Ching-Yung Lin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2000, all in Electrical Engineering. He was a Wireless 2nd Lieutenant at R.O.C. Air Force, Taiwan, 1993-1995, and an instructor of Network Communication Lab at National Taiwan University, 1995-1996.

Since 2000, he has been a Research Staff Member in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New York. His current research interests include multimedia understanding and multimedia security. Dr. Lin designed first successful multimedia content authentication system and first public watermarking system surviving print-and-scan process. He is the primary contributor in the IBM multimedia semantic mining adventure research project. His team performs best in NIST TREC video semantic retrieval benchmarking in 2001 and video concept detection benchmarking in 2002. Dr. Lin is leading a multimedia semantic annotation project across 17 worldwide institutes. He has been serving as panelist, technical committee member, and invited speaker at various IEEE/ACM/SPIE conferences. Dr. Lin is the Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE ITRE 2003 and the Guest Co-Editor of the Proceedings of IEEE -- special issue on Digital Rights Management in 2004. He is the special session organizer of multimedia security in IEEE ITCC 2001, multimedia semantic analysis in IEEE ICIP 2003, the Publicity chair of IEEE PCM 2001 and IEEE ICME 2004, and the tutorial lecturer in IEEE ICME 2003 and Globecom 2003. Dr. Lin is the recipient of 2003 IEEE Circuits and Systems society Outstanding Young Author Award, 1993 Acer Best EECS Thesis Award, and the Outstanding Paper Award in CVGIP 1993.

Dr. Lin is the author/co-author of 60 journal articles, conference papers, and public release software. He holds three US patents and seven pending patents in the fields of multimedia security and multimedia understanding.

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