TIMOTHY K. SHIH (http://tshih.minelab.tw) is a Distinguished Professor at the National Central University, Taiwan. He was and the Vice Dean of College of EECS and the founding Director of Innovative AI Research Center. He was the Dean of the College of Computer Science, Asia University, Taiwan and the Chairman of the CSIE Department at Tamkang University, Taiwan. He was the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, USA. He was the Associate Editor of IEEE Computing Now, the associate editors of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, and the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Prof. Shih was the Conference Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2004). Prof. Shih has received many research awards, including research awards from National Science Council of Taiwan, IIAS research award from Germany, HSSS award from Greece, Brandon Hall award from USA, the 2015 Google MOOC Focused Research Award