Angela Yuen Wu is an American computer scientist, a professor emerita at

American University The American University (AU or American) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90-acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spri ...

. She is known for her research in

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

and computational geometry, and especially for her highly cited publications on

k-means clustering ''k''-means clustering is a method of vector quantization, originally from signal processing, that aims to partition of a set, partition ''n'' observations into ''k'' clusters in which each observation belongs to the cluster (statistics), cluste ...

and

nearest neighbor search Nearest neighbor search (NNS), as a form of proximity search, is the optimization problem of finding the point in a given set that is closest (or most similar) to a given point. Closeness is typically expressed in terms of a dissimilarity function: ...

. Other topics in her research include embeddings of tree-structured parallel systems into the

hypercube internetwork topology In computer networking, hypercube networks are a type of network topology used to connect and route data between multiple processing units or computers. Hypercube networks consist of nodes, which form the vertices of squares to create an intern ...

and

voxel In computing, a voxel is a representation of a value on a three-dimensional regular grid, akin to the two-dimensional pixel. Voxels are frequently used in the Data visualization, visualization and analysis of medical imaging, medical and scient ...

-based object representations.

Education

Wu did her undergraduate studies at

Villanova University Villanova University is a Private university, private Catholic Church, Catholic research university in Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by the Order of Saint Augustine in 1842 and named after Thomas of Villanova, Saint Thom ...

, majoring in mathematics, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. She completed her studies with a doctorate in computer science from the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

in 1978. Her dissertation, ''Cellular Graph Automata'', was supervised by

Azriel Rosenfeld Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 – February 22, 2004) was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, where ...

Professional service

Wu was the founder of the annual Vision Geometry Conference, and for many years served as the chair of the conference. She became president of

Upsilon Pi Epsilon Upsilon Pi Epsilon () is the first honor society dedicated to the computing and information disciplines. Informally known as UPE, Upsilon Pi Epsilon was founded in 1967, at Texas A&M University. It has more than 300 chapters worldwide. About U ...

for the 2002–2003 term, and again for 2008–2009.

Selected publications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Angela Y. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists Researchers in geometric algorithms Villanova University alumni Cornell University alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni 21st-century American women