February 1, 2006

The promotion of CCGS researcher Wei Wang to Associate Professor with tenure has been approved as of fall 2005 in the Department of Computer Science.  Her promotion follows a string of recent awards and honors including an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award and a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship.  Dr. Wang received her PhD in computer science in 1999 from the University of California at Los Angeles.  She then spent three years as a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.  Since July 2002, she has been at UNC-Chapel Hill developing new data models and algorithms for data mining and bioinformatics. 

Wang CCGS webpage
Wang lab website