Chung-Ta King
Educational & Professional Background
Prof. Chung-Ta King received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in computer science from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, in 1985
and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1990, he was an assistant professor of computer
and information science at New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey. In 1990,
he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua
University, Taiwan. He was promoted to full professor in 1997.
He served as the chair of the department from 2009 to 2012, Assocaite Dean of College of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 2014 to 2015, Director of Center of Computer and
Communication from 2015 to 2019, and Vice President and Chief of Staff from 2019 to 2022. He is
now retired from the university.
His research interests included parallel and distributed processing, computer architecture, and
embedded systems.
Membership & Activities
During 2005 and 2007, he served as the coordinator of the Embedded Software Consortium,
Ministry of Education, overseeing and coordinating the efforts of designing embedded
software curriculum and courses, and promoting the curriculum to universities in Taiwan.
He is a member of the IEEE. He also served in IEEE Taipei Section as the officer for
Educational Activities, 1997~1998, and the officer for Membership Development,
2005~2006, respectively. He acted as the directory of the Computer and Communication
Research Center, National Tsing Hua University, from 2006 to 2009. The center is a
university-level research center for academic-industry collaboration.
Prof. King has led a number of large-scaled, multi-disciplinary research projects,
which each involved 7 to 12 professors, full-time engineers and staffs, and tens of
graduate students. The project spanned from Internet-based distributed computing to
wireless sensor networks.
Prof. King is very active in international research community. He has organized many
international conferences, such as CloudCom 2012, ESWeek 2011, SOCA 2009, MDM 2009,
HPC-Asia 2009, ACSAC 2008,
ICPADS 2007, etc., serving as the general chairs or program chairs. He has also
frequently been invited to the program committees of international conferences, such
as ASP-DAC 2013, SC 2009, PDCAT 2009, ICPP 2009, etc.
Awards
Prof. King received the Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Electronic Engineering
and Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, in 2003, and the Outstanding
Teaching Award, National Tsing Hua University, 2004. He has also been awarded the Best
Paper Awards in HPCS 1997, EUC 2004, ISOCC 2008, CAINE 2021, and ICMA 2022.