Tsuhan Chen
Secretary-Treasurer
Cornell University

Tsuhan Chen has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, since 2009, where he serves as the Director of the School, and is the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering. From 1997 to 2008, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as Associate Professor and then Professor, where he also served as the Associate Department Head from 2007 to 2008. From 1993 to 1997, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1987.

Tsuhan's research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision. He directs the Advanced Multimedia Processing Laboratory at Cornell, striving to turn multimedia technologies from science fiction into reality. While at CMU, he established and was Director of the "ITRI Lab @ CMU," a collaborative research laboratory sponsored by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Tsuhan served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia in 2002-2004, during which the transactions grew from 400 pages and 4 issues a year, to 1200 pages and 6 issues a year. He also served in the Editorial Board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, and IEEE Trans. on Multimedia. He co-edited a book titled Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks.

Tsuhan received the Charles Wilts Prize at the California Institute of Technology in 1993. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, from 2000 to 2003. He received the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award in 2006, and the Eta Kappa Nu Award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching in 2007. He was elected to the Board of Governors, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2007-2009, and a Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2007-2008. He is a member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, and Fellow of IEEE.