Wu Quan
BSc MEng BIT PhD UTS
Research Analyst
wu.quan@sydney.edu.au
Room 1318
C13 - St James Campus
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9114 1809
Fax: +61 2 9114 1722
Dr Wu Quan achieved his Bachelor of Science in Information Science in 1999 and Master of Engineering in Computer Software and Theory in 2002 both with first class honours from Beijing Institute of Technology (China). He worked as analyst programmer from 1999 to 2003 with several organizations including Motorola (China) and the Chinese Ministry of Education. He received three years of scholarship from the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney in 2003 to study for his PhD in Computing Sciences which he finished in 2006. His PhD study was focused on information visualization and visual data mining. After then, he worked as a research officer with the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney, where he did several projects on graph drawing and visual analytics. He moved over to the ITLS in September, 2008 and is currently working with Dr. John Rose and his team. Wu has one book and several journal and conference papers in press. He has chaired a few international conferences. His research interests include Information Visualization, Graph Drawing, Visual Analytics and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.