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特聘研究員
陳文村 Wen-Tsuen Chen

Distinguished Research Fellow
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley
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Email: chenwt@iis.sinica.edu.tw
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● Taylor L. Booth Education Award, Research Description
IEEE Computer Society, 2011
● Lifelong National Chair, Ministry My early research was on software engineering. There was no systematic approach to soft-
of Education, 2004 ware testing in the early 1970’s, and thus I worked on software testing design, automated
● Medal of Honor, Institute of Infor- software testing, and software instrumentation in the mid-1970’s. My research results were
mation and Computing Machin- used in automated software testing systems designed for NASA and other institutions in
ery, 2003
the USA, and were also incorporated into modern CASE (Computer Aided Software Engi-
● Pan Wen Yuan Outstanding neering) tools. I helped develop the software engineering program of the Institute for In-
Research Award, Pan Wen Yuan
Foundation, 2000 formation Industry since its founding in 1979, by serving as a technical advisor for over ten
years.
● Technical Achievement Award,
IEEE Computer Society, 1999 In the early 1980’s, my research team designed the rst computer resource sharing network

● Outstanding Scholarship Chair, in Taiwan; this network enabled precious computing resource sharing at a time when the
Foundation for the Advancement budget available for universities was insu cient. We were probably the rst to recognize

of Outstanding Scholarship, 1996

– 2001 the e ciency problem of secure broadcasting in networks of broadcast type, such as Ether-
net, packet radio, and satellite. We proposed an e cient approach to securely encrypting a

● Academic Award, Ministry of
Education, 1994 message based on the Chinese Remainder Theorem, so that only one copy of the message
needs to be sent for secure broadcasting. With the recent proliferation of wireless networks,
● IEEE Fellow, 1994

such as WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, and mobile networks, the design of e cient secure broadcasting
● Outstanding Research Awards, has become even more important.
National Science Council, 1990
–1996 Recent trends towards the integration of telecommunication networks, Internet, and me-
● Distinguished Research Fellow, dia broadcasting networks place greater emphasis on the provision of QoS (Quality-of-
IIS, Academia Sinica, 2012 – Service) in future networks. My research team has worked on improving provisioning of
● S&T Advisor, Executive Yuan, QoS in mobile and wireless networks. We proposed a signaling protocol for mobile hosts to
2006-2010
reserve resources in the integrated services Internet. The mobility impacts on packet delay,
● S&T Advisor, Director of the Advi- bandwidth utilization, and packet loss rate are minimized. We have extended the concept
sory Office, Ministry of Education, to All-IP (Internet Protocol) wireless networks by integrating mobility management and
1988 – 1996
QoS provisioning in a proposed hierarchical system architecture design. All-IP wireless net-
● Distinguished Chair Profes- works with QoS provisioning are considered to be next generation wireless networks for
sor, College Dean, President of
National Tsing Hua University, providing seamless access for mobile applications. Our work is expected to contribute to
1976 – 2012 the design of the future generation of All-IP mobile Internet networks.
● Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and In the late 1980’s, my research team designed the rst parallel processing system in Taiwan,

Computer Sciences, University of
California, Berkeley, 1976 with the parallel processor being designed with state-of-the-art IC technology. We discov-
ered that an optimal mesh with broadcast capability is rectangular rather than square for
● M.S., Electrical Engineering and

Computer Sciences, University of many parallel algorithms, and we generalized this nding to a multidimensional mesh. This
California, Berkeley, 1973 result has been widely adopted by other researchers to reduce computational complexities
● B.S., Nuclear Engineering, Na- of many well-known optimal mesh algorithms with fewer processors. We also proposed
tional Tsing Hua University, 1970 a constant-time sorting k-dimensional parallel architecture with the least number of pro-
cessors nk/(k-1) that approaches the theoretical lower bound n for larger k. Other notable
works of my research team include image sequence coding, high-speed packet switching
networks, vertical hando in heterogeneous wireless networks, and wireless sensor net-

works.
For the next few years, my research team will focus on research into intelligent sensing
and mobile networking technologies and their applications. Emerging technologies and

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