Ph.D. Assistant Researcher Department of Neorology Department of Mathematics Office: MSB 7324 Box 951555 UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 Email: ylwang@math.ucla.edu Phone: (310) 794-7737 Fax: (310) 206-6673

Selected Works:

	Hippocampal and Ventricular Differences in 804 ADNI Subjects Mapped with Multivariate Tensor-Based Morphometry Wang, Y, Song Y, Chou Y, Toga AW, Thompson PM [HBM 10(Oral)]
	Shape Analysis with Teichmüller Shape Space Wang, Y, Dai W, Chou Y, Gu, X, Yau S-T, Chan, TF, Toga AW, Thompson, PM [ICCV 09]
	Shape Analysis with Multivariate Tensor-based Morphometry and Holomorphic Differentials Wang, Y, Chan, TF, Toga AW, Thompson, PM [MICCAI 09(Oral)] [NeuroImage]
	Shape Analysis with Conformal Invariants for Multiply Connected Domains and its Application to Analyzing Brain Morphology Wang, Y., Gu, X., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. [CVPR 09]
	Conformal Slit Mapping and Its Applications to Brain Surface Parameterization Wang, Y., Gu, X., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. Yau S.-T. [MICCAI 08]
	Brain Mapping with the Ricci Flow Conformal Parameterization and Multivariate Statistics on Deformation Tensors Wang, Y., Yin, X., Zhang, J. Gu, X., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. Yau S.-T. [MFCA 08]
	Optimized Conformal Surface Registration with Shape-Based Landmark Matching Lui, L.M., Thiruvenkadam S., Wang, Y., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. [MICCAI 08] [SIAM J. Imaging Sci]
	Shape Registration with Spherical Cross Correlation Gutman, B., Wang, Y., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. and Arthur W. Toga [MFCA 08]
	Disease Classification with Hippocampal Shape Invariants Gutman, B., Wang, Y., Morra J., Arthur W. T., and Thompson P.M. [CAPH 08] [Hippocampus]
	Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with Algebraic Functions Wang, Y., Gu, X., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. Yau S.-T. [MICCAI 06(Oral)]
	Automatic Landmark and Its Application to the Optimization of Brain Conformal Mapping Lui, L. M., Wang, Y., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. [CVPR 06(Oral)] [DCDS-B]
	Hippocampal Surface Analysis Using Spherical Harmonic Function Applied to Surface Conformal Mapping Gutman B., Wang, Y., Lui, L.M., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. [ICPR 06]
	Brain Surface Parameterization using Riemann Surface Structure Wang, Y., Gu, X., Hayashi, K.M., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M., Yau, S.-T. [ICCV 05] [IEEE TMI]
	Automated Surface Matching using Mutual Information Applied to Riemann Surface Structures Wang, Y., Chiang, M.-C., Thompson, P.M. [ICCV 05]
	Optimization of Brain Conformal Mapping with Landmarks Wang, Y., Lui, L.M., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M. [MICCAI 05] [Applied Numerical Mathematics]
	Solving PDEs on Manifolds with Global Conformal Parameterization Lui, L.M., Wang, Y., Chan, T.F. [VLSM 2005]
	Volumetric Harmonic Brain Mapping Wang, Y., Gu, X., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M., Yau, S.-T. [ISBI 04(Oral)] [Communications in Information and Systems]
	Genus Zero Surface Conformal Mapping and Its Application to Brain Surface Mapping Gu, X., Wang, Y., Chan, T.F., Thompson, P.M., Yau, S.-T. [IPMI 03(Oral)] [IEEE TMI]
	Optimal Global Conformal Surface Parameterization Jin, M., Wang, Y., Yau, S.-T., Gu, X. [IEEE Vis 04(Oral)] [Communications in Information and Systems]
	Multiresolution Computation of Conformal Structures of Surfaces Gu X., Wang, Y., Yau, S.-T. [Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics]
	A Machine Learning Based Approach for Table Detection on The Web Wang, Y., Hu, J. [WWW 02] [Book Chapter in "Web Document Analysis Challenges and Opportunities"]
	Document Zone Content Classification and Its Performance Evaluation Wang, Y., Phillips, I.T., Haralick, R.M. [Pattern Recognition]
	Table Structure Understanding and Its Performance Evaluation Wang, Y., Phillips, I.T., Haralick, R.M. [Pattern Recognition]

Short Bio:

I am one of the Key Investigators on Center for Computational Biology. I got my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Dept. of Computer Science at Tsinghua University , China in 1994 and 1996, respectively. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Washington in 2002. My research interests are Computational Biology, Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, etc.