Contact Professor Weisi Guo
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758304
- Email: Weisi.Guo@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Autonomous Systems
- Communications Systems
- Defence Info Systems
- Safety, Resilience, Risk & Reliability
- Systems Engineering
Background
Professor Guo is the Head of Centre for Assured & Connected Autonomy. He obtained his MEng, MA, and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. Since 2012, he has built an award-winning team at the University of Warwick (2012-19) and then Cranfield (2019-now). His research group has won the IET Innovation Award winner (2015) and been a runner-up in the Bell Labs Prize three times (2014, 2017, 2019).
He has been PI on £8.9m and investigator on over £36m of research funding, and was a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He has published 180+ journal papers (total IF 980+) and 120+ IEEE/ACM conference papers, with over 9000 citations (h-index 44). This includes a Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Comp.Sci., and several cover issues in Royal Society, Nature Publishing Group, and IEEE journals. He currently serves as editor on several IEEE & Royal Society journals, and is a Full Member of the EPSRC peer-review college, as well as reviewing for UKRI FLF, ESRC, MRC, Royal Society, and Leverhulme.
Research opportunities
As human society is becoming increasingly inter-connected, human and machine intelligence is more closely interfaced than ever. Our networked society faces serious challenges from the human and natural world. My expertise is in connected intelligence, linking: data science, communication systems, and machine learning. My research designs data-driven solutions for socio-cyber-physical ecosystems. In particular, I am interested in how AI and information systems can be designed for specific challenging environments or tasks, whilst integrating human domain knowledge. These tasks are currently focused on aerospace, transport, defence, and crisis response; where we typically are under time pressure with high impact risks, face sparse data, face unreliable or denied sensor readings, and cannot generalise easily.
Current activities
EPSRC CHEDDAR: Communications Hub For Empowering Distributed ClouD Computing Applications And Research
(EP/X040518/1) (EP/Y037421/1)
CI (PI for host) Total: £3+8.5m 2023-26 Link-Hub Link-TMF Project [Active] J. McCann (Coordinator), W. Guo (Cranfield lead), M. Imran (Glasgow lead), S. Zaidi (Leeds lead), H. Sun (Durham lead), P. Yadav (York lead), 20 other CIs .
Key Papers: [ORAN Network Stability, IEEE Globecom] [LLM-driven 6G Specification]
EPSRC (iCASE with Thales UK) PhD Studentship: Human-Drones Teaming for Autonomous Rescue with Fast Reinforcement Learning (EP/X52475X/1) (2788094) Supervisor 2022-27 Link [Active] W. Guo (supervisor), D. Panagopoulos (student)
EPSRC (iCASE with BAE Systems) PhD Studentship: Combinatorial Artificial Intelligence for Trustworthy Defence Applications
Supervisor 2025-29 [Active] W. Guo (supervisor), N. Hull (student)
InnovateUK ATI: LANDOne - Landing Advances for a New Decade One (10002411)
CI £3.5m (Total: £23.6m) 2022-26 [Link] [Active]
M. Skote (PI), G. Inalhan (CI), A. Tsourdos (CI), W. Guo (CI), H. Shin (CI), A. Zolotas (CI), D. Ignatyev (CI)
EC Horizon SAPHIR-READY - Obtain flight mission readiness, enabling rapid intervention for healthcare and critical infrastructure, leveraging all value chain actors and U-Space services (101114855), CI (Total: €9.2m) 2023-26 Link [Active]
Clients
- BAE Systems PLC
- Leonardo S.p.A
- Saab UK Ltd (BlueBear)
- Thales SA
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
