Dr Hua-Liang Wei
BSc, MSc, PhD
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Senior Lecturer
+44 114 222 5198
Full contact details
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
91直播
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Dr Wei is head of the following two Labs:
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Dynamical Modelling, Data Mining and Decision Making (3DM)
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Digital Medicine & Computational Neuroscience (DMCN)
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- Research interests
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- Identification and modelling for complex nonlinear systems
- NARMAX methodology and applications.
- Artificial neural networks (ANN), radial basis function networks (RBFN), wavelet neural networks and multiresolution wavelet models, computational statistics, machine learning, intelligent computation and data mining.
- Regression analysis, parameter estimation and optimization, sparse representation.
- Nonlinear and nonstationary (time-varying) signal processing, system identification and data modelling.
- Spatio-temporal system identification and modelling.
- Bioscience signal processing and data modelling
- Neurophysiology and neuro-imaging data modelling and analysis.
- EEG, fMRI and ECG data processing, modelling and analysis.
- Data based classification, pattern recognition, anomaly detection, with applications in clinical and medical diagnosis and prognosis.
- Forecasting and analysis of complex stochastic dynamical processes with applications in
- Space weather systems.
- Environmental systems.
- Computational economics and finance.
- New concepts and methodologies developments for the identification and analysis of nonlinear complex systems.
- Applications and developments of signal processing, system identification and data modelling to control engineering, bioengineering, neuroscience, systems/synthetic biology, environments, space weather and other emerging areas.
The Dynamical Modelling, Data Mining and Decision Making (3DM) Lab
As part of the Complex Systems and Signal Processing Research Group, led by Professor Billings, this Lab conducts a wide scope of research in developing methods and algorithms for system identification, dynamical modelling, machine learning, data mining, signal processing, nonlinear system analysis, forecasting and decision making, with applications in general engineering, environment, medicine, neuroscience and computational biology, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, space, social dynamics, model and data based decision making, and other emerging areas.
Collaborations:
- Department of Geography, University of 91直播
- Department of Chemistry, University of 91直播
- Department of Oncology, University of 91直播
- Department of Psychology, University of 91直播
- 91直播 Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, China
The Digital Medicine & Computational Neuroscience (DMCN) Lab
As part of the Complex Systems and Signal Processing Research Group, led by Professor Billings, this Lab conducts a wide scope of research in developing methods and algorithms for system identification, biomedical and neurophysiological signal processing, causality analysis, time-varying modelling, medical image processing, healthcare, digital medicine, decision making based on digital data.
Collaborations:
鈼 Department of Chemistry, University of 91直播
鈼 Department of Oncology, University of 91直播
鈼 Department of Psychology, University of 91直播
鈼 91直播 Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Hallamshire Hospital - Identification and modelling for complex nonlinear systems
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
- . Expert Systems with Applications, 247, 123237-123237.
- . International Journal of Climatology.
- . Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1302505.
- . Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 240, 109618-109618.
- . IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, PP(99), 1-1.
- . Measurement, 217, 113097-113097.
- . Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 209.
- . Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 230.
- . Complex System Modeling and Simulation, 2(4), 354-367.
- . Recent Advances in AI鈥慹nabled Automated Medical Diagnosis, 13-28.
- . IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
- . European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 3(3), 481-488.
- . IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.
- . IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, 3, 368-381.
- . Complex System Modeling and Simulation, 1(4), 308-321.
- . Human Brain Mapping.
- . IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.
- . Memetic Computing.
- . International Journal of Automation and Computing, 18(4), 581-593.
- . Sensors, 21(5).
- . IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
- . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
- . IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.
- . Sensors, 20(15).
- . IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
- . Computer Networks, 173.
- . International Journal of Automation and Computing, 17(1), 55-70.
- . IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
- . ACS Nano, 13(10), 11235-11248.
- . Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 145(723), 2568-2585.
- . IEEE Sensors Journal.
- . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 1-10.
- . IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
- . Fuel, 239, 1213-1223.
- . Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(1), 248-263.
- . Sensors, 19(2).
- . Brain Sciences, 8(7), 134-134.
- . Systems Science and Control Engineering, 6(1), 319-328.
- . Information Sciences, 451-452, 195-209.
- . Acta Geophysica, 1-13.
- . Social Sciences, 7(4).
- . IEEE Access, 6, 17826-17840.
- . Clinical Neurophysiology, 129(3), 602-617.
- . IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 33(12), 10858-10871.
- . Social Sciences, 6(4), 122-122.
- . Neurocomputing.
- . Pattern Recognition, 67, 47-61.
- . International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, 27(2), 417-433.
- . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 29(7), 2960-2972.
- . Neural Computing & Applications.
- . IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 5(3), 1334-1345.
- . Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.
- . Space Weather, 14(10), 899-916.
- . International Journal of Systems Science, 47(12), 3044-3054.
- . IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 24(4), 779-790.
- . Neuroscience, 324, 377-389.
- . IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 32(4), 3154-3165.
- . Global Change Biology, 22(5), 1755-1768.
- . Neurocomputing, 173, 715-723.
- . Cold Regions Science and Technology, 121, 167-178.
- . Biomacromolecules, 17(1), 69-75.
- . International Journal of Systems Science, 47(11), 2671-2681.
- . ACS Macro Letters, 4(9), 938-941.
- . Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, 51(8), 782-788.
- . Nonlinear Dynamics.
- . International Journal of Systems Science, 46(5), 776-789.
- . Brain Stimulation, 8(6), 1230-1233.
- . International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 23(1), 1-1.
- . Electrochimica Acta, 137, 381-387.
- . IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 61(6), 1693-1701.
- . Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 470(2166).
- . Molecular Pharmaceutics, 11(2), 638-644.
- . J Neurosci Methods, 225, 71-80.
- . ACS Macro Letters, 2(12), 1047-1050.
- . Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 407, 416-424.
- . IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 60(11), 3141-3148.
- . SPACE WEATHER-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, 11(4), 187-205.
- . IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 60(8), 2233-2241.
- . International Journal of Systems Science, 44(2), 223-231.
- . Optics and Precision Engineering, 21(9), 2340-2347.
- . International Journal of Systems Science.
- . Clinical Neurophysiology.
- . Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 8(4).
- . Respiratory Medicine.
- . Biomacromolecules, 14(1), 275-284.
- . New Journal of Chemistry, 37(12), 4199-4199.
- . RSC Advances, 3(47), 25317-25317.
- . J Neurosci Methods, 212(1), 79-86.
- . Phys. Rev. E, 86, 051919-051919.
- . Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(40), 16554-16557.
- Time-varying linear and nonlinear parametric model for Granger causality analysis.. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys, 85(4-1), 041906.
- . Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 85(4).
- . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, 42(4), 1283-1287.
- . J GEOPHYS RES-SPACE, 116.
- . IEEE T CONTR SYST T, 19(3), 656-663.
- . Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 196(1), 151-158.
- . Geophysical Research Letters, 38(18).
- . Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 62(7), 2683-2684.
- . ANN GEOPHYS-GERMANY, 29(2), 415-420.
- . GEOPHYS RES LETT, 37.
- . International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 9(3), 215-224.
- An adaptive wavelet neural network for spatio-temporal system identification. Neural Networks.
- . PHYS LETT A, 373(37), 3324-3329.
- . IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 56(6), 1606-1616.
- Gear in-line measuring machine based on double-flank gear rolling test with multi-degrees of freedom. Yi Qi Yi Biao Xue Bao/Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument, 30(2), 303-307.
- . INT J CONTROL, 82(11), 1991-2001.
- . IEEE T NEURAL NETWOR, 20(1), 181-185.
- . INT J CONTROL, 82(1), 27-42.
