H. Wang, R. S. H. Istepanian and Y. H. Song, “Microarray Image Enhancement by Denoising using Stationary Wavelet Transform”, IEEE Trans. NanoBioscience, Vol.2, No.4, Sept. 2003, pp. 184-189. (SCI, IF=2.771(2018), DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2003.816225
  • X. H. Wang, R. S. H. Istepanian and Y. H. Song, “Application of Wavelet Modulus Maxima in Mi-croarray Spots Recognition”, IEEE Trans. NanoBioscience, Vol.2, No.4, Sept. 2003, pp.190-192. (SCI, IF=2.771(2018), DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2003.816230)
  • Shancang Li, Li Da Xu, and Xinheng Wang, “A Continuous Biomedical Signal Acquisition Sys-tem based on Compressed Sensing in Body Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 9, Issue 3, Aug. 2013, pp.1764-1771. (SCI, IF=6.764 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/TII.2013.2245334).
  • Wang Zai-jian, Yu-ning Dong, and Xinheng Wang, “A Dynamic Service Class Mapping Scheme for Different QoS Domains Using Flow Aggregationon”, IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 1299 – 1310, Dec. 2015 (SCI, IF=3.882 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2014.2351825)
  • Shancang Li, Shanshan Zhao, Xinheng Wang, and Kewang Zhang, “Adaptive and Secure Load-Balancing Routing Protocol for Service-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Systems Jour-nal, vol.8, no.3, Sept. 2014, pp.858-867 (SCI, IF=3.882 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2260626)
  • Shancang Li, Xinheng Wang, Jue Wang, and Ling Li, “Local Semidefinite Programming based Node Localization System for Wireless Sensor Network Applications”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol.8, no.3, Sept. 2014, pp.879-888 (SCI, IF=3.882 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2260625).
  • Xinheng Wang and Shancang Li, “Scalable Routing Modeling for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks by Using Polychromatic Sets”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol.7, no.1, pp.50-58, 2013. (SCI, IF=3.882 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2012.2214671).
  • Y. Wu, F. Hu and X. Wang, Mobile Computing for Content/Service-Oriented Networking Archi-tecture, special issue editorial, Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol.74, Part B, 9 December 2014, pp.1-3. (SCI, IF=2.516(2018), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2014.10.020)
  • Cheng Gong, Shiwen Zhang, Feng Zhang, Jianguo Jiang, and Xinheng Wang, “An Integrated En-ergy-efficient Operation Methodology for Metro Systems Based on a Real Case of Shanghai Met-ro Line One”, Energies, published online on 13 November 2014 (SCI, IF=2.262(2018), DOI: 10.3390/en7117305).
  • Xiangyuan Jiang, Baozhou Lu, Peng Ren, Chunbo Luo, and Xinheng Wang, “Augmented Filter-ing Based on Information Weighted Consensus Fusion for Simultaneous Localization and Track-ing via Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 391757, 7 pages (SCI, IF=1.239 (2018) http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/391757)
  • Laurie Hughes and Xinheng Wang, & Tao Chen, “A Review of Protocol Implementations and En-ergy Efficient Cross Layer Design for Wireless Body Area Networks”, Sensors, 2012, 12(11), 14730-14773; (SCI, IF=2.677, DOI:10.3390/s121114730).
