Kai-Lung Hua - MVC Lab

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
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

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

2025, T.-H. Lin, C.-H. Chiang, H.-Y. Chan: Selected for Microsoft Taiwan Internship Program
2025, T.-M. Huang: Travel Grant from National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to attend IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) (Nashville) International Conference
2024, W.-T. Lin: Travel Grant from National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to attend Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) (Vietnam) International Conference
2024, T.-M. Huang: Travel Grant from National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to attend IEEE Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) (India) International Conference
2024, S.-F. Chen: Travel Grant from National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to attend IEEE ICASSP (Korea) International Conference
2024, Y.-H. Lin: Travel Grant from National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) to attend IEEE ICCE (USA) International Conference
2024, C.-W. Chen, M.-T. Chung, P.-H. Ho, H.-C. Yeh: Selected for Microsoft Taiwan Internship Program
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, T.-M. Huang: 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
2016, Coached the national team for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), achieving 1 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze medals at the 28th IOI
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
2015, Coached the national team for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), achieving 2 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medal at the 27th IOI
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
2014, Coached the national team for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), achieving 1 gold and 3 silver medals at the 26th IOI
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

2024, Guest Editor, IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, Special Issue on "Foundation Models for Multimedia,"
2022, Registration Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Taipei, Taiwan
2022, Competition Jury, IntelÂ® DevCup Competition, Taiwan
2021, 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
2020, Demo Chair, The 26th International Conference on MultiMedia Modelling (MMM), Daejeon, Korea
2019, 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
2018, 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
2017, 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
2016, 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
2015-2016, 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, 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
2014, 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 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Chengdu, China
2013, 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 Organizer and Chair, APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2013, Symposium Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE ICNC) - Multimedia Computing and Communications, San Diego, USA
2012, Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Anti-counterfeiting, Security, and Identification (ASID), Taipei, Taiwan
2011, Guest Editor, IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC)
2007-2009, Student Ambassador, Intl. Students and Scholars Office, Purdue University
2007-2008, President, I Love Taiwan Club, Purdue University
1996-2000, Member, Whyou (helping children) Group, NTHU
1998-1999, Vice President, Student Association of E.E. Dept, NTHU
1996-1997, Vice Class Leader, E.E. Dept, NTHU
1994-1995, President, Student Association of Chien Kuo Senior High School

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