- . INT J BIFURCAT CHAOS, 18(12), 3611-3624.
- . INT J CONTROL, 81(5), 714-724.
- . International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 5(2), 93-104.
- . International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 3(4), 341-356.
- . Neural Netw, 20(10), 1081-1094.
- . IEEE T CIRCUITS-II, 54(6), 532-536.
- . International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 2(4), 273-282.
- . ADV SPACE RES, 40(12), 1863-1870.
- . IEEE T NEURAL NETWOR, 18(1), 306-310.
- . IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell, 29(1), 162-166.
- . INT J SYST SCI, 37(15), 1089-1096.
- . INT J SYST SCI, 37(14), 1021-1038.
- . INT J CONTROL, 79(9), 1118-1135.
- . INT J CONTROL, 79(6), 569-580.
- An efficient nonlinear cardinal B-spline model for high tide forecasts at the Venice Lagoon. NONLINEAR PROC GEOPH, 13(5), 577-584.
- . IEEE Trans Neural Netw, 16(4), 862-874.
- . INT J SYST SCI, 36(3), 137-152.
- . J GEOPHYS RES-SPACE, 109(A7).
- . INT J SYST SCI, 35(9), 511-526.
- . INT J CONTROL, 77(4), 351-366.
- . INT J CONTROL, 77(1), 86-110.
- Analysis of the geomagnetic activity of the D-st index and self-affine fractals using wavelet transforms. NONLINEAR PROC GEOPH, 11(3), 303-312.
- . INT J SYST SCI, 33(15), 1217-1228.
- Modelling the three-axes motion simulator system. Computer Simulation, 19(3), 5-7.
- Error analysis and error modelling of a hardware-in-the-loop simulation system. Computer Simulation, 19(2), 7-9.
- Modelling and simulation credibility analysis and package design for simulation verification. Computer Simulation, 18(4), 41-44.
- Experiment design of a hard-ware-in-the-loop simulation system. Computer Simulation, 18(2), 18-20.
- Modelling, simulation and simulation verification, validation and accreditation for complex dynamic systems. Computer Simulation, 18(1), 7-10.
- Problems and principles in credibility evaluation of modelling and simulation for nonlinear complex dynamic systems. Journal of System Simulation, 12(1), 39-42.
- . Academia Engineering, 3(4).
- . International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 14(1), 960-960.
- An Adaptive Interval Construction Based GRU Model for Short-term Wind Speed Interval Prediction Using Two Phase Search Strategy. IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.
- Modelling Short-term Appliance Energy Use with Interpretable Machine Learning: A System Identification Approach. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering.
- . IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.
- . Applied Intelligence.
- Multimedia Traffic Classification for Imbalanced Environment. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
- . Journal of Field Robotics.
- . Biomaterials Science, 3(1), 112-120.
- . RSC Adv., 4(33), 16979-16984.
- A Novel Time-Varying Modelling and Signal Processing Approach for Epileptic Seizure Detection and Classification. Neural Computing and Applications.
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- How Weather Conditions Affect the Spread of Covid-19: Findings from a Study Using Contrastive Learning and NARMAX Models. Recent Advances in AI鈥慹nabled Automated Medical Diagnosis.
- New Measurement of the Body Mass Index with Bioimpedance Using a Novel Interpretable Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy NARX Predictive Model. Recent Advances in AI鈥慹nabled Automated Medical Diagnosis.
- A Modified Dynamic Time Warping (MDTW) Approach and Innovative Average Non-Self Match Distance (ANSD) Method for Anomaly Detection in ECG Recordings. Recent Advances in AI鈥慹nabled Automated Medical Diagnosis.
- Characterising Linear Spatio-Temporal Dynamical Systems in the Frequency Domain.
- Quasi-Linear Transfer Function: A New Method for Frequency Domain Analysis of Nonlinear Systems.
