[Short Biography]

Chung-Shou Liao is a Distinguished Professor with Dept. Industrial Engineering 
and Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. 
Before joining NTHU, he had worked in the Algorithms and Computation Laboratory 
at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica for eight years. 
He received his Ph.D. from Dept. Computer Science and Information Engineering, 
National Taiwan University in 2009. His research mainly focuses on designing efficient 
algorithms that can be used to solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems 
from real applications. 

Dr. Liao received the Outstanding Research Award of NSTC, Taiwan in 2023 
and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of IICM (ACM Taiwan) in 2014. 
He is also a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar for 2018 & 2019. 
He served as the Program Committee Chair of AAAC 2021
(the 14th Annual Meeting of Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation) 
and ISAAC 2018 (the 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation). 
He is the board member of AAAC, the steering committee member of ISAAC, 
and the Associate Editor of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and 
International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science. 
In recent years, his team has collaborated with world-class industrial companies 
such as MediaTek, UMC, TSMC, Unimicron, etc. and conducted the MOST AI research project. 

Dr. Liao is Senior Member of ACM and IEEE.