He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 2009. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan before joining the faculty of the Department of Applied Geoinformatics and the Department of Information Technology, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy & Science, Tainan, Taiwan in 2010 and 2012, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, Yilan, Taiwan and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, in 2014 and 2017. In 2019, he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He was awarded the project grant under 2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program: Excellent Young Scholars from National Science and Technology Council. He has served as the Associate Editors for the Journal of Internet Technology, IEEE Access, IET Networks, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking since 2014, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2024, respectively. He has also been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) and ICT Express since 2017 and 2021. His research interests include computational intelligence, data mining, cloud computing, and internet of things. His favorite hobbies and leisure activities are painting, reading, basketball, and traveling.
H-index (31), i10-index (64), citations (6000+)
Selected Publications
C.W. Tsai and M.C. Chiang, "Handbook of Metaheuristic Algorithms: From Fundamental Theories to Advanced Applications," Elsevier, 2023. [Link] [Source Code]
M.T. Wu, H.I. Lin, C.W. Tsai, "A Training-Free Neural Architecture Search Algorithm based on Search Economics," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 445-459, 2024. [Scource Code]
C.W. Tsai and Z.Y. Fang, "An Effective Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithm for DNN to Predict Passengers at a Metro Station," ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 1-24, 2021.
C.W. Tsai and S.J. Liu, "An Effective IoT Service-to-Interface Assignment Algorithm via Search Economics," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.5, no.3, pp. 1708-1718, 2018.
C.W. Tsai, "An Effective WSN Deployment Algorithm via Search Economics," Computer Networks, vol. 101, no.4, pp.178-191, 2016.
C.W. Tsai, C.F. Lai, M.C. Chiang, and L.T. Yang, “Data Mining for Internet of Things: A Survey," IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 16, no.1, pp.77-97, 2014.
C.W. Tsai, W.C. Huang, M.H. Chiang, M.C. Chiang, and C.S. Yang, “A Hyper-Heuristic Scheduling Algorithm for Cloud," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 236-250, 2014.