Prof. Young-Chang Hou
Tamkang University, Taiwan
Young-Chang Hou was born in Guangdong, China in 1949. He received his BS degree in Atmospheric Physics from National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1972, his MS degree in Computer Applications from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1983, and his PhD degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1990.
From 1976 to 1987, he was a senior engineer of Air Navigation and Weather Services, Civil Aeronautical Administration, Taiwan, R.O.C. where his works focused on the automation of weather services. From 1987 to 2004, he was with the faculty at the Department of Information Management, National Central University. Currently he is a professor with the Department of Information Management, Tamkang University. He has published more than 100 referred papers in technical journals and conferences. His research interests include digital watermarking and information hiding, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, and visual cryptography.