Dr. Wen-Lian Hsu

Wen-Lian Hsu received a B.S. from the Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University in 1973. He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University in 1978 and 1980, respectively. In 1980, he joined Northwestern University as an assistant professor and was promoted to tenured associate professor in 1986. He joined the Institute of Information Science as a research fellow in 1989.

Dr. Hsu's earlier research while in Northwestern University is focused on graph algorithms. His main contribution is on perfect graphs and special classes of intersection graphs. Most of his publications appear in JACM and SIAM J. Computing. Recently, he invented the PC-tree data structure to design very efficient algorithms in planar graphs and intersection graphs. In the meantime, he has applied similar techniques to tackle computational problems in Biology such as error-tolerant algorithms in DNA sequence analysis, NMR protein structure determination and protein identification, quantification in MS/MS. He has done a lot of work on natural language and biological literature mining systems, and is particularly interested in applying natural language processing techniques to the understanding of DNA sequences as well as protein sequences, structures and functions.

Dr. Hsu Dr. Hsu received the Outstanding Research Award from the National Science Council in 1991, 1994, 1996 and was elected as a Outstanding Research fellow by the NSC in 1999. He was the recipient of the first 『李國鼎穿石獎』 for his contribution in natural language processing systems. He has been the conference chairs of ISAAC'91 and COCOON'98 and ITS'06. He has been the president of the Artificial Intelligence Society in Taiwan (2001-2002). In 2006, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to natural languages systems and bioinformatics.