James Z. Wang

James Ze Wang
James Z. Wang (Photo: December 2015)
Born	1972
Residence	United States
Citizenship	China United States
Fields	Computer science Information technology
Institutions	Pennsylvania State University
Alma mater	Stanford University (M.S., Ph.D.) University of Minnesota (B.S.)
Doctoral advisor	Gio Wiederhold
Doctoral students	Yixin Chen, Dhiraj Joshi, Xiaonan Lu, Ritendra Datta, Brian A. Canada, Mu Qiao (co-advised), Lei Yao, Neela Sawant, Yu Zhang, Xin Lu
Known for	image retrieval, image annotation, painting analysis, visual aesthetics and emotions, big visual data

James Ze Wang (Chinese: 王则; born 1972) is a Chinese American computer scientist. He is a professor of the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He is also an affiliated professor of the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences Program; the Computational Science Graduate Minor; and the Social Data Analytics Graduate Program. He is co-director of the Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory. He was a visiting professor of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University from 2007 to 2008. In 2011 and 2012, he served as a program manager in the Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.

Wang received a summa cum laude Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (advisor: Dennis Hejhal), an M.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. degree in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford University's Biomedical Informatics and Database groups (advisor: Gio Wiederhold).

Wang is the author or coauthor of two monographs and over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and refereed conference papers, including one coauthored paper published in Science. His works have been widely cited. For example, SIMPLIcity: Semantics-Sensitive Integrated Matching for Picture Libraries (2001) has received more than 2000 citations. Image Retrieval: Ideas, Influences, and Trends of the New Age (2008) has received over 3000 citations.