Biosketch

Wen-Chih Peng received the BS and MS degrees from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C in 2001. Currently, he is a professor at the department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Prior to joining the department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, he was mainly involved in the projects related to mobile computing, data broadcasting and network data management. Dr. Peng published some papers in several prestigious conferences, such as IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) and ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM) and prestigious journals (e.g., IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS). Dr. Peng has the best paper award in ACM Workshop on location-based social network 2009 and the best student paper award in IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management 2011. His research interests include mobile computing, network data management and data mining. He is a member of IEEE.

Professional Experiences 

• 2021/2~2022/7, Chair of Dept. of Computer Science, National Ying Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

• 2021/2~2022/7, Vice director of Digital Medicine Center, National Ying Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan  

• 2020/8-2022/7, Senior Review Committee Members of the Ministry of Science and Technology in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Taiwan (科技部智慧計算學門複審委員)

• 2019/8~2021/1, Chair of Dept. of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

• 2019/8~2021/1, Associate Dean, College of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. 

• 2018/1~2018/2, Visiting professor at LARC, Singapore Management University, Singapore. 

• 2016/8-2018/7, Senior Review Committee Members of the Ministry of Science and Technology in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Taiwan (科技部智慧計算學門複審委員)

• 2016/8~2019/7, Director of Institute of Multimedia Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

• 2014/8~now, Board Members of Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Taiwan (中華民國人工智慧學會 理事)

• 2014/7~2015/7, Visiting professor,  University of Queensland, school of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Australia

• 2014/6~ 2016/7, Technical consult, Cloud Computing Association in Taiwan 

•  2009/8~2013/8, Associate professor, Dept. of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 

• 2009/7~2009/11, Visiting professor, University of Illinois at Urban-Champion, Dept. of Computer Science, USA 

• 2010/1~2011/12 , Technical consult, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan

• 2003/8~2009/8, Assistant professor, Dept. of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 

Education

• Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1997/9-2001/9.

• M.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1995/9-1997/6.

• B.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1991/9-1995/6.

Research Interests

Data mining, big data analytics, sport data analysis, deep learning and databases

Leadership roles at NYCU/NCTU CS 

Wen-Chih served as the chairman of NYCU/NCTU CS dept. from 2019/8 to 2022/7 and made some contributions: 

• To consolidate the centripetal force among graduated alumni and accomplish the fundraising for celebrating 50th anniversity of NCTU CS and the 40th anniversity of NCTU CIS at National Chiao Tung University, and to establish the Beyond Computing meseum. 

       News 

• • https://ctee.com.tw/industrynews/cooperation/624161.html 

  • Podcast interview (https://reurl.cc/mDqrEG)

  • News video clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEEJPesx_UA) 

• To establish a fan page for the NCTU Department of Computer Science, enhance the visibility of the department through the fan page, and create a platform for graduated alumni, current students, and faculty members (https://www.facebook.com/csnctu). 

• In recent years,  NYCU/CS has been recruiting excellent teachers and students. From August 2019 to July 2022, a total of 7 teachers were recruited. We aim to attract outstanding undergraduate students and strive to make NCTU CS  one of the top two choices in entrance examination (in CS field). 

  • My videos for recruiting undergraduate students (https://youtu.be/Ie_q3qR_rO0 and https://youtu.be/d7hNVv0u0S0) 

• Leading the Department of Computer Science through Covid-19, including digital transformation, conducting departmental administrative meetings and committee meetings online, transitioning student affairs to online platforms, and implementing epidemic prevention tasks.