Cheng-Chang (C.C.) Lu received the B.S. degree in control engineering from the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1983, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, in 1985 and 1988. Since August 1988 he has been with Kent State University and he is currently a professor of Computer Science. His research interests are data compression, image processing and medical imaging.