Dr Po Yang

BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

Department of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer in Large Scale Data Fusion

General Engineering Admissions Tutor

Member of the Organisations, Information and Knowledge (OAK) research group

po.yang@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 1861

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Dr Po Yang
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP

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Dr Po Yang is a Senior Lecturer in Large Scale Data Fusion in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Wuhan University in China in 2004, before being awarded his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bristol in 2006. In 2010 he graduated with a PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Staffordshire.

From February 2015 to July 2019, he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Liverpool John Moores University. He worked as a Post-doc Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Bedfordshire from January 2012 to January 2015. Previously, he has also held the positions of Research Associate in Computer Science at the University of Teeside from September 2008 to February 2010, a Research Assistant in image processing at the University of Salford from March 2010 to December 2011.
Since 2006 he has generated over 90 international journal and conference papers in the fields of Pervasive Healthcare, Image Processing, Parallel Computing and RFID related internet of things (IoT) applications.

He serves as an Associate Editor in IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine and IEEE Access.

He has over 12 years full time research experience in computing areas (recent three years working on Pervasive Healthcare), which includes the key participation and local leadership of 6 EU funded projects CALLAS (RA in Affective Computing at Teeside University), IMPACT (RA in Image Processing at Salford University), GPSME, DRINVENTOR, MHA and CHIC (RF in Computer Science at Bedfordshire University) and 3 EPSRC/TSB funded projects.

Research interests: Dr Po Yang's research interests include: Pervasive Computing, Healthcare Informatics, Data Analytics and Internet of Things (IoT)

