Prof. Wen-Chung Kao

IEEE Fellow
National Taiwan Normal University

Biodata: Wen-Chung Kao received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering
from National Taiwan University,Taiwan, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 to
2000, he was a Department Manager at SoC Technology Center,ERSO, ITRI, Taiwan. From 2000 to 2004, he was an Assistant Vice President at NuCam Corporation in Foxlink Group,Taiwan, where he was responsible for leading embedded software team to develop digital still/video cameras. In 2002, he was also invited to form SiPix Technology Inc., Taipei,
Taiwan, where he was in charge of setting up the research team of the company and
studying flexible electrophoretic display. Since 2004, he has been with National Taiwan
Normal University (NTNU), Taipei, Taiwan, where he is currently a Professor at
Department of Electrical Engineering and the Dean of School of Continuing Education.
His current research interests include system-on-a-chip (SoC) as well as embedded
software design, flexible electrophoretic display, machine vision system, digital camera
system, and color imaging science.

He received the Best Paper Awards at the IEEE 2006 International Symposium on
Consumer Electronics, IEEE 2006 Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, IEEE
2011 International Symposium on Consumer Electronics,and IEEE 2014 International
Conference on Consumer Electronics. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Consumer Electronics and IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. He is the Founding General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-
Taiwan and the General Chair of The 17-th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer
Electronics. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of IEEE International
Conference on Consumer Electronics, Las Vegas, since 2008. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Shinji Sugawara
Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

Biodata: Shinji Sugawara received the B. Eng., M. Eng., and Dr. Eng. degrees from Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1994, 1996, and 1999, respectively. In 1999, he
joined University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan as an assistant professor, and
then in 2005, joined Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan as an associate professor.
From January 2006 to January 2007, he concurrently was a visiting researcher at University of California, Irvine. In April in 2013, he joined Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino,
Japan, as a Professor. He is interested in computer communication network, content
retrieval, database and distributed systems. He is a member of IEICE, IEEE, and ACM.