University of Southern California, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and William M. Hogue Professorship
Education
B.S. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1980
M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 1985
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 1987
Professional Experience
Employment History:
Research Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles (1987-88)
Assistant, Associate, Full and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (1989–Present)
Director, Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California (2006-2012)
Professional Experience:
Fellow of SPIE (1996), IEEE (1999), AAAS (2011), ACM (2022)
Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (1997-2011)
Member-at-Large of IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors (2012-2014)
Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security (2012-2014)
President of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) (2012-2014)
Service to Taiwan’s Academia and Industry:
Advance Research Advisory Committee Member to Institute of Information Industry (III) (2001-Present)
Board Member of Arima Communications (2002-Present)
Advisory Committee Member to the Institute of Information Science (2005-2010, 2017-2019) and the Research Center for Information Technology (2007-2019), Academia Sinica.
Chief Scientist of InterVideo (2000-2006), Ulead Systems (2005-2006), MediaTek (2007-2010)
Specialties
Multimedia Computing and Data Science and Engineering
Awards and Honors
US NSF Young Investigator Award (1992)
US NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1993)
SPIE and IS&T Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award (2010)
Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies (2010-2011)
Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award (2011)
IS&T Raymond C. Bowman Award (2016)
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society John Choma Education Award (2016)
IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award (2016)
IEEE Signal Processing Society Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award (2017)
IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award (2017)
IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2019)
IEEE Signal Processing Society Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award (2019)
The 72nd annual Technology and Engineering Emmy Award (2020)
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award (2021)