Jingtao Wang

Phone: 510-642-8149 (W)
E-Mail: jingtaow@cs.berkeley.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jingtaow
 

Research Interests

• Human-Computer Interaction
• On-line Handwriting Recognition
• Statistical Machine Learning and its Applications

Education

• 8/ 2002 - Present: Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A
  • Advisor - Prof. John Canny
• 9/ 1996 - 7/ 1999: M.Eng. in Pattern Recognition, Institute of AI & Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
  • Advisor - Prof. Nanning Zheng  Thesis: "Character Detection and Recognition in Complex Scene"
• 9/ 1992 - 7/ 1996: B.Eng. in E.E., Department of Information and Control Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
  • Rank: 1st/33   GPA: 91.2/100

Research Experiences

•  8/ 2002 - Present: Ph.D. Student Researcher , Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
•  3/ 2001 - 8/ 2002: Staff Research Member, IBM China Research Lab., Beijing, China.
• 12/2000 - 8/ 2002: Team Lead, Handwriting Recognition Activities, IBM China Research Lab., Beijing, China 
•  7/1999 - 3/ 2001: Research Member, IBM China Research Lab., Beijing, China.
•  9/1996 - 7/1999: Research Assistant, Institute of AI & Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.

Selected Awards

• UC Berkeley Regent's Fellowship 2002-2003
• IBM CRL Leadership Communications Award, December, 2001
• IBM Research Annual Excellent  Performance, 2001, 2000 
• IBM Research Invention Achievement First Plateau Award, August 2001
• IBM Long Term Performance Plan (Stock Option) Award, June 2001, June 2000
• IBM Research Invention Achievement First Patent Application Award,  December. 1999
• Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, Xi'an Jiaotong University 1997
• First Class Aristek Enterprise Fellowship, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 1996
• National System Analyst Certificate on Computer Software by the State Council of China, 1996
• National Senior Software Engineer Certificate by the State Council of China, 1995
• 1st Place Winner, the 5th "Cait Cup" XJTU computer programming contest, 1993
• 1st Prize in XJTU Campus Advanced Mathematics Contest, 1993
• First Class Fellowship for Excellent Students, Xi'an Jiaotong Univerisity, 1992, 1994, 1995
• Second Class Fellowship for Excellent Students, Xi'an Jiaotong Univeristy, 1993

Recent Publications

• Wang, J., Zhai, S., Canny, J., Camera Phone Based Motion Sensing : Interaction Techniques, Applications and Performance Study, In ACM UIST 2006, Montreux, Switzerland, October 15-18, 2006
• Wang, J., Canny, J., End-User Place Annotation on Mobile Devices : A Comparative Study, In Work-In-Progress, CHI 2006, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, April 24-27, 2006
• Wang, J., Canny, J., TinyMotion: Camera Phone Based Interaction Methods, In alt.chi, CHI 2006, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, April 24-27, 2006
• Duan, Y., Wang, J., Kam, M., Canny, J., Privacy Preserving Link Analysis on Dynamic Weighted Graph, Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 11, pp141 - 159, Springer Science + Business Media Inc, 2005
• Duan, Y., Wang, J., Kam, M., Canny, J., A Secure Online Algorithm for Link Analysis on Weighted Graph, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Newport Beach, California, 21-23 April 2005
• Matthew, K., Wang, J., Iles, A., Tse, E., Chui, J., Glaser, D., Tarshish, O., Canny, J., Livenotes: A System for Cooperative and Augmented Note-Taking in Lectures, in Proc. of CHI 2005, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Portland, Oregon, 2-7 April 2005
• Wang, J., Canny, J., FingerSense - Augmenting Expressiveness of Physical Button by Fingertip Identification, in Extended Proc. of CHI 2004, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, 24-29 April 2004
• Wang, J., Mankoff, J., Theoretical and Architectural Support for Input Device Adaptation, in Proc. of CUU 2003, ACM Conference on Universal Usability. Vancouver, B.C., November 10-11, 2003
• Wang, J., Wang, Z., Su, H., Kumaki, A., Naitoh, A., Handwriting on the Move : Using PDA as the Pen Input Device for Laptop Computers, International Conference on Pervasive Computing 2002
• Wang, J. Zhai, S., Su, H., Chinese Input with Keyboard and Eye Tracking - An Anatomical Study, in Proc. of CHI 2001, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seattle, Washington, 31 March-5 April 2001, p349-356. 

Patents Filed/Pending (with IBM Global ID)

• [ARC9-2004-0008] Kristensson, P., Wang, J., Zhai, S., "System and Method for Recognizing Word Patterns in a Very Large Vocabulary Based on a Virtual Keyboard Layout", 2004
• [JP8-2001-0245] Wang, J., Su, H., "Thinkpad/Workpad Collaborative Handwriting Input", 2001
• [JP8-2000-0734] Wang, Q., Wang, J., "Sensory Memory based Invisible Internet Advertisement System", 2000
• [ARC9-2000-0134] Wang, J., Zhai, S., Su, H., "System and Method for Accelerating Chinese Text Input", 2000
• [JP8-1999-1005] Wang, J., Tang, D., Su, H., Wang, Q., "A Platform independent and user customizable input platform based on Internet browser", 1999

Membership

• Member of ACM, Member of SIGCHI