Wei Jie

Professor Wei Jie

Professor of Computing
School of Computing and Engineering

Professor Wei Jie has been actively conducting research in a broad spectrum of computing, mainly on distributed computing, data analytics, and computing security. Professor Jie has published about 70 academic papers on mainstream international journals and international conferences/workshops and edited 3 books. Professor Jie has a series of successful records of attracting substantial research funding from UK funding bodies such as the Royal Society, Innovate UK, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), AWS (Amazon Web Services), etc.

  • Qualifications

    PgCert Learning and Teaching for Higher Education (University of West London), PhD Computer Science (Nanyang Technological University)

  • Memberships

    Senior Member: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

Teaching

Professor Wei Jie has been teaching a wide range of computing modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, especially in the areas of data science, computer science, distributed systems, cyber security. He designed the BSc Cyber Security course and is currently leading the MSc Cyber Security course.

  • Research and publications

    Publications

    Hanlin Sun, Wei Jie, Jonathan Loo, Lizhe Wang, Sugang Ma, Gang Han, Zhongmin Wang, Wei Xing. A Parallel Self-Organizing Overlapping Community Detection Algorithm Based on Swarm Intelligence for Large Scale Complex Networks. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, May 2018

    Yangfan Li, Wei Ren, Tianqing Zhu, Yi Ren, Yue Qin, Wei Jie. RIMS: A Real-time and Intelligent Monitoring System for live-broadcasting platforms. Future Generation Computer Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 87, pp. 259-266, October 2018.

    Jining Yan, Yan Ma, Lizhe Wang, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo and Wei Jie. A cloud-based remote sensing data production system. Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 86, pp. 1154-1166, September 2018

    Chengyu Hu, Guo Ren, Chao Liu, Ming Li and Wei Jie. A Spark-based Genetic Algorithm for Sensor Placement in Large Scale Drinking Water Distribution Systems. Journal of Cluster Computing, S.I on Big Data Computing. Vol 20, Issue 2, pp. 1089 - 1099, Jun 2017.

    Ze Deng, Wei Han, Lizhe Wang, Rajiv Ranjan, Albert Zomaya and Wei Jie. An Efficient Online Direction-Preserving Compression Approach for Trajectory Streaming Data. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 68, pp 150-162, March 2017.

    Jie Zhang, Jining Yan, Yan Ma, Dong Xu, Pengfei Li and Wei Jie. Infrastructures and Services for Remote Sensing Data Production Management across Multiple Satellite Data Centers. Journal of Cluster Computing, Springer, Vol.19, Issue 3, pp 1243–1260, Sep 2016.

    Yan Ma, Haiping Wu, Lizhe Wang, Bormin Huang, Rajiv Ranjan, Albert Zomaya and Wei Jie. Remote Sensing Big Data Computing: Challenges and Opportunities. Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 51, pp. 47-60, Oct 2015.

    Wei Xing, Wei Jie, Dimitrios Tsoumakos and Moustafa Ghanem. A Network Approach for Managing and Processing Big Cancer Data in Clouds. Cluster Computing, Special Issue on Big Data Computing, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp 1285-1294, Sep 2015.

    Lajiao Chen, Yan Ma, Peng Liu, Jingbo Wei, Wei Jie and Jijun He. A Review of Parallel Computing for Large-scale Remote Sensing Image Mosaicking. Cluster Computing, Special Issue on Big Data Computing, Vol. 18, No.2, pp. 517-529, Jun 2015.

    Miranda Zhang, Rajiv Ranjan, Michael Menzel, Surya Nepal, Peter Strazdins, Wei Jie and Lizhe Wang. An Infrastructure Service Recommendation System for Cloud Applications with Real-time QoS Requirement Constraints. IEEE Systems Journal, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 2960 - 2970, December 2017.

    Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Wei Jie (2012). Cloud Computing Security: Opportunities and Pitfalls. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, Vol. 4, No. 1, IGI Global

    Christopher Bayliss, Richard Sinnott, Wei Jie and Junaid Arshad (2011). The Design, Development and Application of a Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for Collaborative Research. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) 78, pp. 211-226, Springer.

    Yi Sun, Lizhe Wang, Wei Jie and Cheng Fu (2011). Research in e-Science: Current Status and Future Direction. Computer Systems: Science and Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 3.

    Wei Jie, Junaid Arshad, Richard Sinnott, Paul Townend and Zhou Lei (2011). A Review of Grid Authentication and Authorization Technologies and Support for Federated Access Control. ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 43, No. 2

    Wei Jie, Junaid Arshad and Pascal Ekin (2011). Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure for Grids - Issues, Technologies, Trends and Experiences. The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 82-96, Springer Publisher

  • Conferences

    Hui Gao, Karolina K. Dluzniak, Hong Xia, Wei Jie, Yanping Chen, Wei Xing, Xin Wang, Zhongmin Wang. A Service Clustering Method based on Wisdom of Crowds. IEEE Big Data Congress 2019, July 2019, Italy.

    Hanlin Sun, Wei Jie, Christian Sauer, Sugang Ma, Gang Han, Zhongmin Wang and Kui Xing. A Parallel Self-Organizing Community Detection Algorithm Based on Swarm Intelligence for Large Scale Complex Networks. The 41st IEEE Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2017), July 2017, Italy.

    Chao Wang, Ying Zhang, Wei Jie, Christian Sauer and Xiaojie Yuan. Hierarchical Semantic Representations of Online News Comments for Emotion Tagging using Multiple Information Sources. The 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (Dasfaa 2017), March 2017, China.

    Hanlin Sun, Wei Jie, Christian Sauer, Sugang Ma, Gang Han and Wei Xing. A Self-Organizing Algorithm for Community Structure Analysis in Complex Networks. The 17th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2016), May 2016, China.

    Wei Xing, Wei Jie and Crispin Miller. SCAN: A Smart Application Platform for Empowering Parallelizations of Big Genomic Data Analysis in Clouds. The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2015), Beijing, China, Sep 2015.

    Christopher Bayliss, Richard Sinnott, Wei Jie and Junaid Arshad (2011). The Design, Development and Application of a Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for Collaborative Research, the 5th International Multidisciplinary Conference on e-Technologies (MCETECH 2011), Switzerland.

    Christopher Bayliss, Richard Sinnott, Wei Jie and Junaid Arshad (2010). A Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for UK e-Science National Grid Service. The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2010), Brussels, Belgium.

  • Research degree supervision

    Second Supervisor

    Multi-objective decision making for Maintenance Planning of deteriorating Offshore Floating Systems
    (Biju George)