Dr. Jianwu Wang

About

Professor at the Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

Research interests

Big Data Analytics, Earth and Climate Informatics, Causal Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Computing, Earth AI

Teaching interests

Data Science, Big Data, Distributed Systems

Education

  • Postdoc, Computer Software and Application — University of California, San Diego (2010)
  • Postdoc, Control and Computer Engineering — Polytechnic University of Turin (2008)
  • Ph D, Computer Software and Theory — Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007)
    A Domain Oriented and Business User Friendly Service Model
  • BS, Computer Science and Technology — Tianjin University (2001)

Publications

  • Learning Subglacial Bed Topography from Sparse Radar with Physics-Guided Residuals 2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Bayu Adhi Tama, Jianwu Wang, Vandana Janeja, Mostafa Cham
  • Improving Greenland Bed Topography Mapping with Uncertainty-Aware Graph Learning on Sparse Radar Data 2025 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) Bayu Adhi Tama, Homayra Alam, Mostafa Cham, Omar Faruque, Jianwu Wang, Vandana Janeja
  • DeepTopoNet: A Framework for Subglacial Topography Estimation on the Greenland Ice Sheets 2025 ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL 2025) · pp. 943 - 954 Bayu Adhi Tama, Mansa Krishna, Homayra Alam, Mostafa Cham, Omar Faruque, Gong Cheng, Jianwu Wang, Mathieu Morlighem, Vandana Janeja
  • Correlation to Causation: A Causal Deep Learning Framework for Arctic Sea Ice Prediction 2025 2025 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops) · pp. 62-67 Emam Hossain, Muhammad Hasan Ferdous, Jianwu Wang, Aneesh Subramanian, Md Osman Gani
  • An edge-cloud integrated framework for flexible and dynamic stream analytics 2022 Future Generation Computer Systems Xin Wang, Azim Kahn, Jianwu Wang, Aryya Gangopadhyay, Carl Busart, Jade Freeman
  • Influence of the Three-dimensional Radiative Effects on Cloud Droplet Number Concentration Retrievals and their impacts on Aerosol Cloud Interaction Analysis Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics · Under Review Adeleke Ademakinwa, Daniel Miller, Zahid Tushar, Sanjay Purushotham, Jianwu Wang, Kerry Meyer, Steven Platnick, Zhibo Zhang
  • Team-Based Online Learning in Multidisciplinary Research and Instruction The 18th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'22) · Accepted Matthias K Gobbert, Wang

Creative Publications

  • An edge-cloud integrated framework for flexible and dynamic stream analytics 2022 Future Generation Computer Systems Xin Wang, Azim Kahn, Jianwu Wang, Aryya Gangopadhyay, Carl Busart, Jade Freeman

Presentations

  • Machine Learning Module for Big Data Analysis in Kepler 2015 The Eleventh Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference · University of California, Berkeley · Oral Presentation Mai H Nguyen, Daniel Crawl, Jianwu Wang, Ilkay Altintas

Grants and Contracts

  • CAIG: Accelerating Radiative Transfer for Aerosol Satellite Remote Sensing Test Beds using Physics-Informed Neural Network 2026 NSF · Sponsored Research · Currently Under Review Anin Puthukkudy (Principal), Xiaoguang Xu (Co-Principal), Jianwu Wang (Co-Principal)
  • Machine Learning Guided Clinician Well-being Metrics and Scheduling Tools Combining Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data and Surveys 2025 University of Maryland Baltimore County · Grant · Funded Sun Kai (Principal), Ian Stockwell (Co-Principal), Jianwu Wang (Co-Principal)
  • REU Site: Online Interdisciplinary Big Data Analytics in Science and Engineering 2024 NSF · Grant · Funded Matthias K Gobbert (Principal), Jianwu Wang (Co-Principal)
  • REU Supplement to: REU Site: Online Interdisciplinary Big Data Analytics in Science and Engineering 2024 NSF · Grant · Funded Matthias K Gobbert (Principal), Jianwu Wang (Co-Principal)
  • REU Site: Online Interdisciplinary Big Data Analytics in Science and Engineering 2021 NSF · Grant · Funded Jianwu Wang (Principal), Matthias K Gobbert (Co-Principal)
  • Systematically boosting clinical impact of linked open data in genetic medicine 2016 NIH · Grant · Not Funded Qian Zhu (Principal), Michael A Grasso (Other), Anupam Joshi (Other), Jianwu Wang (Other), Timothy W Finin (Other)
  • SI2-SSE: Intelligent Sensing Data Management Middleware 2016 national science foundation · Grant · Not Funded Jianwu Wang (Principal), Ting Zhu (Co-Principal)
  • Addressing Fundamental Sensing and Data Processing Problems in Sustainable Farms 2016 College of Engineering and Information Technology, UMBC · Grant · Funded Jianwu Wang (Co-Principal), Ting Zhu (Principal)
  • Industrial Scale Demonstration of Smart Manufacturing Achieving Transformational Energy Productivity Gains 2015 Department of Energy · SubContract · Funded
  • AI-Driven Modeling of Clinician Well-Being and Workforce Optimization Using Multi-Modal EHR Data and Knowledge Graphs National Institutes of Health · Grant · Currently Under Review Sun Kai (Principal), Ian Stockwell (Co-Principal), Karuna Joshi (Co-Principal), Jianwu Wang (Co-Principal)

Courses Taught

  • Distributed Systems IS 651 · Spring 2016
  • Distributed Systems IS 651 · Fall 2015