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Distinguished Chair and Distinguished Research Fellows 特聘講座/特聘研究員

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特聘研究員

Wen-Tsuen Chen

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Distinguished Research Fellow Fax: + 886-2-2782-4814
Email: chenwt@iis.sinica.edu.tw
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pages/chenwt/index_en.html

Research Description Publications
研究介紹 代表著作

My early research works were on software engineering. There On parallel computing, my research team designed the first 1. C. V. Ramamoorthy, S. F. Ho, and W. T. Chen, “On the Automated Genera-
was no systematic approach to software testing in early parallel processing system in Taiwan in late 1980s, with its tion of Program Test Data,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
1970s. I had done works on software testing design, auto- parallel processor designed with state-of-the-art IC technol- vol. SE-2, no. 4, December 1976, pp. 293-300. First published as an invited
mated software testing, and software instrumentation in ogy. We discovered that an optimal mesh with broadcast paper “Toward Automation of Test Data Generation,” (with C. V. Rama-
mid-1970s. My research results have been used in automated capability is a rectangular instead of a square one for many moorthy) in Proceedings of the International Computer Symposium 1975,
Taipei, Taiwan, August 1975, pp. 229-235.
software testing systems designed for NASA and other insti- parallel algorithms and generalized the result to multidimen-
tutions in USA and incorporated in modern CASE (Computer sional mesh. This result has been widely adopted by other 2. W. T. Chen and N. F. Huang, “The Strongly Connecting Problem on Multi- ● Taylor L. Booth Education Award, IEEE
Computer Society, 2011
Aided Software Engineering) tools. I had helped develop the researchers to reduce computational complexities of many hop Packet Radio Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.
software engineering program of the Institute for Informa- well-known optimal mesh algorithms with fewer processors. COM-37, no. 3, March 1989, pp. 293-295. ● Lifelong National Chair, Ministry of
tion Industry since its founding in 1979 by serving as a tech- We also proposed a constant-time sorting k-dimensional par- 3. G. H. Chiou and W. T. Chen, “Secure Broadcasting Using the Secure Lock,” Education, 2004
nical advisor for more than 10 years. allel architecture with the least number of processors n k/(k-1) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. SE-15, no. 8, August ● Medal of Honor, Institute of Informa-
that approaches the theoretical lower bound n for larger k. 1989, pp. 929-934. tion and Computing Machinery, 2003
My research team designed the first computer resource Other notable works of my research team include image se- 4. Y. C. Chen, W. T. Chen, G. H. Chen, and J. P. Sheu, “Designing Efficient

sharing network in Taiwan in early 1980s that enabled pre- quence coding, high-speed packet switching networks, verti- Parallel Algorithms on Mesh-Connected Computers with Multiple Broad- ● Pan Wen Yuan Outstanding Research
Award, Pan Wen Yuan Foundation,
cious computing resource sharing at a time when budget cal handoff in heterogeneous wireless networks, and wireless casting,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 1, no. 2000
for universities was insufficient. We were probably the first to sensor networks. 2, April 1990, pp. 241-246.
recognize the efficiency problem of secure broadcasting in 5. R. F. Chang and W. T. Chen, “Image Coding Using Variable-Rate Side- ● Technical Achievement Award, IEEE
Computer Society, 1999
networks of broadcast type, such as Ethernet, packet radio, For the next few years, my research team will focus on re- Match Finite-State Vector Quantization,” IEEE Transactions on Image Pro-
and satellite. We proposed an efficient approach to securely searches on intelligent sensing and mobile networking cessing, vol. 2, no. 1, January 1993, pp. 104-108. ● Outstanding Scholarship Chair,
encrypting a message based on Chinese Remainder Theo- technologies and their applications. Emerging technologies Foundation for the Advancement of

