Xiang Fei

Xiang Fei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at Coventry University, affiliated with the CEES School of Science. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Southeast University China (1999), following BSc (1992) and MSc (1995) degrees from the same institution. His research focuses on wireless internetworking, middleware for wireless sensor networks (WSN), and packet scheduling, with applications in data center optimization, machine learning, and cyber security.

Professional Experience: Prior to his current role, Fei worked on European IST projects (WINE, Euro6IX) and the EPSRC-funded PROSEN project. He joined Cogent as a Research Fellow in 2008. He actively participates in academic events, organizing conferences like SENSORCOMM (2009-2011) and the International Conference on Automation and Computing (2010-2011).

Research Interests: His work spans network analysis (community detection, graph embeddings), data stream processing, and cross-domain applications such as music information retrieval for stock market analysis. He has published extensively in IEEE journals and conferences, with notable contributions to nonnegative matrix factorization techniques and deep learning approaches for network problems.

Teaching & Mentoring: Currently accepting PhD students in computing-related fields. His research has been supported by industry collaborations and grant-funded projects, reflecting his expertise in both theoretical and applied computing domains.