Jhing-Fa Wang, Chinese electrical engineer, educator. Achievements include patents for speech recognition system; patents pending for image-capturing device & method for removing strangers from an image. Recipient Outstanding award, ACER, 1996, National Science Council, Taiwan, 1990, 1995, 1997. Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Education
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 1973. Master of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States of America, 1983.
Career
Assistant professor Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1983. Professor, Department Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University, since 1987, director, institute information engineering, 1990—1996, chair professor, since 2002, dean, college engineering, 1999—2004, chairman, 1996—1997, Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, Taiwan, 1993—1994, Tainan Information Software Association, Taiwan, 1995—1999, Computer Center National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 1997—1999, Taiwan, 1999—2005, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Tainan Section, Taiwan, since 2005, Electrical and Information Technology Center, National Cheng Kung University, since 2008. Director general National Science and Technology Museum, Taiwan, 2005—2007.
Editor-in-chief Journal Chinese Institute Electrical Engineering, 1996—2000. Associate editor Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transation Very-large-scale integration Systems, 1997—1999.
Membership
Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.