Wei Chen

Expertise: Sensor systems and health informatics, physiological and behavioral signal monitoring, signal processing and data fusion

Professor Wei Chen is the Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Sydney. Professor Chen’s previous appointment was at Fudan University, where she was the director of the Center for Intelligent Medical Electronics (CIME). Professor Chen received her Bachelor of Engineering degree and Masters of Engineering in telecommunication systems and smart sensor systems, from Xian Jiaotong University, China. She obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at The University of Melbourne, Australia. She worked in Germany at Bell Laboratories, and Alcatel-Lucent. Before joining Fudan, she was an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and associate editor of the IEEE Journal on Biomedical Health Informatics (J-BHI).

Professor Chen is a leading authority in biomedical engineering. She researches in the multidisciplinary areas of wireless sensor systems, patient health monitoring, ambient intelligent system design and digital signal processing for performance optimization, with application to neonatal monitoring, elderly care, smart rehabilitation, interactive and cognitive environments.