Leang-San Shieh received his B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1958, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, in 1968 and 1970, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston in 1971 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1974, and Professor in 1978. Since 1988, he has been the Director of the Computer and System Engineering Program.