Patrick S. P. Wang

Timeline

1. 1985–1990

   Harvard Extension and the MIT AI Lab

   He begins as adjunct faculty in computer science at Harvard University Extension School in 1985, and he is a Visiting Scientist at the MIT AI Lab from 1989 to 1990. His degrees are a BSEE from National Chiao Tung University, an MSEE from National Taiwan University, an MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a PhD in computer science from Oregon State University.

2. 1992–1996

   Chairing the IAPR SSPR committee

   He chairs the IAPR committee TC-2 on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition for four years, from 1992 to 1996. He also organizes the SSPR'96 workshop in Leipzig.

3. 1994

   An IAPR Fellowship

   He becomes a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 1994, cited for contributions to pattern recognition, optical character recognition and service to the IAPR.

4. 1996

   Guest professor at Magdeburg

   He is elected Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor at the Graphics and Simulations Lab of the University of Magdeburg in 1996.

5. 2006–2007

   ICPR 2006 and a biometrics book

   He is a general conference co-chair of the IAPR's 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, held in Hong Kong in August 2006. From 2006 to 2007 he is an iCORE visiting professor at the University of Calgary's Biometrics Technology Laboratory, where he publishes his 23rd book, Image Pattern Recognition: Synthesis and Analysis in Biometrics, with World Scientific in July 2007.

6. 2007

   Award at IEEE BIBE 2007

   He receives the IEEE-SMC Outstanding Achievement Award at the IEEE BIBE 2007 conference at Harvard Medical in 2007.

7. By 2008

   Co-founding editor of IJPRAI

   He is a co-founding chief editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, with Xiaoyi Jiang, and of World Scientific's MPAI book series, with Horst Bunke. In 2012 he is still founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal.

8. As of October 2026

   Professor Emeritus at Northeastern

   He is Professor Emeritus of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University in Boston. He has published over 300 technical papers, 26 books and 3 US and European patents in AI, pattern recognition, computer vision, OCR, image processing and biometrics.