S. Panchapakesan

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
PERSONAL
Date and Place of Birth:	8/27/1933; Madras (now Chennai), India
Home Address:	411 Creek Point Lane, Arlington, TX 76002
E-Mail Address:	kesan@math.siu.edu, spkesan@yahoo.com
Citizenship:	United States of America
EDUCATION
M.A.	Mathematics	University of Madras	1955
M.Stat.	Statistics	Indian Statistical Institute	1962
Ph.D.	Statistics	Purdue University	1969
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
A. Regular Positions
June 1998-Present	Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Aug. 1980-May 1998	Professor, Department of Mathematics , Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Aug. 1974-July 1980	Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Sept. 1970-July 1974	Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Feb. 1965-Aug. 1965	Staff, Data Processing Centre, Research and Training School, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
June 1955-July 1960	Lecturer in Mathematics, Islamiah College, Vaniyambadi, Tamilnadu, India
B. Visiting Positions
April 2006-May 2006	Visiting Exchange Scholar, Cheng Shui University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Aug. 2005-Dec. 2005	Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Aug. 1998-Dec. 1998	Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
May 1988-June 1988	Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics and Center for Decision Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Jan. 1986-May 1986	Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Jan. 1984-May 1984	Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Jan. 1980-May 1980	Visiting Expert, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Sept. 1975-Dec. 1975	Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
April 1976-May 1976	Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Sept. 1969-Aug. 1970	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
CURRENT EDITORIAL POSITIONS
1. Member of Editorial Board, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences (since 1993)
2. Associate Editor, Communications in Statistics (since 2002)

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PUBLICATIONS

Books:

1. Multiple Decision Procedures: Methodology of Selecting and Ranking Populations (co-authored with S. S. Gupta), New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1979. Republished as: Classics In Applied Mathematics, 44, Philadelphia: SIAM, 2002.
2. Advances in Statistical Decision Theory and Applications (co-edited with N. Balakrishnan), Boston: Birkhäuser, 1997.

Articles in Professional Journals/Books and Technical Reports:

