Recent awards

• Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council, Taiwan, 2007.
• Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, National Science Council, Taiwan, 2006.
• NTU research award, 2005.
• Research award for young researchers from Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation, Taiwan, June, 2003.
• K. T. Li young researcher award from ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter, July, 2002
• Young investigator award from Academia Sinica, Taiwan, May, 2002
  
• Winner of WCCI 2002 competition on sequence recognition, May 2002. With master students Ming-Wei Chang and Bo-Juen Chen.
• Winner of EUNITE world wide competition on electricity load prediction , December 2001. With first year master students Ming-Wei Chang and Bo-Juen Chen.
  
• Winner of IJCNN Challenge 2001. With master student Chih-Chung Chang.
• Our group is the winner of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) competition organized by the University of Essex and the UK Post Office, December 2000.
• Second prize of the student paper competition, Fifth Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods. 1998.
• Wallace Givens Research Fellow, Mathematics and Computer Science Division,  Argonne National Lab, 1996 and 1997.