
Wesley Chu
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS
COMPUTER SCIENCE
6266G Boelter Hall
Email: wwc@cs.ucla.eduPhone: (310) 825-4740
Fax: (310) 825-7578
Websites
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION
PhD (1966) Stanford University, B.S. and M.S. degrees (EE) from the University of Michigan
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- IEEE Fellow for contribution of multiplexing technique and file allocation in computers (1978).
- IEEE Meritorious Service Award, associate editor for Computer Network and Distributed Processing (1983).
- IEEE Computer Certificate of Appreciation for Significant Service to the IEEE First International Workshop on System Management (1994).
- IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member (1996).
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for contributions to Intelligent Information Systems (2003).
- IEEE Life Fellow (2004)
- Keynote Speaker
- The 6th Brazilian Distributed Database Conference on Cooperative Database Systems, 1991.
- Scientific Database Research at the 12th International Conference on ER Approach, Texas, 1993.
- Knowledge Based Medical Image Systems at the Tenth International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Kusadasi, Turkey, 1995.
- Knowledge-based Information Management for Biomedical Applications at the 5th IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003.
- A Knowledge-based Medical Digital Library at the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE, Los Angeles, California, July 2006
- Plenary Speaker
- Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constructs at the Tenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'97), North Carolina, October 1997.
- Intelligent Database Systems at the International Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, Grand Bahama Island, Grand Bahamas Island, 1997.
- Knowledge-Based Medical Image Retrieval at the High Performance Database Research Workshop, Florida International University, Florida, 1997.
- Awards
- Best paper award for paper presented at the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2000.
- 2nd best paper award for student paper presented at the American Medical Information Association Congress, 2002.
- 3rd best paper award for student paper presented at the American Medical Information Association Congress, 2003.
- Awarded "Certificate of Merit" for the Medical Digital Library (MDL) demonstration presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 2003.
- Special Recognitions
- Invited by United Nations (1984) and World Bank (1987) as a member of scientific delegates to consult and lecture on Computer Communications and Networks, and Distributed Data Bases in People's Republic of China.
- Selected by National Science Council as a delegate scientist to visit Taiwan and give invited lecture series (1992).
- KMeD as a feature article on Cutting Edge Technology related to content-based medical image retrieval in the Los Angeles Times, Business Section, August 4, 1997.