Edward T.-H. Chu

• Short Biography

Dr. Edward T.-H. Chu is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University in 2010. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked at Acer and Wistron, specializing in BIOS kernel development and obtaining a patent in China for his kernel work. Throughout his academic career, Edward has focused on practical research in areas such as fall detection, trapped victim detection, crowdsourcing, and active emergency response system. His publications feature methods and prototype systems with real-world applications. Collaborating with industry partners, he has successfully transferred technology and facilitated commercialization projects.

Edward's notable achievements include transferring a hyperspectral remote sensing IoT system to Isuzu Optics Corp. and having his embedded operating system tutorial adopted by Microsoft, Taiwan. He has also contributed patented technology for identifying indoor emergency events to Taiwan Shin Knog Security Co., LTD. Furthermore, he co-founded BiDaE. Recently, Edward has developed a mobile augmented reality-based indoor navigation app and explored natural language and social media tools for object tracking queries. His innovative work presents promising opportunities for commercialization. Overall, Edward is a highly accomplished researcher, adept at bridging the gap between academia and practical applications in computer science.

• Selected Journal Papers 

1. Chang-Yu Lin, Edward T.-H. Chu*, Chia-Rong Lee, "BreathRelax: A Game-Based Breathing System Combines Stress Relief and Engagement," IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems,  accepted for publication, 2025.

2. Jin-Wei Hou, Edward T.-H. Chu*, and C.-R. Lee, “Anti-Stress: A Wearable Device with Real-Time Breathing Feedback for Stress Relief,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, accepted for publication, 2025.

3. Yen-Min Lin and Edward T.-H. Chu*, “Evaluation of the Practicability of the Internet of Things in Fighting Against COVID-19,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol.11, Issue 5, pp. 8064-8077, 2024.

4. Ying-Dar Lin, Edward T.-H. Chu*, Evan Chang, and Yuan-Cheng Lai, “Smoothed Graphic User Interaction on Smartphones with Motion Prediction,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Vol. 50, Issue 4, pp. 1429-1441, 2020.

5. Ekarat Rattagan, Ying-Dar Lin, Yuan-Cheng Lai, Edward T.-H. Chu, and Kate Ching-Ju Li, “Clustering and Symbolic Regression for Power Consumption Estimation on Smartphone Hardware Subsystems,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 306-317,  2018. 

6. C. C. Li, J. Su, Edward T.-H. Chu, and J. W. S. Liu, “Building/environment Data/information Enabled Location Specificity and Indoor Positioning,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 6, pp. 2116-2128, 2017.

7. Ekarat Rattagan, Edward T.-H. Chu, Ying-Dar Lin, and Yuan-Cheng Lai, “SEMI: Semi-online Power Estimates for Smartphone Hardware Components,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp. 54-62, 2016.

8. Ying-Dar Lin, Edward T.-H. Chu*, Yuan-Cheng Lai, and Ting-Jun Huang, “Time-and-Energy Aware Computation Offloading in Handheld Devices to Coprocessors and Clouds,” IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 393-405, 2015. 

9. Ying-Dar Lin, Jose F. Rojas, Edward T.-H. Chu, Yuan-Cheng Lai, “On the Accuracy, Efficiency, and Reusability of Automated Test Oracles for Android Devices,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 957-970, 2014.

10. P. H. Tsai, Y.-C. Lin, Y. Z. Ou, Edward T.-H. Chu, and J. W. S. Liu, “A Framework for Fusion of Human Sensor and Physical Sensor Data,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 1248-1261, 2014.  

11. Ying-Dar Lin, Edward T.-H. Chu*, Shang-Che Yu, Yuan-Cheng Lai, “On the Accuracy of Automated GUI Testing for Embedded Systems,” IEEE Software, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 39-45, 2014.  

12. Jane W. S. Liu, C. S. Shih, Edward T.-H. Chu,  “Cyber-Physical Elements of Disaster Prepared Smart Environment,” IEEE Computer, Vol. 46, Issue 2, pp. 69-75. 2013.

13. Edward T.-H. Chu, Hsin-Ju Lee, Tai-Yi Huang, and Chung-Ta King, “Sample Assignment for Ensuring Sensing Quality and Balancing Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 29, No. 9, pp. 1578-1584, 2011.  

14. Edward T.-H. Chu, Tai-Yi Huang,  Yu-Che Tsai, “An Optimal Solution for the Heterogeneous Multiprocessor Single-Level Voltage-Setup Problem,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 28, No. 11, pp. 1705-1718, 2009.   

15. Cheng-Han Tsai, Tai-Yi Huang, Edward T.-H. Chu, Chun-Hang Wei, and Yu-Che Tsai, “An Efficient Real-time Disk-scheduling Framework using Imprecise Computation,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 634-647, 2008.