Chen Wen-tsuen
Chen Wen-tsuen (; born 27 May 1948) is an ethnic Taiwanese computer scientist, a distinguished research fellow at the Academia Sinica and a lifelong national chair of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. From 2006 to 2010, he was the president of the National Tsing Hua University, a premier research university in Taiwan. Early life Chen received his B.Sc. degree (1970) in nuclear engineering at the National Tsing Hua University, and his M.Sc. degree (1973) and Ph.D. degree (1976) in electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been with the National Tsing Hua University since 1976 when there were no computer, communication, and IC industries in Taiwan. He has since witnessed and contributed to its development from an agrarian economy to a world center for ICT technologies and products. Career Chen started his academic career as a faculty member of the computer science program of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of National Tsing Hua University. He helped found the Department of Computer Science of the university in 1977. He has also helped develop the software engineering program of the Institute for Information Industry, a non-governmental organization for promoting information industry in Taiwan, since its founding in 1979. In early 1980s, Chen established his computer network laboratory and was one of the pioneering computer network researchers in Taiwan. Chen served as the chairman of the Department of Computer Science of National Tsing Hua University from 1983 until 1988. From 1988 for four years, he was a science and technology advisor to the Ministry of Education and helped establish the Taiwan Academic Network (TANet), the first Internet in Taiwan. From 1992 to 1996, he was on leave from National Tsing Hua University to serve as the director of the Advisory Office of Ministry of Education to advise on education policy and improve higher education in Taiwan. Chen founded the Computer and Communication Research Center of the university in 1994 and served as its founding director for 10 years. He also founded the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1998 and served as its founding dean for 6 years. From 2003 to 2006, he was the vice chancellor (research) of the University System of Taiwan, a university alliance of four top research universities in northern Taiwan. In February 2006, Chen was appointed as president of the National Tsing Hua University. During his 4-year term of presidency, the university was noted for initiating the "Project Thousand Points of Light" (繁星計畫) university entrance program, which was enthusiastically endorsed and adopted by the Ministry of Education, and launching the Tsing Hua College (清華學院]), a residential college for undergraduate education, the first of its kind in Taiwan. Since August 2006, he had been a distinguished chair professor of the university. In 2007 Chen attended an Association of East Asian Research Universities Board of Directors meeting and the same year he visited Japan along with Professors Chungmin Chen and Mao Jiun Wang. Also education and research of the university was significantly