[3] As a result of the Chinese Civil War, his family moved to Taiwan.
He arrived in USA to join University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1958, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from in 1961, where his advisor was Mac Van Valkenburg.
In 1961, he joined Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. as a faculty member and later became the Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science there.
During 1988–1994, he was with the Computer and Information Sciences Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
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