1. Order statistics arising from independent binomial populations (with S. S. Gupta), Mimeograph Series No. 120, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1967.
2. Some selection and ranking procedures for multivariate normal populations (with S. S. Gupta), In: Multivariate Analysis II: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Multivariate Analysis (Ed. P. R. Krishnaiah), pp. 475-505, New York: Academic Press, 1969.
3. On the distribution of the maximum and minimum of ratios of order statistics (with R. E. Barlow and S. S. Gupta), Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 40 (1969), 918-934.
4. Selection and ranking procedures (with S. S. Gupta), In: The Design of Computer Simulation Experiments (Ed. T. H. Naylor), pp. 132-160, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1969.
5. Some contributions to multiple decision (selection and ranking) procedures, Mimeograph Series No. 192, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1969.
6. On a subset selection procedure for the most probable event in a multinomial distribution. In: Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics (Eds. S. S. Gupta and J. Yackel), pp. 275-298, New York: Academic Press, 1971.
7. Contributions to multiple decision (subset selection) rules, multivariate distribution theory and order statistics (with S. S. Gupta), Technical Report ARL 71-0218, Dayton, Ohio: Aerospace Research Laboratories, 1971.
8. On a class of subset selection procedures (with S. S. Gupta), Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 43 (1972), 814-822.
9. On multiple decision (subset selection) procedures (with S. S. Gupta), Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 6 (1972), 1-72.
10. On order statistics and some applications of combinatorial methods in statistics (with S. S. Gupta), In: A Survey of Combinatorial Theory (Ed. J. N. Srivastava), pp. 217-250, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1973.
11. On order statistics from equally correlated normal random variables (with S. S. Gupta and K. Nagel), Biometrika, 60 (1973), 403-413.
12. Inference for restricted families: (A) multiple decision procedures; (B) order statistics inequalities (with S. S. Gupta), In: Reliability and Biometry: Statistical Analysis of Life Length (Eds. F. Proschan and R. J. Serfling), pp. 503-596, Philadelphia: SIAM, 1973.
13. On moments of order statistics from independent binomial populations (with S. S. Gupta), Annals of The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Supplement, 8 (1974), 95-113.
14. On a quantile selection procedure and associated distribution of ratios of order statistics from a restricted family of probability distributions (with S. S. Gupta), In: Reliability and Fault Tree Analysis (Eds. R. E. Barlow, J. B. Fusell and N. D. Singpurwalla), pp. 557-576, Philadelphia: SIAM, 1975.
15. A modified subset selection formulation with special reference to one-way and two-way layout experiments (with D.-Y. Huang), Communications in Statistics, A5 (1976), 621-633.
16. Subset selection procedures for $\Delta_p$-superior populations (with T. J. Santner), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, A6 (1977), 1081-1090.
17. A subset selection formulation of the complete ranking problem (with D.-Y. Huang), Journal of the Chinese Statistical Association, 16 (1978), 5801-5810.
18. On a monotonicity property relating to gamma distributions. Journal of the Chinese Statistical Association, 16 (1978), 6003-6005.
19. Some statistical techniques in climatological data (with S. S. Gupta), In: Statistical Climatology: Developments in Atmospheric Science, 13 (Eds. S. Ikeda et al.), pp. 35-48, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, 1980.
20. ASA and statistical education (with S. S. Gupta), In: Proceedings of the American Statistical Association - Section on Statistical Education, pp. 27-29, 1981.
21. On eliminating inferior regression models (with D.-Y. Huang), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, A11 (1982), 751-759.
22. Some locally optimal subset selection rules based on ranks (with D.-Y. Huang), In: Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics-III (Eds. S. S. Gupta and J. O. Berger), Vol. 2, pp. 1-14, New York: Academic Press, 1982.
23. Some locally optimal subset selection rules for comparison with a control (with D.-Y. Huang), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 9 (1984), 63-72.
24. On some inequalities and monotonicity results in selection and ranking theory (with S. S. Gupta and D.-Y. Huang), In: Inequalities in Statistics and Probability (Ed. Y. L. Tong), IMS Lecture Notes - Monograph Series, Vol. 5, pp. 211-227, 1984.
25. An estimation problem relating to subset selection from normal populations (with S. Jeyaratnam), In: Design of Experiments: Ranking and Selection (Eds. T. J. Santner and A. C. Tamhane), pp. 287-302, New York: Marcel Dekker, 1984.
26. Edgeworth expansions in statistics: some recent developments (with S. S. Gupta), In: Colloquia Mathematica Societatis János Bolyai: 34. Limit Theorems in Probability and Statistics (Ed. P. Révész), pp. 519-565, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1984.
27. On the distribution of the studentized maximum of equally correlated normal random variables (with S. S. Gupta and J. K. Sohn), Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 14 (1985), 103-135.
28. Subset selection procedures: review and assessment (with S. S. Gupta), American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 5 (1985), 235-311.
29. Shanti S. Gupta: an appreciation (with T. J. Santner), American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 5 (1985), 347-369.
30. Estimation after subset selection from exponential populations (with S. Jeyaratnam), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 15 (1986), 3459-3473.
31. Estimation of Pr(X > Y) for gamma distributions (with R. Ismail and S. Jeyaratnam), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 26 (1986), 253-267.
32. Statistical selection procedures in multivariate models (with S. S. Gupta), In: Advances in Multivariate Statistical Analysis (Ed. A. K. Gupta), pp. 141-160, Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1987.
33. Inference about the change-point in a sequence of random variables: a selection approach (with T. Liang), In: Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics-IV (Eds. S. S. Gupta and J.O. Berger), Vol. 2, pp. 79-87, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
34. Selection and ranking procedures in reliability models (with S. S. Gupta), In: Handbook of Statistics, 7: Quality Control and Reliability (Eds. P. R. Krishnaiah and C. R. Rao), pp. 131-156, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1988.
35. Prediction intervals for balanced one-factor random models (with S. Jeyaratnam), In: Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of F. A. Graybill (Ed. J. N. Srivastava), pp. 161-170, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1988.
36. Selection from uniform populations based on sample midranges and an associated estimation after selection (with S. Jeyaratnam), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 17 (1988), 2303-2314.
37. Prediction intervals for the random intercept linear model (with S. Jeyaratnam), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 17 (1988), 3067-3073.
38. Entropy based subset selection from Bernoulli populations (with S. Jeyaratnam), In: Computing and Information (Eds. R. Janicki and W. W. Koczkodaj), Vol. II, pp. 202-204, Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., 1989.
39. Preliminary test based sometimes-pool estimator of the Bernoulli entropy function (with S. Jeyaratnam), In: Advances in Computing and Information (Eds. S. G. Akl, F. Fiala and W. W. Koczkodaj), pp. 16-18, Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., 1990.
40. On sequential ranking and selection procedures (with S. S. Gupta), In: Handbook of Sequential Analysis (Eds. B. K. Ghosh and P. K. Sen), pp. 363-380, New York: Marcel Dekker, 1991.
41. An empirical Bayes procedure for selecting the most homogeneous multinomial population according to the Gini-Simpson index (with T. Liang), In: The Proceedings of the 1990 Taipei Symposium in Statistics (Eds. M. T. Chao and P. E. Cheng), pp. 447-460, Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, 1991.
42. Ranking and selection procedures, In: Handbook of the Logistic Distribution (Ed. N. Balakrishnan), pp. 145-167, New York: Marcel Dekker, 1992.
43. On a monotone empirical Bayes test procedure in geometric model (with T. Liang), Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 44 (1992), 133-140.
44. Isotonic selection with respect to a control: a Bayesian approach (with T. Liang), In: The Frontiers of Modern Statistical Inference Procedures, II (Eds. E. Bofinger et al.), pp. 273-285, Syracuse, New York: American Sciences Press, 1992.
