Education

Ph. D. (E.E.)	Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA	1973
M.S.E.E	Duke University, Durham, NC, USA	1970
B.S.E.E.	National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan	1967

Memberships/Fellowships

1.	Fellow of International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
2.	Senior Member of IEEE Computer Society
3.	Member of the Chinese Institute of Engineers
4.	Member of the Chinese Electrical Engineering Society
5.	Member of Computer Society of the Republic of China
6.	Member of the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society
7.	Member of Phi Kappa Phi
8.	Member of Sigma-Xi
9.	Member of Phi Tau Phi

Honors and Awards

1.	Elite Award of the Information Month of the Republic of China, December 1985.
2.	Best Paper Award (with S. Y. Ho), International Computer Symposium, Taiwan, December, 1992.
3.	Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council of Republic of China, 1994-1995.
4.	Best Paper Awards (with J. B. Huang, et al.), the 8th CIPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Taiwan, 1995.
5.	Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council of Republic of China, 1996-1997.
6.	Best Paper Awards, the 3rd Paper Contest of Association of Image Processing and Multimedia Applications, Taiwan, 1996.
7.	Best Paper Awards (with Y. C. Ma), the 9th CIPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Taiwan, 1996.
8.	Outstanding Engineering Professor Award, the Chinese Institute of Engineers, 1998.
9.	Best Paper Awards (with K .H. Yu), the 12th CIPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Taiwan, 1999.
10.	Citation Classic Award (with D.B. Perng and R.K. Li), Taiwanese High-Impact Papers during 1981-1999, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, 2001).
11.	Best Paper Awards (with Y.H. Fang), the 14th CIPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Taiwan, 2001.
12.	Best Paper Awards (with H.L. Chou), the 17th CIPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Taiwan, 2004.