Prof. Miin-Shen Yang

Biography:

Miin-Shen Yang received a B.S. degree in mathematics from Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, in 1977; an M.S. degree in applied mathematics from National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1980; and a Ph.D. degree in statistics from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, in 1989. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics, Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU), as an associate professor, where he has been a professor since 1994. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Since 2012, he has been a Distinguished Professor and is now a life Distinguished Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics, CYCU. He was the Chairman of the Department of Applied Mathematics, the Director of the Chaplain’s Office, and the Dean of the College of Science, CYCU. His research interests include applications of statistics, fuzzy clustering, soft computing, pattern recognition, and machine learning. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems from 2005 to 2011 and is an editorial board member of the Computer Science and Engineering section in the journal Electronics (MDPI). According to Stanford University’s 2021 Top 2% Scientists, he is among the top 2% of scientists with a career impact and also had a single-year impact in 2022 in artificial intelligence and image processing.