Biography

I am Tien-Yu Hsu. I was born in the central part of Taiwan in 1963. I was married in 1991. My wife is diligent and frugal. She devotes herself to my family and gives me a great help. I feel satisfied to have a cute daughter and a son. My harmonious family life is the energy for me to develop my career.

I received my B.S. degree in computer sciences from Feng Chia University in 1986, and M.S. degree in computer sciences from National Yunlin University of Science and Technology 1996. I worked as a system engineer at the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1988. After that, I have worked as an assistant researcher in the Department of Information at the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS) of Taiwan, R.O.C. since 1990. During the past 10 years, I was on duty to plan and construct the high-speed network systems and to head up digital museum projects for constructing and developing multimedia applications for collection, exhibition, and education in the museum.

Now I am heading up a National Digital Archival Project (NDAP) for NMNS. This project is very important for NMNS to establish a new generation and more competitive museum for facing the new century. I have paid a lot of effort on this project. We are trying to construct a long-term infrastructure to management abundant digital asset and to produce digital knowledge for the public and the academic.

I have ever been a visiting researcher in the Purdue University, U.S.A. and in the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Canada in 1995.

It is my honor to represent NMNS to join this foreign visiting activity for NDAP of my government in North America in this spring. I got a lot of experiences from those visiting sites.

At the same time I am also an academic degree student of computer science department at National Chiao Tung University of Taiwan, R.O.C. My research interests include digital library/museum, multimedia database, and knowledge management. Especially in knowledge management, which covers knowledge representation and modeling, knowledge classification, knowledge discovery and knowledge presentation, is my major research area. I anticipate that the research achievement will reach a lot of contribution and effect for developing the digital museum plan over a long period of time.