Publications

Journal articles

Zhang D, Xia X, Yang Y, Yang P, Xie C, Cui M & Liu Q (2021) A novel word similarity measure method for IoT-enabled Healthcare applications. Future Generation Computer Systems, 114, 209-218.
Yang P, Qi J, Zhang S, Wang X, Bi G, Yang Y, Sheng B & Yang G (2020) Feasibility study of mitigation and suppression strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks in London and Wuhan. PLoS ONE, 15(8). View this article in WRRO
Yang P, Yang G, Liu J, Qi J, Yang Y, Wang X & Wang T (2020) DUAPM: An Effective Dynamic Micro-Blogging User Activity Prediction Model Towards Cyber-Physical-Social Systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(8), 5317-5326.
Nazir A, Cheema M, Sheng B, Li H, Li P, Yang P, Jung Y, Qin J, Kim J & Feng D (2020) OFF-eNET: An optimally fused fully end-to-end network for automatic dense volumetric 3D intracranial blood vessels segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. View this article in WRRO
Ali R, Sheng B, Li P, Chen Y, Li H, Yang P, Jung Y, Kim J & Chen P (2020) Optic disc and cup segmentation through fuzzy broad learning system for glaucoma screening. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. View this article in WRRO
Liu L, Xie CJ, Wang RJ, Yang P, Sudirman S, Zhang J, Li R & Wang FY (2020) Deep learning based automatic multi-class wild pest monitoring approach using hybrid global and local activated features. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. View this article in WRRO
Cao B, Fan S, Zhao J, Yang P, Muhammad K & Tanveer M (2020) Quantum-enhanced multiobjective large-scale optimization via parallelism. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation. View this article in WRRO
Nazir A, Cheema MN, Sheng B, Li P, Li H, Yang P, Jung Y, Qin J & Feng DD (2020) SPST-CNN: Spatial pyramid based searching and tagging of liver’s intraoperative live views via CNN for minimal invasive surgery. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 106, 103430-103430.
Karambakhsh A, Sheng B, Li P, Yang P, Jung Y & Feng DD (2020) VoxRec : hybrid convolutional neural network for active 3D object recognition. IEEE Access, 8, 70969-70980. View this article in WRRO
Masood A, Sheng B, Yang P, Li P, Li H, Kim J & Feng D (2020) Automated decision support system for lung cancer detection and classification via enhanced RFCN with multilayer fusion RPN. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. View this article in WRRO
Wang F, Wang R, Xie C, Yang P & Liu L (2020) Fusing multi-scale context-aware information representation for automatic in-field pest detection and recognition. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 169. View this article in WRRO
Yang H, Gao L, Tang N & Yang P (2019) Experimental analysis and evaluation of wide residual networks based agricultural disease identification in smart agriculture system. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019(1). View this article in WRRO
Masood A, Yang P, Sheng B, Li H, Li P, Qin J, Lanfranchi V, Kim J & Feng DD (2019) Cloud-based automated clinical decision support system for detection and diagnosis of lung cancer in chest CT. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 8. View this article in WRRO
Masood S, Fang R, Li P, Li H, Sheng B, Mathavan A, Wang X, Yang P, Wu Q, Qin J & Jia W (2019) Publisher Correction: Automatic Choroid Layer Segmentation from Optical Coherence Tomography Images Using Deep Learning. Scientific Reports, 9(1).
Masood S, Fang R, Li P, Li H, Sheng B, Mathavan A, Wang X, Yang P, Wu Q, Qin J & Jia W (2019) Automatic choroid layer segmentation from optical coherence tomography images using deep learning. Scientific Reports, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
Lee S, Tseng CH, Lin GT, Yang Y, Yang P, Muhammad K & Pandey HM (2019) A dimension-reduction based multilayer perception method for supporting the medical decision making. Pattern Recognition Letters. View this article in WRRO
Cao B, Zhao J, Yang P, Gu Y, Muhammad K, Rodrigues JJ & de Albuquerque VHC (2019) Multi-objective 3D topology optimization of next generation wireless data center network. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. View this article in WRRO
Cao B, Zhao J, Yang P, Yang P, Liu X, Qi J, Simpson A, Elhoseny M, Mehmood I & Muhammad K (2019) Multiobjective feature selection for microarray data via distributed parallel algorithms. Future Generation Computer Systems, 100, 952-981. View this article in WRRO
Qi J, Yang P, Newcombe L, Peng X, Yang Y & Zhao Z (2019) An overview of data fusion techniques for internet of things enabled physical activity recognition and measure. Information Fusion. View this article in WRRO
Kamel A, Sheng B, Yang P, Li P, Shen R & Feng DD (2019) Deep convolutional neural networks for human action recognition using depth maps and postures. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(9), 1806-1819. View this article in WRRO
Zhang Y, Guo Y, Yang P, Chen W & Lo B (2019) Epilepsy seizure prediction on EEG using common spatial pattern and convolutional neural network. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. View this article in WRRO