Chapters
- , Recent Advances in AI-enabled Automated Medical Diagnosis (pp. 281-303). CRC Press
- , Computer Vision 鈥 ACCV 2020 (pp. 88-103). Springer International Publishing
- , Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather (pp. 203-236).
- , Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather (pp. 203-236). Elsevier
- , Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather (pp. xi-xii). Elsevier
Conference proceedings papers
- . 2022 International Conference on Sensing, Measurement & Data Analytics in the era of Artificial Intelligence (ICSMD), 30 November 2022 - 2 December 2022.
- . 2022 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 1 September 2022 - 3 September 2022.
- . 2022 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 1 September 2022 - 3 September 2022.
- . 2022 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 1 September 2022 - 3 September 2022.
- . 2022 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 1 September 2022 - 3 September 2022.
- . 2022 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 1 September 2022 - 3 September 2022.
- . 2022 27th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 1 September 2022 - 3 September 2022.
- (pp 347-362)
- . European Heart Journal, Vol. 42(Suppl 1) (pp 1074-1074). Digital Congress, 27 August 2021 - 27 August 2021.
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- . Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 5 September 2019 - 7 September 2019.
- . Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Int. Con. on Data Science and Systems (pp 2743-2750). Zhangjiajie, China, 10 August 2019 - 12 August 2019.
- . Proceedings of the 2019 International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (Advances in Computational Intelligence), Vol. 15 (pp 103-114). Gran Canaria, Spain, 12 June 2019 - 14 June 2019.
- . Proceedings of the 2019 International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (Advances in Computational Intelligence) (pp 15-26). Gran Canaria, Spain, 12 June 2019 - 14 June 2019.
- . Publisher:. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 6 September 2018 - 7 September 2018.
- . 2018 13th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), 4 July 2018 - 8 July 2018.
- Image Classification Using Generalized Multiscale RBF Networks and Discrete Cosine Transform. 2018 24TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATION AND COMPUTING (ICAC' 18) (pp 113-+)
- . 2017 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 14 November 2017 - 16 November 2017.
- . 2017 9th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 29 June 2017 - 1 July 2017.
- . 2017 9th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 29 June 2017 - 1 July 2017.
- . 2017 23rd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 7 September 2017 - 8 September 2017.
- . 2017 23rd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 7 September 2017 - 8 September 2017.
- . 2017 23rd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 7 September 2017 - 8 September 2017.
- . Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (pp 406-413), 26 July 2017 - 28 July 2017.
- . 2016 IEEE Intl Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) and IEEE Intl Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC) and 15th Intl Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications for Business Engineering (DCABES), 24 August 2016 - 26 August 2016.
- . 2016 22nd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 7 September 2016 - 8 September 2016.
- . 2016 22nd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 7 September 2016 - 8 September 2016.
- . 2016 22nd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), 7 September 2016 - 8 September 2016.
- . 2016 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 21 June 2016 - 24 June 2016.
- . Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol. 12 (pp P353-P354)
- . Day 3 Fri, November 20, 2015, 18 November 2015 - 20 November 2015.
- . 2015 19th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), 14 October 2015 - 16 October 2015.
- . 2015 20th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR), 24 August 2015 - 27 August 2015.
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- Synthesis and evaluation of peptide-based polymers for biomedical applications. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 249
- . 2015 10th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 22 July 2015 - 24 July 2015.
- . 2015 10th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 22 July 2015 - 24 July 2015.
- . Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 10 January 2015 - 12 January 2015.
- Phage panning, peptides, and polymers: From ligand identification to in vivo applications for drug delivery. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 246
- . Proceedings - International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Vol. 3 (pp 949-955)
- . 2012 IEEE 6th International Conference on Systems Biology, ISB 2012 (pp 158-163)
- . CIMSA 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, Proceedings (pp 102-107)
- . Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation (CICA), 11 April 2011 - 15 April 2011.
