User:Yao-Yi Chiang

Yao-Yi Chiang is a Lecturer in Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the USC Information Sciences Institute. He received his Master's and Ph.D. both in computer science from the University of Southern California; his Bachelor degree in information management from the National Taiwan University. Dr. Chiang's current research lies at the intersection of pattern recognition, information integration, and geographic information science. In particular, he focuses on automatic techniques for geospatial data fusion. Dr. Chiang has worked extensively on the problem of automatically extracting and recognizing geographic information from raster maps and using the recognized information to integrate and interoperate with other geospatial data. He has written and co-authored several papers on automatically fusing map and imagery as well as automatic and interactive map processing approaches. Prior to USC, he worked as a research scientist for Geosemble Technologies, which was founded based on a patent on geospatial-data fusion techniques that he co-invented.