Pen-Chung Yew is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica. He has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota since 1994. He served as the Head of the department and the holder of the William-Norris Land-Grant Chair Professor between 2000 and 2005. Before joining the University of Minnesota, he was an Associate Director of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development (CSRD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was one of the chief designers for the Cedar supercomputer. The Cedar Project was the largest machine building effort since ILLIAC in academia. From 1991 to 1992, he served as the Program Director of the Microelectronic Systems Architecture Program in the Division of Microelectronic Information Processing Systems at the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.

        Pen-Chung Yew is an IEEE Fellow. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems between 2000 and 2005. He has also chaired and served on the program committee of many major conferences.