Joseph Chia-Hsin CHEN

EDUCATION

• University of Hamburg		Hamburg, Germany
  Ph.D., Department of Computer Science		October 1994
  Thesis: ``Quantum Computation and Natural Language Processing.''& - July 2001
  (http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/disse/769/dissertation.pdf)
  magna cum laude (sehr gut)

• National Taiwan University		Taipei, Taiwan
  Master of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering,		September 1988
  Thesis: ``Analysis and Fabrication of Acousto-Optical Modulators.'' (GPA: A)		- July 1990

• National Taiwan University		Taipei, Taiwan
  Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering		September 1984
  GPA: A (GRE score: 2040, taken in 1989)		- July 1988

RESEARCH AREA AND INTERESTS

quantum computing, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, natural language processing, natural language understanding, connectionism, mathematical logic, algorithm

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Research/Teaching Assistant		January 2001 - Present
  Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg		Hamburg, Germany

  I am responsible for the following courses:

  • T1-Laboratory/Experiment (technological aspects of computer science: logic design);
  • T2-Laboratory (technological aspects of computer science: fundamentals of electrical engineering and electronics);
  • P1-Laboratory (practical computer science: introduction to programming, featuring Prolog and Scheme);
  • P2-Laboratory (practical computer science: object-oriented programming, featuring Java).

  I am also a co-system operator of a Sun, Linux, and Mac network.

• Teaching Assistant		October 1991 - July 1992
  Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University		Taipei, Taiwan

  I was the system operator of a Sun and PC network in the research group. I was also responsible for the following undergraduate courses:

  • Advance Mathematics for Engineer (probability & statistics, complex analysis, differential equations);
  • Electronics (I-III);
  • Semiconductor Laboratory (featuring design and fabrication process of semi-conductors);
  • Thick-Film Laboratory.

• Teaching Assistant		October 1988 - July 1989
  Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University		Taipei, Taiwan

  I was responsible for the following undergraduate courses:

  • Undergraduate Mathematics for engineers (probability & statistics, complex analysis, differential equations);
  • Electronics (I);
  • Semiconductor Laboratory (design and fabrication process of semi-conductors).

AWARDS AND HONORS

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) full-time Ph.D. scholarship,1996-2000 (ca. DM2,400 per month).

PUBLICATIONS

• Joseph Chen, ``Quantum Computation and Natural Language Processing,'' Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, 2002.

• Joseph Chen and Manfred Kudlek, ``Duality of Syntax and Semantics -- From the View Point of Brain as a Quantum Computer'' in Proceedings of Euroconference: ``Recent Advances in NLP 2001,'' pp. 72-78, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 5-7 September, 2001.

• Joseph Chen, ``A Quantum Mechanical Approach to Cognition and Representation" in Proceedings of ``Toward a Science of Consciousness 2001," Skövde, Sweden, 2001.

• Joseph Chen and Stefan Wermter, ``Continuous Time Recurrent Neural Networks for Grammatical Induction" in L. Niklasson and M. Bodén and T. Ziemke Eds. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN98), Vol.1, pp. 381-386, Skövde, Sweden, 2-4 September 1998.

• Stefan Wermter and Joseph Chen, ``Cautious Steps towards Hybrid Connectionist Bilingual Phrase Alignment" in R. Mitkov, N. Nicolov and N. Nikolov Ed. Proceedings International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing pp. 364-368, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 1997.

• Joseph Chen and Stefan Wermter, ``Initial Results on Hybrid Connectionist Bilingual Alignment" in Stephan Busemann Ed. Proceedings of Workshop-03 : Hybride konnektionistische, statistische und symbolische Ansätze zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache, 21. KI-Jahrestagung (KI-97), Freiburg i. Breisgau, Germany,1997.

• Joseph Chen, ``Analysis and Fabrication of Acousto-Optical Modulators" Master Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University.

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

• Technical Support Technician (part-time)		May 1995 - June 1996
  Richfield Computer GmbH		Hamburg, Germany

  Richfield is a subsidiary company of MediaForte Products Pte. Ltd., Singapore -- a manufacturer of multimedia hardware. I was responsible for hardware related customer service.

• Hardware Technician (part-time)		August 1994 - April 1995
  Notestar Computer GmbH		Hamburg, Germany

  Notestar Computer GmbH is the German representative of Microstar Electronics, Inc., Taiwan -- a manufacturer of notebook computers. I was responsible for hardware repairs and related customer service.

• MIS Specialist (full-time)		December 1993 - July 1994
  Da-Liang Publishing Corp.		Taipei, Taiwan

  Da-Liang was a young desktop publishing company with an intranet of Macintoshes and PCs (some 30 computers) and an AGFA Typesetter, line scanners, etc. I was in charge of the network and software administration.

• R&D Engineer (full-time)		August 1992 - December 1993
  Carat Computer Ltd.		Taipei, Taiwan

  Carat is an affiliated company of KYE Systems Corp. (marketing products under the registered trade mark GENIUS.) I was responsible to develop graphic and image processing software and device drivers for scanners, digitizers, and mice.

LANGUAGE AND SKILLS

Languages:

Chinese (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (basic)

Programming Languages:

C (+10 years), C++ (+10 years), Mathematica (+8 years), Perl (+6 years), Java (+4 years), Intel / 68K / PowerPC Assembly (+10 years), CGI (+2 years), PHP (+3 years) and relational database: SQL (+4 years) Prolog (+3 years), Lisp (+3 years), L^ATEX(+10 years), HTML (+6 years), Javascript (+3 years)

Operating Systems:

Linux, Solaris, MacOS X and classic, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Palm, (Newton)

REFERENCES

• References will be furnished upon request.