45. A two-stage procedure for selecting $delta^*$-optimal guaranteed lifetimes in the two-parameter exponential model (with T. Liang), In: Multiple Comparisons, Selection, and Applications in Biometry: A Festschrift in Honor of Charles W. Dunnett (Ed. F. M. Hoppe), Chapter 20, pp. 353-365, New York: Marcel Dekker, 1993.
46. Selection and screening procedures in multivariate analysis (with S. S. Gupta), In: Multivariate Analysis: Future Directions (Ed. C. R. Rao), North-Holland Series in Statistics and Probability, Vol.5, Chapter 12, pp. 223-262, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1993.
47. Robustness of selection procedures: an overview, In: Selection Procedures I : Proceedings of the 3rd Schwerin Conference on Mathematical Statistics (Eds. G. Herrendorfer and K. J. Miescke), pp. 134-146, Dummerstorf-Rostock, Germany: Agricultural University, 1993.
48. Multistage subset selection procedures for normal populations and associated second-order asymptotics (with N. Mukhoadhyay), Metron, 21 (1993), 25-42.
49. An integrated formulation for selecting the best normal population and eliminating bad ones (with P. Chen), In: Compstat 1994 (Eds. R. Dutter and W. Grossman), pp. 18-19, Vienna: University of Technology and University of Vienna, 1994.
50. Selecting among the multinomial losers (with P. Chen and M. Sobel), Sequential Analysis, 13 (1994), 177-200.
51. Estimation of the location and scale parameters of the extreme value distribution based on multiply type-II censored samples (with N. Balakrishnan and S. S. Gupta), Communications in Statistics -Theory and Methods, 24 (1995), 2105-2125.
52. Estimation of the mean and standard deviation of the logistic distribution based on multiply type-II censored samples (with N. Balakrishnan and S. S. Gupta), Statistics, 27 (1995), 127-142.
53. Selection of the normal population with the largest absolute mean, In: Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, Contributed Papers of the 50th Session, Book 2, pp. 955-956, 1995.
54. Selection and ranking procedures, In: The Exponential Distribution: Method, Theory and Applications (Eds. N. Balakrishnan and A. P. Basu), Chapter 16, pp. 259-278, Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1995.
55. Exponential classification and applications (with N. Balakrishnan and Q. Zhang), In: The Exponential Distribution: Method, Theory and Applications (Eds. N. Balakrishnan and A. P. Basu), Chapter 32, pp. 525-546, Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1995.
56. Multiple decision procedures in analysis of variance and regression analysis (with S. S. Gupta and D.-Y. Huang), Technical Report No. 95-44c, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1995.
57. A review of robustness of selection procedures, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 54 (1996), 279-290.
58. Design of experiments with selection and ranking goals (with S. S. Gupta), In: Handbook of Statistics, 13: Design and Analysis of Experiments (Eds. S. Ghosh and C. R. Rao), Chapter 17, pp. 555-585, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1996.
59. $d$-exceedance records (with N. Balakrishnan and K. Balasubramanian), Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences, 4 (1996), 123-132.
60. An integrated formulation for selecting the best from several normal populations in terms of the absolute values of their means: common known variance case (with S. Jeyaratnam), In: Advances in Statistical Decision Theory and Methodology (Eds. S. Panchapakesan and N. Balakrishnan), Chapter 19, pp. 277-289, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1997.
61. Inverse sampling procedures to test for homogeneity in a multinomial distribution (with A. Childs, B. H. Humphrey and N. Balakrishnan), In: Handbook of Statistics, 17: Order Statistics: Applications (Eds. N. Balakrishnan and C.R. Rao), Chapter 14, pp. 259-265, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1998.
62. A two-stage procedure for selecting from normal populations the one with the largest absolute mean: common unknown variance case (with S. Jeyaratnam), In: Proceedings of the 3rd St. Petersburg Workshop on Simulation (Eds. S. M. Ermakov, Y. N. Kashtanov and V. B. Melas), pp. 259-265, St. Peterburg, Russia: Saint Petersburg University Press, 1998.
63. Selecting from normal populations the one with the largest absolute mean: common unknown variance case (with S. Jeyaratnam), In: Advances in Stochastic Simulation Methods (Eds. N. Balakrishnan, S. M. Ermakov and V. B. Melas), Chapter 16, pp. 283-292, Boston: Birkhäuser, 2000.
64. Simultaneous selection of extreme populations from a set of two-parameter exponential populations (with K. Hussein), In: Handbook of Statistics, 20: Advances In Reliability (Eds. N. Balakrishnan and C. R. Rao), Chapter 33, pp. 813-830, Amsterdam:Elservier Publishers, 2001.
65. On selection from normal populations in terms of the absolute values of their means (with K. Hussein), In: Advances on Theoretical and Methodological Aspects of Probability and Statistics (Ed. N. Balakrishnan ), Chapter 25, pp. 371-390, Newark, New Jersey: Gordon and Breach, 2002.
66. Selecting the normal population with the largest mean: a restricted subset selection rule (with L. Hsu), In: Statistical Methods and Practice: Recent Advances (Eds. N. Balakrishnan, N. Kannan and M.R. Srinivasan), pp. 145-161, New Delhi, India: Narosa Publishing House, 2002.
67. Estimation of the mean and standard deviation of the normal distribution based on multiply type-II censored samples (with N. Balakrishnan and S. S. Gupta), Journal of Statistical Studies, Special Volume in honor of Mir Masoom Ali (Ed. M. F. Hossain), pp. 307-320, 2002.
68. 68. Professor Shanti Swarup Gupta (with T. J. Santner), American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 22 (2002), 173-198. Received the 2003 Thomas L. Saaty Prize for Applied Advances in the Mathematical and Management Sciences awarded by the Journal.
69. Sequential procedures for selecting the most probable multinomial cell when a nuisance cell is present (with M. Aoshima and P. Chen), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 32 (2003), 893-906.
70. Detecting signals simultaneously at k sites (with P. Chen), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 33 (2004), 1667-1688.
71. A restricted subset selection procedure for selecting in terms of means at least one of the t best from k normal populations with common known variance (with L. Hsu), In: Advances in Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons, and Reliability (Eds. N. Balakrishnan, N. Kannan and H. N. Nagaraja), pp. 117-131, Boston: Birkhäuser, 2005.
72. Restricted subset selection procedures for normal means: A brief review with a fresh look at the classical formulation of Bechhofer and Gupta, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 34 (2005), 1265-1273.
73. Gupta, Shanti Swarup, In: Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition (Eds. N. Balakrishnan, C. Read and B. Vidakovic), Volume 5, pp. 3037-3039, New York: John Wiley, 2006.
74. Ranking and Selection procedures, In: Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition (Eds. N. Balakrishnan, C. Read and B. Vidakovic), Volume 10, pp. 6907-6915, New York: John Wiley, 2006.
75. Signal Processing, Selection approaches in (with P. Chen), In: Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition (Eds. N. Balakrishnan, C. Read and B. Vidakovic), Volume 12, pp. 7710-7716, New York: John Wiley, 2006.
76. Shanti Swarup Gupta: His Life (1925-2002) and Work, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136 (2006), 1986-1998.
77. On some variable selection procedures based on data for regression models (with D.-Y. Huang and R.-F. Lee), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136 (2006), 2020-2034.
78. A nonparametric procedure based on early failures for selecting the best population using a test for equality. (with N. Balakrishnan and H. K. T. Ng), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136 (2006), 2087-2111.
79. A monotonicity property for gamma distributions (with G.C. McDonald), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136 (2006), 2279-2283.
80. A note on a subset selection procedure for the most probable multinomial event, Sequential Analysis, 25 (2006), 145-149.
81. Selecting the best population using a test for equality based on minimal Wilcoxon rank-sum precedence statistic (with H. K. T. Ng and N. Balakrishnan), Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 8 (2006),
82. Selection procedures for type I extreme value populations in terms of location parameters and a related homogeneity test (with S. Jeyaratnam), In: Extreme Value Distributions: Method, Theory and Applications (Ed. N. Balakrishnan), Newark, New Jersey: Gordon and Breach, to appear.
83. Does the selected normal population have the smallest variance? (with N. Kannan), submitted for publication.
84. Is the selected multinomial cell the best? (with H. K. T. Ng), submitted for publication.