  • Zafar Mehmood, Muddesar Iqbal, and Xingheng Wang, “Comprehensive Experimental Perfor-mance Analysis of DSR, AODV and DSDV Routing Protocol for Different Metrics Values with Predefined Constraints”, International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science, published online June 2014. (SCI, IF=1.0285, DOI: 10.5815/ijitcs.2014.07.04)
  • Chaekyun Jung, Byeongmo Yang, Jiwon Kang, Xinheng Wang, and Jongbeom Lee, “Develop-ment of Fault Location Algorithm and Its Verification Experiments for HVDC Submarine Cables”, Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology, Vol. 7, No. 6: 859-868, 2012. (SCI, DOI: 10.5370/JEET.2012.7.6.859)
  • Shancang Li, Xinheng Wang and Xu Zhou, “Efficient blind spectrum sensing for cognitive radio networks based on compressed sensing”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012, 2012:306, Published: 3 October 2012. (SCI, DOI: 10.1186/1687-1499-2012-306)
  • Shancang Li and Xinheng Wang, “Polychromatic set theory based spectrum access in cognitive radio networks”, IET communications, Vol. 6, Issue 8, 2012, pp.909-916. (SCI, IF=0.637, DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2010.0566)
  • Shancang Li, Xinheng Wang and Jue Wang, “Manifold Learning Based Automatic Signal Identi-fication in Cognitive Radio Networks”, IET communications. Vol. 6, Issue 8, 2012, pp.955-963. (SCI, IF=0.637, DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2010.0590)
  • Shancang Li, Lida Xu, Xinheng Wang, and Jue Wang, “Integration of Hybrid Wireless Networks in Cloud Services Oriented Enterprise Information Systems”, Enterprise Information Systems, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2012, pp.165-187. (SCI, IF=9.256, DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2011.654266, 2013)
  • C. K. Jung, J. B. Lee, and X. H. Wang, “A Validated Accurate Fault Location Approach by Apply-ing Noise Cancellation Technique”, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 37. Issue 1, May 2012, pp.1-12. (SCI, IF=3.432, 10.1016/j.ijepes.2011.08.006, 2013)
  • Shancang Li, Xinheng Wang, and Shanshan Zhao, “Multipath Routing for Video Streaming in Wireless Mesh Networks”, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Vol. 11, No.1-2, 2011, pp. p.73-92 (SCI, 2013)
  • Muddesar Iqbal, Xinheng Wang, and David Wertheim, “Reliable multimedia multicast communi-cations over wireless mesh networks”, IET Communications, Volume 4, Issue 11, July 2010, pp. 1288-1299 (SCI, DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2009.0134, 2013)
  • Muddesar Iqbal, Xinheng Wang, Shancang Li, Tim Ellis, “QoS scheme for multimedia multicast communications over wireless mesh networks”, IET Communications, Volume 4, Issue 11, July 2010, pp. 1312-1324 (SCI, IF=0.637, DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2009.0413, 2013)
  • Liqiang Zhao, Li Cong, Wei Ding, Xinheng Wang, and Hailin Zhang, “Incomplete Cooperation-based Service Differentiation in WLANs”, Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol.12, Issue 6, April 2012, pp.481-491. (SCI, IF=0.863, DOI: 10.1002/wcm.975, 2013).
  • Shancang Li and Xinheng Wang, “Source Nodes Localization Algorithm for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks using Self-Organizing Isometric Mapping”, International Journal of Sensor Networks, Vol. 7, No.1/2, pp. 44 - 52, 2010. (SCI, IF=1.386, DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2010.031849, 2013)
  • Shancang Li, Xinheng Wang, and Deyun Zhang, “An Adaptive Distributed Localisation in Wire-less Sensor Network”, Enterprise Information Systems, Vol.3, Issue 2, May 2009, pp.117 – 132. (SCI, IF=9.256, DOI: 10.1080/17517570902749144, 2013)
  • X. H. Wang, “Wireless Mesh Networks”, leader focus, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, Vol. 14, No. 8, pp.401-403, 2008. (SCI, IF=1.467, DOI: 10.1258/jtt.2008.008003, 2013)
  • Shancang Li; Xinheng Wang; Deyun Zhang, “Node localization in Wireless sensor networks based on Self-Organizing Isometric Embedding”, Enterprise Information Systems, Vol. 2, No. 3 2008, pp.259 – 273 (SCI, IF=9.256, DOI: 10.1080/17517570802132920, 2013)


  • Thepparit Sinthamrongruk, Keshav Dahal, Xinheng Wang and Muddesar Iqbal, “A Three-Step Scheduling based on Geographic Information System for Workforce Planning and Routing prob-lem”, SKIMA2019
  • Muhammad Kashif, Zakir Ullah, Muddesar Iqbal, Leila Musavian, Sohail Sarwar, Xinheng Wang, Shahid Mumtaz, Zia Ul-Qayyum, and Haji Muhammad Safyan, “Multiuser Detection using Hy-brid ARQ with Incremental Redundancy in Overloaded MIMO Systems”, CollaborateCom 2019
  • Sonia Shahzadi, Muddesar Iqbal, Xinheng Wang, George Ubakanma, Tasos Dagiuklas, and An-drei Tchernykh, “Lightweight Computation to Robust Cloud Infrastructure for Future Technolo-gies”, CollaborateCom 2019
  • Jinlong Hong, Kaizhu Huang, Hai-Ning Liang, Rui Zhang, and Xinheng Wang, “Fine-Grained Image Classication with Object-Part Model”, BICS 2019.
