Kou-Young Cheng received a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1964, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1972. He joined the Institute of Information Science in 1978 and has been a research fellow since 1979.

        Dr. Cheng’s research work includes computer graphics and digital geometry processing. Currently, he is in charge of the Visual Environment Laboratory of IIS and his major work is to develop a facial animation system.