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Angela Wu Prof Emerita Computer Science

Degrees
PhD, Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park<br> MS, Mathematics, Cornell University<br>BS, Mathematics, Villanova University

Languages Spoken
Chinese
Bio
Angela Wu received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1978. From 1978 to 1980, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. In 1980 she joined the faculty of 麻豆果冻传媒 as an Associate Professor and became a Full Professor in 1985. Her research and publications cover a wide range of areas including computer vision, parallel algorithms and computational geometry. She is particularly interested in algorithms and data structures for geometric problems with applications in image processing and pattern recognition. In 1993, Dr. Wu co-founded the Annual Vision Geometry Conference to promote the use of geometric techniques in computer vision, and she served as Conference Chair for 15 years. Since 1998, Dr. Wu has been on the Executive Council of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Honor Society for Computing Sciences. She was International President of Upsilon Pi Epsilon in 2008.
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Partnerships & Affiliations


  • Executive Council Member, (1998 鈥 2010);聽 International President (2002-2003, 2008-2009)

  • George Washington University Computer Science Department
    Computer Science External Advisory Board (2003 鈥 2005)

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

  • Dr. Wu鈥檚 research and publications cover a wide range of areas including computer vision, parallel algorithms and computational geometry.聽 She is particularly interested in algorithms and data structures for geometric problems with applications in image processing and pattern recognition.

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • 麻豆果冻传媒 Mellon Distinguished Award for Senior Faculty, 1988
  • 麻豆果冻传媒 College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1997

Selected Publications

  • 鈥淎 practical approximation algorithm for the LMS line estimator鈥, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Volume 51, Issue 5, 1 (2007), 2461-2486.
  • 鈥淎 Local Search Approximation Algorithm for k-Means Clustering鈥, Journal of Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications Vol. 28 (2004), 89-112
  • 鈥淎n efficient k-means clustering algorithm: analysis and implementation鈥, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 24, (2002), 881-892.
  • 鈥淎pproximating large convolutions in digital images鈥, IEEE Trans. Image Processing (2001), 1826-2835.
  • 鈥 Parallel image processing鈥, Foundations of Image Understanding, L. S. Davis, ed., Kluwer Academic (2001), 157-180
  • 鈥淐enters of sets of pixels鈥, Discrete Applied Mathematics 103, (2000), 297-306.
  • "An Optimal Algorithm for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching Fixed Dimensions", Journal of the ACM 45, 6 (1998), 891-923.
  • "Embedding of tree networks into hypercubes", Interconnection Networks For High-Performance Parallel Computers, I. D. Scherson and A. S. Youssef, Eds. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, (1994), 532-543.