Published about 500 papers in journals and conferences, and holds 26 US patents, 23 Taiwan patents, and 10 patents from other countries. Received the Distinguished Academic Achievement Alumni Award from the UIUC Department of Computer Science in 2019, the Distinguished Research Award, and the Distinguished Research Fellow award from the National Science Council, Taiwan. Recipient of the Best Paper Awards in the 1996 International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering and the 1986 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, and the National Science Foundation's Research Initiation Award in 1989. Dr. Kuo is an IEEE Life Fellow.
Research Experience
Served as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona from 1988 to 1991, and an engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor and Silvar-Lisco, both in California, from 1982 to 1984. Visiting Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2011-2012 and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2004-2005, and visiting researcher at AT&T Labs-Research, New Jersey from 1999 to 2000.
Education
Ph.D., Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, USA, 1987; M.S., Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, 1982; B.S., Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1979.
Background
Research interests include Dependable and Secure Systems, Internet of Things, Quantum Computing. Currently a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan. Served as Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in NTU from 2012-2015 and Chairman of Department of Electrical Engineering in NTU from 2001-2004. Also served as Chair Professor and Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology from 2006-2009.