廖崇碩 Chung Shou Liao
Chung-Shou Liao is a Professor with Dept. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU). Before joining NTU, he was a Distinguished Professor with National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). He had worked at Dept. Industrial Engineering, NTHU and Algorithms and Computation Laboratory, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica for fifteen and eight years, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Dept. Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University in 2009. His research mainly focuses on designing efficient algorithms that can be used to solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems from real-world applications.
Dr. Liao received the Outstanding Research Award of NSTC, Taiwan in 2023, Yuan-Ze Hsu Scientific Paper Award in 2017, Ta-You Wu Memorial Award of NSTC in 2016, and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of IICM (ACM Taiwan) in 2014. In 2019, he was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar with CSAIL, MIT. He also won IEET Outstanding Teaching Award in 2021 and the NTHU Outstanding Teaching Award twice. He served as the Program Committee Chair of AAAC 2021 (the 14th Annual Meeting of Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation) and ISAAC 2018 (the 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation). He is the Board Member of AAAC, the Steering Committee Member of ISAAC, and the Associate Editors of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. In recent years, his team has collaborated with world-class industrial companies such as MediaTek, UMC, TSMC, Unimicron, etc. and conducted the NSTC AI research project.