Honors and Awards

1. National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumni Award, 2024.
2. Holder of the Ming Hsieh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024.
3. Academician, Academia Sinica, 2022.
4. USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 2022.
5. IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, 2021.
6. Holder of William H. Hogue Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2021.
7. Technology and Engineering Emmy Award, 2020.
8. Orange County Engineering Council (OCEC) Outstanding Engineering Merit Award, 2020.
9. IEEE TCMC Impact Award, 2020.
10. IEEE Signal Processing Society Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award, 2019.
11. IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, 2019.
12. USC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018.
13. USC Provost’s Mentoring Award, 2018.
14. IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award, 2017.
15. IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, 2017.
16. IS&T Raymond C. Bowman Award, 2016.
17. IEEE Circuits and Systems Society John Choma Education Award, 2016.
18. IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award, 2016.
19. USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2016.
20. Orange County Engineering Council (OCEC) Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, 2015.
21. Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award (awarded by USC Viterbi School of Engineering), 2014.
22. USC Mellon Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students Award (awarded by USC Mellon Mentoring Forum), 2014.
23. Dean’s Professor in Electrical Engineering-Systems (awarded by USC), 2014 – 2018.
24. Editor Emeritus Award (awarded by Elsevier Publisher), 2011.
25. Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award (awarded by the Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation), 2011.
26. Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies (awarded by the Fulbright program and the Nokia Foundation), 2010-2011.
27. Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award, January 2010 (awarded by IS&T and SPIE), 2010
28. Okawa Foundation Research Award, 2007.
29. USC Mellon Faculty Mentoring Faculty Award (awarded by USC Mellon Mentoring Forum), 2006.
30. IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2006.
31. USC, Viterbi School of Engineering, Northrop Junior Faculty Research Award, 1994.
32. NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award, 1993.
33. NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Award, 1992.
34. NSF Research Initiation Award, 1990.

1. The 2024 APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Best Paper Award

• Fenxiao Chen, Yun-Cheng Wang, Bin Wang and C.-C. Jay Kuo, Graph representation learning: a survey,” APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 9, 2020, No. 1, e15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2020.13

2. The 2022 APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Best Paper Award

• Bin Wang, Angela Wang, Fenxiao Chen, Yun-Cheng Wang and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Evaluating word embedding models: methods and experimental results,” APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Vol. 8, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2019.12.

3. The 2022 Best Paper Award of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

• Yueru Chen and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “PixelHop: a successive subspace learning (SSL) method for object recognition,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 70, July 2020, 102749.

4. The 2021 Best Paper Award of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

• C.-C. Jay Kuo, Min Zhang, Siyang Li, Jiali Duan and Yueru Chen, “Interpretable convolutional neural networks via feedforward design,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 60, pp. 346-359, April 2019.

4. The 2020 Best Paper Award Runner-up of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

• C.-C. Jay Kuo and Yueru Chen, “On data-driven Saak transform,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 50, pp. 237-246, January 2018.

4. The 2019 APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Best Paper Award

• Sachin Chachada and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Environmental sound recognition: a survey,” published online December 15, 2014, APSIPA Trans. on Signal and Information Processing.

7. The 2019 Best Paper Award Runner-up of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

• Ronald Salloum, Yuzhuo Ren and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Image splicing localization using a multi-task fully convolutional network (MFCN),” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 51, pp. 201-209, February 2018.

8. The 2018 Best Paper Award of Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation.

• C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Understanding convolutional neural networks with a mathematical model,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 41, pp. 406-413, November 2016.

9. The Best Student Paper Award in the 2018 Conference on Autonomous Vehicles and Machines of IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Burlingame, California, USA, January 28 – February 2, 2018

• Hao Xu, Siyang Li and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Semantic image segmentation using encoder-decoder architecture assisted by global and local attention models (EDA-GLAM),” the Autonomous Vehicles and Machines Conference, at IS&T Electronic Imaging, Burlingame, California, USA, January 28 – February 1, 2018.

10. The Springer Poster Book Prize in the 2017 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit Conference (ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 12-15, 2017, for the following poster paper presentation:

• Chun-Ting Huang, Yueru Chen, Ruiyuan Lin and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Age/Gender Classification with Whole-Component Convolutional Neural Networks,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 12-15, 2017.

11. Best Paper Award in the 2017 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit Conference (ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 12-15, 2017, for the following paper:

• Hao Xu, Yueru Chen, Ruiyuan Lin and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Understanding CNN via deep features analysis,” APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 12-15, 2017.

12. PhD Thesis Advisor of Qin Huang who received the Capocelli Prize in 2017 Data Compression Conference (DCC) for the following paper:

• Qin Huang, Haiqiang Wang, Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Se Yoon Jeong and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Measure and prediction of HEVC perceptually lossy/lossless boundary QP values,” Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, USA, April 4-7, 2017.

13. The Best Paper Award from the 2014 ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information (CEOCROWD), Dallas, Texas, USA, November 4, 2014.

• Sanjay Purushotham, Junaith Shahabdeen, Lama Nachman and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Collaborative group-activity recommendation in location-based social networks”

14. PhD Thesis Advisor of the Best Dissertation Award – Best Experimental Work, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, 2010

• Jonghye Woo, “Variational Techniques for Cardiac Image Analysis: Algorithms and Applications”

15. Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP), 2006

• Yongjin Cho, Do-Kyoung Kwon, C.-C. Jay Kuo, Renxiang Huang, Claudio Lima, Jim D. Black and James J. Pan, “Video streaming over 3G networks with GOP-based priority scheduling,” Pasadena, California, USA, December 18-20, 2006.

16. Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2006

• Man-On Pun, Michele Morelli and C.-C. Jay Kuo, “Iterative equalization and decoding for unsynchronized OFDMA uplink transmissions,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2006-F), Montreal, Canada, September 25-28, 2006

17. Best Paper Award in Multimedia Communications – IEEE Communication Society, 2004

• Wuttipong Kumwilaisak, Thomas Hou, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, C.-C. Jay Kuo and Ya-Qin Zhang, “A cross-layer quality of service mapping architecture for video delivery in wireless networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 1685-1698, December 2003.

1. Honorary Chair Professor, National Chiao-Tung University (March 1, 2012 to February 28, 2018).
2. Honorary Chair Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, January 25, 2011.

1. Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Membership No. 04869269, 1999)
2. Fellow of SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1996)
3. Fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011)
4. Fellow of NAI (National Academy of Inventors, 2020)
5. ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
6. SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
7. APSIPA (Asian Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association)