2017年7月21日，纽约大学（New York University）Tandon工程学院（Tandon School of Engineering）Yao Wang教授来访南京大学电子科学与工程学院CITE & Vision实验室。王教授分享了她在NYU的Video Lab的各项研究工作，包括视频传输，内容挖掘，和基于深度学习的医学图像处理等。报告会后王教授和CITE & Vision的学生们进行了更加深度的交流，后续将会深度开展各项合作。
Yao Wang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California at Santa Barbara in 1990. Since 1990, she has been on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic School of Engineering of New York University (formerly Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY). She was on sabbatical leave at Princeton University in 1998 and at Thomson Corporate Research, Princeton, in 2004-2005. She was a consultant with AT&T Labs - Research, formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories, from 1992 to 2000. Her research areas include video communications, multimedia signal processing, and medical imaging. She is the leading author of a textbook titled Video Processing and Communications, and has published over 250 papers in journals and conference proceedings. She has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. She received New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology in the Young Investigator Category in year 2000. She was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2004 for contributions to video processing and communications. She is a co-winner of the IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award in the Field of Communications Systems in 2004, and a co-winner of the IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communication Technical Committee Best Paper Award in 2011. She was a keynote speaker at the 2010 International Packet Video Workshop. She received the Overseas Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Natural Science Foundation of China in 2005 and was named Yangtze River Lecture Scholar in Tsinghua University by the Ministry of Education of China in 2007.