Hua, Kai-Lung
Educational Background:
- PhD: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
- MS: Department of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
- BS: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan
- Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Taipei, Taiwan
Current Position:
- Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Taiwan
- Professor, CSIE Dept., Taiwan Tech.
- Evaluation Committee, Dept. of Engineering and Tech., National Science and Technology Council
Work Experience:
- Dean, Office of Industry-Academia Collaboration, Taiwan Tech.
- Vice Dean, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Taiwan Tech.
- Evaluation Committee, Dept. of Engineering and Technologies, Ministry of Sci. and Tech.
- Deputy General Director, Information and Communications Research Laboratories, Industrial Tech. Research Inst. (ITRI)
- Director, Department of UAV Information Application System, ITRI
- Deputy Director, AI Application Strategy Office, ITRI
- Deputy Director, Office of Intelligent and Green Vehicle Promotion Strategy, ITRI
- CTO, Samurai Spirit Inc.
- Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, Taiwan Tech.
- Director, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Taiwan Tech.
- ICT consultant, New Taipei City Government
- IT consultant, Athentek Inc.
- Engineer, Hewlett Packard Lab
Awards and Honors:
- 2024, World's Top 2% Scientists (Scientific Impact in 2023), ranked by Stanford University and Elsevier
- 2023, Operational Excellence Award, Microsoft Taiwan
- 2022, K. T. Li Cornerstone Award, Institute of Information & Computing Machinery
- 2020, Outstanding Research Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- 2020, Best Paper Award, 8th International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems
- 2019, Excellent Research Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- 2018, Outstanding Reviewer Award, IEEE VCIP
- 2018, Best Eye-Catching Idea Award, Taiwan AOI Forum & Show
- 2018, Excellent Poster Award, IEEE GCCE
- 2018, Young Scholar Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- 2018, Outstanding Reviewer Award, IEEE ICME
- 2017, Top Performance Award, ACM Multimedia Grand Challenges
- 2017, Outstanding Poster Award, Ministry of Science and Technology
- 2017, Excellent Teaching Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- 2017, Top Social Media Article, Journal of Network and Computer Applications
- 2016, Forth Prize Winner of APP Contest, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)
- 2016, Best Paper Nomination Award, National Conference on Multimedia Technology (NCMT)
- 2016, Outstanding Counselor Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- 2015, Top 10% Paper Award, 17th IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
- 2015, Honorary Mention, 20th Annual Taiwan Joint Cancer Conference Poster Competition
- 2014, Second Prize Award, ACM Multimedia Grand Challenges
- 2013, Best Paper Award, 17th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE)
- 2013, the developed Mixed-Reality Showcase is selected for the exhibition of SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies
- 2012, Best Poster Paper Award, 4th International Conference on 3D Systems and Applications (3DSA)
- 2012, Outstanding Teaching Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- Member of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Electrical Engineering Honor Society
- Honorary Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society
- MediaTek Doctoral Fellowship
- 2001,2002, Academic Achievement Award, NCTU
- 2001,2002, Ministry of Education Scholarship for Graduate Students, NCTU
- 1996, Honorary Mention at the Shin-Chu County Intercollegiate Art Contest
- 1995, Second Prize at the Chien Kuo High School Science Fair
- 1994, Summer Residential Program for Verbally and Mathematically Gifted Students, Duke University
Student Awards and Honors:
- 2023, J. Ople: CTCI Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship ($150,000NTD)
- 2022, Excellent Award ($800,000NTD reward), AI+ Star Competition, Ministry of Digital Affairs
- 2021, J. Virtusio: CTCI Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship ($150,000NTD)
- 2021, M. Shahid: CTCI Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship ($100,000NTD)
- 2021, Daniel Tan: Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (IPPR) PhD Thesis Award
- 2021, Kuan-Hung Huang: First Prize of 2021 TSMC X Microsoft Careerhack Contest
- 2021, L.-H. Chen, Y.-T. Cheng: Second Prize of 2021 TSMC X Microsoft Careerhack Contest
- 2021, L.-H. Chen, Y.-T. Cheng: First Prize of Senior Student Project Contest 2021, Dept. of CSIE, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- 2020, D. Tan: CTCI Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship ($150,000NTD)
- 2020, Y.-X. Lin: Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (IPPR) Master Thesis Award
- 2017, Sean Lin: Undergraduate Research Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- 2019, J. Soeseno: IICM Master Thesis Award
- 2019, Y.-X. Lin: Travel Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology to attend IEEE ICME (Shanghai) International Conference
- 2019, Y.-C. Chen: Travel Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology to attend MMM (Greece) International Conference
- 2018, John Virtusio: IEEE VCIP Travel Grant Scholarship to attend IEEE VCIP International Conference
- 2018, Daniel Tan: Travel Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology to attend IEEE ICIP (Athens, Greece) International Conference
- 2018, H.-C. Wang: IICM Ph.D. Dissertation Award
- 2018, S. Hidayati: IICM Ph.D. Dissertation Award
- 2018, H.-L. Tang: IICM Master Thesis Award
- 2017, Ho Thi Trang: Travel Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology to attend IEEE ICIP (Beijing, China) International Conference
- 2017, H.-L. Tang: Travel Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology to attend IEEE ICME (Hong Kong) International Conference
- 2017, Yong-Xiang Lin, Sheng-Wen Wang: Undergraduate Research Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- 2016, S. Hidayati: Awarded the Prestigious Scholarship ($150,000NTD) from CTCI Foundation (China Technical Consultants, Inc.) for her Ph.D. Work related to Fashion Style Analysis towards Multimedia Big Data
- 2016, S. Hidayati: Travel Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology to attend MMM (Miami, USA) International Conference
- 2015, E. Huang: Gold Prize and Special Prize at Seoul International Invention Fair
