Wesley Chu

Faculty Information

Research and Interests

Notable Publications and Books

Selected 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 6^th Brazilian Distributed Database Conference on Cooperative Database Systems, 1991.
- Scientific Database Research at the 12^th 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 5^th IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003.
- A Knowledge-based Medical Digital Library at the 15^th 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 19^th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2000.
- 2^nd best paper award for student paper presented at the American Medical Information Association Congress, 2002.
- 3^rd 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 89^th 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.