HUNG-YU KAO received the B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University in 1994 and 1996 respectively. In July 2003, he received the PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University. He is currently the Professor of Dept. of CS in National Tsing Hua University. He was the Distinguished Professor of Dept. of CSIE and Vice Dean of College of EECS in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) from 2021 to 2024. He was the Director of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) of NCKU from 2018 to 2021. He was the chair of IEEE CIS Tainan Chapter from 2017 to 2021. 
His research interests include Natural Language Processing, Web information retrieval / extraction, search engine, knowledge management, data mining, social network analysis and bioinformatics. He has published more than 140 research papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings, including TKDE, TAI, ACL, AAAI, EMNLP, WWW, CIKM. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.