Muhammad K, Ahmad J, Lv Z, Bellavista P, Yang P & Baik SW (2019) Efficient deep CNN-based fire detection and localization in video surveillance applications. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 49(7), 1419-1434. View this article in WRRO
Aleem S, Sheng B, Li P, Yang P & Feng DD (2019) Fast and accurate retinal identification system : using retinal blood vasculature landmarks. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(7), 4099-4110. View this article in WRRO
Aleem S, Yang P, Masood S, Li P & Sheng B (2019) An accurate multi-modal biometric identification system for person identification via fusion of face and finger print. World Wide Web. View this article in WRRO
Yang Y, Cao L, Liu Q & Yang P (2019) A stacked multi-granularity convolution denoising auto-encoder. IEEE Access, 7, 83888-83899. View this article in WRRO
Zhang D, Cui M, Yang Y, Yang P, Xie C, Liu D, Yu B & Chen Z (2019) Knowledge graph-based image classification refinement. IEEE Access, 7, 57678-57690. View this article in WRRO
Liu L, Wang R, Xie C, Yang P, Wang F, Sudirman S & Liu W (2019) PestNet : an end-to-end deep learning approach for large-scale multi-class pest detection and classification. IEEE Access, 7, 45301-45312. View this article in WRRO
Karambakhsh A, Kamel A, Sheng B, Li P, Yang P & Feng DD (2019) Deep gesture interaction for augmented anatomy learning. International Journal of Information Management, 45, 328-336. View this article in WRRO
Qi J, Yang P, Hanneghan M, Tang S & Zhou B (2019) A hybrid hierarchical framework for gym physical activity recognition and measurement using wearable sensors. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 6(2), 1384-1393. View this article in WRRO
Li S, Zhao S, Yang P, Andriotis P, Xu L & Sun Q (2019) Distributed consensus algorithm for events detection in cyber-physical systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 6(2), 2299-2308. View this article in WRRO
Cao B, Zhao J, Yang P, Yang P, Liu X & Zhang Y (2019) 3-D deployment optimization for heterogeneous wireless directional sensor networks on smart city. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(3), 1798-1808. View this article in WRRO
Yang Y, Nan F, Yang P, Meng Q, Xie Y, Zhang D & Muhammad K (2019) GAN-based semi-supervised learning approach for clinical decision support in health-IoT platform. IEEE Access, 7, 8048-8057. View this article in WRRO
Zhou B, Maines C, Tang S, Shi Q, Yang P, Yang Q & Qi J (2018) A 3-D security modeling platform for social IoT environments. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 5(4), 1174-1188. View this article in WRRO
Cao B, Zhao J, Yang P, Lv Z, Liu X & Min G (2018) 3-D multiobjective deployment of an industrial wireless sensor network for maritime applications utilizing a distributed parallel algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(12), 5487-5495. View this article in WRRO
Xie C, Cai H, Yang Y, Jiang L & Yang P (2018) User profiling in elderly healthcare services in China : scalper detection. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 22(6), 1796-1806. View this article in WRRO
Yang P & Xu L (2018) The Internet of Things (IoT) : informatics methods for IoT-enabled health care. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 87, 154-156. View this article in WRRO
Qi J, Yang P, Waraich A, Deng Z, Zhao Y & Yang Y (2018) Examining sensor-based physical activity recognition and monitoring for healthcare using Internet of Things : a systematic review. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 87, 138-153. View this article in WRRO
Cao B, Kang X, Zhao J, Yang P, Lv Z & Liu X (2018) Differential evolution-based 3-D directional wireless sensor network deployment optimization. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 5(5), 3594-3605. View this article in WRRO
Cao B, Zhao J, Yang P, Lv Z, Liu X, Kang X, Yang S, Kang K & Anvari-Moghaddam A (2018) Distributed parallel cooperative coevolutionary multi-objective large-scale immune algorithm for deployment of wireless sensor networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 82, 256-267. View this article in WRRO
Yang P, Dong F, Codreanu V, Williams D, Roerdink JBTM, Liu B, Anvari-Moghaddam A & Min G (2018) Improving utility of GPU in accelerating industrial applications with user-centered automatic code translation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(4), 1347-1360. View this article in WRRO
Shehab A, Elhoseny M, Muhammad K, Sangaiah AK, Yang P, Huang H & Hou G (2018) Secure and robust fragile watermarking scheme for medical images. IEEE Access, 6, 10269-10278. View this article in WRRO
Chen F, Zhao Z, Min G, Gao W, Chen J, Duan H & Yang P (2018) Speed control of mobile chargers serving wireless rechargeable networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, 80, 242-249. View this article in WRRO
Xie C, Yang P & Yang Y (2018) Open knowledge accessing method in IoT-based hospital information system for medical record enrichment. IEEE Access, 6, 15202-15211. View this article in WRRO
Zhou B, Zhang Q, Shi Q, Yang Q, Yang P & Yu Y (2018) Measuring web service security in the era of Internet of Things. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 66, 305-315. View this article in WRRO
