Honors of Prof. Jason Jen-Yen Chen  中央資工 陳振炎

 

Winner of Top Scholar in the world in the field of Systems and Software Engineering during 1993 and 1994 [Ref: J. Systems and Software, USA 1995; 31:3-6]. 

This assessment is based on recent years (five at most) publications in the following six leading journals of this field in the world:

   1) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,

   2) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology,

   3) IEEE Software,

   4) Journal of Software Practice and Experience,

   5) Journal of Systems and Software, and

   6) Journal of Information and Software Technology.

 

Winner of Third Scholar in the world in the field of Systems and Software Engineering during 1993 to 1995 [Ref: J. Systems and Software, USA, Oct. 1996].

 

Winner of Fifth Scholar in the world in the field of Systems and Software Engineering during 1993 to 1996 [Ref: J. Systems and Software, USA, Oct. 1997].

 

Winner of Sixth Scholar in the world in the field of Systems and Software Engineering during 1993 to 1997 [Ref: J. Systems and Software, USA, Oct. 1998].

In this assessment, top 16 scholars from 7 countries are honored. Among them, the U.S. leads the world by producing 9 scholars, followed by 2 from U.K, and one scholar from each of the following countries: Australia, Italy, Taiwan, Singapore, and Kuwait.

 

Winner of Seventh Scholar in the world in the field of Systems and Software Engineering during 1994 to 1998 [Ref: J. Systems and Software, USA, Dec. 1999].

 

Winner of Fourteenth Scholar in the world in the field of Systems and Software Engineering during 1996 to 2000 [Ref: J. Systems and Software, USA, Oct. 2001].

 

Associate Editor of the Journal of Software Engineering Studies (JSES), Taiwan.

A founding Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Advanced Foundation and Research in Computer, India.

 

Invited Author to the Special Issue "Software Engineering and Systems in the New Millennium" of the Journal of Systems and Software, USA. The special issue appeared in July 1999, in which 13 of the 16 top scholars of Software Engineering (described above) contribute their viewpoints upon invitation.

 

Invited Author to the Special Issue on "Requirement Engineering" of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, USA.

 

Invited to speak to the Eighth International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science with Applications, Plovdiv 13-17 August 1999, Bulgaria. (invitation declined)

 

Main contributor to Chiao-Tung University in winning Third Institution in the world in Systems and Software Engineering [Ref: J. Systems and Software, USA 1995; 31:3-6]. Chen and his students contribute 6.0 out of University score 10.17.

 

Main contributor to Chiao-Tung University in winning Tenth Institution in the world in Systems and Software Engineering [Ref: J. Systems and Software, USA 1994; 27:63-67]. Chen and his students contribute 2.0 out of University score 4.0.

 

Chen's journal paper "An Object-Oriented Method for Software Maintenance" has been selected to appear in The SIGS Developers' Guide to Object Technology: By Developers, For Developers, Charles F. Bowman (editor), SIGS Books: New York, USA.

 

Keynote Speaker on “An Object-Oriented Software Process Language” in the UNSW-Macquarie Joint Object-Orientation Workshop, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, December 5, 1996.

In this key note speech, Dr. Chen delivered a clear research direction of applying object-oriented approach to software process programming. The audience response, especially those from the academics of Australian Universities, was terrific.

 

Keynote Speaker on “The Essence of Engineering: Software Engineering - a Case Study” in the plenary session of the 8th Annual Australian Conference of Engineering Education, The University of New South Wales, Australia, December 17, 1996.

 

In this plenary speech, Dr. Chen depicted that Software Engineering is, in essence, an Engineering discipline of its own. Audience from various Engineering backgrounds such as Civil, Environmental, brought up excellent viewpoints that even enlightened the speaker.

 

IEEE Senior Member (Valued member since 1985) (Member No: 02163814).

 

Initiator of the IEEE International Conference on Requirement Engineering, USA (ICRE).

 

Member of Steering Committee and Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Requirement Engineering, USA, 1994.

 

Member of Organizing Committee and Program Committee, Workshop on Semantic Technology for Learning, 15th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), Hiroshima, Japan, November 5-9, 2007.

 

Conference Co-Chair, the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE2008), Taipei, Taiwan, December 18-19, 2008.

 

Conference Co-Chair, the 12th Asian Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC2005), Taipei, Taiwan, December 15-17, 2005.

