Dr. Yu-Chiang Frank Wang received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2001. Before pursuing his graduate study, he worked as a research assistant in the Division of Medical Engineering Research at National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan from 2001 to 2002. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. His research projects at CMU included the development of a military automated target recognition system, the design of a multi-modal biometric fusion system, and algorithms for data clustering and multi-class classification. His Ph.D. research and study were funded by the US Army Research Office through CMU.
Dr. Wang is currently an assistant research fellow in the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI) at Academia Sinica, where he also holds the position as an adjunct assistant research fellow in the Institute of Information Science. His research interests span the areas of pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision, multimedia signal processing and content analysis.