Professional Activities

Research and Professional Appointments

2012-predsent	Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
2007-2012	Associate Professor, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University School of Medical, Atlanta, GA
2005-2007	Director, Arbovirology Research Units, Department of Virology, AFRIMS, Bangkok, Thailand
2005-2007	Joint and secondary appointments: Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology& Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI.
2005-2007	Senior Scientist, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland
2002-2005	Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, UCI
2001-2002	Research Scientist III (Associate Prof. equivalent) Cedar Sinai Medical Center (CSMC)-Research institute
1999-2002	Lead Scientist, Virology Research Laboratories at CSMC
1999-2001	Research Scientist II (Assistant-Associate Prof equivalent) CSMC- Research Institute
1996-1999	Research Scientist I CSMC-Research Institute
1994-1996	Research Associate II, CSMC

Manuscript reviewer (a short list):

• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Virology.
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Neurovirology.
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal General Virology.
• Ad hoc reviewer for Nature Gene Therapy Journal.
• Ad hoc reviewer for IOVS.
• Ad hoc reviewer for BMC Journal.
• Ad hoc reviewer for Current Eye Research
• Ad hoc reviewer for Experimental Biology and Medicine
• Ad hoc reviewer for Virus Research
• Ad hoc reviewer for Microbial Pathogenesis
• Ad hoc reviewer for Plos Pathogens
• Ad hoc reviewer for Plos NTD
• Ad hoc reviewer for Plos One
• Ad hoc reviewer for WHO Dengue Bulletin
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Clinical Virology
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Clinical Immunology
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Neuroimmunology
• Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Platelets
• Ad hoc reviewer for Clinical Cytometry
• Ad hoc reviewer for Vaccines
• Ad hoc reviewer for Expert Review
• Ad hoc reviewer for British Journal of Hematology
• Ad hoc reviewer for Vaccines

Honors and Awards:

• Editorial Board of European Journal of Preventive Medicine 
• Editorial board of Journal of Vaccine and Immunotechnology
• Editorial board of Journal of Bone Marrow Research
• Editorial board of Dataset Papers in Medicine
• Editorial board of International Scholarly Research Network in Virology.
• Organizing Committee Chair for the First International Symposium on Human Vector-Borne Diseases, Dec. 12-13, 2013, The Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
• Organizing Committee Chair for the SATU International Symposium on Dengue and Dengue pathogenesis, Sept. 1-2, 2013 and 2014, NCKU, Taiwan.
• Chair in Section of Dengue Pathogenesis at the 3rd International Conference on Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, October 21-23, 2013, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Chair in Section of Dengue Pathogenesis at the 60th ASTMH meeting, Dec. 4-8, 2011, Philadelphia, PA.
• Chair in Section of Dengue Pathogenesis at the 59th ASTMH meeting, November 3-7, 2010, Atlanta, GA.
• Guest Editor for special issue on “Role of infection in neurologic and psychiatric disease” in Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, NY, USA.