Fan Q, Yin H, Min G, Yang P, Luo Y, Lyu Y, Huang H & Jiao L (2018) Video delivery networks : challenges, solutions and future directions. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 66, 332-341. View this article in WRRO
Yang P, Stankevicius D, Marozas V, Deng Z, Liu E, Lukosevicius A, Dong F, Xu L & Min G (2018) Lifelogging data validation model for Internet of Things enabled personalized healthcare. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 48(1), 50-64. View this article in WRRO
Fan D, Yang J, Zhang J, Lv Z, Huang H, Qi J & Yang P (2018) Effectively measuring respiratory flow with portable pressure data using back propagation neural network. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 6. View this article in WRRO
Yang Q, Jiang L, Hao W, Zhou B, Yang P & Lv Z (2017) PMU placement in electric transmission networks for reliable state estimation against false data injection attacks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 4(6), 1978-1986. View this article in WRRO
Yang P, Antonacopoulos A, Clausner C, Pletschacher S & Qi J (2017) Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical document for large-scale digitisation. IET Image Processing, 11(10), 841-853. View this article in WRRO
Qi J, Yang P, Min G, Amft O, Dong F & Xu L (2017) Advanced internet of things for personalised healthcare systems : a survey. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 41, 132-149. View this article in WRRO
Qi J, Yang P, Hanneghan M & Tang S (2017) Multiple density maps information fusion for effectively assessing intensity pattern of lifelogging physical activity. Neurocomputing, 220, 199-209. View this article in WRRO
Melthis J, Tang S, Yang P, Hanneghan M & Carter C (2016) Topologies for combining the internet of things and serious games. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 31(5), 2685-2696. View this article in WRRO
Qi J, Yang P, Hanneghan M, Fan D, Deng Z & Dong F (2016) Ellipse fitting model for improving the effectiveness of life-logging physical activity measures in an Internet of Things environment. IET Networks, 5(5), 107-113.
Yang P, Clapworthy G, Dong F, Codreanu V, Williams D, Liu B, Roerdink JBTM & Deng Z (2016) GSWO : a programming model for GPU-enabled parallelization of sliding window operations in image processing. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 47, 332-345. View this article in WRRO
Codreanu V, Dröge B, Williams D, Yasar B, Yang P, Liu B, Dong F, Surinta O, Schomaker LRB, Roerdink JBTM & Wiering MA (2016) Evaluating automatically parallelized versions of the support vector machine. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 28(7), 2274-2294. View this article in WRRO
Yang P (2015) PRLS-INVES : a general experimental investigation strategy for high accuracy and precision in passive RFID location systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2(2), 159-167. View this article in WRRO
Po Yang & Wenyan Wu (2014) Efficient particle filter localization algorithm in dense passive RFID tag environment. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61(10), 5641-5651. View this article in WRRO
Liu B, Telea AC, Roerdink JBTM, Clapworthy GJ, Williams D, Yang P, Dong F, Codreanu V & Chiarini A (2014) Parallel centerline extraction on the GPU. Computers & Graphics, 41, 72-83. View this article in WRRO
Yang P (2014) Improving passive radio-frequency identification localisation precision with moving direction estimation-based feature improvement. IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 4(1), 17-26. View this article in WRRO
Yang P, Wu W, Moniri M & Chibelushi CC (2013) Efficient object localization using sparsely distributed passive RFID tags. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 60(12), 5914-5924. View this article in WRRO
Yang P (2012) Efficient particle filter algorithm for ultrasonic sensor-based 2D range-only simultaneous localisation and mapping application. IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 2(4), 394-401. View this article in WRRO
Yang P, Wu W, Moniri M & Chibelushi CC (2008) A sensor-based SLAM algorithm for camera tracking in virtual studio. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 5(2), 152-162. View this article in WRRO
Yang P, Qi J, Zhang S, Bi G, Wang X, Yang Y, Sheng B & Mao X () The effect of multiple interventions to balance healthcare demand for controlling COVID-19 outbreaks: a modelling study.
Yang P, Qi J, Zhang S, Bi G, Wang X, Yang Y, Sheng B & Mao X () Feasibility of Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks in the UK by Rolling Interventions.
Yang P, Qi J, Zhang S, Wang X, Bi G, Yang Y & Sheng B () Feasibility Study of Mitigation and Suppression Intervention Strategies for Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks in London and Wuhan.
Ali SG, Chen Y, Sheng B, Li H, Wu Q, Yang P, Muhammad K & Yang G () Cost-effective broad learning-based ultrasound biomicroscopy with 3D reconstruction for ocular anterior segmentation. Multimedia Tools and Applications.
Yang P, Koh S, Zhou B, Fang H, Yang Z, Yang Q, Guan L & Ji Z () Real-time Deep Reinforcement Learning based Vehicle Navigation. Applied Soft Computing.

