Dr. Wang's research activities center on computer vision, medical image analysis, computer graphics, bioinformatics, and digital image and video libraries. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and holds two patents. He has received funding support from many federal agencies including NSF, NASA, DARPA, US Army, US Navy, and also from many private industries.
Dr. Wang is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. He was the program co-chair of the 1998 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence from 1998 to 2002, the Pattern Recognition Journal from 2000 to 2007, and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environment from 2007 to 2009. He co-founded the first ACM Workshop on Video Surveillance in 2003, co-chaired the second ACM Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks in 2004 and will co-chair the third Workshop in 2005. He has also served in numerous program committees and chaired many technical sessions at professional conferences and workshops. Dr. Wang was a guest editor of a special issue on video surveillance in the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal in 2004.