  • Haowei Lin, Xiaolong Xu and Xinheng Wang, “Energy Consumption of IT System in Cloud Data Center: Architecture, Factors and Prediction”, NPC 2019
  • Zaijian Wang, Chen Chen, and Xinheng Wang, “A New Cross-domain QoE Guarantee Method Based on Isomorphism Flow for Internet of Things”, CollaborateCom2018
  • Guangxin Zhang, Minzhen Wang, Xinheng Wang, Liying Zhao, and Jinyang Zhao, “An On-line Monitoring Method for Monitoring Earth Grounding Resistance Based on a Hybrid Genetic Algo-rithm”, CollaborateCom2018
  • Elahe Naserian, Xinheng Wang, Keshav Dahal, “APPR: Additive Personalized Point-of-Interest Recommendation”, Globecom 2018
  • Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Antonio Tristán-Vega, Carlos Hoyos- Barceló, Susana Merino-Caviedes, Qi Wang, Chunbo Luo, Xinheng Wang, Zhi Wang, "Compressed UAV sensing for flood monitoring by solving the continuous travelling salesman problem over hyperspectral maps," Proc. SPIE, Remote Sensing, Berlin, Germany, 10 October 2018 (doi: 10.1117/12.2325645)
  • Elahe Naserian, Xinheng Wang, Xiaolong Xu, Yuning Dong, Nektarios Georgalas and Kaizhu Huang, “Integrated Discovery of Location Prediction Rules in Mobile Environment”, accepted by DataCom 2017.
  • Dong Wang, Xinheng Wang, Ying Liang, and Zhi Wang, “A Service Oriented Routing Scheme for Internet of Things”, iThings 2017, Essex, 21-23 June, 2017.
  • Elahe Naserian, Xinheng Wang, and Xiaolong Xu, “Discovery of Loose Travelling Companion Patterns from Human Trajectories”, IEEE SmartCity 2016. (DOI: 10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS.2016.0175)
  • Hong-Hsu Yen, Xinheng Wang, and Dong Wang, “QoS Aware Molecular Activation and Commu-nication Scheme in Molecular Nanoscale Sensor Networks”, IEEE HealthCOM 2016. (DOI: 10.1109/HealthCom.2016.7749503)
  • Dong Wang, Xinheng Wang, and Hong-Hsu Yen, “A Dynamic Route Discovery scheme for Het-erogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Polychromatic Sets Theory”, GRAPH-HOC 2016 (DOI: 10.5121/csit.2016.61510)


  • Design and Implementation of SLAM Algorithm for High Precision AGV Navigation System, Industrial Project, 1. Jan. 2022-31 Dec. 2023.
  • Research on Coordinated Control of Bionic Manta Ray Robotic Fish based on Perception Enhancement of Flexible Passive Degree of Freedom (NSFC, 1 Jan. 2022 - 31. Dec. 2025)
  • A Non-invasive Acoustic Sensing Technology, PI, XJTLU Key Programme Special Fund (KSF)), KSF-E-64, 1 Jan. 2020 - 31 Dec. 2022
  • Development of a Tactile Internet Testbed (XJTLU Research Development Funding + RDF-19-01-14, 1 Jan. 2020 – 31 Dec. 2022
  • XJTLU Postgraduate Research Scholarships, PGRS1912019, Opportunistic Networking of Edge Cloud for a Service-Oriented Tactile Internet Architecture, 12.2020-11.2023
  • Personalised Service Assistant for Journey Planner (Newton Fund: UK-Malaysia urban innovation challenge 2017, 101348-579258, 1 April 2018 -31 March. 2020
  • SELFNET- Framework For Self-Organized Network Management In Virtualized And Software Defined Networks (Jose Alcaraz-Calero, Qi Wang, Xinheng Wang, and Keshav Dahal, EU Horizon 2020, 671672, 07/2015-07/2018)
  • LP-WIS: Low Power Wireless Intelligent Sensors (Principal investigator, EU Social Fund, Dec. 2005 -Dec. 2006)
  • eDispute: Electronic Dispute Settlement for SMEs (Co-investigator, funded by EU-eTEN, C510712, 2004-2006)
  • UniPAN: A Universal PAN Architecture for Monitoring Multiple Chronic Conditions (Principal investigator, EPSRC, EP/E024734, 16 April 2007 – 30 April 2011)
  • Distributed and Iterative Processing for Wireless Sensor Networks with Multiple Local Fusion Centres (Jinho Choi and Xinheng Wang, EPSRC/DSTL, EP/H011919, 01 March 2010-31 October 2013.)
  • Mobile Wireless Vital Signs monitoring System, (Parisa Eslambolchilar(PI), Xinheng Wang (CI), Feb. 2010 – Nov. 2011, EPSRC match funded project “Bridging The Gaps: Mobile Wireless Vital Signs monitoring System”, funded from Swansea University.
