ICCLC200 PC Bio

Biographical Information of ICCLC2000 PC Members

Kai H. Chang is a professor and the Graduate Program Officer of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Auburn University, AL, USA. He received a diploma in Electrical Engineering from Taipei Institute of Technology in 1977, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Cincinnati, in 1982 and 1986, respectively. Dr. Chang's research interests include software testing, software metrics, software visualization, and computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). His research has been supported by NSF, NASA, NIST, and the College of Engineering, Auburn University. Web site: http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/kchang

Shi-Kuo Chang is truly a man of two cultures and a very creative scholar. He is a distinguished scientist, an educator with vision and an accomplished novelist. His scientific contributions include the reconstruction of images from projections, the theory of symbolic projection and theory of visual languages. He wrote over two hundred papers which are widely cited by researchers in image information systems and visual languages. He also developed the first picture grammar and the phonetic phrase Chinese input method, and co-founded the Chinese Language Computer Society. His vision in education led him to establish a unique graduate school of computers and management. His novels have been translated into many languages and adopted into textbooks for studying Chinese. He is regarded as the "father of science fiction" in Taiwan. Dr. Chang's literary activities include the writing of twenty five novels, collections of short stories and essays. He is an acclaimed novelist in Taiwan. His novel, The Chess King, was translated into English and German, made into a stage musical, then a TV mini-series and a movie. It was adopted as textbook for foreign students studying Chinese at the Stanford Center (Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies administered by Stanford University), Taipei, Taiwan. The German translation of the Chess King was published in October 1992. In 1999, the novel was selected by Asian Weekly to be one of the hundred Chinese novels for the century.

Keh-Jiann Chen is the research fellow of the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica and the life member of CLCS. His current research interests include Chinese language processing, lexical semantics, and corpus linguistics. He is now developing research environments for Chinese natural language processing including Chinese lexical data-bases, Chinese corpora, and Chinese parsers. Dr. Chen is one of the founding member of the Computational Linguistic Society of R.O.C. (ROCLING). He is now the board member of this society and served as 2nd term president of the society from 1991 to 1993. He is also the board member of the Chinese Language Computer Society, the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, and the editors for the journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language and the Communications of COLIPS.

Cecile Chu teaches Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley. She is instrumental in establishing web-based learning of Chinese and Oriental languages at UC Berkeley, and is very active in organizing workshops and giving lectures. An accomplished artist, she lives in Berkeley.

Jorng-Tzong Horng is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Jungli, Taiwan. He received MS and PhD from Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University at 1986 and 1993, respectively. His current research interests include database systems, information retrieval, data mining, genetic algorithms, and bioinformatics.

Wei Hwang is currently a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Prior to that he was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York, NY, and an As- sistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He has published one research book and about 100 technical papers, and holds 40 U.S. pat- ents. Dr. Hwang has been awarded 15 Invention Plateau Achieve- ment Awards from IBM. Recently he was named a "Master Inven- tor" of the IBM Research Division. He was President, a member of the Board of Directors, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chinese American Academic and Profes- sional Society (CAAPS). He is a life-member of the CLCS and currently serves as a member of the Governing Board and as treasurer of the society.

Kui Lam Kwok is a professor of the Computer Science Department, Queens College of the City University of New York. He studied in Hong Kong University and got his Ph.D. from Manchester University, England in 1969. His current interest is in various aspects of Information Retrieval and filtering such as: IR models, Chinese and English-Chinese cross language retrieval, and he has active and successful participation in government sponsored IR experiments and projects such as TREC and Tipster.

Louisa Lam obtained her B.A. in Mathematics from Wellesley college in Massachusetts, USA, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She obtained her M.Sc. and Ph. D. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto, and her M.Sc. in Computer Science from Concordia University, Canada. Currently she is the Head of the Department of Mathematics at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Before joining this Institute, she had been teaching mathematics at Vanier College, and conducting research at the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence of Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Lam has conducted and published research in the areas of image processing, pattern recognition, optical character recognition, automatic document processing, and automatic language classification. She had served as secretary and on the governing board of the Chinese Language Computer Society, and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Computer Processing of Oriental Languages.

Jong-Hyeok Lee received his B.S. degree in mathematics education from Seoul National University in 1980, and then his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), in 1982 and 1988, respectively. From Nov. 1989 through Jan. 1991, he worked as a visiting researcher for NEC C&C institute, Japan. After coming back from NEC, he has been with POSTECH as an assistant professor and since 1996 as an associate professor. During the year from Aug. 1998 he worked as a visiting scholar for CRL/NMSU, USA. His research interests include natural language processing, machine translation, text categorization, and cross-language text retrieval.


