My mentor

One of the major attractions that IST building holds is a great collection of photographs on the second floor, often mistaken as professional wall papers downloaded from the web. But then, next to these photos is a short bio and a picture of the photographer himself. The photographer is James Wang, a researcher and professor at IST and also my adviser. James is an excellent photographer who happens to be doing fundamental research in the aesthetics and analysis of photographs. Check out some of his amazing collections clicked over the last ten years. Its truly great that his research is driven by one of his greatest passions.

Apart from photography, his other passions include traveling. He has traveled to more than 25 countries from Tunisia to Finland to India and so many others. He loves listening to classical music, collecting stamps and coins and also playing with high performance super computers. He currently guides the image analysis research at the Intelligent Information Systems lab  with his wife Jia Li who is a professor of Statistics at the Pennsylvania state university. Its really good fun interacting with him because of all the diversity.