WSN Labs

Welcome to Yee Wei Law's home page, WSN Labs (Wireless Sensor Network Laboratories). This site-in-progress will supersede my Google Site page.

This site is more than about sensor networks. This site is about the cost-effective and scalable acquisition of vast amount of information, and the intelligent application of this information. Large-scale sensing has applications in many industries, for instance, electric utilities have long been wanting to monitor the condition of their generation, transmission and distribution equipment; so we can say sensor networks gave birth to smart grids. Giving sensor nodes more intelligence and mobility, we get swarming robots. Connecting a sensor network with the Internet and through the Internet with other sensor networks, we get machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things, and out of this massive Internet of Things, we get a massive amount of data, i.e., Big Data. With pervasive intelligence, we can monitor and control physical processes more effectively and efficiently; in other words, the cyber world and the physical world are more tightly integrated than ever in the form of cyber-physical systems. All in all, in some sense, sensor networks is the ancestor of many buzzwords we keep hearing these days.

About me

I am Yee Wei Law (first name: Yee Wei, 中文名:罗裔纬), currently a Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of The University of Melbourne. I received my PhD from the University of Twente for my work on the security of wireless sensor networks. I have conducted research on sensor networks as part of the European projects EYES, SENSEI, SmartSantander and Internet of Things Initiative, as part of the Dutch project ALwEN, and as part of the Australian Discovery Project DP1095452 "Trustworthy Sensor Networks", LIEF Project LE0883073 "BigNet", LIEF Project LE120100129 "Internet of Things Testbed for Creating a Smart City", the National Disaster Management Research Initiative and more. I was also part of the planning team for the City of Melbourne's noise monitoring project. Besides sensor networks, I am also working on smart grid. My citations can be found on my Google Scholar profile. After passing the CISSP examination, I am now an Associate of (ISC)2. My membership includes the ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), ARC Research Network for a Secure Australia, and Smart Grid Australia's Research Working Group. My contact can be found on the university staff directory.

This is my academic genealogy, though it seems a bit vain:

To prospective PhD applicants

For detail on our research activities, please visit Prof Palaniswami's research interest page, and the official ISSNIP website. Graduates who scored a GPA of 88% or higher are welcome to send me or Prof Palaniswami (through our contacts) your transcripts. Once we know you have a good chance of getting a (very competitive) scholarship based on your academic performance, you may proceed with the application procedure. That said, I do feel responsible to encourage you to read this article from The Economist before you make up your mind to pursue a PhD.

墨尔本大学积极招博士生从事无线传感器网络和智能电网的研究，欢迎通过电邮向我或Palaniswami教授报名。