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Wei-Pang Yang was born on May 17, 1950 in Hualien,
TAIWAN. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from National Taiwan Normal
University in 1974, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the National Chiao Tung University in 1979 and 1984, respectively,
both in computer engineering.
Since August 1979, he has been on the faculty of the
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. In the academic
year 1985-1986, he was awarded the National Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. From 1986 to 1987. He was
the Director of the Computer Center of National Chiao
Tung University. In August 1988, he joined the Department of Computer and
Information Science at National Chiao Tung
University, and acted as the Head of the Department for one year. Then he
went to IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose,
California for another one year as visiting scientist. From 1990 to 1992, he
was the Head of the Department of Computer and Information Science again. He
was the visiting scholar of the University of Washington in Seattle for one year
in 1996-97. He was the Director of University Library from 1988-2004.
Back to home town Hualien. Since 2004 he has
transferred to National Dong Hwa University at
Hualien (the most beautiful county in Taiwan and Wei-Pang was born here). He
acted as the Head of the Department of Information Management from 2004 to
2005, the Dean of College of Management from 2005 to 2007, and the Dean of
Academic Affairs of NDHU from 2007 to 2012. Now he is the Vice President of
NDHU. His research interests include database theory and application,
information retrieval, data miming, digital library, and digital museum.
Dr. Yang is a senior member of IEEE, and a member
of ACM. He was the winner of the 1988, and 1992 AceR
Long Term Award for Outstanding M.S. Thesis Supervision, 1993 AceR Long Term Award for Outstanding Ph. D. Dissertation
Supervision, and the winner of 1990 Outstanding Paper Award of the Computer
Society of the Republic of China. He also obtained the Outstanding Research
Award of National Science Council of Taiwan. And he was the winner of the
Outstanding Project Award, National Chiao Tung
University, 2004. And he also obtained the Outstanding Research Award of
National Dong Hwa University, 2010-2012.
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