Professor Wenyan Wu is a professor in Smart Sensing and Advanced System Engineering at the Faculty of Computing, Engineering, and the Built Environment at Birmingham City University (BCU). She is the chair of the research group of sensors and controls at BCU. She has extensive interdisciplinary research experience across computing, engineering, and technology. Her knowledge and expertise are across electronic, informatics, water, and environment engineering, specializing in sensors, IoT, smart sensing, and communication for intelligent monitoring, modeling, and optimization. She received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and Computer-Aided Design from the Dalian University of Technology, China. She received a Ph.D. degree in Water Quality Modeling and Optimization in Water Distribution Systems from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and a Ph.D. in Reconfigurable Virtual Environment Design for Virtual testing, the University of Derby, Derby, U.K. She was a Principal Investigator (PI) and a Project Coordinator for EU FP7-WatERP, EU FP7-SmartWater, and EU Horizon 2020-IoT4Win. She was a professor in Digital Design and Technologies at Staffordshire University U.K., a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing at the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and a Research Fellow in Water Software Systems at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, National Key CAD Laboratory at Institute of Computing Technology, Academy of Science, Beijing, China.