Frank Y. Shih received his BS degree from the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1980, an MS degree from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA, in 1983, and a PhD degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, in 1987. He is currently a professor jointly appointed in the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey. He is also director of the Computer Vision Laboratory, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Shih has held visiting professor positions at Princeton University; Columbia University; National Taiwan University; National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo; Conservatoire National Des Arts Et Metiers, Paris; and Central South University, Changsha, China. He is an internationally renowned scholar and serves as the editor-in-chief for International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security (IJMIS). Dr. Shih is currently on the editorial board of Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, Recent Patents on Engineering, Recent Patents on Computer Science, The Open Nanoscience Journal, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, Journal of Internet Technology, ISRN Signal Processing, and ISRN Machine Vision. He has served as a steering member, committee member, and session chair for numerous professional conferences and workshops. Dr. Shih has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, Navy and Air Force, and industry. He was the recipient of the Research Initiation Award of the NSF in 1991 and the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Award of NJIT in 2009.
Dr. Shih has made significant contributions to information hiding, focusing on the security and robustness of digital watermarking and steganography. He has authored three books: Digital Watermarking and Steganography, Image Processing and Mathematical Morphology, and Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. He has published 115 journal papers, 95 conference papers, and 10 book chapters. His current research interests include image processing, computer vision, watermarking and steganography, digital forensics, sensor networks, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, information security, robotics, fuzzy logic, and neural networks.