Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu received his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2000, he was a post-doctoral research associate of the Robot Vision Lab at Purdue.Currently, he is an assistant professor of the Computer Eng. and Computer Science Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA. His research interests include content-based image retrieval, medical informatics, bioinformatics, database management, pattern recognition, and computer vision. Dr. Shyu is a member of IEEE and ACM.