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Welcome to the Institute of Information Science (IIS) at Academia Sinica.

Since the establishment of the Institute of Information Science (IIS) at the
dawn of the information technology (IT) revolution in Taiwan in 1982, the
institute has undergone rapid growth. In less than three decades, the IIS
has emerged as one of the leading research institutes in both computer
and information science and related technologies in Taiwan. Currently, we
have 40 research fellows with approximately 43 post-doctoral researchers,
and 270 full-time research associates and specialists. Many of them have
received distinguished awards and honors, both nationally and interna-
tionally.

Many research fellows supervise or co-supervise MS and PhD students in
top-ranked Computer Science departments in Taiwan, and collaborate
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very closely with their faculty members. In 2002, a PhD program was es-
tablished in Bioinformatics under the auspices of the Taiwan International
Graduate Program (TIGP) of Academia Sinica. It has enrolled about 45 stu-
dents over the past ten years, which has been to the enormous benefit of
the biological research conducted at Academia Sinica. Beginning this year,
we have added a new TIGP PhD program, Social Networks and Human-
Centered Computing, which should further attract new talents.

As the IT industry has long been the crown jewel of Taiwan’s economic
miracle and the envy of the world, the IIS strives to play a unique role in
this major endeavor. We have always focused on fundamental and long-
term research to further Taiwan’s competitive edge and sustain the
growth of this strategic enterprise. At the same time, the Institute man-
ages a research portfolio that includes cutting-edge, application-oriented
information technologies that are unique to Taiwan’s society and culture.
Our main research areas cover a wide spectrum of fields in both computer
and information science. For example, our research in bioinformatics is
cross-disciplinary and requires close collaboration with researchers in bio-
medical sciences, social sciences, liberal arts, and other major fields.

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