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Conferred as Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at University of Maryland Convocation, October 16, 2007. |
Honors and Awards
- Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award - "for outstanding scholarly accomplishment, combined with excellence in teaching, personify the image of the professorate", Office of the Provost, University of Maryland, 2006.
- Horizon Awards - Honorable Mention, "for technology development of Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitors Tracing", Computerworld Magazine, 2006.
- IEEE Signal Processing Society 2005 Best Paper Award (Multimedia Signal Processing Area).
- Poole and Kent Company Senior Faculty Teaching Award - "for significant and dedicated contribution to undergraduate and graduate teaching and leadership in modernization/revision of graduate curriculum", A. James Clark School of Engineering (College of Engineering), University of Maryland, 2005.
- EURASIP 2004 Best Paper Award - "for the best paper published in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing", 2004.
- Invention of the Year Award - for the invention, "Coding Techniques for Maximum Achievable Diversity in Space, Time and Frequency for Broadband Wireless Communications", University of Maryland, 2004.
- Board of Governor, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2004 - present.
- Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2004.
- EURASIP Meritorious Service Award - "for leadership in establishing EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (JASP) as a leading journal in the field", European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), 2004.
- IEEE Fellow - "for contributions to algorithms, architectures, and implementations for signal processing", Nov 2002.
- Best Paper Award - 50th IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Amsterdam, 1999 (selected from among 700 papers).
- Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering and Who's Who in America, since 1999.
- Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award - ïn recognition of outstanding interdisciplinary research and in all other aspects of the ISR programs", Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland", 1996.
- National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award - "for recognition of the Nation's most outstanding and promising young faculty in science and engineering", 1994.
- George Corcoran Award - "for outstanding contributions to electrical engineering education", Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland, 1994.
- IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1993 Senior Award (Best Paper Award) (VLSI Signal Processing Area).
- Research Initiation Award, Signal Processing Program, National Science Foundation, 1993.
- Service Award - "for outstanding and dedicated voluntary service as a Director of the Board of Mei-Hwa Chinese School", Silver Spring, MD, 1995.
- Hortense Fishbaugh Memorial Scholarship - "for outstanding academic achievement" (only three awards per year for the entire graduate school), UCLA, 1989-90.
- Achievement Award, Taiwanese-American Foundation, 1989.
- University Fellowship - "for highest distinguished graduate students" (only one award in Electrical Engineering), UCLA, 1987-90.
- President Research Partnership - "for high quality research project and outstanding academic record", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987.
- Prof. Feng Memorial Scholarship - "for outstanding undergraduate students in College of Engineering" (three per year), National Taiwan University, 1982.
- Book Coupon Award - "for top 5% students", National Taiwan University, 1979-80.