- . Proceedings - 2010 6th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2010, Vol. 1
- Singularity and similarity detection for signals using the wavelet transform. Proc of 11th Annual Conference of Chinese Automation and Computing Society Conference in the UK (pp 25-30). 91直播, England, 10 September 2005.
- Singularity and simlarity detection for systems using the wavelet transform. 11th Annual Conference of Chinese Automation and Computer Society in the UK (pp 25-30). 91直播, UK, 10 September 2005 - 10 September 2005.
- Wavelet-based nonparametric additive models for nonlinear system identification. 8th Annual Conference of Chinese Automation and Computer Society in the UK (pp 20-25). Beijing, PR China, 21 September 2002 - 22 September 2002.
- Modelling complex systems by an abstraction and formalization approach. 3rd World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Vol. 1-5 (pp 2119-2123). Hefei, PR China, 28 June 2000 - 2 July 2000.
- Uncertainty-Informed Model Selection Method for Nonlinear System Identification and Interpretable Machine Learning. 32nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), June 11-14, 2024 | Chania, Crete, Greece. pp. 909-914.
- On Sparse Nonlinear System Identification Using Orthogonal Matching Pursuit, Orthogonal Least Squares and LASSO. 32nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2024) June 11-14, 2024 | Chania, Crete, Greece.
- Assessing Uncertainty in Space Weather Forecasting Using Quantile Regression and Complex Nonlinear Systems Identification Techniques. 2023 International Conference on Computing, Electronics & Communications Engineering 2023 (iCCECE '23), Swansea, UK
- Predicting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Using Nonlinear System Identification Methods and NARMAX Models. Proc. 8th World Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium (WMESS 2023)
- System Identification-informed Transparent and Explainable Machine Learning with Application to Power Consumption Forecasting. Proc. of the International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME 2023)
- . USES Conference Proceedings
Preprints
- Grants
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Modelling uncertainties in radiation belt forecasts, STFC, 04/2024 - 03/2027, 拢538,897, as PI
PICANTE - , NERC, 02/2024 - 10/2027, 拢2,060,245, as Co-PI.
EU Horizon 2020, Co-PI, `Prediction of Grespace Radiation Environment and Solar Wind Parameters (PROGRESS), 2 January 2015 to 1 January 2018, 鈧2,5M (91直播 鈧700,000).
EPSRC Platform Grant, S A Billings, V Kadirkamanathan, Z Q Lang, D Coca, M Balikhin, H L Wei, `System Identification and Information Processing for Complex Systems麓, 4 January 2010 - 3 January 2015, 拢1,21惭
Royal Society Collaboration Grant, V. Kadirkamanathan and H. L. Wei, `Investigation of the control mechanism on co-culture bioethanol producing system麓, 2010 -2012, 拢11,950
EPSRC, H L Wei, `System Identification and Data Modelling of Complex Nonlinear and Nonstationary Processes麓, 4 January 2011 to 31 March 2012, 拢101,004
The Ryder Briggs Charity, P.G. Sarrigiannis, Y. Zhao, H .L. Wei, F. He, S. A. Billings, `The thalamic clock and the cortical focus theory in childhood absence epilepsy鈥攁n insight with a new approach of quantitative EEG analysis in the time domain: the error reduction ratio method麓, 1 April 2013 to 3 March 2014, 拢8,378
- Teaching activities
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- Data Modelling and Analysis (UG)
- Optimisation and Search (MEng)
- Optimisation and Search (MSc)
- Nonlinear Systems (MEng)
- Advanced Controller Design (MEng)
- State-Space, Optimal Control and Nonlinear Systems (MSc)
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Chair, Programme Committee - ICNC鈥10 (the 6th International Conference on Natural Computation 2010), Yantai, China, August 10-12, 2010.
- Programme Committee member for a number of international conferences.
- Reviewer for many international journals.
- Reviewer for many international conferences.