Yalin Wang


Department of Neurology
Department of Mathematics
(310)794-7737
UCLA
ylwang@math.ucla.edu
Los Angeles, CA 90095

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Scientific Computation and Numerical Analysis, Geometric Modeling, Geometric Visualization, Pattern Recognition, etc.

EDUCATION

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D. in Computer Vision
9/97 - 6/02
o Dissertation title was "Document Analysis: Table Structure Analysis and Zone Content Classification".
o The best student paper award winner in "Fifth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems", Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 2002.
o Teaching Assistant of student senior project in Seattle University (6/99--6/00).
o Network System Administrator of Intelligent Systems Laboratory (4/98- 6/01). Administering a subnet of 10+ SunOS and Solaris workstations and Linux PCs.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
M.S. Student in Computer Science
9/94 - 12/96
o Motorola Scholarship, 1995
o Teaching assistant in courses "Programming with C" and "Using and programming in MS-Windows"
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
B.S. Student in Computer Science
9/89 - 6/94
o Excellent Graduate Scholarship of Tsinghua University, 1994
o Guanghua Scholarship, 1993
o Excellent Student Awards, ( 1990, 1991, 1992 )

WORK EXPERIENCE

Dept. of Neurology, UCLA, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Assistant Researcher
9/02 - present
Collaborating with mathematicians in Math department and scientists in Lab of Neuro Imaging, UCLA. Working on various medical imaging research topics: brain surface conformal mapping, MIR image denoising with TV model, image segmentation with level set method, parameterization of implicit surface using level set method, etc.

Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Postdoctoral
8/03 - 12/03
Teaching a new class "Computational Conformal Geometry". Conducting research on Computational Conformal Geometry. Working on various medical imaging research topics: brain surface conformal mapping, volumetric brain harmonic map, multiresolution computation of conformal structure of surfaces, 3D geometric surface classification and identification, fluid mechanics on 3D surfaces with arbitrary topology, etc.

Dept. of Computer Science, Queens College, City University of New York, New York

Non-Teaching Adjunct Faculty
9/01 - 3/02
Working with Document Image Analysis research group. Developed a document table structure understanding system. Teaching assistant of CS 731: Software Development Practitum.

Avaya Labs Research, Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Summer Intern with Dr. Jianying Hu
6/01 - 9/01
Developed a machine learning based table detection system in web documents. The goal of this research is to find the genuine tables from the abused table tags. We defined a table ground truth protocol and built a big scale web document database. Geometric and linguistic features were defined and some machine learning techniques were studied.

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Associate Lecturer
12/96 - 7/97
Directed one freshman class (32 students). Participated in the research and development of 3D Computer Aided Designed systems, sponsored by National Scientific Funds.