	Jong-Hyeok Lee (Associate Professor)

	Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
	POSTECH(Pohang University of Science & Technology)
	San 31 Hyoja-dong Nam-ku, Pohang, 790-784
	Republic of KOREA

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	E-mail: jhlee@postech.ac.kr
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Mun-Kew LEONG is a Member, Research Staff, at the Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) in Singapore. He has an eclectic background in logic, philosophy, linguistics, psychology and computing. He received the first ever degree in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Toronto, in 1987, and also the first doctorate in Philosophy and Symbolic Systems awarded at Stanford University, in 1994, where his dissertation was on the formal semantics of visual information retrieval systems. Currently, Dr Leong leads the Speech and Information Retrieval endeavours in the Knowledge Lab at KRDL, focusing on dialogue systems, and on multilingual and cross-language initiatives. His previous research has been in multimedia indexing, personalized electronic information systems, and digital library technologies. His fundamental research interests are in the intersection of phenomenology, applied logics, semiotic [sic], and information retrieval. He has published in journals and conferences, been an invited speaker and panelist in various workshops, including DL Asia'98 and the 1998 PPM/LAS conference. He is also a contributor in the NSF/EU white paper on Multilingual Information Access in Digital Libraries. He is also active in the organizing and running of SIGs, workshops and conferences. He is on the steering committee of the IRAL workshops and an advisor to NTCIR. He was organizing chair of IRAL'98, of the Cross-Language Issues in AI Workshop at PRICAI'98, Symposium Chair of the 1998 SCS conference, and is currently SEARCC'99 Emerging Technologies Track Chair and Asia-Pacific PC Chair for ACM SIGIR'2000.

Marjorie H. Li has strong ties with heritage schools and heritage communities in the East Coast of USA. She is a long-time resident of New Jersey. She is a member of Asian American Heritage Countil. Teaching and learning of heritage languages is one of her focussed interests. She is very energetic in lobbying for more funding for heritage programs.

C. N. Liu is currently the President of the Century Development Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan. He is a life-member of CLCS and served as President of the Society in 1993-1996. In his 35 years of tenrure at IBM's Watson Research Center, he focused his research in the area of pattern recognition methodology and pattern recognition based systems. As a visiting professor, he taught at Purdue and the National Taiwan University in 1969 and 1971 respectively. One of the founding members of the Institute of Information Science in the Academia Sinica, he serves now as the Chairman of its Advisory Committee. He is an IEEE fellow.

Mr. Ruzhan Lu is currently the director of institute for computer theory and software environment of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Professor Lu is Doctor’s supervisor of both Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Linguistics Institute of Shanghai Normal University. His research interest includes Computational Linguistics, Formal Semantics of Programming Language and Language Testing. He has published many papers in these fields. (Department of computer science & engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Hua Shan Road, Shanghai, 200030, P.R.China Tel: 86-21-62932996 Fax: 86-21-62932996 )

Dr. Shih is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C. His research interests include Multimedia Computing, Software Engineering, and Formal Specification and Verification. He was a faculty of the Computer Engineering Department at Tamkang University in 1986. In 1993 and 1994, he was a part time faculty of the Computer Engineering Department at Santa Clara University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Aizu, Japan in summer 1999. Dr. Timothy K. Shih received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from Tamkang University and California State University, Chico, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He also received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University in 1993. Dr. Shih has published about 170 papers and participated in many international academic activities. Dr. Shih has received many research awards, including Tamkang University research awards, National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan research awards, and IIAS research award of Germany. He also received many funded research grants from NSC and the Institute of Information Industry, Taiwan. Dr. Shih has been invited frequently to give talks at national and international conferences and research organizations. The contact address of Dr. Shih is Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan 251, ROC. E-mail: tshih@cs.tku.edu.tw, Fax: +886 2 26209749, Phone: +886 2 26215656 x2743, http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/chinese/teacher/tshih.htm

Ching Suen is currently the Director of the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is a life-member of CLCS and served as Vice-President and President of the Society a few years ago. He has published extensively in the area of handwriting recognition and document analysis. He has founded a few international conferences and is presently the General Chair of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition to be held in Quebec City in 2002.

Patrick S. Wang is IAPR Fellow, tenured full professor of computer science at Northeastern University since 1983, research consultant at MIT Sloan School since 1989, and adjunct faculty of computer science at Harvard University Extension School since 1985. Prof. Wang was elected Otto-Von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor of Magdeburg University near Berlin, Germany, Fall 1996, and Xiamen University Honorary Advice professor since 1999. In addition to his research experience at MIT AI Lab, Prof. Wang has been visiting professor and invited to give lectures, do research and present papers in a number of countries from Europe, Asia and many universities and industries in the U.S.A. and Canada. Dr. Wang has published over 120 technical papers and 18 books in Pattern Recognition, A.I. and Imaging Technologies and has three OCR patents by US and Europe Patent Bureaus. As CLCS life-member, he has organized numerous international conferences and workshops and served as reviewer for many journals and NSF grant proposals. Prof. Wang is currently founding Editor-in-Charge of Int. J. of Pattern Recognition and A.I., and Editor-in-Chief of Machine Perception & Artificial Intelligence by World Scientific Publishing Co. and elected chair of IAPR-SSPR (Int. Asso. of P.R.). In addition to his technical achievements and contributions, Prof. Wang has been also very active in community service, and has written several articles on Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, and Wagner's operas, and Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Tchaikovsky's symphonies.

