The Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) was established and began to accept its first master degree students in 1995, undergraduate students in 1997, part-time executive master students in 2000, and Ph.D. degree students in 2001. Since 2011, we have initiated the All-English-Taught Programs, accepting Ph.D, Master, and Undergraduate students from native and around the world. Furthermore, we receive exchange students from sister schools each semester as well. At present, there are 20 full-time professors, 500+ graduate and undergraduate students, and 100+ international students from over 30 countries around the world.
Following our school principles of academic freedom and excellence, the CSIE department has established our own identity and has been continuously contributing to academic researches and industrial developments in Eastern Taiwan, as well as the informatics and electronics industries in nation.

Program

The CSIE Department offers students great choices of subjects including all related CSIE academic fields and heaped practical trainings for both advanced study and employment. The flexible program-based curriculum system allows students to enroll in courses across disciplines. Students may take additional specialized courses from Multimedia Technologies & Intelligent Computing Module, Network & System Module, and cross-discipline modules. In order to build up the solid hands-on experiences, all undergraduate students are required to join into research labs and to engage in one-year-long independent study projects before graduation. All graduate students are required to involve in academic or industrial projects and to defend their theses/dissertations before graduation.

Facilities

The CSIE department has exceptional facilities including 3 fully equipped multimedia interactive computer labs (one 60-seat, two 40-seat), 1 digital logic design lab, 1 VLSI design lab, 3 server rooms (for computation, storage and cloud services), and 1 server room for AI and deep learning. Faculty members of the CSIE department run 20 research laboratories:

• Image and Video Processing Laboratory
• Computer Systems Laboratory
• Pervasive Computing and Data Management Laboratory
• Software Engineering Laboratory
• Cryptography and Information Security Laboratory
• Graphs and Bioinformatics Algorithm Laboratory
• Compiler Technology and Application Laboratory
• Multimedia Interaction Technology Laboratory
• Computer Vision and Virtual Reality Laboratory
• Mobile Computing and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory
• Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• Digital Image and Vision Computing Laboratory
• Wireless Internet Service Engineering Laboratory
• Decision Support Systems Laboratory
• Interconnection Network and Fault Tolerant Computing Laboratory
• Advanced Network Technology Laboratory
• Distributed Computing Laboratory
• Intelligent Systems Laboratory
• Internet Computing and Application Laboratory
• Learning Technology Laboratory

Research Focus

The department’s teaching and research look to facilitate the cross-field integration through computer and information technology so as to broaden the scope of applications of information technologies. The focus of current research include:

• Multimedia Systems
• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
• Data and Knowledge Base Systems
• VLSI & Embedded Systems Design
• Parallel, Distributed & Cloud Computing
• Mobile & Pervasive Computing
• Software Engineering
• Cryptography and Information Security
• Computing Theories and Algorithms
• Human-Machine Interaction Systems
• Programming Languages and Compiler Systems
• Artificial Intelligence & Learning Machine
• Bioinformatics
• Decision Support Systems

Awards and Honors

• 2018 5 Gold Prize、2 Silver Prize and 1 Bronze Prize of 2018 Computer Olympiad
• 2018 Excellent Paper Award, 2018 Taiwan Academic Network Conference(TANET)
• 2018 2^nd Prize, Ministry of Education, Smart terminal and human-computer interaction software creation special competition
• 2018 ICCEE (Japan) Best Presentation Award
• 2018 Bronze Prize, Poster Presentation in International VIP Conference
• 2017 Professor James Ching-Nung Yang received IET Fellow honor
• 2017 3 Excellent Award, The 2017 ITSA Annual Collegiate Programming Contest
• 2017 ICIET (Japan) Excellent Paper Award
• 2017 The Hult Prize ‘s NDHU Primary Campus Competition
• 2016 2 Gold Prize、1 Silver Prize, TAAI2016
• 2016 Bronze Prize, National College Software Creation Competition
• 2015 Prof David S.F.Lin awarded with IET Fellow Honor
• 2015 ICIT (Singapore) Best Presentation Award
• 2015 1^st Prize, The 2015 ITSA Annual Collegiate Programming Contest
• 2013 Chinese Chess Artificial Intelligent Software successfully challenged human brain for the world record
• 2013 Ministry Of Education Excellent Teaching Material
• 2012 TAAI 2012 Excellent Paper
• 2012 National Science Council Excellent Scholar Winner
• 2010 4 Gold Prize and 2 Silver Prize, the 15th Computer Olympiad
• 2009 5th Prize, Connect6、5th Prize, Go(9x9) of the 14th Computer Olympiad
• 2009 Bronze Prize, 3rd GPW 9x9 Cup
• 2009 Silver Prize, CHT Value Added Application Software Contest
• 2008 Patent: Yuan-Hao Yeh, I-Cheng Chang, and Ching-Long Huang, 3D Color Information Acquisition Method and 3D Color Information Acquisition Device, US 7415151B2, August 2008.
• 2008 Bronze Prize, World Computer Go Congress
• 2008 5th Prize, Connect6、9th Prize, Go(9x9) of the 13th Computer Olympiad
• 2007 Bronze Prize, Connect6 of the 12th Computer Olympiad
• 2006 Performance Award, IBT WeWin Entrepreneurship Contest
• 2006 Programming Award and Sponsor Award, 4C Digital Design Award, Group of PC
• 2005 Silver Prize, Chess Championship of the 10th Computer Olympiad
• 2005 2000- 2004 Top Scholar, Journal of System and Software
• 2005 Gold Medal Award, 57th International Trade Fair for “Ideas-Inventions-New Products” (IENA), Nuremberg, Germany
• 2005 UHigh Award of Innovative Concept
• 2004 Programming Award, 4C Digital Design Contest
• 2004 Silver Prize of Internet Group, CHT Application Software Contest
• 2004 Paper Award, 17th IPPR Conference on Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing
• 2004 2003 2002 IICM Master/PhD Thesis Award
• 2003 Intel Innovation Prize
• 2003 Gold Prize, 4C Digital Design Contest
• 2002 Annual JISE Best Paper Award, Academia Sinica
• 2002 Bronze Prize, IICM Game Design Contest
• 2002 Silver Prize, Chess Championship of the 7th Computer Olympiad
• 2002 Youth Excellence Award of Hualien County
• 2001 Special Achievement in Information and Computer Education Award, Ministry of Education
• 2000 YOUTH ENGINEER AWARD, THE CHINESE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS ROC
• 2000 IICM PhD Thesis Award
• 1995-2000 NSC RESEARCH AWARD (Class A)