Prof. Kuo received
his B.S.E. degree in Computer Science
and Information Engineering from National
Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1986. He received his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990
and 1994, respectively. He is a distinguished research fellow and the
director of the Research Center
for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, and a
distinguished professor at the Department
of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei,
Taiwan, ROC, since August 2009, where he was promoted to a full professor
in August 2001. He was the chairman of his department between August 2005
and July 2008 and a deputy dean of the College of the Electronic
Engineering and Computer Science between Feb 2006 and July 2008, National Taiwan University, Taipei,
Taiwan, ROC. He served as the vice chairman of his department between
August 2002 and July 2005. He was an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and
Information Engineering, National
Taiwan University, between August 2000 and July 2001, and the Department of Computer Science and
Information Engineering of the National
Chung Cheng University in Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC between August 1994 and
July 2000. The research
interests of Prof. Kuo include real-time systems, embedded systems,
non-volatile memory storage/memory software designs (such as those of flash
memory and PCM), and real-time database systems.
Dr. Kuo is an ACM Fellow and an
IEEE Fellow and is now an executive committee member of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Real-Time Systems and the Vice Chair of SIGAPP. He also served
as a member in the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee (Computer Society,
2011, 2013). He received the TECO Award in 2015, the Distinguished Research
Award from the ROC National Science Council/Ministry of Science and
Technology in 2003, 2011, and 2014, the Distinguished EE Professor Award
from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2007, the ROC Ten
Young Outstanding Persons Award in 2004, the Young Research Investigators
Award from Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC,
in 2001, and the Investigative Research Award from
the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation,
Taiwan, ROC, in 1999, and received
teaching awards from the National Taiwan University in 2003, 2004, 2005,
2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015, including the Distinguished Teaching
Award (top 1%; 2005).
Prof. Kuo was a chair of the Embedded Systems Group of the Networked
Communication Program Office and served as an independent board director of
the Genesys Logic and the MStar Semiconductor, leading companies in IC
designs for display, smartphones, wireless communication, USB, and
flash-memory controllers and with the total annual revenue over 1 billion
US dollars. He is the Program Director of the Computer Science Division of
the ROC National Science Council/Ministry of Science and Technology since
January 2013.
Prof. Kuo serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM
Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, an Associate Editor of the Journal
of Real-Time Systems (SCI) since 1998, IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Informatics (SCI) since 2007, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters since 2013, and
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) since
2014, and a program committee member of many top conferences around the
world. Prof. Kuo serves as the General Chair (2008) and Program Chair
(2007) of IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), where RTSS is the
flagship conference in real-time systems in the world. He also served as a
Program Co-Chair of the Seventh International Conference on Real-Time
Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2000), Cheju Island, Korea,
December 12-14, 2000, and a Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Real-Time
Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Taipei, Taiwan, in 2001.
Starting from 2003, he served as a member of the steering committee of IEEE
RTCSA, and he served as the steering committee chair of IEEE RTCSA between 2004
and 2008. Since 2014, he also serves as the steering committee chair of
IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA) .
He has over 200 technical papers published or been accepted in
international journals and conferences and has a book "Real-Time
Database Systems: Architecture and Techniques" published by Kluwer
Academic Publishers (ISBN 0-7923-7218-2, USA).
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