 

Co-Chair of Program Committee, the First Taiwan Software Engineering Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, June 3-4, 2005.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 2010 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Istanbul, Turkey, October 10-13, 2010.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 8th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2008), Oxford, England, August 12-13, 2008.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 7th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2007), Portland, Oregon, October 11-12, 2007.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 6th International Conference On Quality Software (QSIC 2006), Beijing, China, October 26-28, 2006.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 5th International Conference On Quality Software (QSIC 2005), Melbourne, Australia, 2005.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 15th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2008), Beijing, China, Dec 3-5, 2008. 

 

Member of Program Committee of the 14th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2007), Nagoya, Japan, Dec 5-7, 2007. 

 

Member of Program Committee of the 13th Asian-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2006), Bangalore, India, December 6-8, 2006.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 2006 International Workshop on Software Engineering, Databases, and Knowledge Discovery, Taipei, Taiwan, December 4-6, 2006.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 12th Asian-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2005), Taipei, Taiwan, December 15-17, 2005.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan, 2005.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 9th WSEAS International Conference On Computers, Athens, Greece, 2005.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 4th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC), Braunschweig , Germany, September 8-10, 2004.

 

Member of Program Committee of Asian-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2004), Korea, 2004.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC), Dallas, USA, November 6-7, 2003.

 

Member of Program Committee of the International Conference on Information, Communication, and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, December 2003.

 

Member of Program Committee of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2002), Washington D.C., November 4-6, 2002.

Member of Program Committee, the Object-Oriented Technology and Applications (OOTA), Jhongli, Taiwan, July, 2010.

 

Member of Program Committee, the National Computer Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, November 27-18, 2009.

 

Member of Program Committee, the 4th Taiwan Software Engineering Conference, Tainan, Taiwan, June 13-44, 2008.

 

Member of Program Committee of the Workshop on Databases and Software Engineering (DBSE) in the 2002 International Computer Symposium, Hua-lien, Taiwan, December 11-14, 2002.

 

Member of Program Committee of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software (APAQS), Hong Kong, 2001.

 

Member of Program Committee of the International Workshop on Agent Technologies over Internet Applications (ATIA), Tan-shui, Taiwan, 2001.

 

Member of Program Committee of the International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Canada, 2000.

 

Member of Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Tools, USA, November 1999.

 

Member of Program Committee of Object Technology Workshop, Taiwan, 1999.

 

Member of Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Requirement Engineering, April 6-10, USA, 1998.

 

Member of Program Committee of IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop, November 8-9, Taipei, Taiwan, 1998.

 

Member of Program Committee of the International Computer Symposium (ICS) '98 Software Engineering and Database Systems Workshop, December 10-12, Taichung, Taiwan, 1998.

 

Member of Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Requirement Engineering (ICRE), USA, 1996.

 

Member of Program Committee of Asian-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Korea, 1996.

 

Session Co-Chair of the 7th World Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI 2003), July 27-30, Orlando, USA, 2003.

 

Session Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2003), October 12-15, ShangHai, China, 2003.

 

Session Chair of the International Computer Symposium, December 17-19, Tainan, 1998.

 

Session Chair of IEEE International Conference on Requirement Engineering, 1996.

 

Panelist of the Intelligent Agent Workshop, June 8-9, Taiwan, 1998.

 

Panelist of the Object-Oriented Technology and Applications (OOTA) Workshop, November 20, Tung-Hai University, TaiChung, Taiwan, 2009.

 

 

International PhD Thesis Examiner, Anna University, Chennai, India (2007).

 

Project Reviewer of CMMI Supporting Environment for the Economy Ministry (2005).

 

Project Reviewer of Data Warehouse Equipment and Applications for Chung-Hwa Telecom (2000)

 

Project Reviewer of Information System for Water Resource Bureau, Economy Ministry (2000)

 

Chairman of Software Project Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (2000).

 

Reviewer of the International Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Education (2000).

 

Project Reviewer of Web-based Government Service System for Hsin-Chu Municipal Government (2000).

 

Project Reviewer of Government Document Processing System for Hsin-Chu Municipal Government (2000).

 

Project Reviewer of the Industrial Technology Development Proposals from industry sector on building software industry in Taiwan partially supported by the Ministry of Economy (1999) (Budget of the proposals reaches NT$ 502.5 millions equivalent to US$ 15.4 millions).

 

Advisor to the Taiwan Middle School Information Manager Society. (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

 

Advisory Board member of World Academy of Research in Science and Engineering (WARSE), 2013.

