Biography of Jyh-Cheng Chen

Jyh-Cheng Chen is the founder of free5GC, a Linux Foundation project for open-source 5G core networks, and currently serves as Chair of the project's Technical Steering Committee (TSC). He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1998. He worked as a Research Scientist at Bellcore/Telcordia Technologies in Morristown, NJ, USA, from 1998 to 2001, and as a Senior Scientist at Telcordia Technologies in Piscataway, NJ, USA, from 2008 to 2010. From 2001 to 2008, he was with the Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Full Professor. Since 2010, he has been a faculty member at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), formerly National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). He is currently a Lifetime Chair Professor in the College of Computer Science and previously served as Dean from August 2020 to July 2025. He served as the Convener, Computer Science Program, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, from January 2016 to December 2018. He is also the founder of Saviah Technologies, Inc., a spinoff from NYCU, where he currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors.

Dr. Chen has received numerous honors, including the Outstanding Teaching Award from both NCTU and NTHU, the Outstanding I.T. Elite Award, Taiwan, the Medal of Honor from the Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, the Merit Research Fellow Award and the Outstanding Research Award from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), and the Telcordia CEO Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. He has also served as a member of the Fellows Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Computer Society.