Wei Wang (computer scientist)


Wei Wang is a Chinese-born American computer scientist. She is the Leonard Kleinrock Chair Professor in Computer Science and Computational Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles and the director of the Scalable Analytics Institute. Her research specializes in big data analytics and modeling, database systems, natural language processing, bioinformatics and computational biology, and computational medicine.

Education

Wang earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at Nankai University in 1994. She then went on to receive her PhD in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, before returning to UCLA.

Awards and Honors

Wang received the IBM Invention Achievement Awards in 2000 and 2001. She was also the recipient of a UNC Junior Faculty Development Award in 2003 and an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award in 2005. She was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow in 2005 and honored with the 2007 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement at UNC. In addition, she was recognized with an IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2012, an Okawa Foundation Research Award in 2013, and an ACM SIGKDD Service Award in 2016.

Selected publications

Her works include: