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Shih-Hsuan Yang


Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbors
Office: Room 1525, Technology Building
Telephone: 886-2-2771-2171 ext.4211
Email: shyang@ntut.edu.tw


INTERESTS


Video coding, multimedia transmission, image processing, computer vision, applications of the above techniques to smart devices and anesthetic medicine


RESEARCH


Dr. Yang has been the Principal Investigator (PI) of several government or industry sponsored integrated research projects, covering a wide spectrum of multimedia processing and ICT technologies, including high-efficiency video coding, multiscreen streaming technology, smart TV, application of image processing and computer vision to anesthetic medicine, and natural human-machine interfaces. Dr. Yang has published more than one hundred technical papers (acting as the first author for more than 60 papers), including two journal articles on IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT).


BIOGRAPHY


Shih-Hsuan Yang received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1987. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He joined the National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech), Taipei, Taiwan, in 1994, where he is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE). He served as chairman of the CSIE Department from 2004 to 2006, and has been the Provost of Taipei Tech since 2017.


ACTIVITIES & AWARDS


Dr. Yang is a senior member of the IEEE, a permanent member of the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (IPPR) Society, and a member of Software Engineering Association Taiwan.
Dr. Yang received the Linux Golden Penguin Award in research and development innovation in 2006, and an Honorable Mention of the IPPR Technology Innovation and Industry Application Award in 2013. He also annually received the Outstanding Open-Source Project Team Awards from the Ministry of Science and Technology (formerly known as the National Science Council) from 2004 to 2010.
In addition, Dr. Yang has received the following awards from Taipei Tech:
1. Excellent Research Faculties: 2010 to now.
2. Excellent Academic Advisor: 2002, 2007, 2011.
3. EECS College Outstanding Teaching Award: 2009, 2013.
4. EECS College Teacher Service Award: 2012.