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Chi-Ren Shyu is the chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and director of the Informatics Institute at University of Missouri – Columbia (MU). He holds the Paul K. and Dianne Shumaker Endowed Professorship of Biomedical Informatics in the College of Engineering. Dr. Shyu grew up in Taichung City, Taiwan, received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Feng Chia University in 1990 and MS, Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University in 1994 and 1999, respectively. After one year of post-doctoral training at Purdue, he joined MU’s Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department in 2000.
During his 15 years of tenure at MU, Dr. Shyu has received several awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the 2014 University of Missouri Faculty Entrepreneurial Award, and Computer Science teaching awards seven times. He has supervised 36 graduate students (12 PhDs and 24 Masters), directed more than $3M fundings as a principal investigator, and participated in large-scale collaborative projects with approximately $10M budgets. Project sponsors, in addition to the NSF, include the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Justice, and other for-profit and nonprofit organizations. He has published 129 refereed articles and has been granted four US patents, in the areas of biomedical informatics, massive database indexing and retrieval, visual information analytics, and applications in plants, remote sensing, biology, and medicine.
Dr. Shyu’s career highlights, in addition to his accomplishments in research and education, also include his administrative responsibilities. He has been the inaugural director of MU Informatics Institute since 2008, which hosts the only Informatics PhD program of the four campuses of the University of Missouri System. During his directorship, he has recruited 45 core faculty members from 14 departments and 7 colleges/schools in MU campus. Graduates from the program have had a 100% placement rate with positions as ranked faculty in both research and teaching universities, national labs, and industries in healthcare, biotechnology, and data analytics. Dr. Shyu also chairs one of the oldest Electrical Engineering departments in the nation. Ensuring the quality of student education, growing research profile, engaging alumni, and fostering collaborations are the four priorities for his administration’s philosophy.
Dr. Shyu actively serves the international research community, which includes organizing the IEEE HealthCom 2011 conference as general chair, co-chairing the technical program committee of the Second IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM2016) in Taipei, Taiwan, and organizing the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2017) in Kansas City, MO., as general chair.
Dr. Joseph Yang (楊文中博士)
Dr. Joseph Yang (楊文中博士)
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Dr. Yang’s interest in the life sciences began early in high school. He earned a B.S. degree in Biology from Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. After a year of ROTC service he was offered a technician position to study thyroid functions and the CNS satiety center in the Metabolism Division of Alfred Kohlberg Memorial Medical Research Laboratory, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. He obtained his graduate training in the Department of Biology at Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
His Ph.D. thesis focused on “Alterations of in vitro protein synthesis mechanisms in chicken brains from embryonic development to late adulthood”. He finished his post-doctoral training with an NIH Fellowship Award studying “Insulin receptors and the effects of insulin in cultured rat brain cells” in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa School of Medicine.
He moved to St. Louis at 1980 to manage the Tissue Culture Core Facility of Diabetes Research and Training Center in Washington University Medical School. Besides continuing his own research he had also established over 300 various cell strains/lines to be used by other Diabetes Center investigators for their researches. At 1993 he left Washington University to join Linco Research Inc. at St. Charles to develop immunoassay kits for blood borne biomarkers of obesity and metabolic syndrome complications. One of the significant achievements is to successfully develop the first commercial leptin RIA kit in the world. In addition, he took charge in laying down the foundations and guidelines for manufacturing procedures to significantly improve the quality of all company products. Within a few years Linco Research Inc. became a favorite target of merger by many other companies. At present it is merged into EMD-Millipore within Merck KGaA. At January this year Dr. Yang retired from the Senior Research Scientist position in EMD-Millipore. In all, he had successfully developed close to 30 kits for various biomarkers, trained many new employees and provided consultations to his colleagues.
In his leisure time he enjoys listening to operas and classic music, drawing, fresh water fishing, basketball, baseball, and especially choral singing. He has been an active member in the local a cappella choral group Promusica Ensemble since 1993. In the past he had served as president of the university folk dance club and chair of ball dance committee for 1966 graduating class in Tunghai University. He was elected the first president of Chinese Student Association in Illinois State University. While living in St Louis, he has been a board member of Chinese Culture Association for several years and frequently volunteered in the activities of Chinese Culture Day and annual meetings of MCASTA. He was also a board member in the City of Maryland Heights Culture Arts Commission for three years and promoted the exhibition of Chinese culture in the city’s annual International Festivals.
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