Prof. Hung-Pin (Charles) Wen received the Ph.D. degree in verification and test of very large scale integration (VLSI) designs from the University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2007. He is currently the Dean of Student Affairs (2023-now) of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan and Distinguished Professor (2020-now) of the college of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at NYCU, and specialized in computer engineering. He has also been serving as a consultant for Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan (亞洲‧矽谷發展計畫), National Development Council (NDC), Taiwan since 2019. He currently also holds positions as a member of the Investment Evaluation and Review Committee of the National Development Fund (since 2022) under the Executive Yuan (行政院), a member of the Review Committee of the Subsidy Program for Innovative Applications of Smart City and Rural IoT Facilitated by 5G and Artificial Intelligence under the National Development Council (NDC) (since 2023), a member of the Consultative Meeting for License Application of Cable TV Service and Evaluation of System Operators under the National Communications Commission (since 2023), and a member of the Review Committee of the Teaching Practice Research Program under the Ministry of Education (2021-2023), Taiwan. Over the past few years, his research has been focused on applying computational intelligence to various system-on-chip designs (including radiation hardening, functional verification, and timing analysis) and high-speed networking (especially on applications of programmable switches).
Prof. Wen was the recipient of the Best Paper Awards from the 2012 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), the 2014 Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information (SASIMI), the 2016 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), the 2017 ICOIN, and the Distinguished Young Scholar Award of the Taiwan IC Design Society in 2015.
Education
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thesis: “Simulation Data Learning and its Applications on Embedded Processors,” Advisors: Dr. Li-Chung Wang & Dr. Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng, 09/’02-02/’07.
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Master of Science, Department of Computer Science, Thesis: “Concurrent-Simulation-Based Remote IP Evaluation over the Internet for System-on-a-Chip Design,” Advisor: Dr. Youn-Long Lin, 09/’99-06/’01
- Bachelor of Science, Department of Computer Science, Senior Project: “The Implementation of ARM DSP CoProcessor – Piccolo,” Advisor: Dr. Youn-Long Lin, 09/’95-06/’99.
Working Experience
- Dean of Student Affairs (2023-now), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Distinguished Professor (2020-now), Associate Dean (2023), College of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Professor (2019-now), Associate Professor (8/2012 – 7/2019), Assistant Professor (2/2007 – 7/2012), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Consultant (2019-now), Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan (行政院國發會亞洲.矽谷推動方案執行中心顧問), National Development Council (NDC), Taiwan
- Member of Investment Evaluation and Review Committee (2022-now), National Development Fund (行政院國發基金資訊通訊硬體產業組技術審議委員)
- Member of Review Committee (2023-now), Subsidy Program for Innovative Applications of Smart City and Rural IoT Facilitated by 5G and Artificial Intelligence (國發會促進5G及人工智慧導入智慧城鄉物聯網創新應用補助計畫專業審查會委員), National Development Council (NDC)
- Member of Consultative Meeting (2023-now), License Application of Cable TV Service and Evaluation of System Operators, National Communications Commission (國家通訊傳播委員會申請經營有線廣播電視服務案件及系統經營者評鑑換照諮詢會議諮詢委員)
- Member of Review Committee (2021-2023), Teaching Practice Research Program, Ministry of Education (教育部教學實踐研究計畫複審委員)
- Engineer (2006-2007), Differentiated Tools Organization, Freescale Semiconductor Corp., Texas, .U.S.A.
- Mentor: Jayanta Bhadra & Dr. Magdy Abadir
Research Interest
- Radiation Hardening and Testing of Aerospace and Automotive Electronics
- System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Verification, Validation and Test Methodologies
- High-Speed Networking and High-Performance Computing
- Applications of Computational Intelligence (including Data Mining and Machine Learning)
Professional Service
EDA/Test Field
- IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), Steering Committee (Program Logistics), 2023-now & Technical Program Committee, 2020-now
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Technical Program Committee, 2011-2013
- IEEE International Test Conference in Asia (ITC-Asia), Technical Program Committee, 201-now
- IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Technical Program Committee, 2013, 2022, 2023, Subcommittee Chair (Test/Verification), 2023 & Designer’s Forum Chair, 2022
- IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Designs (ISQED), Technical Program Committee, 2009-2020
- IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS), Technical Program Committee, 2009, 2013, 2019, 2021, 2022 and Organization Committee/Local Arrangement Chair 2013, 2022.
- International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test (VLSI-DAT), Technical Subcommittee Chair (Test/Verification), 2014-2016 and Technical Program Committee, 2011-2016
- The 19th Workshop on Synthesis and System Integration of Mixed Information technologies (SASIMI), Registration Chair, 2015, & Local Arrangement Chair, 2024.
- IEEE Microprocessor Test and Verification (MTV), Technical Program Committee, 2009-now
Cloud/Networking Field
- IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Technical Program Committee, 2018-now
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Technical Program Committee (SDN/NFV track), 2017
- KIISE/IEEE International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Technical Program Committee, 2014-now
- IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), Technical Program Committee, 2018-now
- REV/IEEE International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), Technical Program Committee, 2015-now
- KICS/IEEE/IEICE International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC), Technical Program Committee, 2019-now
- Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference, Technical Program Committee (IEDEC), 2011-2017
Academic Honor
- Outstanding Young Scholar, Taiwn IC Design Society (TICD), 2015.
- Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2012.
- Best Paper Award, The 19th Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information Technologies (SASIMI), 2015.
- Best Paper Award, The VLSI Design/CAD Symposium (VLSI/CAD), 2012 & 2017.
- Best Paper Award, The KIISE/IEEE International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), 2016 & 2017.
- Best Teacher Award of The Year, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), 2009, 2014 & 2019.
- Best Mentor Award of The Year, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), 2009 & 2010.