William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Education
B.S., Electrical Communications, National Taiwan University (1956)
M. S.(1960), Sc. D.(1963), Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor (1963-67), Associate Professor (1967-73), Electrical Engineering, MIT
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Director of Information Processing Lab, Purdue University (1973-80)
William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Co-Chair of the Human Computer Intelligent Interaction, major research theme of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1980—)
Honorary Professor, National Chiao Tung University (2002—)
Distinguished Chair Professor, National Taiwan University (2006—)
Specialties
Signal Processing and Pattern Analysis
Awards and Honors
Guggenheim Fellow (1971)
V. Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award (1976)
Fellow of IEEE, Optical Soc. of America, SPIE, and IAPR
IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (1988)
IEEE Signal Processing Society, Society Award (1991)
Honda Lifetime Achievement Award (2000)
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Medal (the highest honor IEEE bestows on researchers in the field of Signal Processing)(2001)
Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2001)
King-Sun Fu Prize (the highest honor the International Association for Pattern Recognition bestows on researchers in Pattern Recognition)(2002)
Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award (2002)
Tau Beta Pi D. C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award (2005)
Okawa Prize (one of the most prestigious awards given by Japan to international researchers in Information and Communications technology with a cash award of 10 million Yens.)(2005)
Pioneering in Picture Coding Research Award, Picture Coding Symposium (2006)
IS&T and SPIE Imaging Scientist of the Year Award (2006)
"Most Cited Paper of the Decade" Award, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2010)
IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision, Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award (2011)