Delegate, ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), since 2004
Contributed to JPEG AI Call-for-Evidence & Call-for-Proposals on learning-based image compression
Participated in ByteDance’s Grand Challenge on Neural Network-based Video Coding at IEEE ISCAS (2022–2025)
Participated in Google-led Challenge on Learned Image Compression at IEEE CVPR (2018–2022)
Research Experience
Part-time Professor in Generative Models for Artificial Intelligence, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany, starting Oct. 2025
Director, Institute of Data Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Aug. 2022 – July 2025
Associate Director, Joint AI Research Labs (University of Washington & NYCU), Jan. 2020 – Present
Visiting Professor, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA, July 2015 – July 2016
Professor, Department of Computer Science, NYCU, Aug. 2006 – Present
Director, Division of Industry Cooperation, Office of International Affairs, NYCU
Associate Director, Computer Vision Research Center, NYCU
Secretariat, EECS Center for Circuit Theory, Communications, and Signal Processing, NYCU
Principal Representative, Industrial Technology Research Institute International (ITRI-USA), to INCITS, Nov. 2011 – Present
Intern, Intel Microprocessor Research Lab, California, USA, Nov. 2000 – Nov. 2001
Background
Research interests include neural network-based image/video coding (e.g., end-to-end learned coding, reinforcement learning-assisted encoder control, and coding for machines)
Active in ISO/IEC and ITU-T video coding standards such as H.264/AVC SVC, H.265/HEVC, Screen Content Coding (SCC), H.266/VVC, JPEG AI, and 360 video
Visual signal processing, including image/video super-resolution and re-scaling
Computer vision topics such as semantic segmentation, incremental learning, video prediction, and domain adaptation
Multi-modality data fusion and graph computing/mining