Hong-Yuan Mark Liao received a BS degree in physics from National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, in 1981, and an MS and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1985 and 1990, respectively.
        He was a Research Associate with the Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory at Northwestern University during 1990-1991. In July 1991, he joined the Institute of Information Science, Academia, Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, as an Assistant Research fellow. He was promoted to Associate Research Fellow and then Research Fellow in 1995 and 1998, respectively. From August 1997 to July 2000, he served as the Deputy Director of the institute. From Feb. 2001 to Jan. 2004, he served as the Acting Director of the Institute of Applied Science and Engineering Research. From Jan.2006 to Feb.2008, he served as the director of the Academia Sinica Computing Center. He is also jointly appointed as a professor of the Computer Science and Information Engineering Department of National Chiao-Tung University and the Computer Science Department of the National I-Lan University. His current research interests include multimedia signal processing, video-based Surveillance Systems, content-based multimedia retrieval, and multimedia protection. He is now the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Science and Engineering. He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, and Research Letter in Signal Processing. He aslo served as a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on Video Surveillance (2008). He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia during 1998-2001. During 2004-2007, he served as a member of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
        Dr. Liao was the recipient of the Young Investigators' award from Academia Sinica in 1998; the Excellent Paper Award from the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition society of Taiwan in 1998, 2000, and 2006. He received the Distinguished research award from the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2003 and the National Invention Award of Taiwan in 2004. In 2008, he received a Distinguished Scholar Research Project Award from National Science Council of Taiwan. He served as the Program co-chair of the Second IEEE Pacific-Rim conference on Multimedia（2001）. In June 2004, he served as the conference co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME) and technical co-chair of ICME 2007 held at Beijing. Dr. Liao served as Program Co-Chair of 2005 and 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. Dr. Liao served as the president of the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society of Taiwan during 2006-2008.