Sensing and analysis of high-dimensional data, compressive sensing theory and applications, PHY layer algorithm design and optimization for wireless systems.

1. Yang Liu, Qingchao Chen, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Dictionary Learning Inspired Deep Network for Scene Recognition," AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Feb 2018

2. Xin Ding, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Joint Sensing Matrix and Sparsifying Dictionary Optimization for Tensor Compressive Sensing," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, May 2017

3. Wei Chen, David Wipf, Yu Wang, Yang Liu, Ian Wassell, "Simultaneous Bayesian Sparse Approximation With Structured Sparse Models," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Dec 2016

4. Yang Liu, Wei Chen, Qingchao Chen, Ian Wassell, "Support Discrimination Dictionary Learning for Image Classification," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oct 2016

5. Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Bayesian Learning For The Type-3 Joint Sparse Signal Recovery," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2016

6. Xin Ding, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Nonconvex Compressive Sensing Reconstruction For Tensor Using Structures In Modes," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Mar 2016

7. Wei Chen, Ian J. Wassell, "A Decentralized Bayesian Algorithm For Distributed Compressive Sensing in Networked Sensing Systems," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 1282-1292, 2016

8. Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Cost-Aware Activity Scheduling for Compressive Sleeping Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2016

9. Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Optimized Node Selection for Compressive Sleeping Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 827-836, 2016

10. Xin Ding, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Compressive Sensing Reconstruction for Video: an Adaptive Approach Based on Motion Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2016

11. Xin Ding, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Block-Based Feature Adaptive Compressive Sensing for Video," The Third International Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Networking (MultiCom), held in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC), Oct 2015

12. Yu Wang, David Wipf, Jeong Min Yun, Wei Chen, Ian J. Wassell, "Clustered Sparse Bayesian Learning," The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Jul 2015

13. Yu Wang, David Wipf, Qing Ling, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Multi-Task Learning for Subspace Segmentation," International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Jul 2015

14. Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Variational Bayesian Algorithm For Distributed Compressive Sensing," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun 2015

15. Xin Ding, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Sparsity-fused Kalman Filtering for Reconstruction of Dynamic Sparse Signals," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun 2015

16. Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, Miguel Rodrigues, "Dictionary Design for Distributed Compressive Sensing," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 95-99, 2015

17. Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Compressive Sleeping Wireless Sensor Networks With Active Node Selection," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec 2014

18. Xin Ding, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Generalized-KFCS: Motion Estimation Enhanced Kalman Filtered Compressive Sensing for Video," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct 2014

19. Yu Wang, David Wipf, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Exploiting the Convex-Concave Penalty for Tracking: A Novel Dynamic Reweighted Sparse Bayesian Learning Algorithm," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2014

20. Wei Chen, Yiannis Andreopoulos, Ian Wassell, Miguel Rodrigues, "Towards Energy Neutrality in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks: A Case for Distributed Compressive Sensing?," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec 2013

21. Yu Wang, Wei Chen, Ian Wassell, "Exploiting Hidden Block Sparsity: Interdependent Matching Pursuit for Cyclic Feature Detection," IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec 2013

22. Wei Chen, Miguel Rodrigues, "Dictionary Learning With Optimized Projection Design For Compressive Sensing Applications," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 992-995, Oct 2013

23. Wei Chen, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, Ian Wassell, "Projections Design For Statistical Compressive Sensing: A Tight Frame Based Approach," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 2016 - 2029, Apr 2013

24. Wei Chen, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, Ian Wassell, "A Frechet Mean Approach for Compressive Sensing Date Acquisition and Reconstruction in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 3598 -3606, Oct 2012

25. Wei Chen, "Compressive sensing for wireless sensor networks," PhD thesis, Sep 2012

26. Wei Chen, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, Ian J. Wassell, "On the Benefit of using Tight Frames for Robust Data Transmission and Compressive Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun 2012

27. Wei Chen, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, Ian J. Wassell, "Optimized Projections for Sensing Sparse Signals in Overcomplete Dictionaries," The 37th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Mar 2012

28. Wei Chen, Ian J. Wassell, "Energy Efficient Signal Acquisition in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Compressive Sensing Framework," IET Wireless Sensor Systems, (winner of IET Best Paper Award), vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-8, Mar 2012

29. Wei Chen, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, Ian J. Wassell, "On the Use of Unit-Norm Tight Frames to Improve the Average MSE Performance in Compressive Sensing Applications," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 19, pp. 9-11, Jan 2012

30. Wei Chen, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, Ian J. Wassell, "Distributed Compressive Sensing Reconstruction via Common Support Discovery," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), Kyoto, Japan, Jun 2011

31. Wei Chen, Miguel Rodrigues, Ian Wassell, "Penalized L1 Minimization for Reconstruction of Time-varying Sparse Signals," The 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011

32. Wei Chen, Ian J. Wassell, "Energy Efficient Signal Acquisition via Compressive Sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks," The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2011), Hong Kong, China, Feb 2011