Speakers and Attendees

From Japan: From Taiwan:

Biographies

Hideyuki Nakashima, Ph.D. (中島秀之)

President, Future University Hakodate (FUN)

Dr. Hideyuki Nakashima is the president of Future University Hakodate (FUN), a position he has held since 2004. He received his Ph. D. in information science at the University of Tokyo in 1983. He is very active in academic societies. He was a vice president of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and is also an IPSJ fellow. He is also a fellow of Japan Society for Artificial Intelligence. He was the president of the Japanese Society of Cognitive Science. He was a board member of International Federation on Multiagent Systems from 1999 to 2004. He served as a programming committee co-chair for International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS) in 2000 and in 2006, as a general co-chair for the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS ), and as general co-chair for Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI). He has also served as a programming committee member for many international conferences including International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), ICMAS, AAMAS and UbiComp.

Hitoshi Matsubara, Ph.D. (松原仁)

Professor, Future University Hakodate (FUN)

Dr. Matsubara was born at Tokyo, Japan in 1959. He graduated Tokyo University in 1981 and got Ph.D. from Tokyo Univ. in 1986. He was a researcher of Electrotechnical Laboratory MITI, Japan from 1986 to 2000. From 2000 he is a professor of Future University Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. He is interested in artificial intelligence, game informatics and tourism informatics. He is the president of Japanese society for Artificial Intelligence and the former president of society for tourism informatics in Japan.

Hidetoshi Akiyama (秋山 英俊)

Coordinator, National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College Takuma Campus Collaborative Education Center of Emerging Technology

Mr. Akiyama was working in the Shikoku Instrumentation Co. Ltd until 2014, a subsidiary of Shikoku Electric Power. His primary responsibility was to develop Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for semiconductor companies, such as Mitsubishi Electric and Renesas. He hopes to introduce his hometown Mitoyo to visitors abroad and create friendships between Mitoyo citizens and overseas communities.

Toru Shimizu, Ph.D. (清水徹)

Professor, Keio University, and Director, Japan Embedded Systems Technology Association (JASA)

Dr. Shimizu received Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 1986. After 28-year career of the R&D of semiconductor industry in Mitsubishi Electric and Renesas, he was awarded as an IEEE Fellow from the contribution of advanced microprocessor development and joined Keio University in 2014. He has been serving Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) in the committee from 2005. He has been working for industry conference and trade shows in Japan, ET and ET West, as an executive committee member. From the experiences, he started and is working for the Smart Tourism Workshop with Dr. Wu and Dr. Matsubara to help Taiwan-Japan collaboration.

Yukinori Misaki　(三﨑 幸典)

Professor, National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College Departmental dean of Electronic Systems Engineering
Chief of Collaborative Education Center of Emerging Technology

Prof. Misaki is Dean of the Electrical Systems Engineering Department at The National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology. He has been the head coach of the Robocon (National Robot Contest for Technical College Students in Japan) team at NIT-Kagawa, Takuma Campus for about two decades. His team has achieved a new record of 13 consecutive appearances at Nationals in which they are also 4-time champions of the event. In 2006, they took the first ever “Double Crown”, where they not only won the contest but also took home the “Superior Honor Award”. In regards for achievements, his team received “The Grand Award for Design” from the Japanese Prime Minister in 2007. His research interests include (i) respiration sensors, (ii) heat dissipation, (iii) spectrum imaging applications and (iv) engineering education methods. He has also been working together with Mitoyo City to promote collaborations in industry, academia and government.

Hiroyuki Fujii　(藤井 宏行)

Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College Electronic Systems Engineering

Dr. Fujii is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Systems Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2010. He has been a faculty member at NIT-Kagawa since 2010. His research interests include (i) respiration sensors, (ii) mobile robots, (iii) artificial intelligence, and (iv) educational software. He is now conducting research developing low-cost sensors for bio-instrumentation, autonomous mobile robot software, software for AI education and regional development.

Yukari Ishii (石井 紫)

Directing Manager of the Mitoyo International Exchange Association

Ms. Ishii graduated from Nothumbria University and Chelsea College of Art and Design in the UK where she gained both a BA and a PGDip in fine art. After five years’ experience studying in the UK, she came to the Mitoyo International Exchange Association in 2007. Ms. Ishii is also a member of the Mitoyo City Tourism Master Planning Board and she is very passionate about introducing her community to the wider world.

Akiyoshi Kuramoto (倉本 明佳)

Assistant Chief, Mitoyo City, Policy Planning Division

Mr. Kuramoto is an assistant Chief of Policy Planning Division, Mitoyo City. He was working nine years in Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd, and retired from the company in 2013. He takes charge of industry development of Mitoyo City. Principally, he supports small and medium sized enterprise, promotes industry-academia collaboration.

