Jan-Ming Ho received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University in 1989. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 1978 and his M.S. at Institute of electronics of National Chiao Tung University in 1980. Dr. Ho joined the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica as an associate research fellow in 1989, and was promoted to research fellow in 1994. He visited IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in summer 1987 and summer 1988, and the Leonardo Fibonacci Institute for the Foundations of Computer Science, Italy in summer 1992. In 2004-2006, he was transferred temporally to the National Science Council, where he served as Director of the Division of Planning and Evaluation.

        His research interests cover the integration of theory and applications, including information retrieval and extraction, knowledge management, combinatorial optimization, multimedia network protocols and their applications, continuous video streaming, content networks, web services, the wireless Internet, real-time operating systems, bioinformatics, open source, digital library and archive technologies, and financial computing. Dr. Ho has also published important results in the field of VLSI/CAD physical design.

Recent research topics include: The Spiral Assembler - An Iterative Process of De Novo Genome Assembly Based on Smart Subset Selection, Developing Cloud-based Highly-Efficient Smart Technology and Algorithms for Wealth-Management, DASH Video Streaming in Uderground Rapid Transit and for better quality of experience, In-memory Lookup Filesystem on MapReduce Framework, Understand Social Movement from Social Media, and Text Retrieval of Ancient Book using Deep Learning Technology, etc.