Education
- B.S., National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Electrical Engineering, 1976
- M.S., University of Maryland, College Park, Computer Science, 1980
- Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, Computer Science, 1985
Academic Appointments
- 1985-1991: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- 1991-1993: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- 1993-1997: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Irvine.
- 1997-2022: Full Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.
- 2022 – 2024: Dean, College of Intelligent Computing, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
- 2022 – present: Chair Professor, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
- 2022 – present: Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
- 2022 – present: Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.
Professional Positions
- 1998-2002: Executive Committee Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems.
- 2001-2003: Co-Chair, IEEE Task Force on E-Commerce.
- 2003-2011: Co-Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems.
- 2007-2008: Steering Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Irvine.
- 2008: Visiting Chair Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2011-2015: Chief Scientist, Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center, Taiwan
- 2015-2020: Advisor, Frontier Research Institute for Information Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, web
- 2016-2024: Chief Scientist, NTU IoX Center, Taiwan
Invited Keynotes
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application (AINA 2010), Perth, Australia, April 2010
- Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2010), Shanghai, China, November 10-12, 2010
- Keynote Speaker, International Computer Symposium (ICS 2010), Tainan, Taiwan, December 16-18, 2010
- Keynote Speaker, The 4th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware, Qingdao, China, October 30-31, 2012
- Keynote Speaker, “Informatics Driven Business: Exploring New Frontiers Created by IT”, IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2014
- Keynote Speaker, “Service-Oriented Things: A Service-Oriented Paradigm for Internet of Things”, the 6th International ACM Conference on Management of Computational and Collective Intelligence (MEDES14), Buraidah-Al Qassim, Saudi Arabia, Sep 2014
- Keynote Speaker, “Urban Sensing: Making Smart Cities Friendly and Safe to Pedestrians”, the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, Daegu, South Korea, Aug 17-19, 2016
- Keynote Speaker, “Urban Sensing: Making Smart Cities Friendly and Safe to Pedestrians”, the 6th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2), Nadi, Fiji, December 7-10, 2016
- Keynote Speaker, “Building Smart Homes and Buildings using Service-Oriented Things “, IEEE International Joint Conferences on Data Services, Mobile Clouds, and SOSE, San Francisco, CA, April 6-10, 2017.
- Keynote Speaker, “Building Smart Buildings using the Service-Oriented Things Framework in the WuKong IoT Middleware”, 6th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, Hamamatsu, Japan, July 9-13, 2017.
- Keynote Speaker, the 12th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, Nagoya, Japan, November 9-11, 2017
