Professor

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吳 宗 憲 Chung-Hsien Wu
Distinguished Professor
Department of Computer Science ad Information Engineering,
National Cheng Kung University
1 University Road, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC
Tel:886-6-2084411Fax:886-6-2747076
Email:chunghsienwu@gmail.com;chwu@csie.ncku.edu.tw

Education

  1. Ph.D. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1991.
  2. M.S. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1987.
  3. B.S. Dept. of Electronic Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1981.

Teaching & Industrial Experience

  1. Deputy Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009~
  2. President, The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP), 2009~
  3. Vice Chair, IEEE Tainan Section, 2009~
  4. Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, August 2004~
  5. Visiting Scholar, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July~ August, 2005.
  6. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, August 1997~
  7. Visiting Scientist, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, Summer, 2003.
  8. Chairman, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, August 1999~2002
  9. Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, August 1991~July 1997
  10. Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Nanjon Junior College of Technology, August 1987~ July 1990
  11. Engineer, China Steel Corporation, September 1983~October 1985
  12. Engineer, GTE Communication Inc., June 1983~ September 1983

Research Interests

  1. Speech Recognition
  2. Speech Synthesis and Voice Conversion
  3. Spoken Dialogue and Language Understanding
  4. Multi-Media Affective Computing
  5. Audio/Video Multimedia Summarization and Retrieval
  6. Communication Aids for Hearing/Speech Impaired
  7. Computer Assisted Language Learning
  8. Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction

International Activities

  1. PACLIC13, Technical Program Chair, 1999
  2. ISCSLP2002 Program Chair (2002.8)
  3. PCM 2002 Program Committee
  4. Oriental-COCOSDA 2003 Program Committee
  5. PACLIC 17 Program Committee (2003)
  6. 2004 International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction, Program Chair (2004)
  7. ISCSLP2004 Program Committee (2004)
  8. IEEE ICME2004 Program Committee
  9. External Examiner for M.Phil. Thesis, Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2005)
  10. 2004, 2006, 2008 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Program Committee (2004, 2006, 2008)
  11. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME),Program Committee (2004)
  12. Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, xternal Examiner for M.Phil. Thesis (2005)
  13. ROC Computational Linguistic Conference XVII, Program Chair (2005.9)
  14. The 19th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), Program Co-chair and keynote speech Chair (2005)
  15. The First International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Systems (ACII2005), Program Committee and keynote speech Chair (2005)
  16. 2006 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Organizing Committee and Publicity Chair (2006)
  17. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Program Committee (2007)
  18. International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Systems (ACII2007), Advisory Committee (2007)
  19. IEEE Signal Processing Tainan Chapter Chair (2007~)
  20. IEEE TENCON2007 (IEEE Region Ten Conference), Technical Program Chair(2007)
  21. External Examiner for Doctorial Thesis, Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007)
  22. External Examiner for Doctorial Thesis, Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007)
  23. International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)- SIG on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Event Group Member (2007~)IEEE Circuits and Systems Society --Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee Member (2008~)
  24. 2008 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Program Committee
  25. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Program Committee (2009)
  26. 2010 International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP), Organizing Committee and Plenary Chair (2010)
  27. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2010), Program Committee (2010)
  28. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Program Committee (2010)
  29. President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Processing (2009~20011)
  30. Vice Chair, IEEE Tainan Section 2009/12~
  31. The 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2010), Program Committee (2010)
  32. The 2010 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2010) Program Committee (2010)
  33. APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference 2010, Track Chair (Signal Processing--Image, video, and multimedia), 2010
  34. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Program Committee (2011)
  35. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Program Committee (2011)
  36. 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Program Committee (2011)
  37. The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 25), Program Committee (2011)
  38. The Oriental COCOSDA 2011 Conference, Program Committee (2011)
  39. 2011 International Conference of the HUMAINE Association on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2011), Program Committee (2011)
  40. The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2011) Area Chair (2011)
  41. The International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP2011), Program Committee (2011)
  42. The Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Annual Summit and Conference 2011 (APSIPA ASC 2011), Program Committee (2011)

Editorial Board of International Journals

  1. Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (2004~2008)
  2. Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal, Behtham Science Publisher, 2007~.
  3. Guest Editor of ACM Trans. Asian Language Information Processing, Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Asian Language Spoken Document Retrieval” 2008~2009
  4. Guest Editor of IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Special issue on “Voice Transformation” 2008~2009
  5. Guest Editor of EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Special issue on “Automatic Audio Classification and Retrieval” 2008~2009
  6. Subject Editor on Information Engineering, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers (JCIE, SCI-Indexed), 2009~
  7. Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, 2010~
  8. Associate Editor of ACM Trans. on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2010~
  9. Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2010.11~
  10. Associate Editor of IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2011

Biography

Chung-Hsien Wu received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1987 and 1991, respectively. Since August 1991, he has been with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University. He became professor and distinguished professor in August 1997 and August 2004, respectively. From 1999 to 2002, he served as the Chairman of the Department. Currently, he is the deputy dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Cheng Kung University. He also worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, in summer 2003 as a visiting scientist. He was the winner of 2010 National Science Council (NSC) Outstanding Research Award, Taiwan. He was the Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing from 2004 to 2008. He serves as the Guest Editor of ACM Trans. Asian Language Information Processing, IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing and EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing in 2008~2009. He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, ACM Trans. Asian Language Information Processing, and the Subject Editor on Information Engineering of Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers (JCIE). His research interests include speech recognition, text-to-speech, and spoken language processing. Dr. Wu is a senior member of IEEE and a member of International speech communication association (ISCA). He has been the President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) since September 2009.

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