Yao-Nan Lien
Yao-Nan Lien is a professor of the Department of Computer Science at National
Chengchi University in Taiwan.
He received his B.S. from National Cheng Kung University in 1979, and his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1981 and 1986, all in Electrical
Engineering.
Previously, he was an assistant professor of Computer and Information Science
at the Ohio State University from 1986 to 1989, a Member of Technical Staff
at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he joined the
Computer and Communication Research Laboratories (CCL) Industrial Technology
Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. He was the Deputy Director of the Computer
Software Technology Division at ITRI/CCL.
He joined the Department of Computer Science of National Chengchi University
in 1995. He was the Chairman of the department from 1996 to 1999 and the
Dean of the College of Science from 2000-2003.
From 2004 to 2006,
he was a member of Telecom Conciliation
Committee of The Directorate General of
Telecommunications, Taiwan, R.O.C.
His research interests include mobile computing,
computer and communication networks,
database systems, and telecommunication policy.
He can be reached by email lien@cs.nccu.edu.tw. His
home page is http://www.cs.nccu.edu.tw/~lien.