Prof. Kuo received his B.S.E. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1986. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is a distinguished professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, since August 2009, where he was promoted to a full professor in August 2001. He is also appointed as a research fellow of the Research Center of Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, and a SKKU fellow professor of the Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. He was the chairman of his department between August 2005 and July 2008 and a deputy dean of the College of the Electronic Engineering and Computer Science between Feb 2006 and July 2008, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. He served as the vice chairman of his department between August 2002 and July 2005. He was an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, between August 2000 and July 2001, and the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of the National Chung Cheng University in Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC between August 1994 and July 2000. The research interests of Prof. Kuo include real-time systems, embedded systems, non-volatile memory storage/memory software designs (such as those of flash memory and PCM), and real-time database systems.