King-Sun Fu

King-Sun Fu
King-Sun Fu
傅京孫
Born	October 2, 1930; Nanking (now Nanjing), China
Died	April 29, 1985 (aged 54); Washington, DC, US
Education	Chinese Air Force Youth Preparatory School
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (B.S.,1953) ; University of Toronto (M.A., 1955) ; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D, 1959)
Known for	IAPR King-Sun Fu Prize; The First President of IAPR
Spouse	Viola Ou
Children	Two sons and one daughter
Awards	National Science Foundation research grants (1961) ; Guggenheim Fellowship (1971) ; Fellow of IEEE (1971); Herbert Newby McCoy award (1976) ; Member of National Academy of Engineering (1976) ; Member of Academia Sinica (1978); IEEE Computer Society Honor Roll (1973) Appreciation (1977, 1979) Outstanding Paper Award (1977) Special Award (1982) ; ASEE Senior Research Award (1981) ; IEEE Education Medal (1982) ; AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial Award (1982) ; Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA (CIE-USA) Achievement (1983) ; IEEE Centennial Medal (1984)
	Scientific career
Fields	Pattern recognition; Image analysis
Institutions	Purdue University; Boeing Airplane Company (1959–1960); Seattle University (1960) ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961) ; IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1961) ; University of California, Berkeley (1967, 1972) ; Stanford University (1972) ; National Science Foundation (1972–1978) ; Engineering Committee of the Council (1976–1979) ; National Science Foundation (1978–1981)
Thesis	An Approximation Method for Both Magnitude and Phase by Rational Functions (1959)
Doctoral advisor	Mac Van Valkenburg

King-Sun Fu (Chinese: 傅京孫; pinyin: Fù Jīngsūn; October 2, 1930–April 29, 1985) was a Chinese-born American computer scientist. He was a Goss Distinguished Professor at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was instrumental in the founding of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), served as its first president, and is widely recognized for his extensive and pioneering contributions to the field of pattern recognition (within computer image analysis) and machine intelligence. In honor of the memory of Professor King-Sun Fu, IAPR gives the biennial King-Sun Fu Prize to a living person in the recognition of an outstanding technical contribution to the field of pattern recognition. The first King-Sun Fu Prize was presented in 1988, to Azriel Rosenfeld.

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