Dr. Chein-Wei Jen

Independent Director; Former Dean of Institute of Electronics at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Dr. Chein-Wei Jen has retired from the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan since 2004. During his academic career he also served as the Chairman of the Department of Electronics Engineering, from 1989 to 1991 and the Director of the Institute of Electronics from 1991 to 1994 at the same university.

He has supervised over 25 PhD students and many Master students in the area of System-on-Chip design, processor architecture, and multimedia signal processing. Those students almost are working in the academic and IC Design industry in Taiwan. He has held seven patents and published over 50 journal papers and 100 conference papers in these areas. He got many research paper awards and service awards from technical societies.

From 2004 to 2007 he was invited to join ITRI which is a government-sponsored R/D organization in Taiwan and he served as the Director os SOC Technology Center in ITRI. And from 2002 to 2007 he also served as one of the Coordinators of the National SOC Program in Taiwan.

Dr. Jen received the B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University in 1970, the M.S. degree from Stanford University in 1977, and the Ph. D. degree from National Chiao Tung University in 1983.