Hsin-Hsi Chen (陳信希) was born in Chiayi, Taiwan, on September 23, 1957. He received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in computer science and information engineering in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1988, all from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Since August 1995, he has been a Professor in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. He served as the vice chair of the department from 2000 to 2002. Currently, he is the chairman of the department. His research interests are computational linguistics, Chinese language processing, information retrieval and extraction, Internet and database design. He has published more than 130 papers in these research areas.
He is a member of ACL (1986-) and ROCLING (1988-). He serves on the Board of Directors of ROCLING (1992-2003), and is Chair of Academic Committee (1994-1995) in this society. He is also Editorial Board member (2000-) of International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing.
Tei-Wei Kuo (郭大維) received B.S.E. degree in computer science and Information engineering from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1986. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC, from August 2000 to July 2001, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of the National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC, from August 1994 to July 2000. His research interests include real-time process scheduling, real-time operating systems, embedded systems, and real-time database systems.
Dr. Kuo is a senior member of the IEEE computer society. He received the Distinguished Research Award from the ROC National Science Council in 2003, the Young Scholar Research Award from Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC, in 2001, the Investigative Research Award from the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, Taiwan, ROC, in 1999, and a teaching award from the National Taiwan University in 2003. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Real-Time Systems (SCI) since 1998, a Program Chair of the IEEE 7th Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (Taiwan), 2001, and a Program Co-Chair of the 7th International Conference on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (South Korea), 2000.
Jane W.-S. Liu(張韻詩)She received her doctorate in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1968. Her doctoral thesis is on quantum-mechanic limitations of optical communication channel. Her research interests include real-time systems, distributed systems, and communication networks.
She served as the chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Base Engineering in 1981 and 1982, and the chair of the Technical Committee on Distributed Processing in 1989 and 1990. She was the program committee chair of the 1988 IEEE Reliable Distributed Systems Symposium, the 1990 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium and 1995 IEEE 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) and the Vice Chair of Real-Time Systems Track of ICDCS'99. She was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers and an associate editor of the International Real-Time Systems Journal. She is a member of ACM and a Fellow of IEEE.
Dr. Jane W.-S Liu has published more than 140 papers on prestigous conferences and journals. She has also published two popular books in real-time systems and linear system analysis. While at UIUC, she has advised 35 Ph.D. students who now work in industry and academia institutes all over the world.
Dr. Jane W.-S. Liu was an architect in the OS Base Core Technology group of Microsoft Corporation from 2000 to 2004. Before joining Microsoft, she was a professor of Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1973 to 2000. She is currently Professor Emeritus of the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kuo-Young Cheng (鄭國揚) received a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1964 and an M.S. in electrical engineering from North Dakota University, Fargo in 1967. He received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1972. He joined the Institute of Information Science in 1978, and has been a research fellow since 1979.
Lin-Shan Lee (李琳山) Lin-Shan Lee received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1974, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1975 and 1977, respectively. After working in California in the industry from 1977 to 1979 on communications technology in particular satellite communications, he became an associate professor of National Taiwan University in 1979, and has been a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the university since 1982. He was also a department head of the university from 1982 to 1987. He holds a joint appointment with the Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica as a research fellow starting in 1985, and was the director of the institute from 1991 to 1997. His research interests include various topics in digital communications such as digital transmission theory and signal processing for communications, as well as Chinese spoken language processing considering the structural features of Chinese language, including such areas as speech recognition, linguistic processing, dictation systems, text-to-speech synthesis, spoken dialogue, and voice-based information retrieval.
He was the guest editor for the special issue on Intelligent Signal Processing in Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Dec. 94 and Jan. 95. He served on various positions of IEEE Communications Society, including regional chairman for Asia Pacific (1994-1995), member of the Board of Governors (1994-1997), Vice President for International Affairs (1996-1997) and the Awards Committee chair (1998-1999). He was the general co-chair of IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications 1996 (PIMRC ’96) at Taipei, and will be the Technical Program Chair of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2002 (Globecom 2002) at Taipei.
