Min Wu, Ph.D.
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Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering President-Elect (2022-2023) Email: minwu [@] umd [DOT] edu |
About me
Currently Univ. Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher & Associate Dean of Engineering
On the ECE faculty since 2001 at the University of Maryland, College Park, and as Full Professor since 2011.
Education: B.E. degree in EE - Automation and B.A. degree in economics, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (1996, highest honors); Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, Princeton University (2001).
Main research interests: information security and forensics, multimedia signal processing, and applications of data science/machine learning in health, wireless sensing, IoT, and digital humanities.
Co-authored two books and 200+ refereed publications, and holds 24 granted patents on multimedia, security/forensics, and sensing AI. Received paper awards from IEEE, ACM, and EURASIP. (Google Scholar)
Awards/Honors: U.S. NSF CAREER award (2002); TR100 Young Innovator Award from MIT Technology Review Magazine (2004); ONR Young Investigator Award (2005); Computer World “40 Under 40” IT Innovator Award (2007); the Daily Record Innovator of the Year Award (2012); IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2015-16); IEEE Harriett B. Rigas Education Award (2019).
Elected IEEE Fellow (2011), AAAS Fellow (2017), and Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI, 2019) for outstanding contributions to multimedia forensics, security, and signal processing.
Major IEEE and professional activities:
President-Elect (2022-2023), IEEE Signal Processing Society: Elected by members to the leadership of this professional society consisting of about 19K members; will become the first woman-of-color to lead the society over its 75-year history.
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2015–2017): Led this high-impact publication through a major redesign, reaching record-high impact in both popularity/impact factors and prestige metric, building synergy with other activities to raise SPS’ visibility & global outreach.
Technical Committee (TC) Chair, SPS Info. Forensics and Security TC; also elected as members of MMSP TC & IVMSP TC.
Vice President - Finance, IEEE Signal Processing Society (2010-2012): instrumental to establish and implement the SPS Travel Grant and manage strategic investment in many activities.
Major Conference Leadership: General Co-Chair – ICIP 2017 Beijing; Technical Co-Chair – ICIP 2013 Melbourne, Australia; Finance Chair – ICASSP 2007 Hawaii. Journal editor of IEEE JSTSP, T-IP, T-IFS, SPL.
IEEE Fellow Judge (elected 2019-2022), IEEE Board-appointed Ad-Hoc Committee on Fellow Process (2022), IEEE Fellow Strategic Planning Subcommittee (elected 2020, 2022), and SPS Fellow Evaluator and Vice-Chair; TAB Global Society Initiative Committee; TAB Women & Diversity Committees; TAB Future Financial Stability Committee.
SPS Meritorious Awardee in 2016
Lead Organizer, IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2016 on power signatures for media forensics, the first SP Cup effort that brought the synergy of hardware, sensing, and analytics to SPS global undergrad competitions.
Board of Governors, IEEE SPS and APSIPA; Board Member, Asia-American Scholar Forum (AASF) and Tsinghua Alumni Academia Club of North America (TAAC); Advisory Board, Automation Department of Tsinghua University.