Help Us Welcome New Faces to UM IDSC!

Fall 2022, People

by Helen Gynell

August 30, 2022

IDSC is pleased to welcome four new team members.

David R. Chapman, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and IDSC AI and Machine Learning
Mingzhe Chen, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and IDSC AI and Machine Learning
Jamie Deng, Student Researcher
IDSC AI and Machine Learning
Yusen Wu, Assistant Scientist
IDSC AI and Machine Learning

David Chapman

David R. Chapman, PhD, comes to IDSC from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). David’s appointment is in the Department of Computer Science, where he’ll be teaching classes and doing research, but he’s already working with the Miller School of Medicine and planning to work with experts in other schools. Read his profile in this issue: Meet the Scientist Fast-Tracking Improvements in Digital Image Diagnostics.

Mingzhe Chen

Dr. Mingzhe Chen is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Miami. He received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, working with Prof. Walid Saad. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, working with Prof. H. Vincent Poor. In 2022, he worked as an AI Researcher at Ericsson Research, USA. Read his profile in this issue: IDSC AI and Machine Learning Welcomes Mingzhe Chen.

Jamie Deng

Jia “Jamie” Deng’s career began as a CPA/Analyst after graduating from the University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2003 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance and International Business. Jamie worked for some time in Shenzhen before returning to the University of Auckland to receive a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors in 2019. After moving to California in 2019, Jamie attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and received a Master of Science in Computer Science in 2020. Currently a PhD student at UM, Jamie is working on NLP (natural language processing) and computer vision with the IDSC AI and Machine Learning team under Dr. Yelena Yesha.

Yusen Wu

Dr. Yusen Wu is an Assistant Scientist at the University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing. He received his PhD in Computer Science Department from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2022. During his graduate studies, he was one of UMBC CARTA members researching Permissioned Blockchain, Data Security, Edge Computing, and Byzantine Fault Tolerance.

Before joining UMBC, he had two years of industry experience as a software engineer on the Distributed Systems.

Tags: David R. Chapman, Jamie Deng, Mingzhe Chen, Yusen Wu

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