Personal Information.

Education.

Research Interests.

Professional Experiences.

November 1998 -- July 2004	:	Director, Center for Telecommunications Research, NCTU.
July 1999 -- September 1999	:	Visiting Researcher, Windows Media Platform Division, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA
December 1991 -- present	:	Associate Professor/Professor, Department of Electronics, NCTU
June 1984 -- December 1991	:	Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, USA.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS and HONORS

• Distinguished Engineering Professor Award (Chinese Institute of Engineers) 中國工程師學會 傑出工程教授獎 (2005)

• IEEE ISCE Outstanding Service Award (2003)

• Member of the Executive Committee, Taiwan Digital TV Committee (1998-2002) (台灣數位電視委員會執行委員)

• Fellow Grade Member of IEEE, 2002

• IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

• 1992, National Science Council (Taiwan) Excellent Research Award

• Senior Grade Member of IEEE, 1991

• Member of Sigma Xi honor society (1984-)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Vice-chair, Visual-Audio Compression Special Interest Group (VAC SIG), Semiconductor Industry Promotion Office, Ministry of Economic Affair, Taiwan, ROC, 2003 --. (副主席 影音壓縮推動聯盟 VAC SIG 經濟部工業局半導體產業推動辦公室)

• TDTVA 指導委員 – Taiwan Digital TV Alliance, 2004.3.17 -- (台灣數位電視產業聯盟)

• IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Taipei Chapter Chair, 1999 -- 2000

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Taipei Chapter Chair, 1998 -- 1999

• Co-editor (with Prof. J.W. Woods) of Handbook of Visual Communications, San Diego, California: Academic Press, 1995.

• Associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 1997 -- 1999

• Area editor of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Academic Press, 1996 -- 1998

• Associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 1992 -- 1994

• Guest editor, Special Issue, Journal of Signal Processing - Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology, 2001

• Guest editor, Special Issue on Multimedia Communication Services, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Feb. 2001

• Guest editor, special issue on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Optical Engineering Journal, July 1991 and July 1993

• Guest editor, special issue on Information Appliance (in Chinese), Electronic Magazine, Jan.2001

• Guest editor, special issue on DVD (in Chinese), Electronic Magazine, March.1998

• Guest editor, special issue on HDTV and ITV (in Chinese), Electronic Magazine, Dec.1995

• Technical program co-chair, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Taipei, ROC, Oct.1999

• Technical program co-chair (organizer), Int'l Symposium on Consumer Electronics, Taipei, ROC, Oct. 1998

• Technical program co-chair, Taiwan-Japan Joint Workshop on The Latest Development of Telecommunication Research, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, Jan.1998

• Technical program chair, Workshop on Chinese Digital TV Standard, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, July 1997

• Technical program chair, SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, May 1995

• Conference general co-chair (with Dr. Barry Haskell), SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Boston, MA, USA, Nov. 1993

• Conference co-chair (with Drs. Peter van Otterloo, and Sara A. Rajala), Conference on Image Communications and Video Compression, in Int'l Symposium on Video Commun and Fiber Optic Services, Berlin, Germany, April 1993

• Member of IEEE Circuits and System Society Technical Committee on Visual Signal Processing and Communications.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES - INVITED TALKS

• Invited Talk: “Advances of MPEG Scalable Video Coding Standard”, International Workshop on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Melbourne, Australia, 14 – 16, Sept 2005.

• Invited Talk: “From Pels to Bits: Trend of Video Coding”, 2005 Conf. on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 2005.

• Invited talk, “Next Generation MPEG Video and System,” in 2003 Workshop on Consumer Electronics, Tainan, Taiwan, Nov. 27, 2003.

• Invited talk, “MPEG video coding for shared networks, ” in Computer & Communications Technologies Conf. and Exhibition 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct.2002.

• Invited talk, “From pels to bits: video compression and communication, ” in International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology '99 , Hsinchu, Taiwan, Jan.1999.

• Invited talk, “Motion Estimation for Video Coding Standards,” Standards and Common Interfaces for Video Information Systems (Critical Review), in SPIE photonics East '95 Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Oct. 1995.

• Invited talk, “ Video Compression Research: Perspectives and Applications,” in 1994 Symposium on Multimedia Technologies, Industrial Technology Research Inst., Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, March 1994.