Introduction

Dr. Wenjin Wang is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering department of SUSTech, PhD promoter, PI of Contactless Healthcare Lab. His main research focus in on contactless health monitoring using optical sensors. He was an Assistant Professor of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and a Scientist of Philips Research Eindhoven. He obtained his PhD from TU/e in 2017 and his MSc from University of Amsterdam in 2013 (with Amsterdam Merit Scholarship). He has published more than 70 SCI journal articles and international conference papers such as IEEE-TBME, IEEE-JBHI, BOE, including 2 featured articles, 1 yearly most-cited journal article, 1 ESI highly-cited article; 1 Elsevier book, 14 granted US/EP/JP patents and 2 granted Chinese patents; launched 4 consumer products globally. He has been the PI of ZonMw IMDI-DCVA funding (798,170 EUR) of The Netherlands on behalf of Philips Research. Upon his return back to China, he was awarded the National Excellent Young Scholars (Overseas) in 2022. His work is currently supported by several top-tier national funds and industrial funds, including the National Key R&D Program of China (Young Scientist); General Program of Natural Science Foundation of China; General Program of Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation; General Program of Shenzhen Science and Technology Foundation; Peacock Team Program of Shenzhen; Shenzhen Enterprise Research Program. He co-founded the CVPM workshop and organized it on CVPR on yearly basis. He was invited for giving tutorials at CVPR from 2019 to 2023. He is an Associate Editor of IET Healthcare Letters and Guest Associate Editor of IEEE-JBHI.

Education

2013 - 2017 Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Electrical Engineering PhD degree

2011 - 2013 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Artificial Intelligence  MSc Degree

2008 – 2011 Northeastern University, China  Biomedical Engineering BSc Degree (Top Class)

Working experience

2021 - Now Southern University of Science and Technology, China Associate Professor

2019 - 2021   Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Assistant Professor

2017 - 2021   Philips Research Eindhoven (Headquarter)  Scientist

Granted patent

1. W. Wang, High dynamic range vital signs extraction, 2021-4-22, 欧洲, EP 19203141.7, WO/2021/074036

2. W. Verkruijsse, W. Wang, A. Moco, N. Lambdert, and M. E. Mena Benito, Device, system and method for determining oxygen saturation of a subject, 2021-6-24, Europe, EP 19217847.3, WO/2021/122122

3. W. Wang, Device, method and system for registering a first image frame and a second image frame, 2021-1-7, Europe, EP 19183802.8, WO/2021/001340

4. J. Muehlsteff, R. Wijshoff, and W. Wang, Blood pressure detection, 2022-12-8, Europe, EP 21177428.6, WO/2022/253621

5. S. Weiss, W. Wang, A. G. Tormo, J. H. Wuelbern, and A. C. den Brinker, Camera-based vital sign detection, 2023-2-9, Europe, EP 21189063.7, WO/2023/011981

6. G. de Haan, and W. Wang, Device, system and method for image segmentation of an image of a scene including a subject, 2022-4-6, Europe, EP 3809950 B1

7. G. de Haan, A. C. den Brinker, and W. Wang, Device, system and method for obtaining a vital signal of a subject, 2021-10-26, United States, US 11154209 B2

8. W. Wang, and G. de Haan, Device, system and method for skin detection, 2020-10-27, United States, US 10818010 B2

9. A. C. den Brinker, W. Wang, and G. de Haan, Device, system and method for pulsatility detection, 2020-4-8, Europe, EP 3414739 B1

10. A. C. den Brinker, G. de Haan, and W. Wang, Device, system and method for determining a physiological parameter of a subject, 2019-2-13, Europe, EP 3440991 A1

11. G. de Haan, and W. Wang, Determining a pulse signal from concatenated video sub-sequences generated from a video sequence, 2019-5-14, United States, US 10290104 B2

12. W. Wang, and G. de Haan, Identifying living skin tissue in a video sequence using color and spatial similarities, 2019-3-26, United States, US 10242441 B2

13. W. Wang, and G. de Haan, Identifying living skin tissue in a video sequence with scaling for size or resolution, 2018-5-29, United States, US 9980658 B2

14. G. de Haan, A. C. den Brinker, and W. Wang, 被検体のバイタルサインを得るためのデバイス、システム、方法、及びコンピュータプログラム, 2022-5-12, 日本, JP 7065845 B2

15. 姜红; 王文锦; 一种新型基于ECG和PPG血压变化计算系统, 2022-2-1, 中国, ZL 201910272066. 9

16. 姜红;王文锦;刘明;詹琪;基于热成像传感器的体温和呼吸率提取方法及应用, 2022-6-21, 中国, ZL202110111208. 0

Research fundings

1. National Excellent Young Scholars (Overseas) of Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 22IAA01705, Contactless Video Health Monitoring, 2023-01 to 2026-01, confidential, PI.

2. National Key R&D Program of China (Young Scientist), Grant No. 2022YFC2407800, Non-contact Preterm Infant Monitor, 2022-11 to 2025-10, 3 million RMB, PI.

