Sheng-Wei Chen (also known as Kuan-Ta Chen)
Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Joint Appointed Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica
Director, Multimedia Networking and Systems Lab

Dr. 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. He 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 active as a programmer specialized in Windows system programming, a technical writer, and a freeware/shareware developer.

His research interests include quality of experience (QoE) management, multimedia systems and networking, online gaming, and crowdsourcing. Much of his recent work focused on QoE-aware multimedia system design, AI-hard problem solving using crowdsourcing, 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 has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia since 2011. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, IICM, and CCISA.

Recruitment

• We are recruiting post-doctoral researchers and research associates to join our group. Anyone who is interested in Internet/multimedia quality of experience, network security, computer-human interaction, and human computation and has appropriate background is welcome. Interested applicants please direct their curriculum vitae to swc at iis.sinica.edu.tw.

News

•   We have released GamingAnywhere, the first open-source cloud gaming system.
• Our work Forecasting Online Game Addictiveness was featured by IEEE Spectrum in its February 2013 issue.
• We have released a report on the latency analysis of OnLive cloud gaming system.
• The slides of my invited talk at CrowdKDD'12 entitled "Crowdsourcing beyond Mechanical Turk: Building Crowdmining Services for Your Own Research" is now online.
• Our work Quadrant of Euphoria: A Crowdsourcing Platform for QoE Assessment was featured by IEEE COMSOC MMTC R-Letter in its December 2011 issue with the article title "Crowdsourcing for Quality Assessment".
• A new version of the Bibliography of Network Games Research is online.
• We have released World of Warcraft Avatar History (WoWAH) dataset for gamer behavior researches.
• Our work Is Server Consolidation Beneficial to MMORPG? A Case Study of World of Warcraft was featured by IEEE Spectrum in its August 2010 issue.

Research Interests (Description)

• Quality of Experience Management
• Online Games, Cloud Gaming
• Human Computation / Crowdsourcing
• Network Security

Recent Publications (Full, Chronological, Google Scholar)

• Gender Swapping and User Behaviors in Online Social Games
  Jing-Kai Lou, Kunwoo Park, Meeyoung Cha, Juyong Park, Chin-Laung Lei, and Kuan-Ta Chen
  ACM WWW 2013, to appear.
• Crowdsourcing Multimedia QoE Evaluation: A Trusted Framework
  Chen-Chi Wu, Kuan-Ta Chen, Yu-Chun Chang, and Chin-Laung Lei
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, to appear.
• GamingAnywhere: An Open Cloud Gaming System
  Chun-Ying Huang, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Yu-Chun Chang, and Kuan-Ta Chen
  ACM Multimedia Systems 2013.
• Forecasting Online Game Addictiveness
  Jing-Kai Lou, Kuan-Ta Chen, Hwai-Jung Hsu, and Chin-Laung Lei
  IEEE/ACM NetGames 2012.
• Are All Games Equally Cloud-Gaming-Friendly? An Electromyographic Approach
  Yeng-Ting Lee, Kuan-Ta Chen, Han-I Su, and Chin-Laung Lei
  IEEE/ACM NetGames 2012.

Selected Publications (Full, Chronological, Google Scholar)

• Quantifying Skype User Satisfaction
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Chun-Ying Huang, Polly Huang, and Chin-Laung Lei
  ACM SIGCOMM 2006.
• Game Traffic Analysis: An MMORPG Perspective
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Polly Huang, and Chin-Laung Lei
  Computer Networks, 2006.
• How Sensitive are Online Gamers to Network Quality?
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Polly Huang, and Chin-Laung Lei
  Communications of the ACM, 2006.
  
• Involuntary Information Leakage in Social Network Services
  Ieng-Fat Lam, Kuan-Ta Chen, and Ling-Jyh Chen
  IWSEC 2008 (Best Paper Award).
• Effect of Network Quality on Player Departure Behavior in Online Games
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Polly Huang, and Chin-Laung Lei
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, May, 2009.
• Identifying MMORPG Bots: A Traffic Analysis Approach
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Jhih-Wei Jiang, Polly Huang, Hao-Hua Chu, Chin-Laung Lei, and Wen-Chin Chen
  EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2009.
• A Crowdsourceable QoE Evaluation Framework for Multimedia Content
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Chen-Chi Wu, Yu-Chun Chang, and Chin-Laung Lei
  ACM Multimedia 2009.
• OneClick: A Framework for Measuring Network Quality of Experience
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Cheng Chun Tu, and Wei-Cheng Xiao
  IEEE INFOCOM 2009.

Honors

• Young Investigator Merit Award, National Science Council, Taiwan 2011-2014
• Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award, The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, 2010
• K. T. Li Distinguished Young Scholar Award, ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter, 2009
• Best Paper Award, International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2008), 2008
• Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (Merit Award), Institute of Information & Computing Machinery, 2006
• Honorable Mention & Team Leader, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, 1999
• Finalist, ZDNet Shareware Awards (XDesktop), 1997
• Runner-up, Ministry of Education Software Design Programming Contest, 1993

