Name: Nen-Fu (Fred) Huang
 Education: Dr. Huang received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from National
Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, in 1986.
 Experience: He is now (12/2024-) the President of Southern Tawan University of
Sciecne and Technology (STUST), Taiwan. Since 2008, he is a Distinguished
Professor of NTHU. He was the Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, NTHU, during 2016/8-2022/7. From 1997-2000, he was the
Chairman of Department of Computer Science, NTHU and From 2015-2016, he was
the director of Computer and Communication Research Center (CCRC) of NTHU.
He is the founder of Broadweb Corp., (www.broadweb.com) and from 2002 to 2006,
he served as the CEO/Chairman of Broadweb, which was acquired by TrendMicro,
an international security company, in 2013. He is also the founder of ShareCourse, an
AI-based digital learning platform (www.sharecourse.net), which provides digital
courses including IoT, AI, Big Data Analysis, FinTech, Robot related courses. Dr.
Huang has published more than 250 journal and conference papers, including more
than 50 papers in IEEE INFOCOM/ICC/GLOBECOM flag-ship conferences. Dr.
Huang also has granted/pending near 60 patents, including 18 US patents. He is a
Fellow of the BCS (British Computer Society) and a life senior member of the IEEE.
 Research Area: AIoT technologies and applications, AI Sustainable and Smart
Agriculture, Agriculture Digital Twins, Blockchain based Food traceability, AI-based
crops grading/classification technologies, LPWAN (LoRaWAN/NB-IoT)
transmission technologies and applications, AI-based Data Analysis for Digital
Learning, and network security.
 Honors & Awards: He received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the NTHU in
1993, 1998, and 2008, the Outstanding University/Industrial Collaboration Award

from Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan in 1998, and Outstanding IT people
Award from ITmonth, ROC in 2002. He received the Technology Transfer Award
from National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan in 2004. He received the
Technology Creative Award from Computer and Communication Research Center
(CCRC) from NTHU in 2005, and the Outstanding University/Idustrial Collaboration
Award from NTHU in 2010. He received the MOOCs Benchmark Course Award
from MOE in 2018, Prominent program Award of Teaching practice progam from
MOE in 2019, Oustansing project execution Award from NSC in 2022, Outstanding
Social Pratice Teacher Award from NTHU in 2022, Outsdanding program Award of
Teaching practice progam from MOE in 2023, USR (University Social Responsibility)
role model Award in 2023, IoT Creative Application Award from Pan Wen-Yuan
Foundation in 2023, Outstanding University/Idustrial Reseach Award from NTHU in
2023, Outstanding Eletrical Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Society for
Electrical Engineering (CSEE) in 2023, and Kuo-Ting Li Special AI Contribution
Award in 2025..

 AIoT Research Projects: Professor Huang has many successful experiences in AI
Smart Agriculture. For the past ten years, Professor Huang has collaborated with
more 40 farms (including organic vegetable, Banana, Mango, Pineapple, Coffee, rice
paddy fields, dragon fruits, flowers,...) in Taiwan to implement AI and IoT
technologies into the farms. Also these AI smart farms are playing the experiencing
fields for training AI talent. Professor Huang also developed many cloud based AI
smart agriculture platform and AI training platforms (AImaker) for training talents to
build and evaluate their own AI models, including video/image recognition AI
models (via AR Smart glasses) and Audio recognition models (via AI tap stick,
invented by Professor Huang).