Wang Group: Modeling Objects, Concepts, and Aesthetics in Images
James Z. Wang's Research Group

Past Members, Collaborators, Misc

Our Research Team (group photos) is made up of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Past group members with contact information are listed here:

Graduated Ph.D. Advisees

  • Xiaonan Lu
    xlu (at) cse.psu.edu
    Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, summer 2008 (expected)
    Thesis:
    Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), L. Giles (Co-Chair), W.-C. Lee, D. Miller, C. Zhu
    After graduation: Scientist at the Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA.
  • Dhiraj Joshi
    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
    Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), J. Li (Co-Chair), R. Collins, D. Hunter, W.-C. Lee
    now Scientist at Eastman Kodak Research, Rochester, NY.
  • Professor Yixin Chen
    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
    Committee: J. Z. Wang (Chair), C. L. Giles, J. Yen, J. Li, D. Richards
    now Assistant Professor at University of Mississippi. On faculty at University of New Orleans from 2003 to 2006.
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Graduated Ph.D. Advisees (committee)

  • Isaac Councill
    igc2 (at) psu.edu, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State, 2006. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
    Thesis: Characterizing Scientific Contributions Through Automatic Acknowledgement Indexing and Citation Analysis
    after graduation: The Pennsylvania State University
  • Professor Long Chen
    lyc102 (at) psu.edu, Mathematics, Penn State, 2005. (Advisor: J. Xu)
    Thesis: Robust and Accurate Algorithm for Solving Anisotropic Singularities
    now Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
  • Anne Ya Zhang
    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
    now with Yahoo!
  • Hui Han
    hhan (at) cse.psu.edu, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2004. (Advisor: C. Lee Giles)
    Thesis: Creating a Syntactic Document Ontology
    now with Yahoo!
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Ph.D. Advisees (non-PSU)

  • Wei Wang
    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
    after graduation: Motorola
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Graduated M.S.

  • Ashish Parulekar
    aap189 (at) psu.edu, Electrical Engineering, Penn State
    graduated in December 2005
    Thesis: Large-scale Satellite Image Browsing using Automatic Semantic Categorization and Content-based Retrieval
    after graduation: Capital One
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Graduated Honors Undergraduates
(Penn State's Schreyer Honors College)

  • 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
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Main Collaborators

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Past Research Project Staff

  • 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, Ph.D. student, 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

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