Wang Group: Modeling Objects, Concepts, and Aesthetics in Images

Graduated Ph.D. Advisees

	Ritendra Datta, Engineer, Google, Pittsburgh, PA. (g-scholar) datta (at) cse.psu.edu Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Spring 2009 Thesis: Semantics and Aesthetics Inference for Image Search: Statistical Learning Approaches (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), J. Li (Co-Chair), R. Collins, C. L. Giles, D. Miller, B. Urgaonkar.
	Xiaonan Lu, Mobile Servie Division, Microsoft, Seattle, WA. (g-scholar) xlu (at) cse.psu.edu Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Fall 2008 Thesis: Image Analysis and Metadata Extraction for Document Retrieval (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), L. Giles (Co-Chair), W.-C. Lee, D. Miller, C. Zhu
	Dhiraj Joshi, Scientist, Eastman Kodak Research, Rochester, NY. (g-scholar) dhiraj.joshi (at) kodak.com Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Summer 2007 Thesis: Image Analysis and Retrieval by Spatial Models and Information Integration (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), J. Li (Co-Chair), R. Collins, D. Hunter, W.-C. Lee
	Professor Yixin Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford. (g-scholar) ychen (at) cs.olemiss.edu Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, Summer 2003 Thesis: A Machine Learning Approach to Content-based Image Indexing and Retrieval (Download) Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), C. L. Giles, J. Yen, J. Li, D. Richards

Yang Sun, Engineer, AOL / Advertising.com
Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2008. (Advisor: Lee Giles)
Thesis: A Comprehensive Study of the Regulation and Behavior of Web Crawlers (Download)
Professor Daeyoung Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
daeyoung (at) math.umass.edu, Ph.D. in Statistics, Penn State, 2008. (Advisor: Bruce G. Lindsay)
Thesis: Mixture Inference at the Edge of Identifiability (Link)
Isaac Councill, Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center
icouncill (at) almaden.ibm.com, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2006. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
Thesis: Characterizing Scientific Contributions Through Automatic Acknowledgement Indexing and Citation Analysis (Download)
Professor Long Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
chenlong (at) math.uci.edu, Ph.D. in Mathematics, Penn State, 2005. (Advisor: J. Xu)
Thesis: Robust and Accurate Algorithm for Solving Anisotropic Singularities (Download)
Anne Ya Zhang, Engineer, Yahoo!
yazhang (at) ittc.ku.edu, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2005. (Advisor: C. Chu. Co-advisor: H. Zha)
Thesis: Towards Inferring Biologically Informative Protein-Protein Interactions (Download)
Hui Han, Engineer, Yahoo!
hhan (at) cse.psu.edu, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2004. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
Thesis: Creating a Syntactic Document Ontology (Download)

Wei Wang, Software Development Manager, MediaNet Digital, LLC.
wei.wang (at) motorola.com, Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, August 2004. (Advisor: A. Zhang)
Thesis: Automatic Semantic Indexing in Multimedia Information Retrieval

AdityaGiri Valluri, Engineer, NetApp, Sunnyvale, CA
azv114 (at) psu.edu, Electrical Engineering, Penn State, graduated in May 2009
Thesis: Navigation Through Automated Image Understanding and Retrieval
Ashish Parulekar, Capital One
Electrical Engineering, Penn State, graduated in December 2005
Thesis: Large-scale Satellite Image Browsing using Automatic Semantic Categorization and Content-based Retrieval

Aaron Coble
Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, August 2005
Thesis: JIN: A Java-based Image Navigation System
after graduation: Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar
Allison Deal
Statistics, Penn State, May 2005
after graduation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Advisor: Jia Li)
Sui Ching Teresa Lin
Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, December 2003
Thesis: Semantic Relation Network and Evaluation Methods on Machine Learning Based Indexing of Images
now in Hong Kong
Kurt Grieb
Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, December 2003
Thesis: Learning-Based Indexing of Works of Art
after graduation: Lockheed Martin Corp. and US Air Force
Bryan T. Schnittjer
Computer Science, Penn State, May 2002
Thesis: The Application of Support Vector Machines for Content-based Image Retrieval
after graduation: General Electric

José Antonio Piedra Fernández
jpiedra (at) ual.es
Visiting Faculty from University of Almeria, Spain; 2008-2009

Andrew Duffey, Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis, 2009.
Saad Ali, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, 2008-2009.
Kelsey Marie Bauer, College of Science, Penn State, 2009.
Daniel Sandberg, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2007-2008
Angela Yen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2007
Walter Weiss, IST, Penn State, 2006-2007, after graduation: the U.S. Department of State
Gulsah Tumuklu Ozyer, Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2007
Christopher L. Dancy II, Computer Science, MURE program, Penn State, 2006-2007
Weina Ge, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2005-2007
Catriona Cornett, IST, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: Vanguard Group (student marshal)
Jason Scott, IST, Honors College, Penn State, 2004-2006
Robert D. Shedd Jr. , IST, Honors College, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: IBM
Diane Flowers, IST, Penn State, 2004-2006, after graduation: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Junjia Zhu, Statistics, Penn State, 2004
Claire Luo, Penn State, 2004
Yin Yang, IST, Penn State, 2002
Priya Unnikrishnan, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2000-2001
Yanping Du, M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Penn State, January 2001, after graduation: Cisco