Dongrui Wu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Office: ICT 206a (Marina Del Rey)
EEB 413 (Main campus)
Mobile: 213-595-3269
Short Biography
Dongrui Wu received a B.E in Automatic Control from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, in 2003, an M.Eng in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2005, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 2009 (Advisor: Professor Jerry M. Mendel). He is currently working as Postdoctoral Research Associate with Dr. Thomas Parsons in the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and Professor Shrikanth Narayanan in the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL). His research interests include computational intelligence, control theories and applications, physiological signal processing, and machine learning. Dongrui Wu has more than 20 publications, including a book "Perceptual Computing: Aiding People in Making Subjective Judgments'' (co-authored with J. M. Mendel, to appear in May 2010 by Wiley-IEEE), and a Best Student Paper Award from the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. Dongrui Wu is a member of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu.
Education
PhD, Electrical Engineering GPA: 3.9/4.0 May 2009
MS, Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing) GPA: 3.9/4.0 August 2008
M. Eng, Electrical Engineering GPA: 5.0/5.0 June 2005
B.E, Automation GPA: 3.7/4.0 July 2003
Honors & Awards
Postdoctoral Fellowshi, Institute for Creative Technologies, USC 2009
Viterbi Best Thesis Award Nominee, University of Southern California 2009
Research Assistantship, University of Southern California 2005 - 2009
SPE Los Angeles Basin Section Graduate Scholarship 2008
Walter Karplus Summer Research Grant, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2007
Travel Grant, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, London, UK 2007
Best Presentation in Session, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2006
Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, Singapore 2003 - 2005
Liu Yongling Special Scholarship, Univ. of Science & Technology of China 2003
Outstanding Student Scholarship, Univ. of Science & Technology of China 1999 - 2003