Biography of Timothy K. Shih
Dr. Shih is a professor of the Department of Computer Science at National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan and an adjunct professor at Tamkang University and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Dr. Shih is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK. He is a member of ACM. As a senior member of IEEE, Dr. Shih joined the Educational Activities Board of the Computer Society. His current research interests include Multimedia Computing and Distance Learning. Dr. Shih has edited many books and published about 400 papers and book chapters, as well as participated in many international academic activities, including the organization of more than 50 international conferences and several special issues of international journals. He was the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, published by Idea Group Publishing, USA. Dr. Shih is an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. He was also an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Dr. Shih has received many research awards, including research awards from National Science Council of Taiwan, IIAS research award from Germany, HSSS award from Greece, Brandon Hall award from USA, and several best paper awards from international conferences. Dr. Shih has been invited to give more than 25 keynote speeches and plenary talks in international conferences, tutorials in IEEE ICME 2001/2006 and ACM Multimedia 2002/2007, and talks at international conferences and overseas research organizations. Publications, demonstrations and contact address of Dr. Shih can be retrieved from
http://www.mine.tku.edu.tw/chinese/teacher/tshih.htm.
Curriculum Vita of Timothy K. Shih
Teaching and Industrial Experiences
National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan, August 2008 – Date
Adjunct Professor, Shanghai University, China, August 2007 – Date
Adjunct Professor, University of Aizu, Japan, Oct. 1, 2007 – Date
Adjunct Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan, August 2008 – Date
Adjunct Professor, Lanzhou University, China, May 2008 – April 2011
Director, Incubation Center, Tamkang University, Taiwan, August 2007 – July 2008
Adjunct Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Feb 2007 – July 2007
Professor, Tamkang University, Taiwan, Sept. 1998 – July 2008
Adjunct Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, China, April 2007 – March 2010
Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 15 – Sept. 15, 2007
Guest Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 9/2006 – 9/2008
Visiting Researcher, Waseda University, Japan, 2004 – 2006
Adjunct Professor, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, July 2003 – July 2006
Consultant, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan, 2003
Member of International Advisory Committee, the SKL-ISN Lab, Xi'an, China, 2003 – 2004
Department Chairman, Dept. of CS and IE, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, Aug. 1999 – July 2003
Visiting Researcher, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July – Sept. 2001
Visiting Professor of Computer Software, Univ. of Aizu, Japan, June – Sept. 1999
Assoc. Professor of Computer Eng., Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, Aug. 1994 – Aug. 1998
Lecturer of Computer Eng., Santa Clara Univ., USA, Jan. 1993 – June 1994
Software Engineer, Altium, an IBM Company, USA, Oct. 1993 – July 1994
Software Engineer, Decision Focus, Inc., USA, Oct. 1992 – Oct. 1993
Software Engineer, Software Publishing Co., USA, Oct. 1988 – Mar. 1990
Software Engineer, Computer Associates, USA, May 1987 – Oct. 1988
Lecturer of Computer Eng., Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, Feb. 1986 – Jul. 1986
Software Engineer, Aresto Inc., Taiwan, Sep. 1985 – Jan. 1986
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University, USA, 1990 - 1993
MS in Computer Engineering, California State Univ., Chico, USA, 1983 - 1985
BS in Computer Engineering, Tamkang University, Taiwan, 1979 – 1983
Personal Hobby
Classical Chinese Music – Timothy K. Shih has received the championship aware of Chinese Fiddle (ErHu) solo competition in the Taiwan area in 1981. MP3 music is available on his website.
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