DrWei Huang

Dr Wei Huang joined the University of Bedfordshire in November 2004 as a Lecturer and then became a Senior Lecturer in January 2007 and a Principal Lecturer in August 2012. He is an academic staff member in the School of Computing, Engineering and Creative Industries.

He has multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research interests in Computer Science, Process Scheduling and Optimisation, Operations Research/Industrial Engineering, Software/Web Engineering, and Network Planning and Optimisation. Specifically, he has been involved in many research works in batch processing scheduling and optimisation, network security countermeasure selection and optimisation, mobile network base station selection and optimisation, software engineering, mobile/web application development for SME, and adaptive planning for machining of complex low-rigidity components.

He also supervised and involved in a number of externally funded research projects including an EPSRC funded project (£60,864 starting in 2009 for three years) and a KEEP project (£45,511 in 2006). He supervised four research students and also has 46 peer-refereed research publications. He was the Guest Editor-in-Chief of a special issue (2012-14) for international Journal of Computer Application in Technology and had been internal and external examiners for a number of PhD students.

Dr Wei Huang was appointed as a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham in the UK and had conducted post-doctoral research funded by British EPSRC research council for three years before he joined the University of Bedfordshire in 2004. He obtained his PhD degree from Computer Science Department of Loughborough University in the UK, and obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees from South China University of Technology.