ContactPhone: 617-287-6428Fax: 617-287-6438Email: wei.ding@umb.eduOffice LocationM-3-201-7Mailing AddressDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Massachusetts BostonATTN: Wei Ding100 Morrissey Blvd.Boston, MA 02125-3393 |
News2023, IEEE Fellow2023, Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association2022, Director's Award, CISE, National Science Foundation2022 Spring, NIH PI Award, R01, Use of accelerometer and gyroscope data to improve precision of estimates of physical activity type and energy expenditure in free-living adults has been selected for funding. May 2019 - May 2023, on leave, served as Program Director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systmes (IIS), National Science Foundation
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Wei Ding earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2008. She has been a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston since then. She served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation's Division of Information Intelligent Systems from 2019 to 2023. Her responsibilities included overseeing Information Integration and Informatics, Smart Health and Biomedical Research, Formal Methods in the Field, Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning, and Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems. Wei's research interests encompass data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational semantics, with applications in health sciences, astronomy, geosciences, and environmental sciences. Her contributions consist of over 140 referenced research papers, a published book, and three patents. She serves as an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), and Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). Wei also served on the editorial boards of Journal of Information System Education (JISE), Journal of Big Data, and Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal. She received the NSF Director's Award in 2022, the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), the Best Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI), and the Best Poster Presentation award at the 2008 ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPAITAL GIS). Wei was honored with the 2019 WISAY Distinguished Woman in Science Award from Yale University, the 2018 Outstanding Alumni Award, and the Best PhD Work Award between 2007 and 2010 from the University of Houston. Her research projects have been funded by NSF, NIH, NASA, and DOE. She is an IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and an ACM Senior Member.
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