2025 Keynote Speakers

Timothy K. Shih (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Distinguished Professor with National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. In NCU, he was the Vice Dean of the College of EECS and the Founding Director of the Innovative AI Research Center. He was the Dean of the College of Computer Science, Asia University, Taiwan, and the Chairperson of the CSIE Department, Tamkang University, Taiwan. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He was the Founding Chairman Emeritus of the IET Taipei Local Network. In addition, he is a Senior Member of ACM. He was the Founder and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, USA. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Computing. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He was the Conference Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2004). He has received many research awards, including the Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan, the IIAS Research Award from Germany, the HSSS Award from Greece, the Brandon Hall Award from USA, the 2015 Google MOOC Focused Research Award, and several best paper awards from international conferences. He was named the 2014 Outstanding Alumnus by Santa Clara University

Prof. Timothy K. Shih

National Central University, Taiwan

Senior Member, IEEE