3. AI Medical Device Innovation Program, Video based Intelligent Patient Monitor, 2022-08 to 2024-12, confidential, PI.

4. General Program of Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 62271241, Contactless Preterm Infant Monitoring based on Multi-spectral Structured-light Photoplethysmography, 2023-01-01 to 2026-12-31, 530,000 RMB, PI.

5. General Program of Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 62074005, EEG-based seizure detection using 3D-CNN, 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31, 590,000 RMB, Co-PI.

6. General Program of Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, Grant No. 2023A1515012983, Multi-wavelength Pulse Transit Time based Non-contact Blood Pressure Monitoring in ICU, 2023-01-01 to 2025-12-31, 100,000 RMB, PI.

7. Peacock Team Program of Shenzhen Science and Technology Foundation, Grant No. 2022441655, 2023-06 to 2028-06, 30 million RMB.

8. General Program of Shenzhen Science and Technology Foundation, Grant No. JCYJ20220530112601003, Camera-based Physiological Measurement for Preterm Infants in NICU, 2022-10-28 to 2025-10-31, 30 million RMB, PI.

9. Shenzhen Enterprise Research, Grant No.OR2303012, Applications of Contactless Monitoring in ICU, 2022-1-1 to 2023-12-31, 700,000 RMB, PI.

10. Dutch Heart Foundation ZonMw IMDI-DCVA program, Grant No. 104021003, Video Monitoring for Early Signaling of Adverse Events, 2020-06 to 2024-12, 798,000 EUR, PI on behalf of Philips Research.

Honours and awards

2013   Amsterdam Merit Scholarship (full scholarship)

2012   Amsterdam Merit Scholarship (full scholarship)

2011  Frist Prize of MCM - Mathematical Contest in Modelling 

Selected publications 

1. Wenjin Wang; Xuyu Wang; Contactless Vital Signs Monitoring, Elsevier (DOI: 10.1016/C2019 -0-04343-9), 2021 (Book)

2. Dingliang Wang; Xuezhi Yang; Jun Wu; Wenjin Wang; Personalized Modeling of Blood Pressure with Photoplethysmography: An Error-feedback Incremental Support Vector Regression Model, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023. (SCI journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3290557) 

3. Dongmin Huang; Lingwei Wang; Wenjin Wang; A Multi-center Clinical Trial for Wireless Stethoscope-based Diagnosis and Prognosis of Children Community-acquired Pneumonia, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2023, 70(7): 2215-2226. (SCI journal) 

4. Siyuan Qiu; Wenjin Wang; Hailong Jiao; A Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Detection, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2023, 27(4): 1845-1856. (SCI journal) 

5. Wenjin Wang; Steffen Weiss; Albertus C. Den Brinker; Jan Hendrik Wuelbern; Albert Garcia i Tormo; Ioannis Pappous; Julien Senegas; Fundamentals of Camera-PPG based Magnetic Resonance Imaging, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2022, 26(9): 4378-4389. (SCI journal) 

6. Wenjin Wang; Albertus C. den Brinker; Modified RGB Cameras for Infrared Remote-PPG, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2020, 67(10): 2893-2904. (SCI journal) 

7. Wenjin Wang; Albertus C. den Brinker; Gerard de Haan; Discriminative Signatures for Remote-PPG, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2020, 67(5): 1462-1473. (SCI journal)

8. Wenjin Wang; Albertus C. den Brinker; Gerard de Haan; Single- Element Remote-PPG, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2019, 66(7): 2032-2043. (SCI journal)

9. Wenjin Wang; Sander Stuijk; Gerard de Haan; Living-Skin Classification via Remote-PPG, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2017, 64(12): 2781-2792. (SCI journal)

10. Wenjin Wang; Albertus C. den Brinker; Sander Stuijk; Gerard de Haan; Algorithmic Principles of Remote PPG, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2017, 64(7): 1479-1491. (SCI journal)

11. Wenjin Wang; Sander Stuijk; Gerard de Haan; A Novel Algorithm for Remote Photoplethysmography: Spatial Subspace Rotation, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2016, 63(9): 1974-1984. (SCI journal)

12. Wenjin Wang; Sander Stuijk; Gerard de Haan; Unsupervised Subject Detection via Remote PPG, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 62(11): 2629-2637. (SCI journal)

13. Wenjin Wang; Sander Stuijk; Gerard de Haan; Exploiting Spatial Redundancy of Image Sensor for Motion Robust rPPG, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 62(2): 415-425. (SCI journal)

14. Wenjin Wang; Albertus C. den Brinker; Gerard de Haan; Full video pulse extraction, Biomedical Optics Express, 2018, 9(8): 3898-3914. ( SCI journal)

15. Wenjin Wang; Albertus C. den Brinker; Sander Stuijk; Gerard de Haan; Amplitude-selective filtering for remote-PPG, Biomedical Optics Express, 2017 , 8(3): 1965-1980. (SCI journal)

16. Wenjin Wang, Steffen Leonhardt, Lionel Tarassenko, Caifeng Shan, and Daniel McDuff, "Guest Editorial: Camera-Based Monitoring for Pervasive Healthcare Informatics," IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 25 (5), 1358-1360, 2021. (SCI journal)