Benjamin W. Wah

Benjamin Wan-Sang Wah (* 1952 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese computer scientist .

Wah went to school in Hong Kong and studied electrical engineering and computer science at Columbia University and at the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his PhD. From 1979 he taught at Purdue University ; from 1985 he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he retired in 2011. He was also director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore from 2008 to 2009 . After he was visiting professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1998/99 , he was adjunct professor there from 1999 to 2003 and is now provost and professor there.

He deals with non-linear programming and optimization, signal processing in multimedia (e.g. algorithms to compensate for data loss) and artificial intelligence.

In 2006 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award . He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He was also President of the IEEE Computer Society .

Wah is editor of the Wiley encyclopedia of computer science and engineering (2009)

Fonts

• Data Management on distributed data bases , UMI Research Press 1981
• with G.-J. Li Computers for artificial intelligence applications: tutorial , IEEE Computer Society Press 1986
• Editor with CV Ramamoorthy Computers for artificial intelligence processing , Wiley 1990
• Editor with Pankaj Mehra: Artificial neural networks: concepts and theory , IEEE Computer Society Press 1992

Web links

• Homepage in Hong Kong
• Homepage at the University of Illinois