Degree:

• Ph.D. in Computer, Information and Control Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 1988

Current Positions:

• Executive Vice President, National Taiwan University, since 2019
• Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, since 2006

Experiences:

• Dean, College of EECS, National Taiwan University, 2015-2018
• Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica 2009-2015
• President/CEO, Institute for Information Industry, 2007-2008
• Director, Graduate of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2003-2006
• Section Director, Computer and Information networking Center, National Taiwan University, 1997-2002
• Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, since 1997
• Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1988-1996

Honors and Awards:

• National Chair Professorship (awarded the 2nd time, life time honor), Ministry of Education, 2018
• NTU Chair Professor, National Taiwan University, since 2017
• National Chair Professorship, Ministry of Education, 2015
• Y.Z. Hsu Scientific Chair Professor, 2015
• Academic Award, Ministry of Education, 2009
• Fellow, Chinese Society for Management of Technology, 2017
• ACM Fellow, 2006 (for contributions to query processing and data mining)
• IEEE Fellow, 2004 (for contributions to algorithms for query processing and data management in parallel and distributed systems)
• Distinguished Research Award, National Science Council, 2002-2005, 2009-2012
• Teco Award, Teco Technology Foundation, 2006
• Pan Wen Yuan Distinguished Research Award, Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, 2005
• Honorary Medal of Information, IICM, 2006
• K.-T. Li Research Breakthrough Award, IICM, 2003
• Outstanding Innovation Award, IBM Corporate, May 1994