He developed quite several earliest versions of Chinese spoken language processing systems in the world, including text-to-speech system (1984), natural language analyzer (1986), dictation systems (1991 and 1993 for isolated syllable input, 1995 for continuous speech input), voice-enabled information retrieval system (1997), and spoken dialogue system (1998). He was the guest editor for the special issue on Speech Recognition for Different Languages, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Feb. 1994. He has been a member of the Permanent Council of International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) (1994-2000), and is the Vice Chair of Technical Program Committee of the conference in year 2000 at Beijing. He authored the article, “Voice Dictation for Mandarin Chinese”, in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, July 1997.
He received 10 patents, and authored about 60 papers in international journals and 140 papers in international conferences. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1992 with citation, “For Contributions to Computer Voice Input/Output Techniques for Mandarin Chinese and Engineering Education”. He is the recipient of the Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Electrical Engineering sponsored by the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers at Taipei in 1991, and the Award for Distinguished Academic Contributions in Engineering sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, Republic of China in 1993.
Gregory Yaw-Chung Tang (湯耀中) received the BS and MS degree in Electronic Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1973, and the PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Purdue University. He joined the faculty in State University of New York at Buffalo from 1978 to 1980. Since then, he joined the faculty in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University. His research interests include image processing and information security.
Cheng-Yuan Liou (劉長遠) was born in Taiwan on November 14, 1951. He received the B.S. degree in physics from National Central University in 1974, the M.S. degree in physical oceanography from National Taiwan University in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree in ocean engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. From 1986 to 1987 he was visiting associate professor in the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, where he taught courses in stochastic processes and digital signal processing and did research in acoustic signals. In 1988 he joined the Faculty at the same university, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. He taught courses in Brain Theory and Neural Networks in the Department. His interests include neural networks and computational mental processes. During last ten years he has developed four models on computational visual intelligence and applied them to solve selective attention problem, recognition of deformable images, restoration and synthesis of art works. His works on computational mental process have been used in music perception, synthesis singing, and generating musical notes. Last year ,he finished a project on symbolic filtering.
Ja-Ling Wu (吳家麟) (Senior Member, 98) received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tamkang University, Tamshoei, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981 and 1986, respectively.
From 1986 to 1987, he was an Associate Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department, Tatung Institute of Technology. Since 1987, he transferred to the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, where he is presently a Professor and the Director of the Communications and Multimedia Laboratory. From 1996 to 1998, he was assigned to be the first Head of the Department of Information Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Puli, Taiwan. During his sabbatical leave (from 1998 to 1999), Prof. Wu was invited to be the Chief Technology Officer of the Cyberlink Corp. In this one year term, he involved with the developments of some well-known audio-video softwares, such as the PowerDVD. Since Aug. 2004, Prof. Wu has been appointed to head the newest research institutes of NTU, the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia. Prof. Wu has published more than 200 technique and conference papers. His research interests include digital signal processing, image and video compression, digital contact analysis, multimedia systems, digital watermarking, and digital right management systems.
Prof. Wu was the recipient of the Outstanding Young Medal of the Republic of China in 1987 and the Outstanding Research Award three times of the National Science Council, Republic of China, in 1998, 2000 and 2004, respectively. He was the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Information People in 1993, the Special Long-Term Award for Collaboratory Research in 1994, the Best Long-Term paper Award in 1995, and the Long-Term Medal for Distinguished Researchers in 1996, all sponsored by the Acer Corporation. In 2001, his paper “Hidden Digital Watermark in Images” (co-authored with Prof. Chiou-Ting Hsu), published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, was selected to be one of the winners of the “Honoring Excellence in Taiwanese Research Award”, offered by ISI Thomson Scientific.
