Sheng-Wei Chen (also known as Kuan-Ta Chen) is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Information Science and the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (joint appointment) of Academia Sinica. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2006, and his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Prior to taking his academic path, he was known as a programmer specialized in Windows and system programming, a technical writer of four books, a technical lecturer of various programming courses, and a shareware developer.

     His research interests include Internet & Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE) management, Internet measurement, network security, and online games. Much of his recent work focused on QoE-aware multimedia system design, AI-hard problem solving using human computation, and the combination of both directions. He received the Best Paper Award (with Ieng-Fat Lam and Ling-Jyh Chen) in IWSEC 2008 and K. T. Li Distinguished Young Scholar Award from ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter in 2009. He also received the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award from The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2010. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, IICM, and CCISA.

     You can find more details about him at http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~swc.