rem, so that only one copy of the message needs to be sent and applications for Internet of Things (IoT) have progressed 6. Y. C. Chen and W. T. Chen, “Constant Time Sorting on Reconfigurable Outstanding Scholarship, 1996 – 2001
for secure broadcasting. With recent proliferation of wireless tremendously in recent years. IoT is considered as one of the Meshes,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 43, no. 6, June 1994, pp. ● Academic Award, Ministry of Educa-
749-751.
networks such as WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, and mobile networks, most important components of future Internet. Things will tion, 1994
design of efficient secure broadcasting becomes even more be given computation and communication capabilities to 7. W. T. Chen and L. C. Huang, “RSVP Mobility Support: A Signaling Protocol ● IEEE Fellow, 1994
important. enable intelligent interactions between human and things, for Integrated Services Internet with Mobile Hosts,” in Proceedings of IN-
among themselves, and to autonomously take safe and ur- FOCOM 2000 - the Conference on Computer Communications, vol. 3, April ● Outstanding Research Awards, Na-
With the trend of integration of telecommunications net- gent actions according to environmental changes. A new age 2000, pp. 1283-1292. tional Science Council, 1990 –1996
works, Internet, and media broadcasting networks, provision- of applications with efficiency, safety, and sustainability is 8. W. T. Chen, C.F. Huang, Y. L. Chang, and W. Y. Hwang, “An Efficient Cell ● Distinguished Research Fellow, IIS,

ing of QoS (Quality-of-Service) becomes ever important in coming with the aids of comprehensive sensing from intelli- Scheduling Algorithm for Multicast ATM Switching Systems,” IEEE/ACM Academia Sinica, 2012 –
future networks. My research team has done works on provi- gent sensors, intelligent computation from cloud computing, Transactions on Networking, vol. 8, no. 4, August 2000, pp. 517-525. ● S&T Advisor, Director of the Advisory
sioning of QoS in mobile and wireless networks. We proposed and ubiquitous communications from mobile networks. My 9. S. C. Lo, G. Lee, W. T. Chen, and J. C. Liu, “Architecture for Mobility and O ce, Ministry of Education, 1988 –

a signaling protocol for mobile hosts to reserve resources in research team aims to developing the enabling key technolo- QoS Support in All-IP Wireless Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas 1996
the integrated services Internet. The mobility impacts on gies for IoT, including fusion of intelligent sensing technolo- in Communications, Special Issue on ALL-IP Wireless Networks, vol. 22, no. ● Distinguished Chair Professor, College
packet delay, bandwidth utilization and packet loss rate are gies, efficient and energy-saving transmission mechanisms in 4, May 2004, pp. 691-705. Dean, President of National Tsing Hua
minimized. We have extended the concept to All-IP (Internet wireless sensor networks, resource allocation and scheduling 10. W. T. Chen, J. C. Liu, and H. K. Huang, “An Adaptive Scheme for Vertical University, 1976 – 2012
Protocol) wireless networks by integrating mobility manage- schemes in next-generation mobile networks, and design of Handoff in Wireless Overlay Networks,” in Proceedings of ICPADS 2004 -
ment and QoS provisioning in a proposed hierarchical sys- common service middleware and platform. Intelligent home, IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, July ● Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences, University of
tem architecture design. All-IP wireless networks with QoS healthcare, and crowdsourcing-based monitoring are chosen 2004, pp. 541-548. California, Berkeley, 1976
provisioning are considered as the next generation wireless to demonstrate the technologies that are developed in my 11. W. T. Chen and Y. Y. Shu, “Active Application Oriented Vertical Handoff in
networks to provide seamless access for mobile applications. research team. We intend to extensively collaborate with re- Next-Generation Wireless Networks,” in Proceedings of WCNC 2005 - the ● M.S., Electrical Engineering and Com-
puter Sciences, University of Califor-
These works are expected to contribute to the design of the searchers in universities and industries. We expect that our IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, vol. 3, March nia, Berkeley, 1973
future generation All-IP mobile Internet networks. research results will contribute to the national project “Intel- 2005, pp. 1383-1388.
ligent Taiwan,” and increase competitiveness of related indus- 12. P. Y. Chen, W. T. Chen, Y. C. Tseng, and C. F. Huang, “Providing Group ● B.S., Nuclear Engineering, National
Tsing Hua University, 1970
tries. Tour Guide by RFIDs and Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 5, May 2009, pp. 3059-3067.

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