Prof. Dr. Yang Wei is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering at Nottingham Trent University and the lead of the Smart Wearable Research Group which focuses on the development of innovative wearable solutions for a range of military and civilian applications. He is a chartered engineer, an active steering group committee member of the EPSRC E-Textile network, and a member of the IPC Electronic-textile Initiative committee. Dr Wei is also the academic expert on Smart Medical Textiles at the Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF). He obtained his PhD from the University of Southampton followed by working on several large EU and UK projects, including EU PF7 MICROFLEX, EU PF7 CREATIF, EU OR4FAUTO, EPSRC FETT project, and MRC SmartMove. He holds an EPSRC new investigator award on wearable medical textiles for managing lymphoedema and is a co-investigator leading related tasks in the NIHR i4i project developing wearable respiratory sensors for both in-hospital and at-home use.