  • 4G-based Reconfigurable Mobile Healthcare System (PI, EPSRC, Doctoral Training Award, March 2007 – Aug. 2010)
  • Flood Detection and Monitoring using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Royal Society of Edinburgh & National Natural Science Foundation of China, 6151101271, by collaborating with Zhejiang University, Pablo Casaseca, Xinheng Wang, Chunbo Luo, Qi Wang, Des Gibson, David Hutson)
  • Research on Multiple UAV Cooperation for Marine Oil Spill Detection (Royal Society and China NNSF 61411130134, Co-PI with Chunbo Luo, Apr 2014 - Apr 2016).
  • Service Oriented Web Applications Development (PI, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships with Charlton Chauffeur Drive Ltd, KTP009212, 06/01/2014 – 05/01/2016, £119,984)
  • An Intelligent Interference-Aware Wireless Network (PI, Technology Strategy Board, 710023, 1st Nov. 2011 – 30 April 2013).
  • AST-Net: A Secure and Trusted Community Wireless Mesh Network (PI, Technology Strategy Board: Trusted Services, 3424-27170, £73,845, 01 Nov. 2010 – 30 Oct. 2011)
  • A feasibility study into remote programming for satellite navigation systems (PI with Premier Property, KTP, HE 09 KTP 1001\, 4th March 2010 – 19th May 2010).
  • A Load Balanced Automated Wireless Network for Community (PI, Technology Strategy Board: Feasibility Studies for Digital Britain, BV192W, 26th Nov. 2009 – 26th Feb. 2010)
  • Non-invasive, Ambulatory and Continuous Monitoring of Chronic Diseases (Vincent Teng, Owen Guy, Xinheng Wang, David Ford, Steve Bain, Welsh Assembly Government, Academic Expertise for Business (A4B), HE 09 COL 1035, 1 July 2011 – 30 Dec. 2013, £227,439.00).
  • Research on Key Technologies of Energy-saving Resource Integration and Task Scheduling for Green Cloud Computing (Xiaolong Xu, Xinheng Wang, and Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 61472192, 1/1/2015 – 30/12/2018, 780,000CNY.)
  • Content aware autonomic QoE framework for universal heterogeneous wireless multimedia networks (Yuning Dong and Xinheng Wang, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 61271233, 2013.1 - 2016.12, 750,000CNY.)
  • Mobile Multimedia Mesh Networks and Cognitive QoS Routing Protocols (Yuning Dong, Xinheng Wang, China National Natural Science Foundation, 60972038/F010204, Jan.2010-Dec.2012)
  • WSN-Based Livestock Behaviour Monitoring and Healthcare System (Associate leader, China 863 project, 2006AA10Z246, Jan 2007 – Dec. 2009)
  • Service-Oriented Cloud Information Centre for Airport Services (PI with Dr. Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, Supported by Chigoo Interactive Technologies Co. Ltd, 1/10/2015-30/09/2018.)
  • 输电线路接地电阻实时测量分析云平台研究与开发 (Sole PI from UWS, Collaborating with Prof. Minzhen Wang from Changchun University of Technology, 吉林省国际科技合作项目,20160414013GH, 2016.1.1-2018.12.31)
  • Emerging 5G Technology for Disaster Management, co-funded by British Council and HEC (Higher Education Commission, Pakistan) to host a workshop in Pakistan under the British Council Researcher Links scheme (Coordinator from the UK with Partner Dr Muddesar Iqbal from University of Gujrat in Pakistan, 150781757).


