Yuan-Fang Wang, Professor 
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Email:yfwang@cs.ucsb.edu
Telephone:(805) 893-3866
Facsimile:(805) 893-8553
Office: Harold Frank Fall (Engineering I), rm 3113
Lab: Engineering I building, rm 3120B
Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Austin
M.S., University of
Texas at Austin
B.S., National Taiwan
University
Research
interests:
Computer Vision, Medical Image Analaysis, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Bioinformatics,
Robotics, Digital Libraries.
Yuan-Fang
Wang received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and
his master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
He was a teaching assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, and a research assistant in the Computer and
Dr.
Wang's research activities center on computer vision, medical image analysis,
computer graphics, bioinformatics, and digital image and video libraries. He
has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and has received funding
support from many federal agencies including NSF, NASA, DARPA, US Army, US Navy, and also from many
private industries. He served as a consultant for a number of companies and was
a faculty consultant at LG Electronics Research Center of America in summer
1998.
Dr. Wang
is very active professionally. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and
Robotics and Automation Society and a member of ACM. He was the program
co-chair of the 1998 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence from 1998 to 2002, and an Associate Editor
for the Pattern Recognition Journal since 2000. He co-founded the first ACM
Workshop on Video Surveillance in 2003, co-chaired the second ACM Workshop on
Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks in 2004 and will co-chair the third
Workshop in 2005. He has also served in numerous program committees and chaired
many technical sessions at professional conferences and workshops. Dr. Wang was
a guest editor of a special issue on video surveillance in the ACM Multimedia
Systems Journal in 2004.
Dr. Wang
received an NSF Research Initiation Award in 1989, an Outstanding Faculty Award
in Computer Science at UCSB in 1991, a UC Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship
Award in 1992, a lectureship in the third Summer Teaching Program at Tsinghua
University, China, 1999, sponsored by the Stanford China Education Foundation,
and a Certification of Appreciation from the IEEE Computer Society in 2002.
Dr. Wang
is affiliated with the Computer Vision Research Laboratory at
UCSB.