Conference proceedings papers

Li X, Yang Y & Yang P (2019) Multi-source Ensemble Transfer Approach for Medical Text Auxiliary Diagnosis. 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 28 October 2019 - 30 October 2019.
Mahyoub M, Randles M, Baker T & Yang P (2018) Comparison Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms to Rank Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Factors by Importance. 2018 11th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), 2 September 2018 - 5 September 2018.
Qi J, Yang P, Hanneghan M, Waraich A & Tang S (2018) A hybrid hierarchical framework for free weight exercise recognition and intensity measurement with accelerometer and ECG data fusion. 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Honolulu, HI, USA, 18 July 2018 - 21 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
Tang Z, Wu W, Gao J & Yang P (2018) SAW Delay Line Based IoT Smart Sensing in Water Distribution System. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
Newcombe L, Yang P, Cater C, Hanneghan M & Qi J (2018) Experimental analysis of cost-effective mobile sensing technologies for activity analytics in elderly care. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
Koh SS, Zhou B, Yang P, Yang Z, Fang H & Feng J (2018) Reinforcement Learning for Vehicle Route Optimization in SUMO. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
Mahyoub M, Randles M, Baker T & Yang P (2018) Effective Use of Data Science Toward Early Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 16th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 4th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS), 28 June 2018 - 30 June 2018.
Cao B, Yang S, Zhao J, Yang P & Waraich A (2018) Using parallel particle swarm optimization for RFID reader-to-reader anti-collision. 2018 13th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 31 May 2018 - 2 June 2018.
Newcombe L, Yang P, Carter C & Hanneghan M (2017) Internet of Things Enabled Technologies for Behaviour Analytics in Elderly Person Care: A Survey. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData), 21 June 2017 - 23 June 2017.
Zhou B, Shi Q & Yang P (2016) A Survey on Quantitative Evaluation of Web Service Security. 2016 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA, 23 August 2016 - 26 August 2016.
Spanakis EG, Yang P, Deng Z, Kafetzopoulos D, Marias K, Tsiknakis M & Dong F (2014) MyHealthAvatar: personalized and empowerment health services through Internet of Things technologies. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies", 3 November 2014 - 5 November 2014.
Codreanu V, Dong F, Liu B, Roerdink JBTM, Williams D, Yang P & Yasar B (2013) GPU-ASIFT: A fast fully affine-invariant feature extraction algorithm. 2013 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS), 1 July 2013 - 5 July 2013.
Williams D, Codreanu V, Roerdink JBTM, Po Yang , Baoquan Liu , Feng Dong & Chiarini A (2013) Accelerating colonic polyp detection using commodity graphics hardware. 2013 International Conference on Computer Medical Applications (ICCMA), 20 January 2013 - 22 January 2013.
Yang P, Antonacopoulos A, Clausner C & Pletschacher S (2011) Grid-based modelling and correction of arbitrarily warped historical document images for large-scale digitisation. Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing - HIP '11, 16 September 2011 - 17 September 2011.
Yang P, Wu W, Moniri M & Chibelushi CC (2008) SLAM Algorithm for 2D Object Trajectory Tracking based on RFID Passive Tags. 2008 IEEE International Conference on RFID, 16 April 2008 - 17 April 2008.
Jing L & Yang P (2007) A Localization Algorithm for Mobile Robots in RFID System. 2007 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 21 September 2007 - 25 September 2007.
Yang P, Wu W & Moniri M (2007) A Hybrid Marker-Based Camera Tracking Approach in Augmented Reality. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, 15 April 2007 - 17 April 2007.
Po Yang , Wenyan Wu , Moniri M & Chibelushi CC (2007) RFID tag infrastructures for camera tracking in virtual studio environment. IET 4th European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2007)
Yang P, Qi J, Yang Y, Bi G & Zhang S () Rolling Interventions for Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks in the UK to Reduce Healthcare Demand. Proceeding of 2020 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining View this article in WRRO

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