Y.-W. Peter Hong, Ph.D.
Y.-W. Peter Hong received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1999, and his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 2005, both in electrical engineering. He serves as Director General of the Department of Engineering and Technologies at National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and a Distinguished Professor of the Institute of Communications Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. He also held several administrative positions at NTHU, including Associate Dean of the College of EECS (2023-2024), Associate VP of Research and Development (2018-2022), Director of Institute of Communications Engineering (2017-2020), and Director of LiteOn-NTHU joint research center (2018-2024). His research interests include AI/ML in wireless communications, signal processing for IoT and sensor networks, UAV and satellite communications, distributed learning and optimization, and physical layer secrecy.

Dr. Hong currently serves as Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2021-present) and was previously on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. He was also a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (2022-2023) and a Vice Director of IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board (2022-present). He received several awards for his research contributions, including 2005 Best Paper Award for Young Authors bestowed by the IEEE ComSoc and ITSoc Taipei/Tainan Chapters, 2010 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2011 Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award, 2011 National Science Council Wu Ta-You Memorial Award, 2012 CIEE Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award, 2018 and 2022 Ministry of Science and Technology Outstanding Research Award, and 2022 CIEE Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award.

Dept. of Eng. & Technologies
Tel: (+886) 2 2737-7524
Fax: (+886) 2 2737-7673
Email: ywhong@nstc.gov.tw