Wei Wang

Current

• Tech Lead/Software Development Manager at MediaNet Digital, LLC

Past

• Senior Staff Researcher at Motorola
• Research Assistant in Database and Multimedia Group at State University of New York at Buffalo
• Software Engineer at Cymfony

• Teaching Assistant in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at State University of New York

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Education

• State University of New York at Buffalo
• Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Computer Software

Wei Wang’s Summary

Software R&D Professional with broad knowledge and experience in leading/developing innovative software projects, including both in-depth technical background and hands-on experience in product-level details. Extensive working experience in international, multi-cultural backgrounds. Highly self-motivated, team-oriented, optimistic, and with strong problem solving capability. Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills. Always interested in working with people with passion in new technology to create novel, exciting and inspiring applications.

Wei Wang’s Specialties:

• Years of technical experience on data mining (multimedia mining and web mining), knowledge representation, multimedia processing and information retrieval, content-based image retrieval, machine learning, and multimedia database applications.
• Linux, UNIX, Windows, C/C++, Java (J2SE and J2ME), JavaScript, JSP, MATLAB, QT, RDF, SPARQL, SQL, Web Services, XML, XQuery, XSLT. Google APIs (Android API, AJAX API, Data APIs, Youtube API)

Wei Wang’s Experience

• Tech Lead/Software Development Manager

  MediaNet Digital, LLC

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

• Senior Staff Researcher

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2004 — June 2008 (3 years 9 months)

  Have been leading/developing award-winning research initiatives, including mobile multimedia consumption for sports events, seamless content consumption, mobile broadcast Java ME API, and mobile metadata communication.

• Research Assistant in Database and Multimedia Group

  State University of New York at Buffalo

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2000 — May 2004 (3 years 10 months)

  How to automatically understand the multimedia content remains a big challenge in both academia and industry world, yet it has a lot of potentials for building innovative and high-impact applications. During this position I have developed three approaches to perform automatic semantic indexing for digital images, based on which two systems: Webview and SemView were developed to address content-based image retrieval problem.

• Software Engineer

  Cymfony

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)

  Development of XML applications for a Question/Answering Semantic Web machine. Duties included the DTD and style-sheet design for answering XML file generated by the QA machine.

• Teaching Assistant in Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  State University of New York

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1999 — May 2000 (9 months)

  • Taught two undergraduate JAVA courses: Object-oriented Programming using Java (Fall 1999) and Data Structures using Java (Spring 2000)

Wei Wang’s Education

• State University of New York at Buffalo

  Ph.D. , Computer Science and Engineering , 1999 — 2004

• Xi'an Jiaotong University

  B.E. , Electrical Engineering , 1991 — 1995

Additional Information

Wei Wang’s Interests:

Digital Photography International Travel Badminton Playing New Technology and Opportunities

Wei Wang’s Groups:

IEEE

Wei Wang’s Honors:

• “Outstanding Performance Award” of 2006 for significant contributions to Motorola key standards programs in JSR 272: Mobile Broadcast API for Handheld Terminals. The JSR 272 specification was recognized as the “Most innovative Java ME JSR” at the 2006 Java One Conference.
• “Top one patent filing award” of 2005 for authored patent application “A Binary Schema Object for Efficient Metadata Communication and Processing in Mobile Environments” in Motorola Application Research Center.
• “Most innovative research concept” of 2005 for "Seamless Content Consumption" research initiative in Motorola Application Research Center.
• “Top 10% Outstanding Motorola Employee” in 2005.

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