PUBLICATIONS

 Journal Papers
  1. Wang Y, Zhang J, Gutman B, Chan TF, Becker JT, Aizenstein HJ, Lopez OL, Tamburo RJ, Toga AW, Thompson PM, Multivariate Tensor-based Morphometry on Surfaces: Application to Mapping Ventricular Abnormalities in HIV/AIDS, NeuroImage, 2009, in press.
  2. Gutman B, Wang Y, Morra J, Thompson PM, Toga AW, Disease Classification with Hippocampal Shape Invariants, Hippocampus 19, 2009, pp. 572-578
  3. Lui LM, Kwan J, Wang Y, Yau S-T, Computation of Curvatures using Conformal Parameterization, Communications in Information and Systems, 8(1), 2008, pp. 1-16
  4. Wang Y, Lui LM, Gu X, Hayashi KM, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization using Riemann Surface Structure", IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, Vol. 26, No. 6, June 2007, pp. 853-865
  5. Lui LM, Wang Y, Chan TF, and Thompson PM, "Brain Anatomical Feature Detection by Solving Partial Differential Equations on General Manifolds", Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B, 7(3), May 2007, pp. 605-618
  6. Lui LM, Wang Y, Chan TF and Thompson PM, " Landmark Constrained Genus Zero Surface Conformal Mapping and Its Application to Brain Mapping Research", Applied Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 5, 2007, pp. 847-858
  7. Wang Y, Phillips IT, Haralick RM, "Document Zone Content Classification and Its Performance Evaluation", Pattern Recognition, 39(1), Jan. 2006, pp. 57-73
  8. Wang Y, Gu X, Yau S-T, "Surface Segmentation using Global Conformal Structure", Communications in Information and Systems, 4(2), 2005, pp. 165-180
  9. Jin M, Wang Y, Gu X, Yau S-T, " Optimal Global Conformal Surface Parameterization for Visualization", Communications in Information and Systems, 4(2), 2005, pp. 117-134
  10. Thompson PM, Hayashi KM, Sowell ER, Gogtay N, Giedd JN, Rapoport JL, Zubicaray G de, Janke AL, Rose SE, Semple J, Doddrell DM, Wang Y, Erp TGM van, Cannon, TD and Toga AW, "Mapping cortical change in Alzheimer's disease, brain development, and schizophrenia", NeuroImage, 23, September 2004, pp. S2-S18
  11. Gu X, Wang Y, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Genus Zero Surface Conformal Mapping and Its Application to Brain Surface Mapping", IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, 23(8), Aug. 2004, pp. 949-958
  12. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, "Table Structure Understanding and Its Performance Evaluation", Pattern Recognition, 37(7), Jul. 2004, pp. 1479-1497
  13. Wang Y, Gu X and Yau S-T, " Volumetric Harmonic Map", Communications in Information and Systems, 3(3), 2004, pp. 191-202
  14. Gu X, Wang Y and Yau S-T, "Multiresolution Computation of Conformal Structures of Surfaces", Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 1(5), 2004
  15. Gu X, Wang Y and Yau S-T, "Geometric Compression Using Riemann Surface Structure", Communications in Information and Systems, 3(3), 2004, pp. 171-182
  16. Gu X, Wang Y and Yau S-T, "Computing Conformal Invariants: Period Matrices", Communications in Information and Systems, 3(3), 2004, pp. 153-170.
  17. Wang Y, Tang L and Liu Z, "A Heuristic Method to Recognize Dimension sets in Architectural Engineering Drawings", Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol. 13, suppl. Issue; pp. 94-100, Dec. 1998
Book Chapters
  1. Wang Y, Hu J, "Automatic Table Detection in HTML Documents", Web Document Analysis Challenges and Opportunities, A. Antonacopoulos and Hu J (Eds.), World Scientific, 2003, pp. 135-154
  2. Gu X, Wang Y, Cheng H-B, Cheng L-T, S-T Yau, " Geometric Methods in Engineering Applications", Mathematics and Computation, a Contemporary View, H. Munthe-Kaas and B. Owren (Eds.), Springer, 2008, pp. 1-20
Conference Papers
  1. Wang Y, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM, "Shape Analysis with Multivariate Tensor-based Morphometry and Holomorphic Differentials", 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 2009, pp. 2349-2456
  2. Wang Y, Dai W, Chou Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM, "Studying Brain Morphometry using Conformal Equivalence Class", 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 2009, pp. 2365-2372
  3. Wang Y, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM, "Multivariate Tensor-based Brain Anatomical Surface Morphometry via Holomorphic One-Forms", 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2009, London, UK, Sep. 2009, pp. 337-344
  4. Wang Y, Dai W, Gu X, Chan TF, Yau S-T, Toga AW, Thompson PM, "Teichmüller Shape Space Theory and Its Application to Brain Morphometry", 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2009, London, UK, Sep. 2009, pp. 133-140
  5. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM , "Shape Analysis with Conformal Invariants for Multiply Connected Domains and its Application to Analyzing Brain Morphology", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Miami Beach, FL, USA, Jun. 2009, pp. 202-209
  6. Wang Y, Zhang J, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM , " Multivariate Tensor-based Morphometry on Surfaces: Application to Mapping Ventricular Changes in HIV/AIDS", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Boston, MA, USA, 2009, pp. 129-132
