Zhen Jane Wang is a Chinese-Canadian signal processing researcher whose research includes work on statistical signal processing, image fusion, digital video fingerprinting, biological network inference, and deep learning. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, [1] and the editor-in-chief of IEEE Signal Processing Letters. [2]
Wang graduated from Tsinghua University in 1996. She went to the University of Connecticut for graduate study in electrical engineering, earning a master's degree in 2002 and completing her Ph.D. in 2002. Her doctoral supervisor there was Peter K. Willett. [1]
After postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2002 to 2004, Wang joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia in 2004. [1]
She is editor-in-chief of the signal processing journal IEEE Signal Processing Letters. [2]
In 2017, Wang was elected as an IEEE Fellow, "for contributions to statistical signal processing for multimedia security and brain data analytics". [3] Wang is a Fellow of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, elected into the cohort of 2017. [4] She was elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2018. [5]