Invited Talks

• Crowdsourcing beyond Mechanical Turk: Building Crowdmining Services for Your Own Research
  | NCKU, NCTU, NTNU (2012-2013)
  | Keynote at CrowdKDD2012
• A Programmer PI at Academia Sinica
  | CYCU, NCU, NCTU, CCU, NTU (2010-2012)
  | Hacks in Taiwan Conference 2010
• Researchers and Online Games
  | CJCU, NTU, TMUE, NTHU, NCTU, FJU (2011-2012)
  | NDHU, NTOU, NCKU, NTOU, NSYSU, NCTU, FJU, NTU, NTHU, NDHU, NCHU, NSYSU, NCYU (2009-2010)
  | Game Developers Association Seminar (2009), Forum of Computer Games 2010, Chinese Consumers' Foundation Seminar (2010), Ritsumeikan University (2011), Nagoya Institute of Technology (2011), 2011 Taiwan-US S&T Workshop for International Collaborative Research
  | TKU, NCCU, NTUST, NTU, NCCU, NTUST, NTPU, FJU (2006-2008)
• Privacy Issues in the Web 2.0 Era
  | NSYST, TTU, NIU, NTU, NCHC (2007-2010)
• Crowdsourcing and Its Applications in Academia Research
  | NTU (2011)
  | Pacific Neighborhood Consortium 2009, Sympoisum on IT Application and Exchange (2009)

Academic Resources

• Bibliography of Network Games Research
  Currently I am the maintainer of the Bibliography of Network Games Research. You can find more bibliographies on video game researchers at Top 10 Video Game Research Bibliographies maintained by John Rice.
• Call-for-Paper Mailing Lists for Computer Science Conferences
•  Google Scholar Shortcut 1.0 (Mozilla Firefox Plugin)
• Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research (Prof. H. T. Kung)
• How To Do High Quality Research, Write Acceptable Papers, and Make Effective Presentations? (Prof. Michael R. Lyu)
• How To Do High Quality Research and Run Large Research Group: Sharing of My Experience at USC (Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo)
• Creative Thinking Process Toward Success (Prof. Steven Hsueh)
• Research Skills I Learned in UIUC (Dr. Pi-Cheng Hsiu)
• You and Your Research (Prof. Philip Wadler)

Professional Services

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2011 - )
• Associate Editor, Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms (2009 - )

• General Co-Chair, ACM CrowdRec 2013 (affiliated with ACM Recommender Systems 2013 at Hong Kong)
• General Co-Chair, ACM CrowdMM 2013 (affiliated with ACM Multimedia 2013 at Barcelnoa, Spain)
• General Co-Chair, ACM CrowdMM 2012 (affiliated with ACM Multimedia 2012 at Nara, Japan)
• Publicity Co-Chair, ACM NOSSDAV 2011
• Track Co-Chair, FutureTech 2011
• Technical Program Co-Chair, NetGames 2010  
• Track Co-Chair, FutureTech 2010
• Publicity Co-Chair, ACM SIGCHI ACE 2010
• Local Arrangement Co-Chair, IEEE SOCA 2009
• Publicity Co-Chair, ACM NOSSDAV 2009
• Technical Program Chair, IEEE DSSC 2008
• Web Co-Chair, ISC 2008

• ACM Multimedia: 2010, 2011, 2013
• ACM Multimedia Systems: 2012
• ACM NOSSDAV: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• ACM NetGames: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
• ACM SIGCHI ACE: 2006, 2007
• ACM MoVid: 2012, 2013
• IEEE CQR: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• IEEE Globecom: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• IEEE ICC: 2010, 2012, 2013
• IEEE ICME: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• IEEE ICNC: 2012
• IEEE ICPADS: 2011, 2012
• IEEE MMVE: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• IEEE NIME: 2011
• IEEE/WIC/ACM WI: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
• IEEE PCMS: 2011
• IEEE AISD: 2012
• HCOMP: 2010
• ICPP: 2009
• ICST/CREATE-NET DISIO: 2011, 2012
• IFIP ICEC: 2008
• FDG: 2011
• IJCAI: 2011
• TAAI: 2013
• QOMEX: 2013
• VidEv: 2013
• ADAPTIVE: 2009, 2011
• AMBIENT: 2011
• EMC: 2010, 2011
• FTRA WCC-WTA: 2011
• ICS: 2008
• ICCVE: 2012
• MMEDIA: 2011
• MPIS: 2009
• MUE: 2010
• MobiWIS: 2011
• PCM: 2011, 2012, 2013
• SC2: 2011, 2013
• SecTech: 2008, 2009, 2010
• WAUS: 2011
• HCC: 2013
• RITMAN: 2012

• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (2008, 2011 - 2013)
• ACM Computers in Entertainment (2010)
• Computer Journal (2010)
• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (2013)
• Decision Support Systems (2012)
• EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2008)
• Elsevier Information Sciences (2007)
• Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems (2012)
• Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (2013)
• IEEE Communications (2008, 2009, 2011)
• IEEE Internet Computing (2008, 2009)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2007)
• IEEE Network (2010)
• IEEE Software (2010)
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (2010)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2007)
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2010, 2012)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2008 - 2012)
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2008, 2009)
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2007)
• IEICE Transactions on Communications (2008)
• International Journal of Electrical Engineering (2008, 2009)
• International Journal on Advanced Media and Communication (2010)
• Journal of Communications and Networks (2007)
• Journal of Computing (2011)
• Journal of Information Science and Engineering (2009 - 2013)
• Journal of Internet Computing (2009, 2010)
• Journal of Multimedia (2011)
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2012)
• Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (2011)
• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (2011)
• Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (2012)
• Springer Multimedia Systems (2012, 2013)

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