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Yuan-Fang Wang, Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Email:yfwang at cs dot ucsb dot edu
Telephone (cell):(805) 453-7452 (best way to reach me by call or text during the pandemic)
Telephone (direct):(805) 893-3866
Telephone (message):(805) 893-4321 (CS Department Office, leave message)
Facsimile:(805) 893-8553
Office: Harold Frank Fall (Engineering I), rm 3113
Lab: Engineering I building, rm 3120B
Office Hours (Winter 2017): TR 11am - 12pm
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 joined the Department of Computer Science at the
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 120 peer-reviewed papers and holds two patents. He 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 a member of the IEEE Computer Society. He was the program
co-chair of the 1998 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence from 1998 to 2002,
the Pattern Recognition Journal from 2000 to 2007, and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environment from 2007 to 2009. 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. Dr. Wang is also the founder of Visualsize Inc. that develops 3D computer
vision products based on his federally-sponsored research and a co-founder of
Proximex Corp. in physical security, which was recently acquired by ADT Security.