Dr Alex Yue

• Position:Senior lecturer in bio-instrumentation
• Department:FET - Engineering, Design and Mathematics
• Telephone:+441173285208

About me

Dr. Yue is a Senior Lecturer in Bio-Instrumentation and Head of Instrumentation at the Institute of Bio-Sensing Technology (IBST), University of the West of England (UWE). His research focuses on world-leading topics in passive bioimpedance sensing for wearable biosensors, zero-power human–computer interaction, passive locating for dementia home management, and micro/nanoelectronics for motion-insensitive, contactless electrodes in digital health applications.

He holds a BEng in Telecommunications (1985), an MEng in Biomedical Engineering (1995), and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (1999). Dr. Yue has extensive global experience as an academic researcher at prestigious universities such as Tsinghua University (China) and Imperial College London (UK), as well as in leading industrial environments, including Sharp Laboratories of Europe.

Throughout his career, he has contributed to numerous EPSRC, BBSRC, and Innovate UK-funded projects in collaboration with both academic and industrial partners. His expertise spans biomedical circuits and systems design at the component and transistor levels, encompassing a wide range of applications:

• Sensor/Biosensor interfacing and data acquisition for biomedical instrumentation/wearable digital healthcare
• Electrical impedance tomography for respiratory monitoring in intensive care
• Ultrasound imaging with automated scanning probes for primary care use
• Single-photon counting digital X-ray imaging for low-dose mammography
• Real-time monitoring of traumatic brain injury, enabling recovery evaluation
• Implantable neural recording in insects to study flight mechanisms

Among his notable technical achievements are the design of the world’s smallest low-power mixed-signal implantable IC die for blowfly neural recording—a landmark in miniaturized bioelectronics—and the development of the world’s first 10-year-lifetime indoor energy harvesting battery for IoT applications.

Dr. Yue has secured substantial research funding both as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I). His recent projects include:

1. UKRI Smart Grant / Industrial-funded project: Non-contact technology for vital sign monitoring in neonate and pediatric populations (Academic PI, 2020–2022) — developing a SoC electrode to overcome long-standing motion artefact challenges in contactless biosensing.
2. Innovate UK Project: POEM – Pulse Oximetry from the Eardrum (Academic Co-I, 2022–2023).
3. Innovate UK AKT Project on early detection of biological rejection in organ transplantation (PI, 2024).
4. Industrial Project: Drink Spike Detection (Co-I, 2025).

Dr. Yue has authored and co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed papers, scientific patents, book chapters, and a sole-author textbook on the Internet of Things (IoTs). His work is widely cited in both academic and industrial literature. He is also an award-winning engineer, having developed an electronic instrumentation system for stem cell cultures that won the “Live Demos” Prize at IEEE ISCAS, the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE, serves as an Associate Editor for Measurement (Elsevier, Impact Factor 5.6) since 2018, and regularly contributes to the research community, such as being a scientific committee member of Elsevier’s “Measurement, Sensor Systems and Applications Conference”, a technical committee member of the International Conference on Telecommunications and Communication Engineering, and as an organisation committee member and session chair/co-chair at the IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability, 2023, and at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2025.

Area of expertise

Dr. Yue’s research expertise spans a broad spectrum of cutting-edge electronic and computational technologies, including:

• Analog and digital electronics — sensor interfacing, signal conditioning, and data conversion (ADC/DAC).

• Embedded system design — microcontroller- and FPGA-based development.

• Digital signal processing (DSP) and artificial intelligence (AI): joint time–frequency analysis, genetic algorithms, and pattern recognition using artificial neural networks.

• Low-power mixed-signal CMOS IC design and IC design in thin-film transistor (TFT) processes.

• Internet of Things (IoT) systems — development of interconnected sensor networks and intelligent monitoring platforms.

In addition, Dr. Yue has extensive research experience in:

• Biomedical signal processing, including auditory brainstem response (ABR) analysis, otoacoustic emission (OAE) processing for newborn hearing screening, and noise reduction techniques for improved diagnostic accuracy.

• AI-driven pattern recognition for speaker identification and adaptive signal analysis.

• MEMS-based digital loudspeakers for compact, high-fidelity audio applications.

• Electrooculography (EOG)-based gaze tracking for augmented and virtual reality interfaces.

• Telecommunication systems, focusing on real-time multitask stored-program-controlled switching architectures.

• Energy-autonomous IoT sensor nodes, powered by indoor photovoltaic (PV) energy harvesting for sustainable sensing and monitoring.

Together, these areas reflect Dr. Yue’s multidisciplinary approach—integrating electronics/microelectronics, signal processing/AI, and intelligent systems design—to advance next-generation biomedical/digital health, telecommunication, and IoT technologies.

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