Jun Wang

Jun Wang serves as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati (2002) and is actively involved in academic leadership roles, including associate editor positions for IEEE Transactions journals and organizing major conferences like the IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications. His research focuses on big data analytics, traffic safety modeling, and high-performance computing systems.

Wang has received multiple prestigious awards, including the NSF Early Career Award (2009), DOE Early Career PI Award (2005), and UCF Research Incentive Awards. His work emphasizes developing efficient data storage solutions, optimizing energy use in data centers, and creating crash modification factor tools for transportation safety analysis.

Recent research trends include long-term safety evaluations of traffic policies, pavement maintenance impacts, and legislative effects on motorcyclist fatalities. His publications highlight methodological advancements in empirical Bayes techniques and cross-state safety performance function transferability.