Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering（電資院）
Associate Professor, Miin Wu School of Computing（敏求智慧運算學院）
Associate Professor, Meta-nanoPhotonics Center (MetaPhor)（理學院）
Advisor, Intelligent Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory
National Cheng Kung University
(Check here for honors of my students!)
(Dec. 2025) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NTHU (清大通訊所)!
(Aug. 2025) Invited talk at the Texas A&M University, USA (美國德州農工)!
(June 2025) Invited talk at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia (澳洲雪梨科大)!
(April 2025) Our quantum generative AI, HyperKING, has been accepted by IEEE TGRS on the World Quantum Day (April 14th)!
(Dec. 2024) I have become an IEEE Senior Member!
(Dec. 2024) My student Jhao-Ting Lin (林昭廷) has received the prestigious scholarship from NSTC Graduate Students Study Abroad Program (國科會千里馬計畫) for visiting Prof. Kae Nemoto's laboratory at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (日本OIST量子情報科学・技術ユニット)!
(Nov. 2024) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NTHU (清大通訊所)!
(Nov. 2024) I have been awarded the Excellence Award (Engineering Field) from Young Scholar Innovative R&D Results Selection of Taiwan Comprehensive University System [臺綜大年輕學者創新研發成果選拔「優等獎」(工程領域)]!
(Nov. 2024) I have been awarded the GENESYS Logic Inc. Paper Excellence Award (創惟論文卓越獎)!
(Nov. 2024) Invited talk at INRIA (Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique) (法國國立計算機及自動化研究院)!
(Sep. 2024) Excellent EMI Teaching Innovation Award of University Social Responsibility (USR) from NCKU (教學創新與大學社會責任「EMI創新教學優良教師」)!
(Aug. 2024) I have joined the Mathematics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), as an Affiliated Member (國家理論中心《數學組》)!
(May 2024) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NYCU (陽明交大電信所)!
(Mar. 2024) The Republic of China Youth Medal Award conferred by former Taiwan Vice President Annette Lu (副總統呂秀蓮; click here)! See my acknowledgement and some photos with Taipei City Mayor Wayne Chiang (台北市長蔣萬安; click here)!
(Feb. 2024) Invited talk at Taiwan Space Union (臺灣太空科學聯盟)!
(Jan. 2024) Invited talk at Taiwan Telecommunications Annual Meeting (電信年會)!
(Jan. 2024) Invited talk at Taiwan Mathematical Society Annual Meeting (數學年會)!
(Dec. 2023) My student Po-Wei Tang (湯柏緯) has received the prestigious scholarship from NSTC Graduate Students Study Abroad Program (國科會千里馬計畫) for visiting Prof. Alfredo Huete's laboratory at the University of Technology Sydney (澳洲雪梨科大)!
(Dec. 2023) My student Tzu-Hsuan Lin (林子亘) has received the prestigious scholarship from NSTC Graduate Students Study Abroad Program (國科會千里馬計畫) for visiting Prof. Jocelyn Chanussot's laboratory at the Université Grenoble Alpes (法國格勒諾布爾-阿爾卑斯大學)!
(Dec. 2023) Invited talk at Department of Physics, NCKU (成大物理系)!
(Dec. 2023) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NTHU (清大通訊所)!
(Nov. 2023) Invited talk at Institute of Electrical Engineering, NTHU (清大電機所)!
(Aug. 2023) Invited talk at Taiwan Telecommunications Annual Meeting (電信年會)!
(Aug. 2023) Emerging Young Scholar Award from National Science and Technology Council (2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program) (國科會2030跨世代「新秀學者」研究計畫)!
(July 2023) Teaching Excellence Award from NCKU (校級教學優良獎)!
(July 2023) Excellent Mentor Award from NCKU (輔導優良導師獎)!
(June 2023) Invited talk at Kuen Cheng High School, Malaysia (馬來西亞坤成中學)!
(May 2023) Invited talk at the Quantum Computing Section, TWSIAM (台灣工業與應用數學年會)!
(Mar. 2023) Invited talk at Taiwan Space Agency (國家太空中心)!
(Feb. 2023) Director, Division of International Relations, Office of International Affairs (國際事務處)!
(Dec. 2022) Director, Division of Algorithm & Optimization, Center for Data Science (數據科學中心)!
(Nov. 2022) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NTHU (清大通訊所)!
(Oct. 2022) Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award from The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (中國電機工程學會「優秀青年電機工程師獎」)!
(Oct. 2022) Invited talk at Department of Electrical Engineering, NSYSU (中山電機系)!
(Oct. 2022) Invited talk at Department of Photonics, NSYSU (中山光電所)!
(Sep. 2022) FutureTech Award from National Science & Technology Council (國家科學及技術委員會「未來科技獎」; click here)!
(Aug. 2022) Two of our papers have received the Outstanding Paper Award from CVGIP!
(July 2022) We have invented a series of inverse imaging theories, collectively referred to as CODE [introducing convex optimization (CO) into deep learning (DE)]. Please check the news reported in 聯合報, Yahoo!新聞, 經濟日報, 府城人語新聞網, 聚財網, 台灣新生報, 視傳媒, etc.; particular thanks go for Ms. 陳意安 for her full report at 成大首頁《故事．觀點》!
(June 2022) I have been promoted to Associate Professor (升等副教授)!
(May 2022) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NTHU (清大通訊所)! (suspended due to COVID-19)
(Nov. 2021) Best Young Professional Member Award from IEEE Tainan Section!
(Aug. 2021) Outstanding Paper Award from IPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing!
(Aug. 2021) Invited talk at Rugby School, Warwickshire, UK (英國拉格比公學) [Registration]!
