Wei Wang (CV) Ph.D. UCLA Computer Science Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 USA Office: 316 Sitterson Hall Email: weiwang@cs.unc.edu Voice: 1 (919) 962-1744 Fax: 1 (919) 962-1799

Secretary: Courtney D. Ferriter Office: 214 Fred Brooks Hall Email: ferriter@cs.unc.edu Voice:1 (919) 962-1851 Fax: 1 (919) 962-1799

Wei Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Carolina Center for Genomic Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a 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 at Los Angeles in 1999. She was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center between 1999 and 2002. Dr. Wang's research interests include data mining, bioinformatics, and databases. She has filed seven patents, and has published one monograph and more than one hundred 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 recently honored with the 2007 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement at UNC. Dr. Wang is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics. She serves on the program committees of prestigious international conferences such as ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGKDD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, ACM CIKM, IEEE ICDM, and SSDBM.

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

Discovering and Exploring Patterns in Subspaces
MotifSpace
Computational Genetics
Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
UNC Bioinformatics Training Program

Data Mining Group
Carolina Database Group

Teaching

Current Professional Services

• Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, 2005 - present.
• Associate Editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems, 2007 - present.
• Associate Editor of the International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics, 2009 - 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.
• Review Board Member of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2008 - present.

• Program Committee Member of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2010.
• Vice Chair of the 26th International Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, 2010.
• Program Committee Co-Chair of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Miami, FL, U.S.A., December 6-9, 2009.
• Program Committee Member of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Hongkong, China, November 2-6, 2009.
• Program Committee Member of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Lyons, France, August 24-28, 2009.
• Program Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., August 10-13, 2009.
• Awards Chair of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Paris, France, June 28-July 1, 2009.
• Publicity Co-Chair of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Sparks, NV, April 30-May 2, 2009.
• Program Committee Member of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Brisbane, Australia, April 21-23, 2009.
• Vice Chair of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering, Shanghai, China, March 29-April 4, 2009.

  Past Professional Services