[Short Biography]

Chung-Shou Liao is a Professor with Dept. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU). 
Before joining NTU, he was a Distinguished Professor with National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). 
He had worked at Dept. Industrial Engineering, NTHU and Algorithms and Computation Laboratory, 
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica for fifteen and eight years, respectively. 
He received his Ph.D. from Dept. Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University 
in 2009. His research mainly focuses on designing efficient algorithms that 
can be used to solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems from real-world applications. 

Dr. Liao received the Outstanding Research Award of NSTC, Taiwan in 2023, 
Yuan-Ze Hsu Scientific Paper Award in 2017, Ta-You Wu Memorial Award of NSTC in 2016, 
and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of IICM (ACM Taiwan) in 2014. 
In 2019, he was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar with CSAIL, MIT. 
He also won IEET Outstanding Teaching Award in 2021 and the NTHU Outstanding Teaching Award twice. 
He served as the Conference Chair and the Program Committee Chair of ISAAC 2025 and ISAAC 2018, respectively 
(International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation). He is the Board Member of AAAC 
(Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation), the Steering Committee Member of ISAAC, and 
the Associate Editors of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. 
In recent years, his team has collaborated with world-class industrial companies such as 
MediaTek, UMC, TSMC, Unimicron, etc. and conducted the NSTC AI research project. 

Dr. Liao is Senior Member of ACM and IEEE.