Prof. Tei-Wei Kuo (郭大維) received the 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 Distinguished Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, where he was promoted to a full professor in August 2001. He served as the Chairman of his department from August 2005 to July 2008. Between Feb 2006 and July 2008, he also served as a Deputy Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University.

Prof. Kuo has served in the editorial board of many journals, including the Journal of Real-Time Systems and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He was the Program Chair and General Chair of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) in 2007 and 2008, respectively, where RTSS is the flagship conference in real-time systems. Between 2005 and 2008, Prof. Kuo also served as the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) between 2005 and 2008. Prof. Kuo receives many research and teaching awards including the 2004 Ten Young Outstanding Persons Award of Taiwan, the Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from his university (Top 1%). His research interests include embedded systems, real-time task scheduling, real-time operating systems, flash-memory storage systems, and real-time database systems. He has over 170 technical papers published or been accepted in international journals and conferences and more than 6 patents in USA and Taiwan on the designs of flash-memory storage systems.