(May 2021) Invited talk at Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, NTU (臺大電信所 )!
(May 2021) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NTHU (清大通訊所)!
(Jan. 2021) Excellent Research Project Award, Communications Engineering Program, Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部電信學門計畫成果特優)!
(Nov. 2020) Invited talk at Department of Management Information Systems, NPUST (屏科資管系)!
(Sep. 2020) Invited talk at Department of Statistics & Institute of Data Science, NCKU (成大統計系 & 數據科學研究所)!
(Aug. 2020) 演講邀請：【UR】「實驗室參訪活動 & 研究能量講座」主講人 (成大研發處)!
(Aug. 2020) Invited talk at AI Center, Formosa Plastics Group (台塑AI中心)!
(Aug. 2020) Top Performance Award (Social Media Prediction Challenge) from ACM MM (click here)!
(Aug. 2020) Outstanding Paper Award from CVGIP (click here)!
(Aug. 2020) Session Chair of CVGIP (Deep Learning and Convex Geometry for Advanced Computer Vision Applications), NCTU!
(Aug. 2020) I have joined Miin Wu School of Computing (敏求智慧運算學院), NCKU!
(Jul. 2020) Our paper (“Panchromatic Sharpening of Multispectral Satellite Imagery via an Explicitly Defined Convex Self-similarity Regularization”) has received the Symposium Interactive Session Prize Paper Award from IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society (click here)!
(Jul. 2020) Visiting Professor, Stanford University, CA, USA! (suspended due to COVID-19)
(Jun. 2020) Session Chair/Organizer and TPC Member of IEEE SAM, Hangzhou, China!
(Jun. 2020) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NTHU (清大通訊所)!
(May 2020) Invited talk at Department of Electro-Optical Engineering, NTUT (北科光電系)!
(Dec. 2019) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NSYSU (中山通訊所)!
(Sep. 2019) Our “dual-reconstructed GAN” wins the 3rd Place (O) and 5th Place (S) in AIM Super-Resolution Challenge (影像超解析挑戰賽), IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)!
(Aug. 2019) Session Chair of SG38 (衛星監測場次), National Defense University (國防理工)!
(Aug. 2019) Invited talk at Taiwan Telecommunications Annual Meeting (ITCOM) (全國電信年會)!
(May 2019) 受邀於台北國際電腦展 (COMPUTEX TAIPEI) 國際產學聯盟專館 (AI 影像科技展區) 展示本團隊開發之快速超解析成像技術!
(Apr. 2019) Invited talk at National Space Organization (NSPO) (國家太空中心)!
(Apr. 2019) Invited talk at Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica (中研院資訊科學研究所)!
(Apr. 2019) 受邀赴英國倫敦、法國巴黎、德國柏林參與「 2019 科技部/教育部歐洲攬才」活動!
(Mar. 2019) 演講邀請：「 跨領域傑出年輕優秀學者論壇」(研發處 & 高教深耕辦公室)!
(Mar. 2019) Invited talk at Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering & Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, NTU (臺大電機所 & 臺大電信所 )!
(Mar. 2019) Invited talk at Department of Civil Engineering, NCTU (交大土木系)!
(Feb. 2019) I have joined Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University!
(Dec. 2018) Invited talk at Taiwan-Japan Workshop on Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Mitigation (台日遙測防災應用研討會)!
(Dec. 2018) Invited talk at Department of Geomatics, NCKU (成大測量及空間資訊系)!
(Nov. 2018) Invited talk at Department of Electrical Engineering, NCKU (成大電機系)!
(Oct. 2018) Invited talk at Institute of Communications Engineering, NTHU (清大通訊所)!
(Oct. 2018) I have been awarded the Certificate of MOST Young Scholar Fellowship by the Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology!
(Aug. 2018) I have received Einstein Grant Award (科技部「愛因斯坦培植計畫」) from Ministry of Science and Technology!
(Aug. 2018) I have joined Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University!
Ph.D. degree in Communications Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, 2016.
Best Thesis Award from IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society, 2016.
Outstanding Thesis Award from Chinese IPPR Society, 2016.
Awarded by Entrance Scholarship (for Top 1 Student).
B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, 2010.
Awarded by Entrance Scholarship (for Top 10 Students).
Post-Doctoral Researcher, from Aug. 2017 to July 2018
Pattern and Image Analysis (PIA) Lab., Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal
Supervisor: Prof. Jose Bioucas Dias, IEEE Fellow
Visiting Scholar, in 2014 and 2017
DSP & Speech Technology Lab. (DSP-STL), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
Supervisor: Prof. Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma, IEEE Fellow
Visiting Ph.D. Student, from Apr. 2015 to Mar. 2016
Computational Bioinformatics/Bio-imaging Lab. (CBIL), Virginia Tech (VT), VA, USA
Supervisor: Prof. Yue (Joseph) Wang, IEEE Fellow
Remote Sensing & Satellite Imagery Analysis:
Identifiability analysis for blind hyperspectral unmixing criteria.
Fast and fully unsupervised algorithm design for blind hyperspectral unmixing.
Super-resolution imaging via big data fusion/analysis and large-scale optimization.
Mathematical modeling and criterion design for ill-conditioned blind inverse problem.
Bio-informatics Extraction & Biomedical Imaging:
Convex optimization-based pharmacokinetic analysis for DCE-MR imaging.
Source detection via information theory-based minimum description length criterion.
Network Science & 5G Wireless Communications:
Coordinated beamforming for massive MIMO enabled heterogeneous cellular networks.
Dynamic game with heterogeneous players for large complex network modeling.
Office: R92907, EE Building, NCKU
Tel.: +886-6-2757575 ext. 62335
E-mail: chiahsiang.steven.lin@gmail.com