Lien-Wu Chen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees both in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the Fu-Jen Catholic University and the National Central University in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He was a Research Assistant at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica (Jan. 2001 ~ Feb. 2009). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University in December of 2008. He joined the Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Feb. 2009, and qualified as Assistant Research Fellow in Feb. 2010. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, where he served as the Chief of Operation and Maintenance Section from 2016 to 2018. He was an Associate Professor from 2015 to 2019, and he is a Full Professor since Feb. 2019. His research interests include wireless communication and mobile computing, especially in the Internet of Vehicles, Internet of Things, and Internet of People.
     Dr. Chen has published over 150 journal and conference papers and holds 22 granted invention patents. Among those patents, the technologies for file transfer, application execution, and goods data searching methods based on Mobile Cloud Computing have been transferred to Acer Incorporated in Jan., June, and Nov. 2011, respectively. He was a guest researcher at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (Feb. 2009 ~ Dec. 2009), the Chief Executive Officer of RFID Resource Center at the National Chiao Tung University (Apr. 2009 ~ Mar. 2011), and the Chief of Operation and Maintenance Section at the Feng Chia University (Aug. 2016 ~ July 2018).
     Dr. Chen received the Outstanding Demo Award (1st author) at IEEE MASS 2009, Best Paper Award (1st author) at WASN 2010, Audience Award (2nd prize) at ESNC 2011, Best Paper Award (1st author) at MC-2012, Prototyping Award (Stars prize) at ESNC 2012, Best Paper Award (1st author) at WASN 2013, Best Demo Award (1st author) at MC-2013, Best Paper Award (1st author) at NCS 2013, Best Paper Award (1st author) at WASN 2014, Merit Paper Award (1st author) at TANET 2014, Best Demo Award (1st author) at IEEE PerCom 2015, Best Paper Award (1st author) at MC-2017, Best Presentation Award (1st author) at MC-2017, Special Outstanding Talent Award of the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2017 and 2018, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award of the Marquis Who's Who in 2018, Excellent Paper Award (1st author) at MC-2018, Best Presentation Award (1st author) at TANET 2018, Excellent Paper Award (1st author) at MC-2019, Excellent Paper Award (1st author) at WASN 2019, Excellent Demo Award (1st author) at MC-2019, Outstanding Paper Award (1st author) at TANET 2019, Merit Paper Award (1st author) at WASN 2021, Best Demo Award (1st author) at MC-2021, Best Paper Award (1st author) at NCS 2021, Excellent Paper Award (1st author) at WASN 2023, Best Paper Award (1st author) at TANET 2023, Best Paper Award (1st author) at MC-2024, Best Paper Award (1st author) at WASN 2024.
     Dr. Chen is the advisor of the Student Engineering Paper Award of the Chinese Institute of Engineers in 2014, 2015, ..., and 2024, the College Student Research Award of the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2016, 2017, and 2023, the Master Thesis Award of the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery in 2016, and over 60 Prototyping Awards since 2014. He is a worldwide top 0.5% scholar, ranked by ScholarGPS. He is an honorary member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, a lifetime member of CIEE, IICM, and TIEEE, and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.