Hongxu Tao

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

Early career · publishing since 2018

Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

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Active years

Publishing since 2018

Research summary

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This researcher's publication record spans two distinct periods and topics: earlier work (2018-2019) on wireless and underwater sensor networks, focusing on algorithms for locating devices using techniques like compressed sensing, and more recent work (2025-2026) on forensic entomology, using insect development and spectroscopic methods to help estimate time-related evidence in forensic investigations. The two research areas appear largely unrelated, suggesting a shift in focus over time or possibly a shared name across different research contexts.

Wireless sensor network localizationUnderwater acoustic sensor networksCompressed sensing algorithmsForensic entomologySpectroscopy and machine learning for forensic analysis

Publication activity shows two separate bursts—five papers in 2019 and four papers in 2025-2026—with a multi-year gap (2020-2024) in between and no publications in most recent years prior to the resurgence.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently

Recent publications

Transcriptomics in forensic entomology: Research progress and prospects
Legal Medicine · 2026
Micro-FTIR spectroscopy combined with machine learning algorithms can estimate the weathering time of Thanatophilus sinuatus larval exuviae
Microchemical Journal · 2025
Micro-Ftir Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating the Weathering Time of Thanatophilus Sinuatus Larval Exuviae
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
Micro-Ftir Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating the Weathering Time of Thanatophilus Sinuatus Larval Exuviae
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
A Node Self-Localization Algorithm With a Mobile Anchor Node in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
IEEE Access · 2019
Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks Node Localization Based on Compressive Sensing in Water Hydrology
Sensors · 2019
A Single Source Point Detection Algorithm for Underdetermined Blind Source Separation Problem
Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering · 2019
A Target Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network Based on Compressed Sensing
Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering · 2019
Research on Localization Algorithm of Wireless Sensor Networks Based on IoT
2019
A Node Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network Based on Compressed Sensing
2018

Publishes in

Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering×2
SSRN Electronic Journal×2
IEEE Access×1
Microchemical Journal×1
Sensors×1

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