Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University
Deputy Director, Computing Center, National Chengchi University
Executive Member of the Council, Taiwan Software Engineering Association

No. 64, Sec. 2, Zhinan Rd., Wenshan District, Taipei City 11605, National Chengchi University, Department of Computer Science
02-2939-3091 ext. 62297, cfliao AT nccu.edu.tw

• Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
• M.S., Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University
• B.S., Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University

． Software Engineering
． Smart Environments and Internet of Things (IoT)
． Cloud Native Systems
． Blockchain and Smart Contracts

． Cultivation of Computer Science and AI Literacy
． Design and Application of IoT and Smart Environments
． Software Engineering Issues in Tech Art Exhibits
． Other topics students are interested in can be discussed with the advisor!

． Software Architecture and Patterns
． Cloud Native Enterprise Application Architecture and Development
． Performance Tuning
． IoT Application Layer Communication Protocols (BLE, CoAP, and MQTT)

．2024 Paper: “Tactics for Enhancing Write Ahead Log for Long-Term System Maintenance” won the Best Paper Award at PlatCon'24 (International Conference on Platform Technology and Service)
．2024 Paper: “Preliminary Exploration of Write Ahead Log Supported Continuous Maintenance Mechanism” won the Best Poster Paper Award at the 2024 Taiwan Conference on Software Engineering (TCSE2024).
．2024 Paper: “Designing for Interoperability of Web of Things Devices between IP and BLE Networks” won the Honorable Mention Award for English Paper at the 2024 Taiwan Conference on Software Engineering (TCSE2024).
．2024 Paper: “The Impact of Buffer Architectures of Blockchain Gateways on Transaction Performance” won the Honorable Mention Award for Chinese Paper at the 2024 Taiwan Conference on Software Engineering (TCSE2024).
．2024 Paper: “Enhancing Interoperability of Web of Things Devices through Interface Design for Observability Applications” won the Honorable Mention Award for Demonstration Paper at the 2024 Taiwan Conference on Software Engineering (TCSE2024).
．2023 Paper: “Feasibility Study of Introducing OpenTelemetry Monitoring Logic Using Aspect-Oriented Mechanism” won the Best Paper Award at TANET2023.
．2023 Paper: “FirmataSpy: A Firmata Emulator to Streamline Interoperable Automated Testing for IoT Devices” won the Best Paper Award at PlatCon'23 (International Conference on Platform Technology and Service)
．2023 Paper: “Distributed Transaction Mechanism with Multiple Isolation Levels for MQTT Queues” won the Best Paper Award at TCSE2023.
．2023 Paper: “Investigating the Influence of Data Architecture on the Performance of Kubernetes-based Applications” won the English Merit Paper Award at TCSE2023.
．2023 Best Editor of SOCA journal (Springer, IF=1.8) (The Year 2022 Best Editor of Service Oriented Computing and Application) (certificate)
．2022 NCCU 110 Academic Year Outstanding Teacher Award.
．2022 Paper: “Preliminary Exploration of Long-Term Transaction Mechanism for MQTT in IoT Environments” won the Best Paper Award at TANET2022.
．2021 Paper: “IoT Service Management Mechanism Combining gRPC with mDNS/DNS-SD” won the Merit Regular Paper Award at TCSE2021.
．2019 Paper: “Design Pattern for Sensor Data Aggregation Between Blockchain Light Nodes IoT Devices and Edge Servers” won the Best Paper Award at TCSE2019.
．2018 Paper: “Preliminary Exploration of Multi-Tenant Home Gateway Firmware Deployment Mechanism Based on Blockchain and CWMP” won the Best Paper Award at TANET2018.
．2018 NCCU College of Science 107 Young Scholar Research Award
．2018 Paper: “Blockchain Middleware Supporting the Development, Deployment, and Monitoring of Smart Contract Components” was nominated for the Best Paper Award at TCSE2018.
．2018 Best Paper Award at PlatCon'18 (International Conference on Platform Technology and Service)
．2017 Paper: “Behavior-Driven Development Process-Based Integration Testing Service Platform for Blockchain Smart Contracts” was nominated for the Best Paper Award at TCSE2017.