Book Reviews:

1. Selecting and Ordering Populations: A New Statistical Methodology, by J. D. Gibbons, I. Olkin and M. Sobel (John Wiley), Journal of Qualtiy Technology, 12 (1980), 239-240.
2. The Complete Categorized Guide to Statistical Selection and Ranking Procedures, by E. J. Dudewicz and J. O. Koo (American Sciences Press), Mathematical Reviews, 84g:62035, 1984.
3. Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics, Volume 11, Eds. R. F. Odeh, J. M. Davenport and N. S. Pearson (American Mathematical Society), Mathematical Computation, 51 (1989), 252-253.
4. Modern Mathematical Statistics, by E. J. Dudewicz and S. N. Mishra (John Wiley), Mathematical Reviews, 89g:62002, 1989.
5. Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. I: Probability for Statistics, Vol. II: Statistical Inference, by H.T. Nguyen and C. S. Rogers (Springer-Verlag), Mathematical Reviews, 90i:62003a,b, 1990.
6. A Statistical Model: Frederic Mosteller's Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, Eds. S. E. Fienberg, D. C. Hoaglin, W. H. Kruskal and J. M. Tanur (Springer-Verlag), Mathematical Reviews, 92a:01079, 1992.
7. A First Course on Order Statistics, by B. C. Arnold, N. Balakrishnan and H. N. Nagaraja (John Wiley), Mathematical Reviews, 94a:62076, 1994.
8. Multistage Selection and Ranking Procedures, by N. Mukhopadhyay and T. K. S. Solanky (Marcel Dekker), Mathematical Reviews, 95h:62032, 1995.
9. Measurement, Regression, and Caliberation, by P.J. Brown (Oxford University Press), SIAM Review, 37 (1995), 635-636.
10. Design and Analysis of Experiments for Statistical Selection, Screening, and Multiple Comparisons, by R. E. Bechhofer, T. J. Santner and D. M. Goldsman (John Wiley), Mathematical Reviews, 96k:62001, 1996.
11. Theory of Statistics, by M. J. Schervish (Springer-Verlag), Mathematical Reviews, 96m:62001, 1996.
12. Tables for the Use of Order Statistics in Estimation, by L. Harter and N. Balakrishnan (CRC Press), Mathematical Reviews, 97d:62097, 1997.
13. Robust Diagnostic Regression Analysis, by A. Atkinson and M. Riani (Springer), Mathematical Reviews, 2003a:62001, 2003,

