Speaker: James Wang
April 11-14, 2007
San Francisco, California

Speakers: Biography

James Wang

Associate Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
College of Information Sciences and Technology
313C IST Building
Penn State
University Park PA
16802 USA
http://wang.ist.psu.edu

James Z. Wang is a tenured Associate Professor of the College of Information Sciences and Technology and a graduate faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Integrative Biosciences (IBIOS) Program (Option on Bioinformatics and Genomics) at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also the Vice Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory, a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Computational Science, an elected member of the Penn State Graduate Council (2006-2007), and a policy committee member of the I3C infrastructure. He received a Summa Cum Laude Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Minnesota, an M.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. degree in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford University's Biomedical Informatics and Database groups (adviser: Gio Wiederhold). He has been a recipient of an NSF Career award and the endowed PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship. In 2007-2008, he will be a Visiting Professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and work closely with T. Kanade.

James will demonstrate Machine Assisted Tagging of Images. [Demonstration]