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Lei Shu is currently a Professor with Nanjing Agricultural University, China, and a Lincoln Professor with the University of Lincoln, U.K. He is the vice Dean of School of Smart Agriculture (Artifical Intelligence) , and also the Director of the NAU–Lincoln Joint Research Center of Intelligent Engineering. He has published over 500 papers in related conferences, journals, and books in the area of Internet of Things. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, the Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science—Sustainable and Intelligent Phytoprotection Section, the Section Editor-in-Chief for Sensors Cross Data Section, and (or was) an associate editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE/CAA JOURNAL OF AUTOMATICA SINICA, and IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. He has served as more than 60 various Co-Chair for international conferences/workshops, e.g., IWCMC, ICC, ISCC, ICNC, Chinacom, IECON, INDIN, ISIE, and ICIT, General Co-Chair for Chinacom, Qshine, and Collaboratecom, and Steering and TPC Chair for InisCom; and a TPC Member of more than 160 conferences, e.g., ICDCS, DCOSS, MASS, ICC, Globecom, ICCCN, WCNC, ISCC, IECON, INDIN, ISIE, and ICIT. His paper has been cited more than 30,000 times, with an H-index value of 89. Included in:1) Research.com’s list of the world’s top computer scientists, 2) Stanford University’s list of the World’s Top 2% scientists, 3) ScholarGPS list of the World's Top 0.05% Scholars, 4) Clarivate list of the Top 1% Highly Cited Researcher.
Research Interests
- Solar Insecticidal Lamps Internet of Things
- Photovoltaic Agricultural Internet of Things
- Agricultural IoTs, Agricultural Big Data, and Agricultural Equipment Monitoring
- Green and Wireless Energy Transfer
- Self-adaptive and Dynamic Control
- Dangerous Area Detection and Urgent Evacuation
- Industrial WSNs and Fault Diagnosis
- WSNs with Environmental Energy Harvesting
- Localization in Duty-cycled and Sparse WSNs
- Wireless/Mobile Multimedia Sensor Networks
- Geographic Multi-path Routing, Cross-layer Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Duty-cycled Sleep Scheduling Algorithms
- Wireless Sensor Networks Simulator and Testbed Visualizer
- Sensory Data Management and Sharing
Education
- Ph.D. – Computer Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, 2007.2 – 2011.2
- M.Sc. – Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea,2003.3 – 2005.2
- B.Sc. – Computer Science , South Central University for Nationalities, China,1998.9 – 2002.6
Experience
- Vice Dean – College of Smart Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University(NJAU), 2025.07 – present (Link)
- Founder and Director – NJAU-Lincoln Joint Research Center of Intelligent Engineering, 2017.10 – present(Link)
- Distinguished Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor – College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University(NJAU), China, 2020.09 – present(Link)
- Distinguished Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor – College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University(NJAU), China, 2017.10 – 2020.09
- Lincoln Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor – the University of Lincoln, UK, 2016.6 -present(Link)
- Executive Director – Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Equiptment Fault Diagnosis, China，2012.10 – 2017. 10
- Specially Assigned Researcher – Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan, 2010.1 – 2012.3
- My IEEE Member ID: 90411188
- My H-index is 89 and i10-index is 343 in Google Citation (Google Scholar), total citation of his papers is more than 30,994 times. (2026.01)
- Publish over 500 papers in conferences, journals and books in the area of Sensor Networks.
- Develop an open source wireless sensor networks simulator ‘NetTopo’ to evaluate & demonstrate his algorithms, which has been widely used by international researchers and students.
- Obtain more than 15 million RMB (over $2.17 million) research grant since October 2012.
- Serving as Editor in Chief of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks.
- Serving as Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Plant Science-Sustainable and Intelligent Phytoprotection.
- Serving as Section Editor-in-Chief of Sensors – Cross Data Section.
- Serving as Chair of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society – TC on Cloud and Wireless Systems for Industrial Applications.
- Serving as Vice-Chair of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society – IEEE Nanjing Chapter, China.
- Served as Vice-Chair of CCF TC on Computer Applications, 2016 – 2018.
- Executive member of Digital Agriculture Branch of China Computer Federation, Since 2021.10~;