Yen-Kuang Chen (S'92-M'98-SM'02) received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, both in electrical engineering. He is a Principal Engineer Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California. He has 15+ US patents, 25+ pending patent applications, and 85+ technical publications. He is one of the key contributors to Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension 3 in Intel(R) Core™ 2 Duo processors. His research interests include developing innovative multimedia applications, studying the performance bottleneck in current computer platforms, and designing next generation processor with multiple cores. Dr. Chen is an associate editor of the Journal of Signal Processing Systems (including special issues on "System-on-a-Chip for Multimedia Systems", "Design and Programming of Signal Processors for Multimedia Communication", and "Multi-core Enabled Multimedia Applications & Architectures"), of IEEE Trans. on Circuit and System for Video Technology (including a special issue on "Algorithm/Architecture Co-Exploration of Visual Computing on Emerging Platforms"), and of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia. He was an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Circuit and System I, from 2004 to 2005. He is also a guest editor of special issues on "Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores" in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He has served as a program committee member of 30+ international conferences on multimedia, video communication, image processing, VLSI circuits and systems, parallel processing, and software optimization. He is a member of Multimedia Systems and Applications technical committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, of Visual Signal Processing and Communications technical committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, of Multimedia Signal Processing technical committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society, and of Design and Implementation technical committee of Signal Processing Systems of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is an invited participant to 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (National Academy of Engineering) and to 2003 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation).
Last updated August 2009.