Collaborated with industry-leading partners including IBM, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ARM, MediaTek, QNAP, ADLINK, Foxconn, Quanta in researching advanced computing technologies and accelerating important applications. Collaboration with QNAP on improving the performance of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Servers based on open source system software; GPU acceleration for Kernel Samepage Merging; Virtual Hadoop: MapReduce over Docker Containers with an Auto-Scaling Mechanism for Heterogeneous Environments; Work with Foxconn on High-Performance Computing, Deep Learning and Precision Medicine; A Platform-Oblivious Approach for Heterogeneous Computing: A Case Study with Monte Carlo-based Simulation for Medical Applications.
Research Experience
2016-Present: Full Professor, Dept. of CSIE, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan; 2012-2016: Associate Professor, Dept. of CSIE, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan; 2005-2012: Assistant Professor, Dept. of CSIE, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan; 2000-2005: Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, USA; 1998-2000: Research Fellow, Dept. of EECS, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 1992-1998: Graduate Student Research Assistant, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 1991-1992: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of EE, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan; 1989-1991: Lieutenant, Marine, Taiwan; 1985-1989: Undergraduate Student, Dept. of EE, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan; 1982-1985: Chien-Kuo Senior High School, Taipei, Taiwan.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 1992-1998, University of Michigan, Advisor: Edward S. Davidson; M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, 1992-1998, University of Michigan; B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1985-1989, National Taiwan University.
Background
Research Interests: Performance Analysis/Optimization Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Computing Technologies, Heterogeneous and Multicore System Architecture, Active Utilization of Open Source System Software, High Performance Deep Learning Systems. Brief: Studying computers since 1982, high school days.