Wei Chen

Wei Chen received her B. Eng. degree in 1999 and M. Eng. degree in 2002 on telecommunication systems and smart sensor systems, from school of electrical engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2007 on performance monitoring and impairment mitigation for optical communication systems, from the department of electrical and electronics engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. She worked at Bell Laboratories Germany, Alcatel-Lucent, Stuttgart, Germany as an intern in 2005 and she was a research assistant in 2007 at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. Since July 2007, she has been an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, where she is also the chair of theme Comfort and Bonding in Health Care. She is a member of IEEE and a member of IEEE/LEOS GOLD Committee. Her research interests include neonatal monitoring, medical monitoring system design using wearable sensors, sensor system for ambient intelligence, wireless body sensor networks, performance optimization, smart sensor systems, signal processing, optical and wireless telecommunications.

Publications

Neonatal Monitoring Technologies: Design for Integrated Solutions
Neonatal Monitoring Technologies: Design for Integrated Solutions
Wei Chen, Sidarto Bambang Oetomo, Loe Feijs. © 2012. 536 pages.
Neonatal monitoring refers to the monitoring of vital physiological parameters of premature infants and full-term infants that are critically ill. In the last decades, several...
Neonatal Monitoring: Current Practice and Future Trends
Neonatal Monitoring: Current Practice and Future Trends
Sidarto Bambang Oetomo, Wei Chen, Loe Feijs. © 2012. 10 pages.
This chapter describes the current practice of monitoring vital health parameters in critically ill newborn infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). These infants are...
Smart Jacket Design for Improving Comfort of Neonatal Monitoring
Smart Jacket Design for Improving Comfort of Neonatal Monitoring
Wei Chen, Sibrecht Bouwstra. © 2012. 25 pages.
Health monitoring is crucial for the survival of ill and premature infants admitted at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in a hospital. The reliability and comfort of...
Conclusion and Outlook
Conclusion and Outlook
Loe Feijs, Wei Chen, Sidarto Bambang Oetomo. © 2012. 9 pages.
This chapter looks back to the other chapters of this book, briefly mentioning some of the highlights. At the same time, this chapter attempts to create a larger picture, showing...
Neonatal Monitoring: Current Practice and Future Trends
Neonatal Monitoring: Current Practice and Future Trends
Wei Chen, Sidarto Bambang Oetomo, Loe Feijs. © 2010. 23 pages.
This chapter focuses on monitoring vital health parameters for a particular group of patients - critically ill newborn infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) at...