Biography of Jyh-Cheng Chen


Jyh-Cheng Chen received the Ph.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1998. He was a Research Scientist with Bellcore/Telcordia Technologies, Morristown, NJ, USA, from 1998 to 2001, and a Senior Scientist with Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ, USA, from 2008 to 2010. He was with the Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, as an Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor, and a Full Professor from 2001 to 2008. He has been a Faculty Member with National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), formerly National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), since 2010. He is currently the Chair Professor with the Department of Computer Science, and the Dean of the College of Computer Science, NYCU. He served as the Convener, Computer Science Program, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, from January 2016 to December 2018.

Dr. Chen has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Teaching Award from both NCTU and NTHU, the Outstanding I.T. Elite Award, Taiwan, the Mentor of Merit Award from NCTU, the Medal of Honor and the K. T. Li Breakthrough Award from the Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers, the Outstanding Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Best Paper Award for Young Scholars from the IEEE Communications Society Taipei and Tainan Chapters, and the IEEE Information Theory Society Taipei Chapter, and the Telcordia CEO Award. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was a member of the Fellows Evaluation Committee, IEEE Computer Society.