  7. Wang Y, Zhang J, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM, " Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with Holomorphic Flow Method and Its Application to HIV/AIDS", the 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), San Francisco, CA, USA, Jun 18-23, 2009
  8. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM, " Multivariate Statistics of Tensor-Based Cortical Surface Morphometry", the 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), San Francisco, CA, USA, Jun 18-23, 2009
  9. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM, " Shape Analysis with Conformal Invariants for Multiply Connected Domains and its Application to Analyzing Brain Morphology", the 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), San Francisco, CA, USA, Jun 18-23, 2009
  10. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM, Yau S-T, "Conformal Slit Mapping and Its Applications to Brain Surface Parameterization", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2008, LNCS 5241, pp. 585-593
  11. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM, Yau S-T, " Brain surface conformal parameterization with the slit mapping, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Paris, France, 2008, pp. 448-451
  12. Wang Y, Yin X, Zhang J, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM, Yau S-T, Brain Mapping with the Ricci Flow Conformal Parameterization and Multivariate Statistics on Deformation Tensors, 2nd MICCAI Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, pp. 36-47, 2008
  13. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM, Yau S-T, Brain Surface Conformal Slit Mapping, the 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Melbourne, Australia, Florence, Italy, Jun. 15-19, 2008
  14. Lui LM, Thiruvenkadam S, Wang Y, Chan TF, Thompson PM, Optimized Conformal Parameterization of Cortical Surfaces Using Shape Based Matching of Landmark Curves, International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2008, LNCS 5241, pp. 494-502
  15. Gutman B, Wang Y, Chan TF, Thompson PM, Toga AW, Shape Registration with Spherical Cross Correlation, 2nd MICCAI Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, pp. 56-67
  16. Gutman B, Wang Y, Morra J, Thompson PM, Toga AW, Disease Classification with Hippocampal Shape Invariants, MICCAI 2008 Workshop on the Computational Anatomy and Physiology of the Hippocampus, pp. 76-86
  17. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, " Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with the Ricci Flow", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging - From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Washington D.C., USA, 2007, pp. 1312-1315
  18. Gutman B, Wang Y, Lui LM, Chan TF, Thompson PM, " Hippocampal Surface Discrimination via Invariant Descriptors of Spherical Conformal Maps", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging - From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Washington D.C., USA, 2007, pp. 1316-1319
  19. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with Algebraic Functions", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2006, LNCS 4191, pp. 946-954
  20. Lui LM, Wang Y, Chan TF, and Thompson PM, " Landmark-based Brain Conformal Parametrization with Automatic Landmark Tracking Technique", International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2006, LNCS 4191, pp. 308-316
  21. Gutman B, Wang Y, Lui LM, Chan TF, and Thompson PM , " Hippocampal Surface Analysis Using Spherical Harmonic Function Applied to Surface Conformal Mapping ", 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, China, 2006, Vol. 3, pp. 964-967
  22. Lui LM, Wang Y, Chan TF and Thompson PM, "Automatic Landmark Tracking and Its Application to the Optimization of Brain Conformal Mapping", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, NY, Jun. 2006, Vol. 2, pp. 1784-1792
  23. Wang Y, Chiang MC, Toga AW, Thompson PM, " Surface Mutual Information for Brain Mapping", the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Florence, Italy, Jun. 11-15, 2006
  24. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Toga AW, Thompson PM, Yau S-T,, " Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization with Algebraic Functions", the12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Florence, Italy, Jun. 11-15, 2006.
  25. Lui LM, Wang Y, Chan TF, and Thompson PM, " Automatic Landmark Tracking and the Optimization of Brain Conformal Mapping", the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Florence, Italy, Jun. 11-15, 2006.
  26. Gutman B, Wang Y, Lui LM, Chan TF, and Thompson PM, " Hippocampal Surface Analysis Using Spherical Harmomic Functions Applied to Surface Conformal Mapping", the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Florence, Italy, Jun. 11-15, 2006.
  27. Lui LM, Wang Y, Chan TF and Thompson PM, "Automatic Landmark Tracking Applied to Optimize Brain Conformal Mapping", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Arlington, VA, Apr. 2006, pp. 205-208
  28. Wang Y, Jo I, Wong S, Yau S-T, Chan TF, " Segmentation and Tracking of 3D Neuron Microscopy Images using a PDE based Method and Connected Component Labeling Algorithm", Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, IEEE/NLM, Bethesda, MD, USA, Jul. 2006, pp. 72-73
  29. Wang Y, Chiang M-C, and Thompson PM, "Mutual Information-based 3D Surface Matching with Applications to Face Recognition and Brain Mapping", 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, China, Oct. 2005, pp. 527-534
