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Academic curriculum vitae of Yiwei Chen
General Information
| Full Name | Yiwei Chen |
| Position | Ph.D., Associate Professor, Master's Supervisor |
| Affiliation | Yunnan-Malaya Institute (School of Engineering), Yunnan University |
| Office | Room 2306, Yunnan-Malaya Institute (School of Engineering), Yunnan University, Kunming, China |
| yiweichen(at)ynu.edu.cn | |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar profile |
| ResearchGate | ResearchGate profile |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5739-2429 |
| Chinese Faculty Profile | Yunnan University |
| Research Areas | Quantum machine learning; single-photon and computational imaging; industrial signal processing |
Appointments and Education
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2025.11-present Associate Professor
Yunnan-Malaya Institute (School of Engineering), Yunnan University -
2025.03-2025.11 Lecturer
Yunnan-Malaya Institute (School of Engineering), Yunnan University -
2023.09-2024.10 Postdoctoral Research Associate
Institute of Signals, Sensors and Systems, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University -
2018.09-2023.06 Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering
Zhejiang University -
2014.09-2018.06 B.S. in Automation
Zhejiang University
Research Projects
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2026.01-2028.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Fund, Category C
Project No. 62503415 - Principal Investigator.
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2026.06-2029.06 Yunnan Provincial Basic Research Program, General Program
Yunnan Province - Principal Investigator.
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2026.01-2026.12 Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology
State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology - Principal Investigator.
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2026.01-2027.12 Open Research Project of the Yunnan Key Laboratory of Low-Light Night Vision Detection and Intelligent Visual Navigation (under establishment)
Yunnan Province - Principal Investigator.
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2022.01-2025.12 National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program
Project No. 62173296 - Participant.
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UK Research and Innovation Project
Extreme-scale Precision Imaging in Radio Astronomy (EIRA, EP/T028270/1) - Participant.
Research Directions
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Quantum Machine Learning
- Hamiltonian-induced error-channel control for Lyapunov quantum state transfer. Y. Chen, X. Lang, and J. Wu. Physical Review A, 2026.
- Quantum-inspired neural networks, tensor-network models, and quantum-state analysis.
- Multimodal learning, language modeling, and efficient machine learning methods.
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Single-Photon and Computational Imaging
- Sensor-aware physical modelling for deep learning-based single-photon imaging. Y. Chen, X. Lang, and Y. Pan. Optics Express, 2026.
- Photon-efficient 3D sensing and self-supervised image reconstruction.
- Magnetic resonance imaging and image-to-point-cloud registration.
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Industrial Signal Processing
- Visual-frequency bimodal fusion networks for oscillation detection and quantification in industrial control loops. X. Lang, L. Yang, J. Wu, Y. Chen, J. Na, and C. Lei. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2026.
- Industrial oscillation detection, root-cause diagnosis, and control-loop performance.
- Soft sensing, remaining useful life prediction, and learning-based control.
Representative Publications
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Quantum Machine Learning
- Quantum-inspired neural networks with stochastic dynamics for multimodal sentiment analysis and sarcasm detection. K. Yan, P. Lai, X. Zheng, Y. Yang, Y. Ren, T. Badarch, and Y. Chen. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2026.
- Quantum-inspired multimodal fusion with Lindblad master equation for sentiment analysis. K. Yan, P. Lai, Y. Yang, Y. Ren, T. Badarch, Y. Chen, and X. Zheng. Neurocomputing, 2025.
- Quantum language model with entanglement embedding for question answering. Y. Chen, Y. Pan, and D. Dong. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2023.
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Single-Photon and Computational Imaging
- The R2D2 deep neural network series for scalable non-Cartesian magnetic resonance imaging. Y. Chen, A. Aghabiglou, S. Chen, M. Torki, C. Tang, R. B. van Heeswijk, and Y. Wiaux. arXiv preprint, 2025.
- A compact upconversion single-photon imager for full-range and accurate 3-D imaging. Y. Chen, C. Jiang, Y. Liu, H. Su, X. Hu, and Y. Pan. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023.
- Deep domain adversarial adaptation for photon-efficient imaging. Y. Chen, G. Yao, Y. Liu, H. Su, X. Hu, and Y. Pan. Physical Review Applied, 2022.
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Industrial Signal Processing
- Oscillation detection for industrial process control loops based on transformer encoder. L. Yang, L. Xun, Y. Chen, J. Wu, and C. Yang. China Automation Congress, 2025.
- Root cause diagnosis of plant-wide oscillations using partial cross mapping. Z. Gong, Y. Chen, L. Xun, J. Wu, and Y. Liu. China Automation Congress, 2025.
- Performance optimization of industrial PID control loops using deep reinforcement learning. J. Xu, L. Xun, J. Wu, Y. Chen, and J. Na. China Automation Congress, 2025.
Peer Review Service
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IEEE Transactions
- IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. Learn. Syst.; IEEE Trans. Image Process.; IEEE Trans. Comput. Imaging; IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol.
- IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst.; IEEE Trans. Cybern.; IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.
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Optics and Physics
- Opt. Express; Opt. Lett.; Appl. Opt.; J. Opt. Soc. Am. A; Quantum Sci. Technol.; Quantum Mach. Intell.
- Phys. Scr.; Meas. Sci. Technol.; Mach. Learn. Sci. Technol.; J. Phys. Commun.
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Imaging, AI, and Engineering
- Pattern Recognit.; ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens.; Biomed. Signal Process. Control; Neural Netw.; Appl. Soft Comput.
- Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell.; Expert Syst. Appl.; Comput. Electr. Eng.; Nat. Lang. Process. J.; Mach. Learn. Health; Eng. Res. Express; SN Comput. Sci.
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Verification
- Public ORCID peer-review record (journal titles matched by ISSN).
Honors and Awards
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2025 - IEEE TIM Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.
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- IOP Trusted Reviewer, Institute of Physics, UK.
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2022 - Phoenix Scholarship of Zhejiang University.
- Outstanding Graduate Student of Zhejiang University.
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2021 - Outstanding Doctoral Position Funding of Zhejiang University.
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2019 - Outstanding Graduate Student of Zhejiang University.