De-Nian Yang received the BS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University in 1999 and 2004, respectively, with Prof. Wanjiun Liao as the advisor. From 2004 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral fellow for the 4-year military services with Prof. Ming-Syan Chen as the advisor. He is now an associate research fellow in the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica.

His research interests include multimedia and mobile networking, and social networks. He received the best student paper award of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME), Emerging Technologies Prize in ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Career Development Award in Academia Sinica, and Research Exploration Award in Pan Wen Yuan Foundation. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.