To Weng's Home Page: http://web.cps.msu.edu/~weng/
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 research professor position at Beckman Institute, 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 research interests lie in the intersection of the general fields of computer science and engineering, brain science, and cognitive science. He and his coworkers study mental architectures; computational models of autonomous development for vision, audition, touch, behaviors and motivational systems in biological and engineered systems; and techniques that enable and facilitate autonomous development of mental skills. Engineering applications include pattern recognition, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, robotics, sequential decision-making, and human-computer interactions.
He
is the author or coauthor of over two 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 an editor-in-chief of International Journal of Humanoid Robotics and a
member of the Governing Board of International Neural Network Society.
He was the
Chairman of the Governing Board of the multidisciplinary International Conferences
on Development and Learning (ICDL) (2005-2007),
http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~triesch/icdl/), chairman of the Autonomous Mental
Development Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
(2004-2005), an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine
Intelligence (2001-2004), an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Image
Processing
(1994-1997), a program 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
chair of the International Conference on Development and Learning 2002
(ICDL 2002), held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June
12- 15, 2002 (http://www.egr.msu.edu/icdl02/), a general chair of
the International Conference on Development and Learning 2008
(ICDL 2008) held at Monterey, CA Aug. 9-12, 2008
(http://www.icdl08.org/) and the general chair of
the International Conference on Development and Learning 2009
(ICDL 2009) held at Shanghai, China, June 5-7, 2009
(http://www.icdl09.org/).
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/