Main Awards and Honors

●2021: Awarded the 10th「College-Level Excellent Research Award」by the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan Ocean University (榮獲國立臺灣海洋大學電機資訊學院第十屆「研究優良教師獎」)

●2021: Served as「Organizing Committee Co-Chair」of the World Automation Congress 2021 (WAC 2021), Taipei, Taiwan, Aug. 01-05, 2021 (擔任WAC 2021「Organizing Committee Co-Chair」)

●2019: Awarded the 8th「College-Level Excellent Research Award」by the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan Ocean University (榮獲國立臺灣海洋大學電機資訊學院第八屆「研究優良教師獎」)

●2018–present: Serve as「Associate Editor」of Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (SCI) (擔任Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (SCI)「副主編」)

●2018: Awarded「Outstanding Poster Award」of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics–Berlin (IEEE ICCE-Berlin 2018), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2018, for the paper: H.-Y. Chung, Yao-Liang Chung*, and Y.-S. Chen, "An improved algorithm for single image haze removal." (榮獲IEEE ICCE-Berlin 2018傑出壁報獎」)

●2017: Awarded「Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award」by the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (榮獲中國電機工程學會106年度「優秀青年電機工程師獎」)

●2017: Awarded「Best Paper Award」of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (IEEE ICDIM 2017), Fukuoka, Japan, Sept. 2017, for the paper: Yao-Liang Chung, "An improved algorithm for transmission in heterogeneous cellular networks." (榮獲IEEE ICDIM 2017「最佳論文獎」)

●2017: Awarded the 7th「College-Level Excellent Research Award」by the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan Ocean University (榮獲國立臺灣海洋大學電機資訊學院第七屆「研究優良教師獎」)

●2016–present: Serve as「Associate Editor」of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing (indexed by SCI, the first journal in the world on Soft Computing) (擔任Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing (SCI)「副主編」)

●2016: Awarded the 6th「College-Level Excellent Research Award」by the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan Ocean University (榮獲國立臺灣海洋大學電機資訊學院第六屆「研究優良教師獎」)

●2016: Served as「Symposium Co-Chair」of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (IEEE SmartGridComm 2016), Sydney, Australia, Nov. 06-09, 2016 (擔任IEEE SmartGridComm 2016「Symposium Co-Chair」)

●2016: Served as「General Chair」of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management (IEEE ICDIM 2016), Porto, Portugal, Sept. 19-21, 2016, with its satellite conference in Keelung, Taiwan, Oct. 12-13, 2016 (擔任IEEE ICDIM 2016「General Chair」)

●2016: Awarded「Best Paper Award」of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (IEEE FGCT 2016), Luton, United Kingdom, Aug. 2016, for the paper: Yao-Liang Chung, "A simple power-saving transmission scheme for use in macrocell—small cell networks." (榮獲IEEE FGCT 2016「最佳論文獎」)

●2016: Awarded three-year「Outstanding Young Scholar Research Project」by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) (榮獲科技部3年期「優秀年輕學者研究計畫」)

●2016: Awarded「Best Paper Award」of the 15th IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (IEEE WTS 2016), London, United Kingdom, April 2016, for the paper: Yao-Liang Chung, "Fast and efficient transmission in D2D-assisted cellular networks." (榮獲IEEE WTS 2016「最佳論文獎」)

●2016: Served as「General Chair」of the Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016), Keelung, Taiwan, March 29-31, 2016 (擔任ICADIWT 2016「General Chair」)

●2015: Awarded「Excellent Advisor Award」by National Taipei University (榮獲國立臺北大學「績優導師獎」)

●2015: Awarded「Best Paper Award」of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (IEEE FGCT 2015), Luton, United Kingdom, July 2015, for the paper: Yao-Liang Chung* and J.-A. Wu, "A simple yet effective approach for resource allocation in outband device-to-device communication." (榮獲IEEE FGCT 2015「最佳論文獎」)

●2012: Awarded「Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award」by the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery (榮獲中華民國資訊學會「最佳博士論文獎佳作」)

●2006: Awarded「Best Master Thesis Award」by the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery (榮獲中華民國資訊學會「最佳碩士論文獎佳作」)

●2004: Awarded「College Student Research Award」by the National Science Council (榮獲國科會「大專生研究創作獎」)

●2004: Awarded「Honorable Member」by the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society (獲頒斐陶斐榮譽學會「榮譽會員」)

●2004: Awarded「Excellent Engineering Student Scholarship」by the Chinese Institute of Engineers (榮獲中國工程師學會「優秀工程學生獎學金」當年度全國10)

●2003: Awarded「Kwoh-Ting Li Scholarship」by the China Technical Consultants, Inc. (榮獲中技社「李國鼎獎學金」當年度全國5)