Wenyao Xu

PhD

Wenyao Xu.

Wenyao Xu

PhD

Wenyao Xu

PhD

Professor
Associate Department Chair

Research Topics

Embedded and cyber-physical systems; body sensor networks; biomedical signal analytics; telemedicine; human-computer interaction

Biography Publications Teaching Research Students Latest News

Latest News

  • Digital Engineering 247  covered UB research by Wenyao Xu on traceability of 3D printed objects. The study, in collaboration with colleagues at Rutgers University and Northeastern University, details the PrinTracker solution, which essentially can detect a unique “fingerprint” of a printer to aid in traceability.

  • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty members Lora Cavuoto and Wenyao Xu are among this year’s winners of the President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring, the highest university award for undergraduate mentoring.

  • An article in The Economist about technology that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat mentions that a team led by Wenyao Xu, associate professor of computer science and engineering.

  • Wenyao Xu, associate professor of computer science and engineering, received the best paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems.

  • This year, three faculty members in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering were recognized by the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Region 1 chapter for their technological innovation.

  • An article on Blokt about powerful technologies that can erode privacy includes Jetson, a system that can automatically identify people from hundreds of meters away by reading their heart rate and quotes Wenyao Xu, associate professor of computer science and engineering, who said cardiac signatures have the potential to be more accurate than facial recognition systems and could achieve 98% accuracy.
  • An article in MIT Technology Review Magazine about advances in biometrics reports that the Pentagon now has a prototype infrared laser called “Jetson” that can identify people by their heartbeat, and interviews Wenyao Xu, associate professor of computer science and engineering.