Yao Wang  Professor Dept. of Electrical Engineering Polytechnic Institute of NYU  6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201  Tel:(718)-260-3469 Fax:(718)-260-3906  Email: yao at poly.edu  Office: LC256

EDUCATION

• PhD EE: University of California at Santa Barbara, 1990
• MSEE: Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China, 1985
• BSEE: Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China, 1983

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 1990 - Present: On the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY 11201; now Polytechnic Institute of NYU. Full professor since 2000.
• 1992 - 2000: Part-time consultant in AT&T Labs - Research, Middletown, NJ (formerly Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ)
• 1998: Sabbatical leave at Princeton University.
• Summer 1998: Visiting professor, Telecommunications Institute I, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany.
• 2004: Sabbatical leave at Thomson Corporate Research Center, Princeton, NJ.

RESEARCH AREAS

• Image and video compression, image/video transport over noisy channels, multimedia signal processing, medical image processing, image analysis and computer vision, and pattern recognition.
• Current and Past Research Projects
• Graduate Students

COURSES OFFERED THIS SEMESTER (Fall 2008)

• EL6123 --- Video Processing (S09)

COURSES OFFERED PREVIOUSLY

• EE3054 – Signals and Systems (S08)
• EL5123 --- Image Processing
• EL5823/BE6203 --- Medical Imaging
• EL5143 --- Multimedia Laboratory
• EE3414 --- Multimedia Communication System I (part I of a university sequence course) ( S06)
• EE4414 --- Multimedia Communication System II (part II of a university sequence course) (F05)
• EL536, EL630, EL631, EL713

RESEARCH/TEACHING LABORATORIES

• IMAGE PROCESSING LAB
• MULTIMEDIA LAB

PUBLICATIONS

• Research Publications (updated 1/2005)
• Text book: Video Processing and Communications

AWARDS AND HONORS

New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, Young Investigator Category, Year 1999-2000.

Fellow of the IEEE, elected Nov. 2003. For contributions to video processing and communications.

OTHER LINKS

• Electrical Engineering Homepage
• Polytechnic University Homepage
• New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications

PERSONAL LINKS

• Yana and Anna

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Last Modified: 1/20/2009, Yao Wang