AWARDS and OTHER RESEARCH - RELATED ACTTVITIES(Since 1984)

Otto-Von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor, University of Magdeburg, 
Germany (Fall, 1996)
Fellow of IAPR (Int. Asso. of Pattern Recognition) since 1994
Co-chair, IAPR SSPR96, Leipzig, Germany, 1996
Chairman, IAPR-SSPR, TC-2, since 1992
Committee Member, IEEE-ICDAR'95, Montreal, 1995, IEEE-PIA'95, Lyon, 1995
Italy Image Processing Society Bronze Medal, Bari, Italy, September, 1993
NEACP Speaker's Appreciation Certificate, Boston, November 1993
CLSCBC Speech Contest General Judge Certificate, Lexington, June, 1993
Professional Contribution Award, Electronic Imaging, Boston, 1991
Chinese Writing Award, Overseas Chinese Alliance, 1994, 1993, 1992, 
1991 and 1987
Service Award, Chinese Language Computer Society (Washington D. C.), 1987
Service Awared, Industrial Technology and Research Institute (R.O.C.), 
1984 and 1986
Editor-in-Charge "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial 
intelligence" World Scientific Pub. Co. (1986-now)
Program Co-Chair, International Colloquium on Parallel Image Analysis, Paris, 
France, 1991 and Ube, Japan, 1992
International Conference on Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental 
Languages (IC-COLC), Sand Key, Florida, 1992
Technical Committee Member, International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting 
Recognition, Toulouse, France, 1991
Technical and International Advisory Committee Member, International Conference 
Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, 1990 and 1992
Program Committee Member, ICPR'88, IEEE Workshop on LFA'88, ICCC'88
Conference Chair, NEACP 1987 Academic & Professional Conf., Boston Nov'14 (1987)
Program Co-Chair, ICCOLC, June 16-17 (1987)
Reviewer of Books: A. I. IEEE-Computer Society Press, 1994, 1995, 
Chinese Computing-MIT Press, 1986, Compiler Construction-PWS Pub, 1986, 
Expert Systems-Prentice Hall (1985)
Review of Journals: IEEE-PAMI, IEEE-Computer, CACM, ACM-TMS, IJPRAI, Computer 
Graphics and Image Processing, Information Processing Letters, Information Sciences
NSF Research Proposal Reviewer, Division of Mathematical and Computer Science
 Reviewer of Int.  Conferences: IAPR-ICPR, IAPR-SSPR, ICDAR, PIA, PIP, ICCOLC
Off-Campus Thesis and Grants Reviewers: Hong Kong, S'pore, Canada, MIT, Harvard U.