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Featured Faculty - February 2011

 

Shuiwang Ji
Faculty, Old Dominion University
Computer Science Department

 


Shuiwang Ji joined the faculty of Computer Science at ODU as an assistant professor in the Fall of 2010. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2010. His research interests are computational biology, machine learning, data mining, and computer vision.

He has published more than 20 papers in top journals and conferences in these fields. He received the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award in Computer Science at ASU. His doctoral work was conducted in the Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics at ASU and focuses on the analysis of spatiotemporal gene expression patterns in fruit fly Drosophila to uncover the developmental regulatory networks.

He was one of the designers of the human action recognition system that achieved the best performance in the worldwide TRECVID evalution in 2009. He has served on the program committees of Internatoinal Conference on Machine Learning, ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.

Click here to visit Shuiwang Ji's website at ODU.