Research Excellence Rankings
Listed twice among the Stanford University / Elsevier World Top 2% Scientists (career-long impact) — announced in both 2024 and 2025 — in the fields of AI & Image Processing and Computer Architecture & Systems.
2025
Stanford University / Elsevier World Top 2% Scientists — Career-Long Impact
Fields: AI & Image Processing; Computer Architecture & Systems.
2025
ScholarGPS Top 0.05% Lifetime World Ranking — Embedded Software
Ranked 1st in Taiwan and 13th globally among 6,044 researchers in this area.
2024
Stanford University / Elsevier World Top 2% Scientists — Career-Long Impact
Fields: AI & Image Processing; Computer Architecture & Systems.
2024
ScholarGPS Top 0.05% Lifetime World Ranking — Hardware-Software Codesign
Ranked 1st in Taiwan and 57th worldwide among 11,865 researchers in this area.
Research Awards
2010
Outstanding Research Award, National Chung Cheng University
Three faculty members awarded in 2010; NT$300,000 research fund and NT$100,000 cash awarded to each recipient.
2004
Young Scholar Research Award, National Chung Cheng University
Four faculty members awarded in 2004; NT$400,000 research fund and NT$60,000 cash awarded to each recipient.
2001
ACM Taipei Chapter Kuo-Ting Li Young Researcher Award
Sponsored by the ACM Taipei Chapter and the Institute of Information and Computing Machinery (IICM). One recipient in the whole country per year, for significant contributions to design automation of electronic systems.
Professional Organization Honors
2007
Fellow, IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
2007
Senior Member, IEEE
2007
Senior Member, ACM
Leadership Awards
2018
TOP 7 Smart City — Intelligence Community Forum (ICF) World Smart City Competition
Chiayi City Government was awarded one of the TOP 7 Smart Cities in the world under Prof. Hsiung's leadership as Director General of the Intelligence Technology Department.
Best Paper Awards
2026
Best Paper Award, ICEIB International Conference
Pao-Ann Hsiung, Hsiu-Chun Hsu, and Yuan-Huai Chang, "GLEEN: Global-Local Exposure Enhancement and Fusion for Improved Object Detection in Distant Water Fisheries."
2009
Best Paper Award, National Computer Symposium, Workshop on Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, and VLSI/EDA, Taiwan
C.-H. Huang, J.-S. Shen, and P.-A. Hsiung, "Model-Based Verification and Estimation Framework for Dynamically Partially Reconfigurable System."
2009
Best Paper Award, 4th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EM-Com), Jeju, Korea
J.-S. Shen, C.-H. Huang, and P.-A. Hsiung, "PRESSNoC: Power-Aware and Reliable Encoding Schemes Supported Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip Architecture."
Best Master Thesis Advisor Awards
2010
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM)
Student: Shih-Shen Lu — "Congestion- and Energy-Aware Runtime Task Mapping for Network-on-Chip Architecture."
2009
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM, acceptance rate: 17.3%)
Student: Wei-Wen Lin — "An Efficient Hardware/Software Communication Mechanism for Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip."
2008
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM)
Student: Kuo-Cherng Chiang — "Predictable and Adaptive Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip."
2007
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM)
Student: Hsiao-Win Liao — "Multi-Objective Placement of Reconfigurable Hardware Tasks in Real-Time Systems."
2006
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM, acceptance rate: 12%)
Student: Yean-Ru Chen — "Automatic Failure Analysis using Extended Safecharts."
2005
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM)
Student: Chih-Hao Tseng — "UML-Based Rapid Prototyping Design Flow for Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing Systems."
2004
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM)
Student: Wen-Hsiu Liao — "Infrastructure of a Formal Verification Platform for SoC."
2003
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM)
Student: Cheng-Yi Lin — "Quasi-Dynamic Scheduling for the Synthesis of Real-Time Embedded Software with Local and Global Deadlines."
2002
Best Master Thesis in Computer Science (IICM)
Student: Feng-Shi Su — "Formal Synthesis and Code Generation of Embedded Software Using Extended Quasi-Static Scheduling."