Dr. Jiafu Wan has been a Professor in School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering at South China University of Technology (SCUT) since Sep 2015. He joined in SCUT in May 2014. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronic Engineering from SCUT in Jun 2008. From Jul 2003 to Apr 2014, he respectively served as an Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, and Associate Professor at Guangdong Mechanical & Electrical College, Guangzhou, China. From Nov 2008 to Jun 2011, he was a Postdoctor of Computer Science and Engineering in SCUT. In 2010, he became an Associate Research Fellow and a Provincial Talent Cultivated by “Thousand-Hundred-Ten” Program of Guangdong Province, China. He was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and he was also named as Highly Cited Chinese Researchers of 2020 by Elsevier. His research interests include Cyber-Physical Systems, Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Twin, Big Data Analytics, Industry 4.0, Smart Factory and Cloud Robotics.

He has directed 20 research projects, including the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Guangdong Province Key Areas R & D Program. Thus far, he has published more than 150 scientific papers, including 110+ SCI-indexed papers, 50+ IEEE Trans./Journal papers, 22 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 4 ESI Hot Papers. His research results have been published in some famous IEEE Journals & Magazines, such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. According to Google Scholar Citations, his published work has been cited more than 17,000 times (H-index = 57). His SCI other citations (sum of times cited without self-citations) reached 4,500 times (H-index = 43) according to Web of Science Core Collection.

He is an Associate Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, IEEE Access, Computers & Electrical Engineering and PLOS ONE, and Editorial Board for Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems. He serves as a Managing Editor for IJAACS and IJART. He is a Leading Guest Editor for several SCI-indexed journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Access, Elsevier Computer Networks, Mobile Networks & Applications, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Journal of Internet Technology, and Microprocessors and Microsystems. He is General Chair for 2016 International Conference on Industrial IoT Technologies and Applications (IndustrialIoT 2016) and 7th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp 2016). He is also a Technical Program Committee Chair of TridentCom 2014 and IndustrialIoT 2017. He is an invited reviewer for more than 60 SCI journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

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