Wenzheng Tao is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Utah, advised by Dr. Ross Whitaker and Dr. Sarang Joshi. His research centers on probabilistic machine learning, with a particular emphasis on large-scale data analysis for real-world applications. Wenzheng is a graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Dr. Ross Whitaker received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1993. From 1994 to 1996, he worked at the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich Germany as a research scientist in the User Interaction and Visualization Group. From 1996 to 2000, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Since then, he has been at the University of Utah, where he is a Professor in the School of Computing and a faculty member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. He teaches image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. His research interests mainly focus on Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Medical Imaging, Computer Graphics and Visualization, 3D Signal Processing and Surface Reconstruction, and Medical Image Analysis.
