James Z. Wang
American computer scientist
James Ze Wang (Chinese: 王则; born 1972) is a Chinese-American computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He is also an affiliated professor of the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences Program; the Computational Science Graduate Minor; and the Social Data Analytics Graduate Program. He is co-director of the Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory. He was a visiting professor of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University from 2007 to 2008. In 2011 and 2012, he served as a program manager in the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
He is the second son of Chinese mathematician Wang Yuan.
Education
Wang received a summa cum laude bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Minnesota (advisor: Dennis Hejhal), an M.S. in mathematics and an M.S. in computer science, both from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. degree in medical information sciences from Stanford University's Biomedical Informatics and Database groups (advisor: Gio Wiederhold, committee members: Hector Garcia-Molina and Stephen T.C. Wong).
Research
Wang is the author or coauthor of two monographs and over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and refereed conference papers, including one coauthored paper published in Science. His works have been widely cited.
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