Awards

• Research Initiation Award of the National Science Foundation, 1981
• Intelligent Chinese Input Software — Top ten Most Distinguished Chinese computer products（十大傑出中文資訊產品獎）in Taiwan, 1993.
• Outstanding Research Awards（國科會傑出研究獎） by the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan in 1991~1992
• Outstanding Research Awards（國科會傑出研究獎）by NSC, 1994~1995
• Outstanding Research Awards（國科會傑出研究獎）by NSC, 1996~1997.
• K.T. Lee Research Breakthrough Award（李國鼎穿石獎）in 1999
• NSC Designated Research Fellow（國科會特約研究員獎）in 1999
• NSC Appointed Outstanding Research Award（國科會傑出特約研究員獎）in 2005
• Academia Sinica Investigator Award（中央研究院深耕計畫獎）in 2005
• IEEE Fellow 2006
• Teco-Award (東元獎)  in 2008
• Pan Wen Yuan Distinguished Research Award (潘文淵研究傑出獎) in 2010.
• the IICM Medal of Honor 2012 from Institute of Information & Computing Machinery（中華民國資訊學會 2012資訊榮譽獎章 in 2012）