Experience

1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2009 | 2010-Present

1970-1979

1979 – 80 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland
Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Linear Programming & Network Flows, Integer & Dynamic Programming and Mathematical Modeling

1974 – 76 SECOND LIEUTENANT PLATOON LEADER

Chinese Army Transportation Troops, Taiwan, R.O.C.

1980-1989

1980 – 85 SENIOR MEMBER OF RESEARCH STAFF

Engineering Research Center, AT&T Technologies, Princeton, New Jersey
Special Honor: 1984 AT&T Technical Achievement Award
Modeling and controlling various advanced manufacturing technologies, designing and developing computer aided manufacturing systems.
Designed and implemented a computer aided manufacturing system to automate the optical fiber shop at AT&T Atlanta factory; the system (LITES) selects the most economic way to build multi-mode, single-mode, and underseas cable systems; it saved AT&T 12 million dollars per year.
Developed a computer aided material slitting system for the cable slitting process at AT&T Baltimore, Hawthorn and Omaha Works.
Developed a VLSI memory chip repair strategy for the 64K DRAM product line at AT&T Merrimack Valley and Oklahoma Works.
Developed a system to detect electrical shorts and opens for the printed circuit board product line at AT&T Richmond and North Carolina Works.

1985 – 86 DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF

Transmission Network Design Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey
Special Honor: 1986 Bell Laboratories Exceptional Contribution Award
Designing and developing computer aided planning systems for AT&T Communications network planners to automate their network planning processes.
Successfully designed and implemented a computerized network facility capacity planning system that solves AT&T nationwide transmission network plans with one million variables and four hundred thousand constraints via a modified Karmarkar’s algorithm, this work was cited as the “Hottest Hits of Bell Laboratories” by Bell Lab News.

1986 – 87 DEPARTMENT MANAGER

Manufacturing Information Network Management Department, AT&T Corporate Headquarters, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
Special Honor: 1987 AT&T Corporate Headquarters Special Merit Award
Chief architecture in designing and engineering integrated data networking capabilities for 22 AT&T domestic and overseas factories
Co-chair of AT&T Factory Data Networking Steering Committee
Planning, reviewing and monitoring AT&T Bell Laboratories research projects and coordinating AT&T Information Systems product development for computer integrated manufacturing.
AT&T representative for MAP-Fiber Optics Special Interest Group.

1987 – 88 SUPERVISOR

Integrated Network Design Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey
Supervising members of technical staff to conduct R/D projects for AT&T domestic telecommunications network planning.
Exploited advanced mathematical programming techniques and parallel mini-super computer capabilities to solve very large scale network optimization problems.
Successfully built the Inter-city Facility Planning (IFP) system for AT&T domestic network planners that led to the 1988 EUO Eagle Award for the group.

1988 (WINTER) VISITING EXPERT

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, R.O.C. Sponsored by the Ministry of Economical Affairs.

1989 (SUMMER) VISITING TECHNICAL ADVISOR

Telecommunications Network Planning Department, Telecommunications Laboratories, Taiwan, R.O.C. Sponsored by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.

1990-1999

1992 (SUMMER) VISITING PROFESSOR

Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan, Niigata, Japan. Sponsored by the International Education Foundation of Japan.

1992 (FALL) VISITING PROFESSOR

Department of Industrial Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, R.O.C.

1994 (SUMMER) DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR

Northeastern University in Shenyang, Tsing Hua University in Beijing, Academia Sinica in Beijing, Nankai University in Tianjin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Fudan University in Shanghai, Shanghai University Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry of China.

1994 (SUMMER) VISITING PROFESSOR

Institute of Applied Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, R.O.C.

1995 (SUMMER) DISTINGUISHED INVITED LECTURESHIP

Department of Industrial Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, R.O.C.

1995 (SUMMER) VISITING PROFESSOR

1995 – 2000 UNIVERSITY VISITING EXAMINER

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

1995 – 2008 STATE REPRESENTATIVE AND ADVISOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Appointed by Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. of the State of North Carolina.
Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan, Niigata, Japan. Sponsored by the International Education Foundation of Japan.

1990 – 1995 AND 2000 (SPRING) DIRECTOR OF THE OPERATIONS RESEARCH PROGRAM

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

1996 (SUMMER) DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR

Shanghai University in Shanghai, Jiao-tong University in Xi’an, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Northeastern University in Shenyang, Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

1997 (SUMMER) DISTINGUISHED INVITED LECTURESHIP

Department of Industrial Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, R.O.C.

1999 (SUMMER) DISTINGUISHED TECHNICAL ADVISOR

ATM Broadband Networks, Chung-Hua Telecommunications Laboratories, Taiwan, R.O.C.

1999 (SUMMER) DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR

Department of Mathematics, Burapha University, Thailand. Sponsored by the Royal Thai Government, Ministry of University Affairs, Thailand.

1999 – 2005 DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

2000-2009

2002 (SPRING) VISITING PROFESSOR

Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

2002 – 2006 ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

2003 – 2006 ACADEMIC ADVISOR

Department of Applied Mathematics, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2004 (SUMMER) VISITING PROFESSOR

National Center for Theoretic Research Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan R.O.C.