Juyang (John) Weng received the B.S. degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, all in computer science.
From September 1984 to Dec. 1988, he was a research assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In the summer of 1987 he was employed at IBM Los Angeles Scientific Center, Los Angeles. During Jan. 1989 - Oct. 1990, he was a researcher at Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, while adjunctively with Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. From Oct. 1990 to August 1992, he held a visiting assistant professor position at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. He is currently a professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. His current research interests include human-computer interactions, signal and image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, speech recognition, tactile recognition, language processing and understanding, biologically motivated models of cognitive development; humanoid robots (construction and training); visualization and virtual reality; neural networks; computer graphics; and machine intelligence.
He is the author or coauthor of over one hundred research articles and book chapters. He is a coauthor (with T. S. Huang and N. Ahuja) of the book Motion and Structure from Image Sequences (Springer-Verlag, 1993). He is the chairman of the Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is an editor-in-chief of International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. He was an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (1994-1997), a program co-chair of the NSF/DARPA Workshop on Development and Learning (WDL), held April, 5-7, 2000 at Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI (http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl/), and a program co-chair of the International Conference on Development and Learning 2002 (ICDL’02), held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June 12- 15, 2002 (http://www.egr.msu.edu/icdl02/). He initiated and supervised the SAIL (Self-organizing Autonomous Incremental Learner) and Dav projects, in which he and his coworkers have designed and custom built their SAIL and Dav robots for research on autonomous mental development.
To Weng's Home Page: http://web.cps.msu.edu/~weng/