• Outstanding Engineering Professor Award, Chinese Institute of Engineers, 2021


• Outstanding Alumni Award, Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, 2021


• Outstanding ICT Elite Award, Taiwan, R.O.C., 2018


• Outstanding Research Paper Award, Tunghai University, 2019, 2017, 2014.


• Outstanding Industry-Academic Cooperation Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2015, 2014, 2012.

The Chinese Institute of Engineers

The Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE) announced the 2021 Outstanding Engineering Professor Award winners. Among the 10 winners across the country, THU Tenure Distinguished Professor Chao-Tung Yang is the only private university professor to receive the award in the past five years. As the current Director of the library and the Director of the Computer Center, Prof. Yang has a comprehensive professional experience with abundant R&D vitality. Professor Yang and another winner, National Yang Ming Chao Tung University Department of Computer Science Chair Professor Jyh-Cheng Chen, were classmates when studying at Tunghai University. Tunghai University celebrates the outstanding performance of the two alumni of the Computer Science Department. All the winners of the CIE 2021 awards were congratulated by President Tsai Ing-wen in person at the Presidential Office on November 16, and were subsequently granted the awards at the CIE annual assembly on November 22.

THU Tenure Distinguished Professor Chao-Tung Yang (left 3 on row 3)
among CIE award winners and President Tsai Ing-wen

The Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE), a non-profit entity, is one of the oldest-established and largest multimodal professional organizations in Taiwan. It aims to bring together engineers from different disciplines to promote the interests of the engineering profession. CIE is also responsible for advancing engineering technology and techniques through sharing experiences, collecting information, and developing solutions and applications for the benefit of the society. The CIE Outstanding Engineering Professor Award was set up to recognize engineering professors with outstanding contribution to the engineering practice and/or education in Taiwan.

National Yang Ming Chao Tung University Department of Computer Science Chair Professor Jyh-Cheng Chen (left)and Tunghai University Tenure Distinguished Professor Chao-Tung Yang (right)

Professor Chao-Tung Yang has been serving at Tunghai University since 2001. He was granted tenure distinguished professorship in 2019. He is currently also the Leader of Industry-University Cooperation and Research Division and Executive Secretary of Equipment Committee of THU Office of Research and Development. Before joining THU, Prof. Yang worked in National Space Organization as assistant researcher.

Winners of 2021 Chinese Institute of Engineers Outstanding Engineering Professor Award

Tunghai University received award as outstanding contributor to a low carbon city

On November 21, the Taichung Low Carbon City Promotion Office announced winners of the 2nd Taichung Low Carbon City Outstanding Contributor Award. Mayor Chia-Lung Lin granted awards to Tunghai University, China Medical University Hospital, and other eight winners. The award was to encourage the public to put more effort into eliminating carbon usage and emission in order to improve the city’s living environment.

CEO Chung-Den Huang of the Low Carbon Office pointed out that there were fifteen organizations and six individuals awarded this time, including outstanding contributors in various professions in Taichung. They have set up great examples in carbon reduction through planting, energy education, environmental education, hospital and campus carbon reduction, green energy development, environment monitoring, smart green buildings, public transportation system establishment, and more. In the future, the city government would invite winners to be Carbon Reduction Ambassadors to engage in public campaigns and educational promotions.

According to Tunghai President Mao-Jiun Wang, 80% of the Tunghai campus is covered by greens and trees. It not only beautified the campus and enriched the ecosystem, but also cultivated a strong sense of humanities and enlightened attention to environmental sustainability. Tunghai maintains the tradition of planting trees every year in order to for the campus to serve as the green lung of the city. On campus, there are also various carbon reduction devices that monitor energy consumption in all areas. The promotion of campus electric buses is one example. Tunghai has been doing its best to reduce carbon usage and emission, while aiming to drive its over 20,000 faculty members and students to a deeper understanding and practice of environmental protection.

Distinguished Professor Chao

Distinguished Professor Chao-Tung Yang was invited to be the Keynote Speaker of the 2018 International Conference on Frontier Computing and Lead a Research Team to Win the Best Paper Award.

The 7th International Conference on Frontier Computing - Theory, Technologies, and Applications was held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur from July 3 to July 6, 2018. Frontier Computing (FC) covers a broad spectrum of computing, such as cloud computing, ubiquitous computing, green computing, service computing, etc. This conference seeks for all possibility from these existing computing paradigms to craft discoveries and applications that will shape the future. The aim of International Conference on Frontier Computing - Theory, Technologies, and Applications attempts to provide an open forum for sharing and discussion of state-of-the-art results covering all aspects of computer science and engineering by researchers, and industries as well, all over the world.

