Experience

  1. Teaching Assistant (Applied Machine Learning)

    Ghent University

    Key Achievements:

    • Mentored Bacholar’s and Master’s level students in machine learning course.
    • Designed and guided hands-on projects using real-world tools, including large-scale datasets from Airbnb and industry hardware like Sony’s depth cameras.

  2. Co-President

    Taiwanese Student Association of Ghent University

    Key Achievements:

    • Served as the primary liaison between the Taiwanese community in Ghent and the Taipei Representative Office in Belgium, facilitating official communication and resource dissemination.
    • Organized and executed multiple cultural and social events to foster community engagement and support for students and residents.
    • Initiated and established a city-wide mentor-mentee program during the pandemic, creating a structured support network for new and existing members.

  3. Editor

    Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium, Science and Technology Division.

    Key Achievements:

    • Analyzed and reported on key AI technology and policy developments within the European Union, translating complex technical information into concise strategic briefing reports.

  4. Research Assistant

    Computer Vision Lab, Academia Sinica in Taiwan

    Key Achievements:

    • Designed and developed a novel, unsupervised CNN-based outlier detection method that requires no training data or pre-trained models.
    • Engineered a two-stage learning scheme with a custom loss function to construct a representative feature space, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmark datasets.
    • Implemented the end-to-end framework using TensorFlow, including data analysis and result validation.

  5. Research Assistant

    Smart Media & Intelligent Living Excellence Lab, NCKU, Taiwan

    Key Achievements:

    • Collaborated with industry partner EverSTek to enhance an intelligent visual surveillance system, developing new features including an event-based video synopsis algorithm (published in MVA'17) using C++.
    • Contributed to multiple research projects on superpixel and event detection, resulting in publications in top-tier venues like IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP'18) and a first-author oral presentation at ICIP'18.

  6. Research Assistant

    NCKU-ARTC Multidisciplinary Joint Research Project, Taiwan

    Key Achievements:

    • Co-developed an innovative driver monitoring system in a multidisciplinary team, integrating visual appearance and ECG sensor data to improve vehicle safety.
    • The system’s success led to a publication (SNPD'15) and secured Second Place at the International ICT Innovative Services Awards.

  7. Teaching Assistant (Data Structure)

    National Cheng Kung University

    Key Achievements:

    • Provided academic support for a fundamental, sophomore-level required course in the electrical engineering department.
    • Prepared course materials, graded assignments and exams, and assisted with in-class activities.

  8. Administrative Coordinator (Substitute Military Service)

    Environmental Protection Bureau, Chiayi City Government, Taiwan

    Responsibilities include:

    • Translated technical specifications and official documents for local solar-power-related green energy projects, while managing all related administrative workflows.
    • Supervised and coordinated the daily duties and schedules for a team of fellow substitute military service members.

Education

  1. PhD in Computer Science Engineering

    Ghent University, Belgium

    My doctoral research, titled Transferable and Privacy-Friendly Deep Learning Techniques for Audio-Visual Urban Surveillance: From Lab to Street, , was conducted at Ghent University under the guidance of Prof. Pieter Simoens and Prof. Sam Leroux. Supported by the AI Flanders strategic research program, this project addressed both academic and real-world challenges in building robust, transferable, and privacy-preserving deep learning models for urban environments.

    Motivated by the increasing deployment of smart surveillance technologies in modern cities and the corresponding societal demand for privacy, my research systematically explored how to bridge the gap between laboratory-developed models and their practical, street-level applications. The work focused on (1) developing deep learning methods that respect privacy constraints while retaining high accuracy, (2) evaluating model transferability with minimal domain labels, and (3) validating techniques through real-world deployments with industry partner datasets.

    Throughout this project, I developed multiple privacy-aware frameworks for acoustic surveillance, culminating in five peer-reviewed publications: three as first author in leading international journals (IEEE Pervasive Computing, Sensors, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI), plus a co-authored journal article and a workshop paper. My protocols have been adopted by industry partners for model evaluation, and research findings have been presented at Flanders AI events and IDLab Day. In addition, I co-advised a master’s thesis on visual surveillance data anonymization, further extending the project’s societal impact.

  2. MSc in Computer and Communication Engineering

    National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

    GPA: 4.3/4.5 Thesis on Spatiotemporal Coherence based Annotation Placement for Surveillance Videos.

    Supervised by Prof Pau-Choo Chung. Authored four first-author publications, including a journal article in IEEE TCSVT, culminating in a thesis that received two national Best Thesis awards. Simultaneously, led a project team to develop an award-winning driver monitoring system, securing three international and national awards.

  3. BSc in Electrical Engineering

    National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

    Relevant Graduate-Level Course:

    • Digital Image Processing 83/100
    • Introduction to Neural Networks 87/100
    • Machine Learning and Bioinformatics 91/100
    • Computer Graphic System 84/100
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python
Hobbies
Cats
Photography
Awards
Dual Master’s Thesis Award
The Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Society & The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering ∙ August 2016
My master’s thesis, Spatiotemporal Coherence based Annotation Placement for Surveillance Videos, received national recognition from two distinct professional societies. It was awarded the Best Master’s Thesis Award by the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Society for its contributions to the field, and concurrently received the Excellent Master’s Thesis Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering for its technical excellence.
Honourary Member
The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honour Society ∙ May 2016
Under the recommendation of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of National Cheng Kung University, I was recognized as the honorary member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honour Society
Multiple International Awards
Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) & International ICT Innovative Services Awards ∙ November 2015
As team leader, I led our project, Online Video Synopsis: Shorten Video Content for Flicking Through, to secure three major international awards in 2015. We achieved First Place (USD $17,000 prize) for business potential and Second Place for innovation at the International ICT Innovative Services Awards. Concurrently, representing Taiwan as the national nominee, we won the Merit Award in the R&D category at the 17-economy Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards held in Sri Lanka.
Multiple International Awards
Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) & International ICT Innovative Services Awards ∙ October 2015
Our project, Innovative Personal Driver Monitoring System, was recognized for its innovation in ICT applications, securing Second Place in its category at the International ICT Innovative Services Awards.
Languages
75%
English
100%
Chinese
100%
Taiwanese