Cheng-Wen Wu (吳誠文)

Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor, National Tsing Hua University
Senior Vice President for research, National Tsing Hua University

Cheng-Wen Wu is a Tsing Hua Distinguished Chair Professor and Senior Vice President for research at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). He received the BSEE degree from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 1985 and 1987, respectively. Since 1988, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, NTHU. He was on leave from NTHU, serving as the General Director of the SOC Technology Center (STC) at ITRI from 2007 to 2009, and the Vice President of ITRI and General Director of ICL from 2010 to 2014. Dr. Wu received the Distinguished Teaching Awards (twice) from NTHU, the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Distinguished Research Awards (three times) from National Science Council, the Industrial Collaboration Awards (twice) from the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Academic Award from MOE, the Continuous Service Award and Outstanding Contribution Award from the IEEE Computer Society, the Distinguished Industrial Collaboration Award from NTHU, the National Invention Award (Silver Medal) from Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the TECO Award. He became a Golden Core Member of the IEEE Computer Society in 2006. In 2013, he received the National Endowed Chair Professorship from MOE. He is a life member of the CIEE, a life member of Taiwan IC Design Society, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Wen-Chi (Kevin) Yang (楊文旗)

Chief Operations Officer, Information and Communications Research Laboratories (ICL), ITRI

Mr. Wen-Chi (Kevin) Yang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1981 and 1984, respectively. He has worked in ITRI almost for 25 years. Currently, he is Chief Operations Officer of ICL/ITRI, in charge of the division for Strategy & Business and division for Network-Based Services Technology.

TingTing Hwang (黃婷婷)

Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University
Minister without Portfolio, Examination Yuan of ROC

Dr. TingTing Hwang is Professor of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University. Currently, she is taking a leave and serving as Minister without Portfolio in Examination Yuan. She received her Ph. D. degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University in 1990. Her research interests include automation of VLSI design and computer architecture. She served as Chair, Department of Computer Science from 2006 to 2009 and Vice Dean, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from 2010 to 2014. She was awarded Distinguished Professor of National Tsing Hua University in 2006 and Distinguished Teaching Awards from Ministry of Education and National Tsing Hua University in 1993, 1999 and 2004, respectively.

Chung-Ta King (金仲達)

Associate Dean of College of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University
Professor of Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University

Prof. Chung-Ta King received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1990, he was an assistant professor of computer and information science at New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, where he is currently a professor. He served as the chair of the department from 2009 to 2012. He is currently the Associate Dean of College of EECS of NTHU.

Chih-Tsun Huang (黃稚存)

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University
Associate Director, IC Design Technology Center (DTC), National Tsing Hua University

Chih-Tsun Huang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2000. Since 2004, he has been with the Department of Computer Science, NTHU, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He was a visiting researcher with the ECE Department, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) from 2011 to 2012. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the Design Technology Center (DTC), NTHU, from 2012. His research interests include design and test technologies for multi-core architectures and systems, and robustness VLSI computing, including security and cryptography designs, error-correcting codecs, and system-level debug and performance monitoring.

Hung-Kuo Chu (朱宏國)

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University

Hung-Kuo Chu was born at Yilan, Taiwan, 1981. He received Ph.D degrees from Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University in 2010. His research interests focus on Shape Understanding, Smart Manipulation, Perception-based Rendering, Recreational Graphics and Human Computer Interaction.

Yong-Ning Tsai (蔡容寧)

Associate Administrator, Information and Communications Research Laboratories (ICL), ITRI

Yong-Ning (Francis) Tsai has received Master Degree from Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo in 2008. After that, she joined IBM Japan as an associate business consultant, attending system integration projects for fast food chains, banks, etc. Yong-Ning joined ITRI since 2012 and has been working on technology application and business cooperation services between Taiwan and Japan corporations since 2014.

Shu-Wan (Cecilia) Lin (林淑宛)

Administrator, Information and Communications Research Laboratories (ICL), ITRI

Shu-Wan (Cecilia) Lin has worked with ITRI since February 2007. Prior to joining the ITRI, she served as secretary and project assistant at the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University. In addition, Cecilia has administrative experiences of two years in Pig Research Institute Taiwan.

Chien-Wei Yeh (葉千瑋)

Research Assistant, Office of the Secretary, National Tsing Hua University

Chien-Wei Yeh has worked at National Tsing Hua University since April 2014. She served as project assistant at the Office of Student Affairs, Tunghai University previously and has administrative experiences of two years.

Maw-Kuen Wu (吳茂昆)

President, National Dong Hwa University Academician Academia Sinica
Elected Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences
Elected Member, Academy of the Developing Countries (TWAS)

Chia-Liang Cheng (鄭嘉良)