This will be the seventh event of the series, in which fruitful results can be found in the digital library or conference proceedings of FC 2010 (Taichung, Taiwan), FC 2012 (Xining, China), FC 2013 (Gwangju, Korea), FC 2015 (Bangkok, Thailand), FC 2016 (Tokyo, Japan), FC 2017 (Osaka, Japan). This conference is expected to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field. Significant contributions in all major fields of Computer Science and Information Technology in theoretical and practical aspects are highly welcomed.

Prof. Chao-Tung Yang was invited to be the Keynote Speaker of FC 2018.

Distinguished Professor Chao-Tung Yang who serves department of computer science and director of the computer center, was invited as the keynote speaker for a talk, entitled “Smart Campus Construction in AI, Big Data, IoT, and Cloud Computing Era: A Case of Smart Power Saving Service”. Prof. Yang introduced the construction of SMILE smart campus service in Tunghai University. SMILE stands for Service, Management, Information, Learning, and Environment. To approach a real-time energy monitoring and management platform in the cloud, efficient and novel implementation techniques have been developed and formed to be the kernel material of this talk. How to reduce expenses by reducing electricity consumption, and effective energy conservation in the huge campus of electricity, reduce electricity costs and unnecessary consumption is very important. The campus building electricity information through smart meters is collected and processed by Big Data processing techniques. The data collection and storage are handled by the Hadoop subsystem and the data ingestion to Hive data warehouse is conducted by the Spark unit. We proposed an architecture to import existing power data storage system of our campus into Big data platform with Data Lake. We use Apache Sqoop to transfer historical data from existing system to Apache Hive for data storage. The participants and scholars showed interest in the smart campus construction and power saving results of Tunghai University.

Prof. Yang received the certificate from General Chair of FC 2018.

On the agenda of FC 2018, there are invited talks and various topic paper presentations. Each paper underwent a rigorous review process. Each presenter shared relevant information about their current research, implementation of new technologies and the best results. The research team led by Prof. Yang, including Taichung Veterans General Hospital and the Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, published Recurrent Neural Networks for Analysis and Automated Air Pollution Forecasting. This paper won the best paper award of FC 2018. In this paper, we demonstrated analysis and automated air pollution forecasting using RNN. In our experiment, we built a distributed computing environment based on RHadoop, analyzed air pollution and presented visualization using HBase from historical data. Besides, we analyzed the short-term prediction of PM2.5 and measured the prediction accuracy based on the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) value. Finally, we utilized shiny to visualize the training result for optimizing parameters of RNN training module. The participation in FC 2018 has been fruitful, and it has opened up new opportunities for cooperation with outside research.

Prof. Yang’s research team won the Best Paper Award.
(Left: Ching-Fang Lee, Mid: Endah Kristiani, Right: Prof. Chao-Tung Yang)

Outstanding Events (Reason for the award):

1. Selected as Recipient of the Number of industry-academic projects, and won the Industry-Academic Excellence Award from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Low-Carbon City Outstanding Contribution Award from Taichung City Government, and the Information Security Practice R&D Program for the Excellent Performance Team Award from Ministry of Science and Technology.


2. Cultivate a student team of information cloud security, guide students to participate in the Taiwan Student Cluster computer Contest (TSCC) and win awards, and cultivate the practical ability of student teams in cloud services and security research. In 2017, he led the team of Computer Center, Tunghai University to obtain CSA STAR Certification.


3. In the past five years, he has been PI over 11 general projects of Ministry of Science and Technology, five industry-Academic projects and 17 single-integrated projects, 22 teaching projects of the Ministry of Education, and 36 other industry-Academic cooperation projects. Furthermore, there are 3 US and 3 Taiwan patents. During serving at Tunghai University, he has published so far 358 papers. Won the ICT Elite Award, Taiwan in December 2018, he was awarded the lifetime distinguished professor of Tunghai University in 2019.


4. Integrating digital electricity meters and data lake technology, iGEMS and iCEMS systems were established, respectively. The technologies and applications developed by the two systems have won a total of four industry-academic awards, two academic thesis awards (TACC Chen, Zi-Yang, IICM Liu, Ren-Hao), and TANET best awards. Subsequent results were also published in three SCI journals (Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Cluster Computing, Journal of Supercomputing).