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What's New:
September '14 -- Dr. Wang will deliver a keynote talk at the VISART: Where Computer Vision Meets Art workshop of the ECCV 2014 Conference.
June '13 -- Dr. Wang delivered a keynote talk at the Visual Analysis Beyond Semantics workshop of the CVPR 2013 Conference. October '12 -- Our paper on shape and the computability of emotions is published. (read the paper). April '12 -- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence spotlights our article on van Gogh's paintings. (read the paper). December '11 -- Professor Wang gave a talk at the Mathematics: Muse, Maker, and Measure of the Arts workshop in Banff. (photos) June '10 -- Our aesthetics research was featured on TV with over 47 million viewers in the US and over 200 million viewers internationally.  |
Biography of the PI: James Z. Wang has been on Penn State faculty since 2000, where he is Professor and Faculty Council Chair of the interdisciplinary College of Information Sciences and Technology. He is also Affiliated Professor of the Integrative Biosciences (IBIOS) Program (Option on Bioinformatics and Genomics, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences). He serves as the founding Co-Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory (2001-). He has been a recipient of an NSF Career award (2004-2009) and the endowed PNC Foundation Technologies Career Development Professorship (2000-2006). He has served as the lead guest editor of IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Special Section on Real-world Image Annotation and Retrieval (2008), the General Chair of the ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR) events (2006, 2007, and 2010, now named ICMR), an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2009-2011), and an invited speaker at more than 70 institutions. He was a Visiting Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University (2007-2008) and a Program Manager in the Office of the National Science Foundation Director (2011 and 2012). He has held visiting positions at IBM Almaden Research Center, SRI International, NEC Research, and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wang received a summa cum laude Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Minnesota where his thesis advisor was number theorist Dennis A. Hejhal. From Stanford University, he received an M.S. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences where his doctoral thesis advisor was computer science pioneer Gio Wiederhold.
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