GLOBAL SECURITY ENGINEERING announces new Chief Technology Officer - Dr. Chih-Cheng Hung. 

For Immediate Release:   Atlanta GA, May 26, 2009

Global Security Engineering’s CEO David Raudabaugh announces that Dr. Chih-Cheng Hung PhD, has joined the company’s Board of Directors as the Chief Technology Officer.  Dr. Hung has been an integral part of the company’s research and development since joining GSE, directing the efforts of the Facial Recognition Research Center at Southern Polytechnic State University and serving on the company’s Advisory Board.  Raudabaugh states that Dr. Hung and his team have been able to improve the performance and accuracy of our patent pending facial recognition algorithms and system software, while increasing our intellectual property portfolio; this will lead to additional patent applications to be filed in the near future.  Dr. Hung adds “I am very glad to join the Board of Directors and lead the research team and continue our facial recognition research and development.  With our research effort, I am sure that we will continue to provide cutting-edge facial recognition technology to the market.”

Chih-Chen Hung is a professor in the School of Computing and Software Engineering (CSE) at Southern Polytechnic State University.  His experience in research and development include collaborations with the, U.S. ARMY MICOM, NASA, NASA/ASGC (Alabama Space Grant Consortium), NSF, and DOE/University of Alabama.
In addition, he holds guest professorship from The Center for Biomedical Imaging and Bioinformatics, Huachong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China and The State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.  His research interests include image/video processing and analysis, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, information fusion, image/video retrieval, parallel processing, and software metrics.

Professor Hung is also a member of several professional organizations including IEEE, ACM, IEEE signal processing society, Pattern Recognition Society, International Society for Computers and their Applications (ISCA), International Association for Computer & Information Science, The Chinese-American Academic and Professional Association in Southeastern United States (CAPASUS).  He is also a member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society in the Computing Sciences and a member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of America. He has received the IEEE 2000 Millennium Medal for professional contributions.

You can visit Professor Hung’s website at http://cse.spsu.edu/chung/Default.htm