Lutcher Brown Fellowship
Unfilled chairs and professorships are used to support recently tenured faculty and help accelerate the success of their research through fellowships. The fellowships are one-year, nonrecurring honorific appointments. Fellows are nominated by academic leadership and selected by the provost through a competitive process.
Wei Wang, Ph.D.
Lutcher Brown Fellowship
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Wei Wang’s research interests lie in the intersection of system software, cloud computing, applied artificial intelligence, software engineering, and computer science education. His current research focuses on designing AI- and cloud-enabled computer systems to support people with disabilities and chronic diseases.
Wang’s research has been featured in top refereed journals and conference proceedings, including the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, the European Conference on Computer Systems, the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, the European Conference on Computer Vision, the ACM Joint Symposium on Foundation of Software Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He has an h-index of 18 and over 900 citations to date.
His work has also been supported by notable organizations like the National Science Foundation and the U.S. National Security Agency.
Wang’s research has been recognized with multiple awards, including Best Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE Cloud Summit, the UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Research in 2023, the UTSA President’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Innovation and Impact in 2022, and the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in 2019.
Wang also demonstrates commitment to his students in the classroom. He has been on dozens of dissertation and non-thesis committees and served as an academic advisor for graduate and undergraduate students. He also had four Ph.D. students successfully defend their dissertations. In 2019 and 2023, he received the Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award from the Department of Computer Science.
Wang earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UTSA in 2016, he was a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer at the University of Virginia.
