Kwang-Cheng Chen received B.S. from the National Taiwan University in 1983, M.S. and Ph.D from the University of Maryland, College Park, United States, in 1987 and 1989, all in electrical engineering. From 1987 to 1991, Dr. Chen worked with SSE, COMSAT, and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in mobile communication networks. During 1991 to 1998, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC. Since 1998, Dr. Chen has been a Professor at Institute of Communication Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, and is appointed as Distinguished Professor now and the Irving T. Ho Chair Professor (2007-2008). He was a visiting scientist with Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in California USA during 1997 and a visiting Professor at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 1998. Dr. Chen was adjunctly appointed by the Executive Yuan Science and Technology Advisory Group to plan Taiwan’s communication and networking technologies during 1998-2002, and was also appointed by several ministires for different assignments. Dr. Chen actively involves the technical organization of numerous leading IEEE conferences, including as the Technical Program Committee Chair of 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications, TPC co-chair for IEEE Globecom 2002, General co-chair for 2007 IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium in Orlando, USA, and the IEEE 2010 Spring Vehicular Technology Conference. He has served editorship with the following prestigious international journals: IEEE Transaction on Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communication Surveys, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Area in Communications, ACM/Blatzer Journal on Wireless Networks, Wireless Personal Communications, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Frontier of Communication and Information Theory, etc. He has been a voting member for IEEE 802.11 (wireless LANs), IEEE 802.15 (Wireless Personal Area Networks), IEEE 802.14 (HFC modem), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) international standard working groups, and participating US TIA45.5 CDMA Cellular standard, ETSI SMG2 cellular standard, and ITU-R TG8/1 IMT-2000 (3G) standard, and was Vice Chair WWRF SIG3 2006-7. He has authored and co-authored over 200 technical papers, 17 granted US patents, a few book chapters, and 3 books Mobile WiMAX (ed. With R. DeMarca) by Wiley , Principles of Communications by River (to be published March, 2008), and Cognitive Radio Networks (co-authored with R. Prasad) by Wiley (to be published April, 2009). Dr. Chen was elected as an IEEE Fellow, for the contributions to Wireless Broadband Communication and Wireless Local Area Networks, one of Ten Outstanding Young Engineers in 1994, one of Ten Outstanding Young Persons (the most prestigious achievement award for people under age 40 in Taiwan) in 1996, NSC Excellent Research Award in 2000, ISI Citation Classic Award for high-impact research in 2001, Outstanding Engineering Professor in 2002, and listed in the 15th edition Marquis Who's Who in the World in 1998 and Who’s Who in Industry in 1999, and was the IEEE Communication Society Asia Pacific Board Director during 2002-2003. Dr. Chen was invited as a speaker in the United Nation ITU TELCOM 95 Technology Summit and Asia TELCOM 97 Strategy Summit. He led APEC Telecommunication Working Group WTO Implementation task group. Dr. Chen’s research interests include wireless communications, cognitive science, and nano-communication and computation.
Irving T. Ho Chair Professor is named after Dr. Ho who is the founding Director of Hsinchu Science Park. Hsinchu Science Park has fostered Taiwan high-tech industry and created billions NTD revenue each year, as the driving force of Taiwan’s economy miracle. For more details regarding Dr. Ho’s tremendous life and contributions, please visit the web site http://www.irvinghofoundation.org/.