  30. Wang Y, Gu X, Hayashi KM, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Surface Parameterization using Riemann Surface Structure", 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, China, Oct. 2005, pp. 1061-1066
  31. Lui LM, Wang Y, Chan TF, " PDE on manifold using global conformal parametrization", Variational, Geometric, and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision: Third International Workshop, VLSM 2005, Beijing, China, Oct. 16, 2005, pp. 307-319
  32. Wang Y, Chiang M-C, and Thompson PM, "Automated Surface Matching using Mutual Information Applied to Riemann Surface Structures", Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2005: 8th International Conference, Palm Springs, CA, USA, Oct. 26-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 666-674
  33. Wang Y, Gu X, Hayashi KM, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Brain Surface Parameterization using Riemann Surface Structure", Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2005: 8th International Conference, Palm Springs, CA, USA, Oct. 26-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 657-665
  34. Wang Y, Lui LM, Chan TF and Thompson PM, "Optimization of Brain Conformal Mapping with Landmarks", Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Internvention - MICCAI 2005: 8th International Conference, Palm Springs, CA USA, Oct. 26-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, pp. 675-683
  35. Wang Y, Chiang M-C, and Thompson PM, "3D Surface Matching with Mutual Information and Riemann Surface Structures", Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), Honolulu, HI, USA, Aug. 2005, pp. 94-99
  36. Wang Y, Gu X, Hayashi KM, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization", Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), Honolulu, HI, USA, Aug. 2005, pp. 76-81
  37. Wang Y, Lui LM, Chan TF and Thompson PM, "Combination of Brain Conformal Mapping and Landmarks: A Variational Approach", Proceedings of the Eighth IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), Honolulu, HI, USA, Aug. 2005, pp. 70-75
  38. Wang Y, Gu X, Hayashi KM, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Brain Surface Parameterization with Holomorphic Differential Forms", 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Toronto, Canada, Jun. 12-16, 2005
  39. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Direct Painting Software for Tracing on 3D Brain Surfaces with Global Conformal Parameterization", 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Toronto, Canada, Jun. 12-16, 2005
  40. Wang Y, Lui LM, Chan TF and Thompson PM, "Optimization of Conformal Parameterization using Landmarks", 11th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Toronto, Canada, Jun. 12-16, 2005
  41. Jin M, Wang Y, Yau S-T and Gu X, "Optimal Global Conformal Surface Parameterization for Visualization", IEEE Visualization, Austin, TX, Oct. 2004, pp. 267-274
  42. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T " Volumetric Harmonic Brain Mapping using a Variational Method", 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 13-17, 2004
  43. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T " Volumetric Harmonic Brain Mapping", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), Washington D.C., Apr. 2004, pp. 1275-1278
  44. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T " Brain Surface Conformal Mapping and Brain Volumetric Harmonic Map with Variational Methods", SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2004
  45. Wang Y, Gu X, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, " Intrinsic Brain Surface Conformal Mapping using a Variational Method", Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, J. M. Fitzpatrick and M. Sonka (Eds.) Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5370, 2004, pp. 241-252
  46. Gu X, Wang Y, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, " Genus Zero Surface Conformal Mapping and Its Application to Brain Surface Mapping", C. Taylor and J. Alison Noble (Eds.), Information Processing in Medical Imaging,18th International Conference, IPMI 2003, Ambleside, UK, July 2003. Proceedings, pp. 172-184
  47. Gu X, Wang Y, Chan TF, Thompson PM and Yau S-T, "Brain Surface Conformal Mapping", 9th Annual Meeting of the Organization from Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), New York City, NY, Jun. 18-22, 2003
  48. Gu X, Wang Y, and Yau S-T, " Multiresolution Computation of Conformal Structures of Surfaces", International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies: CCCT '03. This paper won the best paper award in the session: Computing Technologies.
  49. Wang Y " Document Analysis: Table Structure Understanding and Zone Content Classification", PhD dissertation, University of Washington, June 2002.
  50. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, " A Study on the Document Zone Content Classification Problem", D. Lopresti, Hu J, and R. Kashi (Eds.), Document Image Analysis System V, 5th International Workshop DAS 2002, Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 2002. Proceedings, pp. 212 - 223.