Vice President, National Dong Hwa University

Chia-Liang Cheng is a professor in the Physics Department, and Dean of Committee for General Education of National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), Hualien Taiwan. He received his Ph. D. degree from the Physics Department of the University of Oregon, USA in 1993. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he was a post-doc with Prof Y.T. Lee (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1986) at the Chemistry Department in the University of California, Berkeley and Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei from 1994-1997. He was an assistant professor at Physics Department of the National Taiwan Normal University for one year, and then he joined NDHU since 1998. He is specialized in spectroscopy. His main research focus is in the spectroscopy/microscopy of nanodiamond for bio and medical applications. His research interests are in Bio/medical applications of nanodiamonds; Spectroscopic studies on nanomaterials; visible-light-activated TiO2 nanoparticles; Infrared, Raman spectroscopy. His interests seem to wonder off the boundary of physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. His group is one of the pioneering groups in the world to successfully use nanodiamond as a biological marker to observe bio molecules interaction with cells or bacteria. They have recently delivered anticancer drug using nanodiamond as a delivery vehicle into lung cancer tumors in the animal model. He has been giving invited lectures in almost all the important diamond research conferences. He has served in various Program Committees, such as the European Conference on Diamond, Diamond like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes and Nitrides (2009-); Review member of the Physics panel, National Science Council in Taiwan (NSC, 2008-2010); Panel Member, Physic Research Promotion Center, Taiwan (PRPC, 2007- 2010); Committer Member, Physical Society of the Republic of China, Taiwan (PSROC, 2005-2009). He also serves as a reviewer for more than 20 SCI journals.

Shiow-Yang Wu (吳秀陽)

Chairman, Dept. CSIE, National Dong Hwa University

Dr. Shiow-Yang Wu is a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC. He received the BS and MS degrees in computer engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, 1986, and 1995, respectively. His research interests are data/knowledge bases, mobile and pervasive computing, distributed processing, intelligence information systems, and electronic commerce.

Jen-Yeu Chen (a.k.a. Cosmos) (陳震宇)

Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University

Jen-Yeu Chen received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, ROC, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Purdue University, USA. Dr. J.-Y. Chen’s research interests span over the areas of networking, control and communications. In particular, in recent years, he applies distributed randomized algorithms, stochastic hybrid system and probabilistic methods to solve problems arising in wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and multi-agent systems. Some problems he has been tackling are data aggregation/fusion, distributed consensus, power control, scheduling and synchronization in wireless ad hoc networks, intrusion detection in wireless network with Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), and coordinated probabilistic map construction by the mobile robotic sensor network (a multi-agent system). He has worked on applying distributed optimization techniques to the issues of cross-layer design in wireless networks such as the joint scheduling, routing as well as channel assignment in wireless networks, and optimal bit allocation for H.264/AVC over wireless time-varying channels. Other researches with decent results are secure wireless network coding schemes, efficient multicasting protocols, analysis framework for HetNets and small-cell mobile networks, and scientific cloud computing (HPC and soft computing over iterative MapReduce runtime – Twister and Apache Hama). He is attending the 3GPP RAN and SA meeting to participate the standardization progress of current 4G (LTE-A) and future 5G mobile communication standards. He is also applying Cloud computing techniques to solve complicated optimization problem raised in next generation mobile networks with small and heterogeneous cells such as CloudRAN and SoftRAN. Dr, J.-Y. Chen is the recipient of 2011 IEEE Young Scholar Best Paper Award (Communication Society and Information Theory Society Taipei/Tainan Chapter)

Ying-Chieh Ho (何盈杰)

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University

Yingchieh Ho received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree at National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan in 2012. Since Feb. 2013, he has been on the faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong-Hwa University, where he is an Assistant Professor. His research interests are circuit design for low-voltage and biomedical circuit design.

Shou-Chih Lo (羅壽之)

Associate Professor, Dept. CSIE, National Dong Hwa University

Shou-Chih Lo received the B.S. degree in computer science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 2000. He joined the Computer & Communication Research Center at National Tsing Hua University in 2000 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Since 2004, he has been with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His current research interests are in the area of mobile and wireless networks.

Kuo-Cheng Roger Liu (劉國成)

President of Taiwan Hospitality & Tourism College

Kuo-Cheng Liu received the Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tatung University, Taiwan. He is President of Taiwan Hospitality and Tourism University, Taiwan and Professor with the Information Educating Center and Graduate Institute of Tourism & Hospitality Management. In 1997, he joined the Department of Information Management, Taiwan Hospitality and Tourism University, Taiwan, as a Lecturer. He became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management in 2005, an Associate Professor in 2009, and is currently a Professor with the Information Educating Center. Professor Liu has participated in to several Research Projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan. Since 2009, he was also involved in the research activities and projects of Image & Video Processing Laboratory (IVP Lab.) guided by Dean Professor Shinfeng D. Lin (link) of College of Science and Engineering (link) in National Dong Hwa University (link), Taiwan. His research activities and interests are in the areas of perceptual coding of color images, multimedia signal processing, information application to tourism education and training, and information management. He is invited as referee for highly ranked scientific journals including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IET Image Processing, Neurocomputing, Applied Computing and Informatics, and Computer Journal and the committee member of various international conferences.

Chen-Hsiung Chou (周振雄)

Chairman of the Department of Tourism and Travel Management, Taiwan Hospitality & Tourism College

Chen-Hsiung Chou received Bachelor of Tourism Management & P.E. from Chinese Culture University in 1995, Master of Sport Management from National Taiwan Normal University In 1997, and Ph.D. of Learning Technologies (Tourism Information technologies & Mobile Learning) from University of North Texas. He is currently the acting chairman of the department of tourism and travel management of the Taiwan Hospitality & Tourism College.

 

 

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