I have been an Associate Professor in the department of EE, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, since Feburary 2016. My research interests are content-based multimedia analysis, pattern recognition, and human-computer interaction (HCI). My recent research has been concerned with content-aware sports video analysis, fusion of biometrics for identify recognition, intelligent vehicle tracking and recognition, and freeform 3D interactions.

I served as visiting scholar in Department of EE, University of Washington from September 2006 to April 2007, visiting professor in John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Obuda University, Hungary, in summer of 2011, and in Department of EE, University of Washington in summer of 2013. I received YZU Young Scholar Research Award from Yuan Ze University in Dec. 2014, Kwoh-Ting Li Young Researcher Award from ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter in May 2014, Pan Wen Yuan Exploration Research Award from Pan Wen Foundation in May 2013, the best paper award of ISCE2013 from IEEE CE Society, the project of Outstanding Junior Research Investigators (2 years) from National Science Council in 2012, and the best doctoral dissertation from Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, Taiwan in August 2009.