Space and Remote Sensing Chair Professor & Academician, Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research (CSRSR), Department of Space Science and Technology, Department of Business Administration, and Department of Hakka Language and SocialSciences, National Central University (NCU), Taiwan;

Founding President, Taiwan Group on Earth Observations (2010/8~)

Honorary President, Vietnamese Experts Association in Taiwan (2016~)

Executive Secretary to establish Institute of Hydrological Sciences at NCU in 2001;

 Division Director, Science Development Division, National Space Organization (NSPO) in 2005 & Advisor to NSPO in 2006; 

Chair Professor & Dean, College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Chien Hsin University of Science & Technology, 2006/8-2007/7; 

Distinguished Professor & Director of CSRSR, NCU, 2007/8- 2010/7; 

President, Taiwan GIS Center (National Development Council think-tank), 2014/9-2016/9.

Chair Professor, Chien Hsin University of Science & Technology, 2006; 

Honorary Life Member, Korean Society of Remote Sensing, 2007; 

Foreign Member, Prokhorov Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences, 2008; 

Outstanding Alumni Award, National Sun Yat-sen University, 2008;

Member, International Academy of Astronautics, 2014; 

Fellow, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2015; 

Outstanding Research Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 2019; 

Crystal Achievement Award, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam, 2019; 

In The World's Top 2% Scientists List by Stanford University, 2020~; 

Honorary Chair Professor, National Marine Museum of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, 2021; 

Outstanding Award, Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei, 2021; 

Distinguished Lecture, Asia Oceania Geoscience Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting, 2023; 

NCU Outstanding Paper Contribution Award (Nine recipients university-wide), 2023, 2024; 

Choen Kim Award, Korean Society of Remote Sensing, 2024; 

Space and Remote Sensing Chair Professor, National Central University, 2025/1.

Ministry of Education (MOE) Yushan scholar programcommittee; 

(Nobel Laureate Dr. Yuan-Tseh Lee) Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship Outstanding Scholar Awards; 

2024 Kyoto Prize Nominator.

Editor or Editorial Advisory Board member, GPS Solutions, 2021~; Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2017/5~; Remote Sensing, 2017/11~. 

Guest Editor, special issues for various journals

Published more than 192 scientific papers (Google Scholar/ ResearchGate/ Scopus/ WoS (as of 2025/06/13) database, citations = 8648/7520/5958/4627, H-Index=47/45/39/36)