Selected Services
SERVICE TO TEMPLE UNIVERSITY:
Chairman, Department of Statistics, 1982-1987
1. Designed, negotiated and supervised the moving of the Department to the second floor of Speakman Hall.
2. Established the department newsletter, T-Stat News, to publicize the department and its academic programs.
3. Established the Statistics Reading Room which contains many statistics research books and references.
4. Established formal contact and cooperation with local research centers and companies such as the American College of Radiology, Fox-Chase Cancer Research Center, Merck-Sharp-Dohme, Dupont, and the Temple Medical School to support our programs through fellowships, assistantships, and summer internships.
5. Raised external funds to support student and faculty development; these funds were significant enough to provide two additional graduate assistantships (full tuition plus stipend) for three years, to purchase computers and terminals for the 24 full-time faculty members in the department, and to wire all faculty and secretarial offices directly to the University mainframe computers.
6. Designed, negotiated, and achieved in 1986 a 2-2 teaching load for our faculty. The Department and the School had a 3-3 teaching load prior to 1986. Unfortunately, the teaching load went back to a 3-3/3-2 load after 1988.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICE
Editorships:
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Statistical Science
Associate Editor, Journal of Forecasting
Guest Editor, the Special Issue of Communications in Statistics for
the 1999 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium
Professional Committees and Offices:
Member, ASA (American Statistical Association) Institutional Membership Committee, 1985
Organizer of Business Statistics Section of 1992 ICSA (International Chinese Statistical Association) Applied Statistics Symposium
Organizer of Business Statistics Section of 1993 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium
Vice-President, ASA Philadelphia Chapter, 1996-1997
President, ASA Philadelphia Chapter, 1997-1998
Chair, the 2002 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium Program Committee
Member, ASA Committee on International Relations in Statistics, 2000-2002
President-Elect, ICSA, 2001
President, ICSA, 2002
Past President, ICSA, 2003
Board Member, North America Taiwanese Professors' Association, 2006, 2007
ASA Council of Section Representative, 2007, 2008, 2009
Executive Member, ASA Business and Economic Statistics
Section, 2007, 2008, 2009
Member of ASA Fiscal Oversight Committee, 2009 - 2012
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Member, Educational Advisory Committee of the School District of Upper Dublin, 1993 - 94
Invited Discussant at the Strategic Goals Convention of the School District of Upper Dublin, 1993 - 94
Received a certificate of appreciation from the School District of Upper Dublin (Dec. 1995)
President, Taiwanese Hakka Association of Greater Philadelphia, 1999-2000
President-Elect, Taiwanese Association of America, Greater Philadelphia Chapter, 2000
President, Taiwanese Association of America, Greater Philadelphia Chapter, 2001
President, FAPA Pennsylvania Chapter, 2002, 2003
Chair, Selection Committee, Community High School
Scholarship Program (10 scholarships
high school graduating seniors), Taiwanese
President, Taiwan Hakka
Association for Public Affairs in North America, 2005, 2006
