Yao Wang

Yao Wang is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and an affiliated appointment in the Radiology Department of NYU School of Medicine. Her research interests include Image and Video Processing, Video Compression and Transport, Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Health. Wang joined the faculty of Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 1990 as an assistant professor and became a professor in 2000. She has been the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at NYU Tandon since 2019. She authored the textbook Video Processing and Communications and has served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. She was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 2004 for her contributions to video processing and communications.

Yao Wang is a professor at New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, specializing in networked video applications, computer vision, machine learning, and medical image processing. His research focuses on improving video communication through error control, concealment, and coding techniques. He has contributed significantly to multimedia content analysis, audio-visual scene segmentation, and perceptual quality assessment of video. His work also explores video transport over ad hoc networks, multiple description coding, and image compression using non-local attention optimization. Wang's research addresses challenges in robust video delivery, error resilience, and efficient multimedia processing.