Since 1992, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, where he was promoted as a Professor, in 1998, and a Distinguished Professor, in 2010. He serves as the Director of the Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering, NCTU, in 2011. He founded and served as the Chair for the Taipei Chapter, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMCS), in 2003. He has been the Chair of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE SMCS, since 2011. He is an IET Fellow and CACS Fellow. His research interests include image recognition, vehicle driving safety and control, intelligent robotic systems, intelligent transportation systems, and multimedia signal analysis. He receives many research honors, including the Outstanding Automatic Control Engineering Award from the Chinese Automatic Control Society, in 2007, the Best Paper Award from the 12th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications, in 2012, the Outstanding Research Award of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, in 2012, the Best Technology Transfer Contribution Award from the National Science Council, Taiwan, in 2012, the National Invention and Creation Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, in 2012 and 2013, the Technology Invention Award of Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Award from the Y. Z. Hsu Foundation, in 2014, and the Outstanding Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2015. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.