Kam-Fai Wong obtained his PhD from Edinburgh University,Scotland, in 1987. After his PhD, he has per- formed research in Heriot-Watt University (Scotland), UniSys (Scotland) and ECRC (Germany). At present he is an associate professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and in parallel serves as the associate director of the Centre of Innovation and Technology (CINTEC), CUHK. His research interest centers on Chinese computing and parallel database and information systems. He has published over 60 technical papers in these areas in various international journals and conferences and books. He is a member of the ACM, CLCS, IEEE-CS and IEE (UK) and a member of the edi- torial board of the journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases. He was twice the database track chair of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing and a program committee member of many international conferences. He was the 1994-96 chairman of the ACM Hong Kong Chapter. Currently, he serves as the Asia Pacific Representative of the ACM International Membership Activities Committee and a distiguisted lecturer of the ACM Lectureship series. He is the co-editor of the special issue on "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages" of the Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (September, 1998). He was a program committee co- chair of the 18th International Conference on Computer Pro- cessing on Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'99) held in Tokushima, Japan, March 1999 and serves as the program co- chair of the International Conference on Chinese Language Computing (ICCLC'2000), Chicago, September 1999 as well as the conference chair of the 2000 Workshop on Information retrieval for Asia Languages (IRAL2000), Hong Kong, October 2000. (See also: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~kfwong)

Christopher C. Yang is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems and associate director of the Authorized Academic Java Campus at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the vice chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery Hong Kong Chapter. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, in 1990, 1992, and 1997, respectively. From 1992 to 1997, he was a research associate in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 1995 to 1997, he was also a research scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Management Information Systems, where he was an active researher in the Illinois Digital Library project of Digital Libraries Initiative I. In 1998, he was an invited panelist of the NSF Digital Library Initiative II Review Panel. He was also the program co-chair of the First Asia Digital Library Workshop, and program committee and organizing committee member for several international conferences such as, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Asian Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE International Conference of Computer Science. (Christopher C. Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2859-2173 Fax: (852) 2559-8447 Email: yang@csis.hku.hk

Tian-shun Yao is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Computer Science at Northeastern University, Shenyang P.R.C. His research interests include artificial intelligence, man-machine interface, computational linguistics and Chinese computing etc.. He is a member of CLCS and served as a member of governing board and editorial board Society now. Prof. Yao is a doctoral supervisor, it was authorized by Degree Committee of State Council in 1991. He was a part time Professor at Beijing university and the Institute of computer tech. of Academy of Sciences since 1991. He served as a governing member, Journal editor, Vice-President and President of several Society in China. Prof. Yao has published in the area of Chinese analysis, IR, MT and Text Minibg more then hundred papers. He was also the program member and co-chair for several international conferences.

Gilbert H. Young is currently Director and Associate Professor of the Internet Computing and E-Commerce Laboratory, the Department of Computing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been invited to give talks on various topics of Chinese Internet and E-commerce in US, Japan, Hong Kong and China. He is a life-member of CLCS. His research interests in Chinese computing include Chinese text Compression, Chinese text Retreival and Chinese web browser. He received his B.Sc. degree with double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Okalhoma. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Computer Science, from the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Young was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of Tulane University in USA. He has been Principal Investigators for many research projects funded by different funding agencies of US, Japan and Hong Kong. He has over 100 publications in journals and refereed International conferences. He is currently in the Editorial Broad of the Journal of Supercomputing. He has been very active in organizing and promoting International conferences. In 1999 and 2000, he will chair serveral Ineternational conferences including APWEB'99, PDCAT'2000, CSCWID'2000 and ISORA'2000. He will also be the local organization Chair of of the 2000 Workshop on Information retrieval for Asia Languages (IRAL2000), Hong Kong, October 2000. (See also http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csyoung)

Chunfa Yuan got his master degree from Tsinghua University in 1982. Now he is working in the Computer Science & Technology Department of Tsinghua University as an Associate Professor. He is teaching Computational Linguistics for graduated students. He studies Chinese parsing, Chinese morpheme data_base, etc. and some papers related to the above areas have been published. He is also the secretary general of Beijing Computational Linguistic society and a member of council of Beijing Linguistic society. (Address : Dept. of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China Telephone : (8610) 62784895 Fax : (8610) 62771138 EMAIL : ycf@s1000e.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn)

Chao Zeng is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Fukuoka Junior College of Technology,Fukuoka,Japan. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Zhongshan University, China in 1985 and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Kyushu University, Japan in 1991. He was also in a doctoral course in Computer Science from 1991 to 1994 in Kyushu University, Japan. His research interests include Machine Learning, logic Programming, Information Retrieval/Filtering and Natural Language Processing. Recently he is interested in Intelligent Information Retrieval/Filering by using agent technologies on the basis of the Internet and Cross-Language Information Retrieval between English, Japanese and Chinese in the Internet by applying NLP and intelligent agent technologies. Now he also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Research Bulletin of Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan from 1998. (Address: 3-30-1,Wajiro-higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan Tel: +81-92-606-3131 Ext.2714 Fax: +81-92-606-0763 Email: zeng@fjct.fit.ac.jp Home Page: http://crown.fjct.fit.ac.jp/)