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INVITED TALKS AND PAPERS PRESENTED (Last five years)

1. Colloquium talk at Department of Statistics, University of Madras, Chennai, India, January 11, 2002.
2. Colloquium talk at Department of Statistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, March 4, 2004.
3. Invited paper presented at the Fourth International Summer Conference at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 11-12, 2004.
4. Colloquium talk at Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, September 15, 2004
5. Invited paper presented at the International Conference on the Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education held in Hyderabad, India, December 29. 2004 - January 1, 2005.
6. Invited paper presented at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Statistics at Department of Mathematics and Statisitcs, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, January 4-6, 2005.
7. Colloquium talk at Department of International Trade, Cheng Shui University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, May 3, 2006.
8. Colloquium talk at Graduate Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management, Cheng Shui University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, May 3, 2006.
9. Colloquium talk at Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat Sun University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, May 4, 2006.
10. Colloquium talk at Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Cheng Shui University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, May 8, 2006.
11. Colloquium talk at Department of Information Management, Cheng Shui University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China, May 10, 2006.

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My visit to Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan from April 20, 2006 to May 10, 2006 as a Visiting Expert under a Taiwan-India Exchange Program.

April 24, 2006: I am presented with the logo of the University (made in solid gold) by the Chairman of the Board Mr. Wu. the President of the University (Mr. Jui-Chang Kung) is at the extreme left. At the extreme right by my side is Professor D. Y. Huang

 

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May 8, 2006: A group photo with the members of the Department of Research and Development. Standing fourth from left is Dr. Shuenn-Ren (Tommy) Cheng, Director of International Affairs.

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