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 has been active as a programmer specialized in Windows and system programming, a technical writer of four books, a technical lecturer of 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.

Recruitment

• We are recruting 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

• 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.
• NetGames 2010 (where I serve as a TPC co-chair) website is online.
• Multimedia researchers can now evaluate the performance (in the sense of user satisfaction) of your multimedia processing algorithms on our online Quadrant of Euphoria system.
• Our work Fighting Phishing with Discriminative Keypoint Features was featured by MIT Technology Review in its Sep/Oct 2009 issue.
•  Google Scholar Shortcut 1.0 (Mozilla Firefox Plugin) is released.
• We have released DevilTyper: The Ancient Keyboard, which aims to understand user perception about CAPTCHA.
• Ragnarok Online Traffic Traces for Game Bot Identification is online.

Research Interests (Description)

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

Recent Publications (Full, Chronological)

• Radar Chart: Scanning for Satisfactory QoE in QoS Dimensions
  Yu-Chun Chang, Chi-Jui Chang, Kuan-Ta Chen, and Chin-Laung Lei
  IEEE Network, to appear.
• Measuring The Latency of Cloud Gaming Systems (OnLive and StreamMyGame Latency Analysis)
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Yu-Chun Chang, Po-Han Tseng, Chun-Ying Huang, and Chin-Laung Lei
  ACM Multimedia 2011.
• Bot Detection in Rhythm Games: A Physiological Approach
  Ruei-Min Lin, Hwai-Chung Ho, and Kuan-Ta Chen
  ACM SIGCHI ACE 2011.
• Privacy Crisis due to Crisis Response on the Web
  Shao-Yu Wu, Ming-Hung Wang, and Kuan-Ta Chen
  IEEE TrustCom 2011.
• An Analytical Model for Generalized ESP Games
  Bo-Chun Wang, Chien-Wei Lin, Kuan-Ta Chen, and Ling-Jyh Chen
  Knowledge-Based Systems, to appear.
• Video Summarization via Crowdsourcing
  Shao-Yu Wu, Ruck Thawonmas, and Kuan-Ta Chen
  ACM CHI 2011 (Works-in-Progress Program).
• Analysis of Revisitations in Online Games
  Ruck Thawonmas, Keisuke Yoshida, Jing-Kai Lou, and Kuan-Ta Chen
  Entertainment Computing, 2011.
• Quantifying QoS Requirements of Network Services: A Cheat-Proof Framework
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Chen-Chi Wu, Yu-Chun Chang, and Chin-Laung Lei
  ACM Multimedia Systems 2011.
• World of Warcraft Avatar History Dataset
  Yeng-Ting Lee, Kuan-Ta Chen, Yun-Maw Cheng, and Chin-Laung Lei
  ACM Multimedia Systems 2011.

Selected Publications (Full, Chronological)

• 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.
  
• 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.
• Automatic Storytelling in Comics: A Case Study on World of Warcraft
  Chia-Jung Chan, Ruck Thawonmas, and Kuan-Ta Chen
  ACM CHI 2009 (Works-in-Progress Program).
• Network Game Design: Hints and Implications of Player Interaction
  Kuan-Ta Chen and Chin-Laung Lei
  ACM NetGames 2006.

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

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 of Multimedia (2011 - )
• Associate Editor, Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms (2009 - )
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of "Crowdsourcing for Multimedia", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

• General Co-Chair, ACM CrowdMM 2012
• 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
• ACM Multimedia Systems: 2012
• ACM NOSSDAV: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• ACM NetGames: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 (Co-Chair), 2011, 2012
• ACM SIGCHI ACE: 2006, 2007
• ACM MoVid: 2012
• IEEE CQR: 2010, 2011, 2012
• IEEE Globecom: 2010, 2011, 2012
• IEEE ICC: 2010, 2012
• IEEE ICME: 2010, 2011, 2012
• IEEE ICNC: 2012
• IEEE ICPADS: 2011, 2012
• IEEE MMVE: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• IEEE NIME: 2011
• IEEE/WIC/ACM WI: 2010, 2011, 2012
• IEEE DSSC: 2008 (Chair)
• IEEE PCMS: 2011
• HCOMP: 2010
• ICPP: 2009
• ICST/CREATE-NET DISIO: 2011, 2012
• IFIP ICEC: 2008
• FDG: 2011
• IJCAI: 2011
• ADAPTIVE: 2011
• ADPATIVE: 2009
• AMBIENT: 2011
• EMC: 2010, 2011
• FTRA WCC-WTA: 2011
• ICS: 2008
• MMEDIA: 2011
• MPIS: 2009
• MUE: 2010
• MobiWIS: 2011
• PCM: 2011, 2012
• SC2: 2011
• SecTech: 2008, 2009, 2010
• WAUS: 2011

• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (2008, 2011)
• ACM Computers in Entertainment (2010)
• Computer Journal (2010)
• EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2008)
• Elsevier Information Sciences (2007)
• Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems (2012)
• 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)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2008 - 2011)
• 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 - 2012)
• Journal of Internet Computing (2009, 2010)
• Journal of Multimedia (2011)
• Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (2011)
• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems reviewer (2011)
• Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (2012)
• Springer Multimedia Systems (2012)

Conferences on Internet QoS/QoE Managment

IWQOS IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service CQR IEEE International Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR) Workshop Qshine      ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

Conferences on Internet Measurement, Analysis, and Modeling

SIGCOMM      ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications INFOCOM      IEEE Conference on Computer Communications SIGMETRICS ACM SIGMETRICS Conference IMC ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference NSDI      USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation MineNet      ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Mining Network Data Performance IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation IM IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management PAM International workshop on Passive and Active Measurement E2EMON Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services BMW IEEE Bandwidth Management Workshop PFLDnet International Workshop on Protocols for Fast Long-Distance Networks

Conferences and Journals related to Network Game Research

NetGames   ACM SIGCOMM Network Support of Network Games DISIO   ICST/CREATE-NET DIstributed SImulation & Online gaming MMSys ACM SIGMM Multimedia Systems NOSSDAV ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video CIE-GIC   IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference ICEC International Conference on Entertainment Computing ACE ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology GDTW ACM Computer Game Design and Technology Workshop CHI ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CCNC IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference MMCN   SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking CG International Conference on Computers and Games DS-RT IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Application ADCOG International Conference on Application and Development of Computer Games VRST ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology CSCW ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work NIME IEEE International Workshop on Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment PerGames International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Applications Edutainment International Conference on E-learning and Games GDC Game Developers Conference CIE   ACM Computers in Entertainment TCIAIG   IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

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