 

Advisor of Hsin-Chu Municipal Government on Software Development, focusing on Process Modeling. (2000)

 

Referee for the Institute of Information Industry (III) on project proposals of Software Reuse Technology (1998).

 

Advisor of the Institute of Information Industry (III) on Software Engineering (October 1, 1994 to June 30, 1996).

 

Reviewer of the Journal of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier (2011, 2012).

 

Reviewer of the Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (2006).

 

Reviewer of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (2006).

 

Book Reviewer of the Journal of Information and Software Technology, UK (1997).

 

Reviewer of the Journal of Information and Software Technology, UK (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)

 

Reviewer of the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (2002).

 

Reviewer of the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineering (2007).

 

Reviewer of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2006).

 

Reviewer of the fourth workshop on Information and Computer Science, Saudi Arabia (2002).

 

Reviewer of the first IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, Canada (2002).

 

Reviewer of the Journal of Internet Technology (JIT) (2008).

 

Reviewer of the Computer Journal (1997, 1999).

 

Reviewer of Journal of Systems and Software, USA (1993, 1994, 1998).

 

Reviewer of IEEE Computer, USA (1996).

 

Reviewer of Communication of ACM, USA (1996).

 

Reviewer of International Journal of Man Machine Systems, UK (1991).

 

Reviewer of International Journal of Computer Language, USA (1989, 1990).

 

Reviewer of Annals of Software Engineering, USA (1996).

 

Reviewer of Journal of Software Practice and Experience, USA (1996, 1997).

 

Reviewer of Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Taiwan (1998, 2004, 2005, 2006).

 

Reviewer of the Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Application, Taiwan (2001).

 

Reviewer of Journal of Chinese Institute of Engineers, Taiwan (1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2006).

 

Reviewer of the Journal by National Science Council, Taiwan (2000).

 

 

Member of National Examination Committee of Information Professional, Taiwan (1992).

 

Member of National Examination Committee by Examination Ministry (1995 through 2005).

 

Committee Member of the Promotion Examination of Senior Government Officials by Examination Ministry (1999).

 

Member of Promotion Examination Committee of Customs Officials by Examination Ministry (2000).

 

Recipient of Outstanding Research Award by National Central University (2006).

 

Coordinator of the Computer Software Program in Chiao Tung University which designates four core courses: Introduction to Computer Science, Data Structure, Programming Language, Software Engineering. (1998)

 

Pioneering a Freshmen Programming Contest using an Agile Method (2006).

Pioneering a new approach of developing and teaching an Agile Method (2003).

Pioneering a new approach of teaching Data Structure with Java (1998).

 

Excellent Teacher of student evaluation in the CSIE department NCU with grade 4.69 (Course: Agile Method) and 4.54 (Compiler) (2011)

Top Teacher of student evaluation in the CSIE department NCTU with grade 4.34 (1996).

Excellent Teacher of student evaluation in the CSIE department NCTU with grade 4.54 (1998) with the top grade being 4.56.

Top Teacher of student evaluation in the CSIE department NCTU (1989).

 

Member of Referee Committee of Public Construction Projects, Executive Yuan. (1999) (ID: 22920)

 

Member of Editorial Board of NCTU Publication Agency (February 1999 to January 2001)

 

 

Judge of System Development Award of Taiwan Power Corp. (1988 through 1993).

 

Supervisor of a programming team winning first prize consecutively in Chiao Tung University (1988, 1989).

 

Life Member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), USA.

 

Metal Award for Ten Consecutive Years Service in National Chiao Tung University, awarded by Premier Hsiao (1998) (Certificate No: 318669)

 

Member of the IEEE-CS/ACM Software Engineering Curriculum Development Project, 2002.

Reviewer of IEEE Software Engineering 2004 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering

Quote “A comprehensive review of the SEEK draft is conducted by SEEK volunteers and a group of experts in the field. Detailed review comments are received from leading software engineering educators, practitioners, and researchers (including Barry Boehm, Kai H. Chang, Jason Jen-Yen Chen, …). “end quote. See:   http://sites.computer.org/ccse/

 

Organizing the Taiwanese Workshop on Agile Method, Jhongli, Taiwan, June 15, 2007.

Organizing the Taiwanese Workshop on Agile Method, Taipei, Taiwan, July 18, 2007.

Organizer and Editor of Agile Forum 2012 (online at www.csie.agilemethod.edu.tw)