Wei Wang (CV) Ph.D. UCLA Computer Science Professor Department of Computer Science University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 USA Office: 3531-G Boelter Hall Email: weiwang@cs.ucla.edu Voice: 1 (310) 794-0009 Fax: 1 (310) 794-5056

Secretary: Osanna Kazarian Office: 3531-K Boelter Hall Email: osannak@cs.ucla.edu Voice:1 (310) 825-1322 Fax: 1 (310) 794-5056

Wei Wang is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles and the director of the Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAi). She received an MS degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1995 and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. She was a professor in Computer Science and a member of the Carolina Center for Genomic Sciences and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2002 to 2012, and was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center between 1999 and 2002. Dr. Wang's research interests include big data analytics, data mining, bioinformatics and computational biology, and databases. She has filed seven patents, and has published one monograph and more than one hundred seventy research papers in international journals and major peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Wang received the IBM Invention Achievement Awards in 2000 and 2001. She was the recipient of a UNC Junior Faculty Development Award in 2003 and an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2005. She was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow in 2005. She was honored with the 2007 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement at UNC. She was recognized with an IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2012 and an Okawa Foundation Research Award in 2013. Dr. Wang has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics and the Open Artificial Intelligence Journal. She serves on the organization and program committees of international conferences including ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGKDD, ACM BCB, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, ACM CIKM, IEEE ICDM, SIAM DM, SSDBM, RECOMB, BIBM. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBio) in 2015.

Research

			Mining Sequential Patterns from Large Data Sets Series: The Kluwer International Series on Advances in Database Systems, Vol. 28 Wei Wang and Jiong Yang 2005 ISBN: 0-387-24246-5
			Advances in Web-Age Information Management 4th International Conference, WAIM 2003, Chengdu, China, August 17-19, 2003, Proceedings Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2762 Guozhu Dong, Chanjie Tang, and Wei Wang (Eds.) 2003 ISBN: 3-540-40715-4

Software

Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAI)
Computational Genetics

Teaching

Current Professional Services

• Board of Directors of the ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBio), 2015 - present.
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2014 - present.
• Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, 2015 - present.
• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics, 2009 - present.
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2010 - present.
• Associate Editor of the open access journal on Health Information Science and Systems, 2011 - present.
• Editorial Board Member of the Open Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2007 - present.
• Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 2005 - present.
• Action Editor of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2014 - present.

• Senior Program Committee Member of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Fransisco, CA, U.S.A., August 13-17, 2016.
• Program Committee Member of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Helsinki, Finland, May 16-20, 2016.
• Panel Chair and Senior Program Committee Member of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Miami, FL, U.S.A., May 5-7, 2016.
• Senior Program Committee Member of the 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Auckland, New Zealand, April 19-22, 2016.
• Program Committee Member of the 20th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A., April 17-21, 2016.
• Program Committee Co-Chair of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Laguna Hills, CA, U.S.A., February 3-5, 2016.

  Past Professional Services