My advisor is Prof. James Z. Wang. He is a tenured faculty member of Penn State, with appointments in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Integrative Biosciences (IBIOS) Program (Option on Bioinformatics and Genomics, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences). He is also the Vice Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory and a member of the I3C infrastructure. He has been a recipient of an NSF Career award and the endowed PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship provided by the PNC Foundation. He has served as the lead guest editor of IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Special Issue on Real-world Image Annotation and Retrieval, the chair of ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval MIR 2006 and MIR 2007, and an invited speaker at more than 70 institutions. In 2007-2008, He was a Visiting Professor at the Robotics Institute of School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He has held visiting positions at IBM Almaden Research Center, SRI International, NEC Research, and Academia Sinica. He holds a summa cum laude Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Minnesota, and an M.S. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. degree, all from Stanford University. He is teaching PSU 017 in Fall 2008.
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