Cheng-Yan Kao (高成炎) was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1971, and the M.S. degree in computer science in 1976, the M.S. degree in statistics in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1981, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He has previously been with Ford Aerospace, the Unisys Corporation, and was with General Electric from 1980 to 1989 at the Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston, TX. He has been a professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University since 1990. His research interests include genetic algorithms, scheduling theory, mathematical programming, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. Recently, he concentrates his research in the areas of bio-informatics and DNA-Computing. He is very active in Taiwan’s anti-nuclear and environmental protection movement
Li-Chen Fu(傅立成) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China in 1959. He received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Since 1987 till now, he has been on the faculty and currently is a professor of both Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering of National Taiwan University. He has also served as the Deputy Director of Tjing Ling Industrial Research Institute of National Taiwan University from 1999-2001. His areas of research interest include robotics, FMS scheduling, shop floor control, home automation, visual detection and tracking, E-commerce, and control theory & applications.
He is now a senior member in both Robotics and Automation Society and Automatic Control Society of IEEE, and is also board members of Chinese Automatic Control Society and Chinese Institute of Automation Engineers. During 1996-1998 and 2000, he was appointed a member of AdCom of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, served as the Program Chair of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, and will serve as the Program Chair of 2004 IEEE Conference on Control Applications. He has been the Editor of Journal of Control and Systems Technology and an Associate Editor of the prestigious control journal, Automatica. Starting from 1999, he becomes an Editor-in-Chief of a new control journal, called Asian Journal of Control.
Dr. Fu has been elected to be IEEE Fellow effective from 2004, and has been chosen to be a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Robotics and Automation Society during the period 2004-2005. Besides, he has been honored as Distinguished Research Fellow during the period 2001-2004, and received the Outstanding Research Award during the period 1990-1993 and Distinguished Research Awards at the years of 1995, 1998, and 2000 from National Science Council, R.O.C., respectively, the Outstanding Youth Medal in 1991, the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award in 1995, the Best Teaching Award in 1994 from Ministry of Education, The Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in 1999 of R.O.C., the Outstanding Control Engineering Award from Chinese Automatic Control Society in 2000, and the Lee Kuo-Ding Medal from Chinese Institute of Information and Computing Machinery in 2000.
Wen-Chin Chen (陳文進) was born on February 21, 1954 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China. He received a BS in mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1976, and an ScM and a PhD in computer science from Brown University in 1981 and 1985.
He was a senior of technical staff at GTF Laboratories Inc. from 1984 to 1987. His research interests are in the areas of mathematical analysis of algorithms and multimedia systems. He joined National Taiwan University in 1987 as an associate professor of the department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. He was promoted to be a Full Professor in 1991.
Gen-Huey Chen (陳健輝) was born in Taiwan in 1959. He received the B.S. degree in computer science from National Taiwan University in June 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in June 1983 and January 1987, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, in February 1987, and he has been a Professor since August 1992. He received the Outstanding Research Award from the National Science Council, Taiwan, in 1993, 1995, 1997, and 1999. His current research interests include wireless communication, interconnection networks, graph theory and combinatorial optimization, parallel and distributed computing, and design and analysis of algorithms.
Jau-Hsiung Huang (黃肇雄) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles CA, U.S.A., in 1985 and 1988 respectively.
Since 1988, he has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, where he is currently a professor. He has published over 60 technical papers in the areas of multimedia networking, high-speed networking, parallel and distributed systems and performance evaluation of computing systems.
Jieh Hsiang (項潔) receive his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982. Between 1982 and 1993, he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he received tenure in 1986 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1992. In 1993 he returned to Taiwan and joined the National Taiwan University. Between 1996 and 1998 Professor Hsiang was the director of the Center of Excellence of Research in Computer Systems, a research institute sponsored by NTU and the National Science Council. Between 1998 and 2001, he took a leave of absence to serve as the Dean of the College of Science and Technology of the National Chi-Nan University. He served as the Coordinator of the Computer Science Program of the National Science Council, from January 1999 to December 2001.
Before returning to Taiwan, Professor Hsiang's main research emphasis has been on automated deduction and programming logics, most notably in term rewriting systems. A paper that he wrote on this subject, which appeared in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in 1985, was mentioned as one of the 50 most cited papers from that journal in 1993. In 1998 he was invited by IFIP (International Federation on Information Processing) to organize a Working Group on Term Rewriting. The working group, WG1.6, was founded in October 1998 and includes most of the senior members of the community, and Professor Hsiang was appointed the first Chair.