  • Lead guest editor for Special Issue on Collaborative Computing for Data-Driven Systems for Springer Mobile Networks and Applications, including Muddesar Iqbal, Honghao Gao, Kaizhu Huang, and Andrei Tchernykh
  • Guest editor for special Issue on Innovation and Application of Internet of Things and Emerging Technologies in Smart Sensing, IEEE Access (Honghao Gao, Shaojie Tang, Wan Du, Xinheng Wang, and Yuyu Yin, https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/innovation-and-application-of-internet-of-things-and-emerging-technologies-in-smart-sensing/)
  • Guest editor for special Issue on Edge Computing Security and Privacy, Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications (Yin Li, Guangjie Han, Wenbing Zhao, and Xinheng Wang, https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/edgesecurityprivacy)
  • Guest editor for special Issue on Edge Computing: Enabling Technologies, Applications and Services, Automatika Journal, (Honghao Gao, Wenbing Zhao, Xinhehng Wang, Gongzhu Hu, https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/automatika-si-edge-computing/?utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JOA07894)
  • Guest editor for special Issue on Edge Computing: Enabling Technologies, Applications and Services (Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), Honghao Gao, Guangjie Han, Wenbing Zhao, Xinheng Wang, Gongzhu Hu, Yuyu Yin, https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/assets/21613915/Enabling%20Technologies,%20Applications%20and%20Services%20CFP%20070119.pdf)
  • Guest editor for special Issue on Visual Analysis for CPS Data (Wei Chen, Ye Zhao, Xinheng Wang, and Panpan Xu (IEEE Access, https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/visual-analysis-for-cps-data/)
  • Guest editor for special Issue on: "Intelligent Service Computing in Advanced Technology Management", International Journal of Information Technology and Management (Honghao Gao, Xinheng Wang, Yuyu Yin, Dr. Ankang Liu)
  • Guest editor for special Issue on Data Intensive Services: Advanced Applications and Infrastructure Research, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (Honghao Gao, Xinheng Wang, Yuyu Yin, and Jung-Yoon Kim)
  • Guest editor for Special Issue “Advanced Communication and Networking Techniques for Remote Sensing”, MDPI Remote Sensing (Honghao Gao, Xinheng Wang, & Yuyu Yin, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/communication_networking)
  • Guest editor for Special Issue on “AI for Healthcare: Challenges, Opportunities, and Emerging Applications”, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (Honghao Gao, Xinheng Wang)
  • Guest editor for Elsevier Computer Networks special issue on Special Issue on Mobile Computing for Content/Service Oriented Networking Architecture (with Dr. Yulei Wu, and Prof. Fei Hu)
  • General Chair: CollaborateCom2019, London, UK
  • TPC Chair: CollaborateCom2018, Shanghai, China
  • Publication Chair: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2017)
  • Publication Co-chair for IUCC 2016
  • Conference Publicity Co-chair, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, 26-28 October, 2015, Liverpool, UK, http://cse.stfx.ca/~iucc2015/
  • Chair of workshop: The International Workshop on Privacy, Data Assurance, Security Solutions for Cloud Computing and Internet-of-Things (PASS4CI-2015), inline with The 13th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing. October 26-28, 2015. Liverpool, UK. http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/downloads/downloadid/13382657
  • Chair of workshop: Emerging 5G technologies in disaster management, 16-18 Jan. 2015, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan. http://dm.uog.edu.pk/#/
  • Chair of workshop: Smart ICT Infrastructures for Disaster Management and Resilience, inline with 9th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management & Applications (SKIMA15), 15 - 17 December, 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal. http://kec.edu.np/skima2015/smart-ict-infrastructures
  • Workshops Chair: Pervasive Health Conference 2006, 29Nov-1Dec 2006, Austria
  • Workshops Chair: 2012 Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networking for Human and Livestock Healthcare (WMHLH 2012)
  • Co-chair for workshop: Gigabit Home Network for Ageing Society, on Digital Engagement 2011, Newcastle, UK, 17th Nov. 2011
  • Keynote speech: Sensing, Localisation and Contextual Data Analytics for Smart Services, CPGPS, July 2018, Xi’an China
  • Keynote speech: Converged technology for intelligent airport services, CollaborateCom2017, Edinburgh, UK
  • Keynote speech: Smart Technologies for Smart Airport Service, workshop of Wireless Networks and Multimedia, The 10th IEEE Interna8onal Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2017)
  • Panellist of panel ‘Can technology help to build disaster resilience in developing countries?’ at ‘13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management’, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 22-25, 2016
  • Panellist of panel ‘Network Disaster Management and Recovery’ at 2016 International Conference of Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 16), March 15-17, Paris, France.
  • Keynote Speaker: DICE-CONNECT 2013
  • Keynote Speaker: Wireless Signal Processing & Networking Workshop: Emerging Wireless Technologies, Japan 2013
  • Expert for reviewing and monitoring EU projects (Expert ID: EX2014D198478)
  • Carnegie Research Assessor for Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, since April 2014
  • Member of EPSRC Peer Review College since 1st April 2010
  • Member of BSI (British Standards Institution) Committee in ICT, Electronics and Healthcare
  • External Expert Adviser for the National Assembly for Wales from Nov. 2009 to Feb. 2013


  • MEC202 Industrial Awareness and Group Project
  • CPT404 Technological Project Management


  • IET Fellow
  • IEEE Senior Member
Xinheng Wang