  51. Wang Y and Hu J, " Detecting Tables in HTML Documents"", D. Lopresti, Hu J, and R. Kashi (Eds.), Document Image Analysis System V, 5th International Workshop DAS 2002, Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 2002. Proceedings, pp. 249 - 260. This paper won the best student paper award.
  52. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, " Table Detection Via Probability Optimization", D. Lopresti, Hu J, and R. Kashi (Eds.), Document Image Analysis System V, 5th International Workshop DAS 2002, Princeton, NJ, USA, Aug. 2002. Proceedings, pp. 272 - 282.
  53. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, " A Method for Document Zone Content Classification", 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2002, Vol. 3, pp. 196 - 199, Quebec City, Canada, Aug. 2002.
  54. Wang Y and Hu J " A Machine Learning Based Approach for Table Detection on The Web", The Eleventh International World Web Conference, WWW2002, pp. 242-250, Hawaii, USA, May 2002.
  55. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, " Automatic Table Ground Truth Generation and A Background-analysis-based Table Structure Extraction Method", Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition , pp. 528-532, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Sep. 10-13, 2001. A web page was created as a supplement for it.
  56. Wang Y, Haralick RM and Phillips IT, " Zone Content Classification and Its Performance Evaluation", Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition , pp. 540-544, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Sep. 10-13, 2001
  57. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, " Using Area Voronoi Tessellation to Segment Characters Connected to Graphics", Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC2001), Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Sep. 2001
  58. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, " Random Table and Its Ground Truth Automatic Generation: A Tool for Table Understanding Research", Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications (DLIA2001), Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Sep. 2001
  59. Wang Y, Haralick RM and Phillips IT, "Improvement of Zone Content Classification by Using Background Analysis", Fourth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10-13 December, 2000
  60. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, " Statistical-based Approach to Word Segmentation", 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR2000, Vol. 4, pp.555-558, Barcelona, Spain, September 2000.
  61. Aksoy S, Ye M, Schauf ML, Song M, Wang Y, Haralick RM, and et al., "Algorithm Performance Contest", 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2000, vol. 4, pp. 870-876. Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 2000.
  62. Wang Y, Phillips IT and Haralick RM, " From Image to SGML/XML Representation: One Method", International Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation and Its Applications (DLIA'99), Bangalore, India, September 1999
  63. Wang Y, Tang L, etc. " A New Method to Recognize Dimension Set and its Application in Architectural Engineering Drawings", Fifth International Conference on Computer Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Dec. 2~5, 1997, Shenzhen China
  64. Wang Y, " High-accuracy extraction and recognition of characters in engineering drawings", M.S. thesis, Dec. 1996. Some sample engineering drawings can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4.
  65. Wang Y, " Research and Implementation of a new postprocessing algorithm to the engineering drawing vectorization and recognition, based on strip cutting method", B.S. thesis, June, 1994

PRESENTATION

o International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2009
o Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2008
o Laboratory of Brain Processes, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
o Mathematics Department, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2007
o Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2006
o International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2006
o Areté Los Angeles, CA 2005
o Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2004
o IEEE Visualization 2004, Austin, TX, 2004
o Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department Seminar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, 2004
o Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Comp. Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 2004
o Mathematics Department, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 2004
o IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Washington DC, 2004
o SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 2004
o 5th International Workshop on Document Analysis System, Princeton, NJ, 2002
o Ecompex, Inc. 2002
o 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, WA 2001

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

o Referee for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
o Referee for Neuro Imaging journal
o Referee for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
o Referee for Communications in Information and Systems
o Referee for International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
o Referee for International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR01)
o Web Master for International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR01)