After returning to Taiwan, Professor Hsiang became increasingly interested in application-oriented research subjects. He collaborated with Trend Micro and developed VICE, a system for detecting unknown viruses. VICE was incorporated into the world-renowned anti-virus software PC-cillin, and was instrumental in opening the company's Korean market. He was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Academia/Industry Collaboration Award of the Ministry of Education in 1997 for this work.
In late 1996, Professor Hsiang started to organize NTU's Digital Library Team, which includes members from the Departments of Anthropology, Computer Science, Geography, History, Library Science, and the University Library. The main subjects of the digital library are archives on Taiwanese history and artifacts of the Taiwanese Austronesian. This project was eventually funded by NTU, NSC, the Ministry of Education, and various other government agencies, cultural societies, and private companies, and has generated a movement in the digitization of historical subjects in Taiwan. This project is also exemplary in multi-discipline collaboration.
Professor Hsiang is on the editorial board of several journals, and has given over 200 invited talks in over 20 countries. He has also been the invited speaker of over 40 conferences. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris, Nancy, Orleans and Milan, and a research scientist at INRIA and CNRS of France, ETH of Switzerland, and ICOT of Japan.
Feipei Lai (賴飛羆) received a B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and 1987, respectively.
He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. He was also a guest Professor at University of Dortmund, German and a visiting senior computer system engineer in the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Lai holds four Taiwan patents and two USA patents currently. He served as a consultant at ERSO, ITRI during 1988 and at Faraday Technology Corp. from 8/94 to 7/95. His current research interests are SOC low power computing, computer architecture systems, VLSI SOC design.
Prof. Lai is one of the founders of the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Tau Phi, ACM, The Chinese Institute of Engineers, and The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering. He received Acer awards five times in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 and the Taiwan Fuji Xerox Research award in 1991. Dr. Lai is a senior member of IEEE and included in "Who's Who in Science and Engineering" and "Who's Who in the World."
Ming Ouhyoung (歐陽明) received the BS and MS degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. He received the Ph.D degree in computer science from the university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Jan., 1990. He was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middle-town, during 1990 and 1991. Since August 1991, he has been an associate professor in the department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. Then since August 1995, he became a professor. He was the Chairman of the Dept. of CSIE from August 2000 to July 2002. He has published over 100 technical papers on computer graphics, virtual reality, and multimedia systems. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.
Yen-Jen Oyang (歐陽彥正) received the B.S. degree in Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1982, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1988. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. >From 1989 to 1996, he was an Associate Professor in the same department. His research interests include machine learning and bioinformatics. He can be reached at yjoyang@csie.ntu.edu.tw.
Yuh-Dauh Lyuu (呂育道) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1962. He obtained the Bachelor's degree in Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1984 and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1989 and 1990, respectively. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and the Department of Finance, both at National Taiwan University. His past work experiences include Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, in the summer of 1987 as Member of Technical Staff, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, between 1990 and 1994 as Research Scientist, and Citicorp Securities, New York between 1994 and 1995 as Assistant Vice President. Prof. Lyuu has worked on parallel algorithms and architectures, fault tolerance, interconnection networks, neural networks, cryptography, and computational finance.
Besides journal and conference papers, Prof. Lyuu published a book with the Cambridge University Press in 1992 on parallel computation and fault tolerance(the paperback version appeared in 2005). His latest book, Financial Engineering & Computation, was published in 2002, also by the Cambridge University Press. Prof. Lyuu also holds a U.S. patent related to optical interconnection networks.
Chiou-Shann Fuh (傅楸善) received the BS degree in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1983, the MS degree in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1992. He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories and engaged in performance monitoring of switching networks from 1992 to 1993. He was an associate professor (1993-2000) and has been a professor since 2000 in the Computer Science and Information Engineering Department at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. His current research interests include digital image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and mathematical morphology.
