He has been a distinguished research fellow of the Institute for Information Science at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan since 1998.

More than in academia, he had been an advisory committee member of National Security Council (Taiwan) from 2016 to 2020.

from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976, and a Ph.D. from UIUC under the supervision of Franco Preparata in 1978.

After holding a faculty position at Northwestern University for 20 years, he moved to the Academia Sinica in 1998.

[4][5] He was awarded the German-Taiwanese Friendship Medal by Michael Zickerick, the Director General of the German Institute Taipei, in May 2014.