EDUCATION

  Ph.D.      Oregon State University, Computer Science
  M.S. ICS   Georgia Tech, Information and Computer Science
  M.S. EE    National Taiwan University, Electrical Engineering
  B.S. EE    National Chiao Tung University, Electronic Engineering 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1983-         Tenured Full Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
                 Acting Director of Graduate School, January - October, 1985
1989-	 Research Consultant, Image Processing Labs, MIT Sloan School
1996 Fall     Otto-Von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor, 
                   University of Magdeburg, Germany
2002, 2004   Honorary Advisory Professor of Xianmen U., Sichuan U., and Guangxi Normal U.
1996 Summer   Visiting Scholar, Panasonic MITL, Princeton
1994 Fall     Visiting Professor, Technical University of Wien, Austria
1991 Summer   Visiting Professor, University of Paris VII and XIII
1989-1990     Visiting Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
                   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985-	      Adjunct Faculty of Computer Science, Harvard University Extension School
1999-         Honarary Advisor Professor, Xiamen University, China
1984 Summer   Visiting Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,
1989 Winter        National Taiwan University
1982 1983     Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
1982-1983     Software Engineering Specialist, Project Leader, Wang Laboratories
1980-1982     Senior Member of Technical Staff, Project Leader, GTE Laboratories
1976-1980     Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon
1979-Summer   Visiting Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, 
                   Academia Sinica
1976-Summer   Senior Instructor, System Science, Georgia State University
1975-1976     System Analyst and Application Engineer, Fulton National Bank/Southern Bell 
1973-1975     Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Information and Computer Science, 
                   Georgia Institute of Technology

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION AND INTEREST

Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vision, Image and Document Understanding
PC, Mac, SunSparc Unix Workstations, Windows NT Workstations, WWW Programming,
Internet Homepage Design, HTML