My mentor - II

Complementing my earlier blog post, this blog is about the professional activities and achievements of my adviser, Dr. James Wang. Dr. Wang received Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Minnesota, an M. S. in Mathematics and another M. S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University. He has a Ph. D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford University.  He is now an associate professor of the College of Information Sciences and Technology, the Computer Science and Engineering department, and the Integrative Biosciences (IBIOS) Program at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also the Vice Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory of which I am a member. He has been a Visiting Professor of the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University in 2007-2008. 
 
Dr. Wang specializes in visual database search and retrieval. He is the co-developer of two of the most famous image retrieval systems - the SIMPLIcity (semantics-sensitive image retrieval system) and the ALIPR (automatic linguistic indexing of pictures - real time).

Dr. Wang has authored two monographs, nearly 100 journal articles, book chapters, and many conference papers. But his emphasis has always been on publishing in top-tier journals. There is a Wikipedia entry on him. The best places to find more details about Dr. Wang are his website and the introduction in Penn State's directory.