Der-Tsai Lee (李德財) received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1971, and the M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1978 respectively.
Dr. Lee has been with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he is Director and a Distinguished Research Fellow since July 1, 1998. Prior to joining the Institute, he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, where he has worked since 1978.
He spent one year (August 1989 - August 1990) working as Program Director for Computer & Computation Theory Program, Division of Computer & Computation Research of the National Science Foundation.
He was a Distinguished Visiting Researcher, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences of Japan, in July 1991.His research interests include design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, VLSI layout, parallel and distributed computing, web-based computing, algorithm visualization, software tools development, compliant controller for active suspension and vibration control, digital libraries and advanced IT for intelligent transportation systems.
Regarding Dr. Lee's professional activities, he is an Editor of ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, Algorithmica, Computational Geometry: Theory & Applications, Int’l Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, the Chief Editor of Int'l Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications, the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information Science and Engineering and a Series Editor of Lecture Notes Series on Computing for World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore. He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of ACM and President of the Institute of Information and Computing Machinery (IICM) of Taiwan.
Yi-Ping Hung（洪一平） received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1982. He received an M.Sc. from the Division of Engineering, an M.Sc. from the Division of Applied Mathematics, and a Ph.D. from the Division of Engineering, all at Brown University, in 1987, 1988 and 1990, respectively. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Taiwan University. From 1990 to 2002, he was with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he became a tenured research fellow in 1997. He served as a deputy director of the Institute of Information Science from 1996 to 1997, and received the Young Researcher Publication Award from Academia Sinica in 1997. His current research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, virtual reality, visual surveillance, multimedia and human-computer interface.
Kun-Mao Chao (趙坤茂) was born in Tou-Liu, Taiwan, in 1963. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer engineering from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA, in 1993.He is currently a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. From 1987 to 1989, he served in the ROC Air Force Headquarter as a system engineer. From 1993 to 1994, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Computational Biology, the Pennsylvania State University. In 1994, he was a visiting research scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Before joining the faculty of NTUCSIE, he taught in the Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Providence University from 1994 to 1999, and the Department of Life Science, National Yang-Ming University from 1999 to 2002. His current research interests include algorithms and bioinformatics.Dr. Chao is a member of Phi Tau Phi and Phi Kappa Phi.
Pangfeng Liu (劉邦鋒) received his B.S. degree in computer science from National Taiwan niversity in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Yale University in 1990 and 1994. He is now a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taiwan University, Taiwan. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, design and analysis of algorithms, and object-oriented methodology. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society.
Chuen-Liang Chen (陳俊良) received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1980 and PhD degree in computer engineering from the National Chiao-Tung University in 1985. His current research interests are in computer system (especially, Java system) and numerical linear algebra.
Tzao-Lin Lee(李肇林) was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1954. He received the B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1976 and 1978 respectively. He also received the M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Statistics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1981 and 1985 respectively. He then has been serving as an associate professor in the department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taiwan University since August 1985. His teaching and research interests are Network infrastructure, Application & integration of database system, OA portability, E-learning and SW-CMMI.
Jane Yung-jen Hsu (許永真) is an associate professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Taiwan University. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1991. Her research interests include intelligent software agents, planning and learning for mobile robots in dynamic environments, data mining, and intelligent computer-assisted learning environments. She is a member of AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society. She has served on the editorial board of “Intelligent Data Analysis – An International Journal” since 1997.
Hsiu-Hui Lee (李秀惠) was born in Taiwan in 1958. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taiwan University, Taiwan. She is now an associate professor at National Taiwan University. Her research interests include distributed object system, web-based applications, temporal database and natural language processing.
Wen-Ming Yan (顏文明) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from National Taiwan University, R.O.C., in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Since 1996, he has been an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taiwan University. From 1982 to 1996, he was a lecturer in National Taiwan University. From 1981 to 1982, he was a teaching assistant in National Taiwan University. His current research interests include parallel computing and matrix computations.
