Jan-Ming Ho received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University in 1989. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 1978 and his M.S. at Institute of electronics of National Chiao Tung University in 1980. He joined Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C as a associate research fellow in 1989,and is promoted to research fellow in 1994. He visited IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in summer 1987 and 1988, Leonardo Fibonacci Institute for the Foundations of Computer Science, Italy, in Summer 1992, and Dagstuhl-Seminar on "Combinatorial Methods for Integrated Circuit Design", IBFI-Geschäftsstelle, Schloβ Dagstuhl, Fachbereich Informatik, Bau 36, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, in October 1993. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

His research interests target at the integration of theoretical and application-oriented research, including mobile computing, environment for management and presentation of digital archive, management, retrieval, and classification of web documents, continuous video streaming and distribution, video conferencing, real-time operating systems with applications to continuous media systems, computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, VLSI design algorithms, and implementation and testing of VLSI algorithms on real designs.

He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Multimedia. He was Program Chair of Symposium on Real-time Media Systems, Taipei, 1994 - 1998, General Co-Chair of International Symposium on Multi-Technology Information Processing, 1997 and will be General Co-Chair of IEEE RTAS 2001. He was also steering committee member of VLSI Design/CAD Symposium, and program committee member of several previous conferences including ICDCS 1999, and IEEE Workshop on Dependable and Real-Time E-Commerce Systems (DARE'98), etc. In domestic activities, he is Program Chair of Digital Archive Task Force Conference, the First Workshop on Digital Archive Technology,  Steering Committee Member of the 12th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium  and International Conference on Open Source 2001, and is also Program Committee Member of the 13^th Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology and Applications, the 8^th Workshop on Mobile Computing, 2001 Summer Institute on Bio-informatics, and Workshop on Information Society and Digital Divide.