Chao-Tung Yang
Lifetime Distinguished Professor
Present Job
- Director of Computer Center, (2021/8 ~ Until now)- Chief Librarian of Library, (2019/9 ~ Until now)
- Lifetime Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, (2019/12 ~ Until now)
- Adjunct Research Fellow, National Center for High-performance Computing, (2017/6 ~ Until now)
Dr. Chao-Tung Yang is a Lifetime Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. He received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, in 1990, and the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1992. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National Chiao Tung University in July 1996. He won the 10th 1996 Acer Dragon Award for an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation. He has worked as an Associate Researcher for ground operations in the Ground System Section of the National Space Organization (NSPO) in Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park since Oct. 1996. In August 2001, he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Tunghai University as an Associate Professor. He is a full Professor started in August 2007, a Distinguished Professor in August 2015 and as a Lifetime Distinguished Professor in August 2019. He got the Outstanding Engineering Professor Award,Chinese Institute of Engineers in May 2021. He obtained Outstanding Alumni Award, Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University in April 2021. Also. He won the Outstanding ICT Elite Award, Taiwan, R.O.C. in December 2018. For his research achievement, he got three times Outstanding Industry-Academic Cooperation Awards in 2015, 2014, and 2012, four times Excellent Industry-Academic Cooperation Awards in 2019, 2018, 2016 and 2013, respectively, from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). Also, he got triple Outstanding Research Paper Awards in 2019, 2017, 2014, and triple Excellent Industry-Academic Cooperation Awards from Tunghai University in 2017, 2015, 2014, respectively. Dr. Yang was awarded eleven times (2010~2020) Talent Awards from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). He is serving in a number of journal editorial boards, including Future Generation Computer Systems (SCIE), International Journal of Communication Systems (SCIE), KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (SCIE), Journal of Cloud Computing, IJ-CLOSER, International Journal of Next-Generation Computing (IJNGC), “Innovative Applications of Big Data and Cloud Computing” Special Issue of Applied Sciences (SCIE). “Next Generation Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Security Solutions” Special Issue of International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (SCIE), “Grid Computing, Applications and Technology” Special Issue of Journal of Supercomputing (SCIE), and “Grid and Cloud Computing” Special Issue of International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (SCIE). Dr. Yang has published more than 350 papers in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings, also he has edited two books, one is “Innovative Computing”, LNEE, volume 675, 2020 and the other is “Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing,” LNDECT, volume 24, 2019. His present research interests are in Cloud computing, Big data, Parallel and multicore computing, and Web-based applications. He is both a member of the IEEE Computer Society and IET. He is also both a member of CIE, IICM, and TACC in Taiwan.
His email address is ctyang@thu.edu.tw