Chih-Jen Lin (林智仁) was born in Taiwan at 1971. He received his BS degree in Mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1993. After two years in the army as an officer, he joined the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1995 and received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in 1996 and 1998, respectively. Since September 1998, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University. His major research includes machine learning and its applications on data mining and bioinformatics. He is a member of IEEE and SIAM.
Currently his group is one of the main software developers for support vector machines, a new machine learning/data mining technique. His team has won several international data mining/analysis competitions such as IJCNN Challenge 2001 and EUNITE 2001 world wide competition.
Chia-Lin Yang（楊佳玲） received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in 1989 and the M.S. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. In 1993, She joined VLSI Technology Inc. (now Philips Semiconductors) as a software engineer. From 1995 to 2001 she attended Duke University and received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. Since September 2001, she has been an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University. Her reseasrch interests include system on chip design, reconfigurable computing, power-aware media processor design. Yang is the recipient of a 2000-01 Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award and a member of ACM.
Phone Lin（林風） was born in Taiwan in 1973. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in June 1996 and January 2001, respectively. Since September 2001, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. His current research interests include Personal Communications Services, Wireless Internet, and Performance Modeling.
(Hao)-hua Chu (朱浩華) has been an assistant professor at NTU CSIE (computer science and information engineering) department since 8/2003. He received B.S. in computer science from Cornell University in 1994, and Ph.D. in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1999. From 1999 ~ 2000, he worked as a senior software engineer at Intel Architecture Labs. From 2000 ~ 2003, he was a project manager and a senior research engineer at (NTT) DoCoMo USA Labs.
His main research interests are B3G (Beyond 3G) mobile applications and network architecture. He is also interested in the following reearch areas: pervasive and ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, smart mobile clients, wireless web services, mobile UI design patterns, and mobile content authoring tools.
He received the best research award from DoCoMo USA labs in 2001, and recognition award from Intel in 1997. He has served as PC/Track members on ACM Mobisys 2003, WWW 2003 Browser & UI Track, WWW 2002 Multimedia Track, and ACM Multimedia 2000.
Cheng-Fu Chou (周承復) was born in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in the department of computer science and information engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 2002.
He is currently an assistant professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. His current research interests include multimedia information system and QoS-oriented design of computer system and network.
Pang, Ai-Chun (逄愛君） was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1973. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science & Information Engineering (CSIE) from National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU) in 1996 and 1998, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC. Her research interests include design and analysis of Personal Communications Services (PCS) networks, Voice over IP (VoIP) networks, Wireless Internet, Mobile Computing and Performance Modeling.
Mong-kai Ku (顧孟愷) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on September 12, 1967. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1989. He received the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He joined Broadcom Corporation in 1993, where he was involved in many high speed communication IC design projects, with a focus in the forward-error-correction system design. Since February 2003, he has been with National Taiwan University, where he is currently an assistant professor in the department of computer science and information engineering. His research interests include high-speed communication systems, coding theory, and VLSI design.
Chi-Sheng Shih (施吉昇) has been an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia since August 2008 and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University since February 2004. He received B.S. in Engineering Science and M.S. in Computer Science from National Cheng Kung University in 1993 and 1995, respectively. After his two-years military service, he worked as a research assistant at Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica for one year and continued his study at the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. In 2003, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science. From August 2003 to January 2004, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His main research interests are real-time systems and database systems. Specifically, his main research interests focus on object-relational database query optimization, information retrieval, real-time operating systems, real-time scheduling theory, and embedded systems.
Yung-Yu Chuang(莊永裕) joined the department of Computer Science and Information Engineering faculty at the National Taiwan University in August 2004. He is now a co-leader of the Communication & Multimedia Laboratory. He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University in 1993 and 1995, respectively. After serving in Army for two years and working as a full-time teaching assistant and system manager for one year, he went to the department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington at Seattle for his doctoral study. He did his thesis research on matting and compositing at GRAIL (the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory), with Brian Curless, David Salesin, and Richard Szeliski. Professor Chuang's research interests include computer graphics, computer vision and multimedia.