Interview with Professor Feng Wang
Interviewee: Professor Feng Wang (Associate Professor of Applied Computing at ASU West) What do you like best/worst about being a professor? (Best): The best part of being a professor is the impact I can have as part of the three components. One is teaching, one is research, and one is service. For teaching, I do have some flexibility of choosing what course I teach based on my expertise and my interest. For my research, I have complete flexibility to choose what topic or problem that interests me. For service, I sometimes choose professional services. The impact of being a professor can be significant. When you are a student a good professor can inspire you, a bad professor can make you stop dreaming about things and believing in yourself. Sometimes you make a mistake and sometimes you learn from those mistakes. One of the research I am doing right now is a real time Flu Civilian system. Basically what we do is collect flu tweets with the key words that would be found in