Wei-Yang Lin received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Sun Yat-sen University in 1994, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He was an assistant professor and associate professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, from August 2006 to July 2017. Since August 2017, he has been a professor with the same department, in which he served as the department chair from August 2019 to July 2022. He also served as the Director of the Division of International Development, Office of International Affairs, National Chung Cheng University, from April 2015 to July 2019. He has published more than 70 journal and conference papers, and holds four Taiwan patents, and one U.S. patent. His research interests include pattern recognition, multimedia signal processing, and medical image analysis. He is a life member of the Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society. In the technical society, he is a member of the Machine learning, Deep learning and AI in CE Technical Stream Committee of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. He also participated in the program committees of many international conferences.

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