Professor Wei Wang of the department of computer science has been appointed Leonard Kleinrock Chair at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. The five-year appointment supports distinguished faculty scholars in their teaching, research and public service.
Wang is the director of the Scalable Analytics Institute, where she leads research in big data analytics, data mining, bioinformatics and computational biology, and databases. She has filed seven patents and has published one monograph and more than 170 research papers in international journals and major peer-reviewed conference proceedings.
Among Wang's numerous awards and honors are the IBM Invention Achievement Award in 2000 and 2001; the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship in 2005; the IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2012; and the Okawa Foundation Research Award in 2013.
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