Chih-Yang Lin (Senior Member, IEEE) is the chief of the Global Affairs Office and a professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yuan-Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. He has authored or coauthored over 150 papers in international conferences and journals with high citations, and received Best Paper Awards from Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) in 2008, Best Paper Awards and Excellent Paper Award from Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing Conference in 2009, 2013, and 2019, and Best Paper Award from the 6th International Visual Informatics Conference 2019 (IVIC'19). He has served as a program chair, session chair, publication chair, or workshop organizer on many international conferences, including AHFE, ICCE, ACCV, IEEE Multimedia Big Data, ACM IH&MMSec, APSIPA, and CVGIP. He is also a regular Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Access, and many other prestigious Elsevier journals. His research fields include computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, image processing, big data analysis, and the design of surveillance systems.