Han-Chieh Chao is a Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C. His research interests include High Speed Networks, Wireless Networks, IPv6 based Networks and Digital Divide. He received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He has authored or co-authored 3 books and has published about 100 refereed professional research papers. He has completed 28 MSEE thesis students. Dr. Chao has received many research awards, including Purdue University SRC awards, and NSC research awards (National Science Council of Taiwan). He also received many funded research grants from NSC, Ministry of Education (MOE), RDEC, Industrial Technology of Research Institute, Institute of Information Industry and FarEasTone Telecommunications Lab. Dr. Chao is also serving as an IPv6 Steering Committee member and co-chair of R&D division of the NICI (National Information and Communication Initiative, a ministry level government agency which aims to integrate domestic IT and Telecom projects of Taiwan), Co-chair of the Technical Area for IPv6 Forum Taiwan, the executive editor of the Journal of Internet Technology and the Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology and International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. Dr. Chao is an IEEE senior member.

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