Mao, Wenji

Biography

Education 2003-2006  Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California 2001-2003  M.Eng. in Computer Science, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California 1990-1993  M.Sc. in Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (with honors) 1986-1990  B.Sc. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University (with honors)   Working Experience 1990-1993  M.Sc. student at Mathematics Institute, CAS, under the supervision of Prof. Ruqian Lu. Thesis work on “Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from English Textbook and Automatic Generation of ICAI Systems”, and participation in the key national project “Expert systems development environment (Tianma)”. 1993-1999  Faculty of Computer Science at Graduate School, CAS and Director of the Intelligent Systems Development Laboratory. Delivered AI courses to graduate students in each academic year; Took active part in NNSFC projects, National “863” High-Tech and National Key Fundamental Research projects in China 1999-2001  Research scientist at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Key member of the EU project “Social Aid Interactive Development” and DFKI in-house project “Presence” 2001-2006  Research assistant at Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California. Involved in the projects MRE (Mission Rehearsal Exercise) and SASO-ST (Stability and Support Operations - Simulation and Training); Researched on the AI and modeling techniques for multi-agent multi-modal interactions in virtual training and entertainment; Developed the first general validated computational framework of social causality and social judgment based on psychological theory 2006.9-    Associate professor at Institute of Automation, CAS. Currently conduct research on intelligent information processing, computational intelligence, social computing and security informatics. Education 2003-2006  Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California 2001-2003  M.Eng. in Computer Science, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California 1990-1993  M.Sc. in Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (with honors) 1986-1990  B.Sc. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University (with honors)   Working Experience 1990-1993  M.Sc. student at Mathematics Institute, CAS, under the supervision of Prof. Ruqian Lu. Thesis work on “Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from English Textbook and Automatic Generation of ICAI Systems”, and participation in the key national project “Expert systems development environment (Tianma)”. 1993-1999  Faculty of Computer Science at Graduate School, CAS and Director of the Intelligent Systems Development Laboratory. Delivered AI courses to graduate students in each academic year; Took active part in NNSFC projects, National “863” High-Tech and National Key Fundamental Research projects in China 1999-2001  Research scientist at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Key member of the EU project “Social Aid Interactive Development” and DFKI in-house project “Presence” 2001-2006  Research assistant at Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California. Involved in the projects MRE (Mission Rehearsal Exercise) and SASO-ST (Stability and Support Operations - Simulation and Training); Researched on the AI and modeling techniques for multi-agent multi-modal interactions in virtual training and entertainment; Developed the first general validated computational framework of social causality and social judgment based on psychological theory 2006.9-    Associate professor at Institute of Automation, CAS. Currently conduct research on intelligent information processing, computational intelligence, social computing and security informatics.

Research Interest

Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Agents, Social Modeling and Social Computing, Intelligent Information Processing