Bio-Cheng

Prof. Wen-Huang Cheng

BIOGRAPHY 

Wen-Huang Cheng is Distinguished Professor with the Institute of Electronics, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is also Jointly Appointed Professor with the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Program, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taichung, Taiwan. Before joining NCTU, he led the Multimedia Computing Research Group at the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (CITI), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, from 2010 to 2018. His current research interests include multimedia signal processing, artificial intelligence and deep learning for consumer technology. He has actively participated in international events and played important leading roles in prestigious conferences, journals and professional organizations, like General co-chair for IEEE ICCE-TW (2022), IEEE ICME (2022) and ACM ICMR (2021), Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Multimedia Magazine, secretary for IEEE MSA technical committee, governing board member for IAPR. He has received numerous research and service awards, including the 2020 Outstanding Associate Editor Award of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, the 2018 MSRA Collaborative Research Award, the 2017 Ta-Yu Wu Memorial Award from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology (the highest national research honor for young Taiwanese researchers under age 42), the 2017 Significant Research Achievements of Academia Sinica, the Top 10% Paper Award from the 2015 IEEE MMSP, and the K. T. Li Young Researcher Award from the ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter in 2014. He is Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and ACM Distinguished Member.