Yuan-Fang Wang
Professor
yfwang@cs.ucsb.edu
(805)893-3866
Personal Website
Education
Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1987
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1983
B.S. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1981
Off-Campus Affiliations
CEO and CTO of Visualsize Inc.
External Publications
UCSB Publications
Awards
NSF Research Initiation Award
Research Areas
Visual Computing and Interaction
Bio

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 is a Professor at UCSB and has also played many consulting roles to private industries over the years. Dr. Wang is an academic researcher with a passion for entrepreneurship and has been involved in a number of start-up activities.

Research

Dr. Wang has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and hold three patents. Dr. Wang has received funding support from many federal agencies including NSF, NASA, DARPA, US Army, and US Navy, and also from many private companies.  Currently, Dr. Wang's research focuses on 3D computer vision, especially in developing robust, efficient and easy-to-use CV algorithms and systems, with a research objective to benefit the society at large instead of just for the CV community. To this end, Dr. Wang's research group develops 3D technologies that use pictures from mass-market, consumer-grade digital cameras, camcorders, and phones without the need of any special equipment, setup, calibration, markers, user training, or manual intervention. In addition to academic research, Dr. Wang founded VisualSize Inc. to offer state-of-the-art 3D technologies to the general public based on his past Army-sponsored academic research.