．2016 Paper: “Lightweight Real-Time Information System for Smart Wards Based on CoAP” was nominated for the Best Paper Award at TCSE2016.
．2016 Graduate students Wei-Chen Lu, Ying-Ju Chen, and Yi-Ming Chen from NCKU Software Institute won third place in the 2016 Intel IoT Roadshow.
．2016 Graduate students Yu-Hsuan Chi, Jian-Jie Wang, and their team (other members are students of other instructors) won first place in the 104th Academic Year NCCU Golden Point Award for their work “HelpMe+”.
．2016 Graduate student Wei-Cheng Zhang was awarded the 105th Academic Year Phi Tau Phi Honor Society membership.
．2016 NCCU Teaching Development Center 104th Academic Year First Semester Outstanding Course (Object-Oriented Programming, a sophomore mandatory course)
．2016 Best Paper Award at PlatCon'16 (International Conference on Platform Technology and Service)
．2015 Students Yifan Huang, Yiming Chen, and Yilun Jiang participated in the 2015 Feng Chia University Graduation Project Competition and Exhibition, winning third place in the information category (highly compatible UPnP semantic matching service).
．2015 Students Jiayun Guo and Lei Cao participated in the 2015 Feng Chia University Graduation Project Competition and Exhibition, winning an excellence award (case family ecological map on fingertips).
．2015 NCCU Teaching Development Center 103rd Academic Year First Semester Outstanding Course (Object-Oriented Programming, a sophomore mandatory course)
．2015 NCCU Teaching Development Center 103rd Academic Year First Semester Excellent TA Instructor (Object-Oriented Programming Lab, a sophomore mandatory course)
．2014 Feng Chia University 103rd Academic Year Outstanding Paper Award
．2014 Feng Chia University 102nd Academic Year Outstanding Administrative Service Award
．2014 Guided students to participate in the 2014 “Feng Chia University College of Information and Electrical Engineering and Ten-Speed Technology Project Competition”, winning an excellence award and the Best Popularity Award (voted by on-site visitors).
．2014 Guided students to participate in the 29th “ITSA Online Programming Competition”, winning an outstanding competition team award.
．2014 Feng Chia University Teaching Satisfaction in Top 10% of University Courses (Dean's Letter of Appreciation, course name: “Introduction to Information and Ethics”pdf (mandatory anchor course) and “Database Systems”pdf (mandatory))
．2013 Feng Chia University Outstanding Teaching Material Award
．2013 Guided students to participate in the 23rd-27th “ITSA Online Programming Competition”, winning an outstanding competition team award in the 25th-27th competitions.
．2013 Guided students to win “National College Open Source Software Creation Competition Excellence Award”: highly flexible indoor positioning engine without infrastructure.
．2012 Guided students to win “National College Open Source Software Creation Competition Bronze Award” and “Enterprise Special Award: OxLab Open Source Software Development Potential Special Award”, topic: high-performance general-purpose online mobile game server and its rapid development kit.
．2012 Service Science Society Wen Shi-Ren Service Science Thesis Award Doctoral Thesis Group Excellence Award
．2011 IEEE APSCC Best Paper Award (IEEE 2011 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference Best Paper Award)
．2011 Information Society Best Doctoral Thesis Award Excellence Award
．2006 IBM SOA Service-Oriented Software Architecture Design Competition Champion
．2004 Phi Tau Phi Honor Society Honorary Member
．2002, 2003 College of Science Graduate Student Academic Paper Award
．2002 NCCU College of Science Graduate Student Academic Excellence Award
．2002 Microsoft Asia XML Web Services Student Programming Competition Excellence Award

．Oracle/Sun Authorized Java Instructor (Sun Authorized Instructor for the Authorized Sun Education Center, SAI)
．Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform (SCJP), score: 91/100
．Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (SCWCD), score: 94/100