- 2015, C.-H. Hsu: Honorary Mention at 2015 National Intercollegiate Patent Strategy Contest
- 2015, D.-X. Wu: Travel Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology and Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center to attend ACM SenSys (Seoul, Korea) International Conference
- 2015, H.-C. Wang: Travel Grant from Academia Sinica to attend IEEE MMSP (Xiamen, China) International Conference
- 2015, Shuo-Chun Hsu and Jun-Ming Lin: Undergraduate Research Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- 2014, Po-Yi Wu: Undergraduate Research Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- 2014, Y.-F. Hsieh: Being introduced at sveral daily newspapers (Yahoo, UDN, EpochTimes, CDNEWS, CNA) for his developed "Smart Course Registration System"
- 2014, Y.-S. Hsiao: ACM MMSys Travel Grant Award to attend ACM MMSys (Singapore) International Conference
- 2014, S. Hidayati: Travel Grant from National Science Council and Science Foundation Ireland to attend MMM (Ireland) International Conference
- 2014, D. Rahmah: Invited by IEEE Consumer Electronics Society to present our recent research work at ICCE combined with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA
- 2013, C.-H. Hsu: Travel Grant from National Science Council to attend ACM Siggraph Asia (Hong Kong) International Conference
- 2013, F.-L. He: NTUST scholarship and CHAUDOIRE scholarship to study dual master program at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
- 2013, Hugo Lee: Undergraduate Research Grant, National Science Council, Taiwan
- 2012, C.-H. Hsu: Travel Grant from Ministry of Education to attend ACM Siggraph Asia (Singapore) International Conference
- 2012, S. Hidayati: ACM Multimedia Travel Grant Scholarship to attend ACM MM (Japan) International Conference
- 2012, F.-L. He: NSC Travel Grant Award to attend IEEE ICIP (USA) International Conference
- 2012, Y.-H. Wang: Undergraduate Research Grant, National Science Council, Taiwan
- 2010, C.-W. Huang and H.-C. Wang: Honorary Mention at National Digital Signal Processing Creative Design Contest
Service:
- Guest Editor, IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, Special Issue on "Foundation Models for Multimedia," 2024
- Registration Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Taipei, Taiwan, 2022
- Competition Jury, IntelĀ® DevCup Competition, Taiwan, 2022
- Special Session Organizer and Chair, The 28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2021), Bali, Indonesia, 2021
- Doctoral Symposium Chair, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Taipei, Taiwan, 2021
- Demo Chair, The 26th International Conference on MultiMedia Modelling (MMM), Daejeon, Korea, 2020
- Organizer and General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (IEEE MMC) in conjunction with 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Shanghai, China, 2019
- Organizer, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019
- Local Arrangements Chair, International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2019), Taipei, Taiwan, 2019
- Organizer and General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (IEEE MMC) in conjunction with 2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), San Diego, USA, 2018
- Demo Chair, IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP), Taichung, Taiwan, 2018
- Organizer and General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (IEEE MMC) in conjunction with 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Hong Kong, 2017
- Special Session Organizer and Chair, The 23rd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), Reykjavik, Iceland, 2017
- Demo Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (IEEE BigMM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
- Organizer and General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (IEEE MMC) in conjunction with 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Seattle, USA, 2016
- Organizer and General Chair, International Workshop on Learning Semantics for Multimedia Big Data in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (IEEE BigMM 2016), Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
- Track Co-Chair for Networking and Multimedia, The 2nd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (ICEECS-2016), Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Consultant, New Taipei City Government, 2015 - 2016
- Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Computing," 2015 - 2016
- Organizer and General Chair, International Workshop on Learning Semantics for Multimedia Big Data in conjunction with the 3rd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR2015), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2015
- Commissioner in Training, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), 2015
- Organizer and General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (IEEE MMC) in conjunction with 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Torino, Italy, 2015
- Local Arrangements Chair, 2014 conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI), Taipei, Taiwan, 2014
- Commissioner in Training, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), 2014
- Organizer and General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (IEEE MMC) in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Chengdu, China, 2014
- Session Chair, IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2013
- Technical Program Committee, 2013 Workshop for "Multimedia + Mobile + User", Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
- Special Session Co-Organizer and Co-Chair, APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2013
- Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE ICNC) - Multimedia Computing and Communications, San Diego, USA, 2013
- Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Anti-counterfeiting, Security, and Identification (ASID), Taipei, Taiwan, 2012
- Guest Editor, IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC), 2011
- Student Ambassador, Intl. Students and Scholars Office, Purdue University, Jan. 2007 - Jul. 2009
- President, I Love Taiwan Club, Purdue University, Mar. 2007 - Mar. 2008
- Member, Whyou (helping children) Group, NTHU, Sep. 1996 - Jul. 2000
- Vice President, Student Association of E.E. Dept, NTHU, Sep. 1998 - Jul. 1999
- Vice Class Leader, E.E. Dept, NTHU, Sep. 1996 - Feb. 1997
- President, Student Association of Chien Kuo Senior High School, Sep. 1994 - Feb. 1995
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