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

American University The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...

. She is known for her research in

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

and

computational geometry Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems ar ...

, 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 ''n'' observations into ''k'' clusters in which each observation belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean (cluster centers or ...

and nearest neighbor search. Other topics in her research include embeddings of tree-structured parallel systems into the hypercube internetwork topology and voxel-based object representations.

Education

Wu did her undergraduate studies at Villanova University, majoring in mathematics, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from Cornell University. She completed her studies with a doctorate in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1978. Her dissertation, ''Cellular Graph Automata'', was supervised by Azriel Rosenfeld.

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 (): International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, is the first honor society dedicated to the discipline of the computing and information disciplines. Informally known as UPE, Upsilon Pi Epsilon was ...

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