Hua, Kai-Lung

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  • 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
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