Prof. Wei-Chang Yeh
ASPEED, NTHU, and CYCU Chair Professor, National TsingHua University, Taiwan

Biography: Dr. Wei-Chang Yeh is the ASPEED Chair Professor and Chair Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. He also serves as Chair Professor at Chung Yuan Christian University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Dr. Yeh’s research focuses on algorithm design, exact solution methods, soft computing, network reliability, AI-enabled decision systems, and NP-hard optimization problems. He has published more than 300 SCI-indexed journal papers and holds more than 70 patents. Since 2020, he has been listed among Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientists worldwide for both career-long and single-year impact. His major honors include two Outstanding Research Awards, one Distinguished Scholars Research Project Award, and two Overseas Research Fellowships from Taiwan’s MOST/NSTC.

He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Access, and Reliability Engineering & System Safety. He is the proposer of Simplified Swarm Optimization (SSO) and the Binary-Addition-Tree (BAT) framework. Dr. Yeh is also an NVIDIA University Ambassador for the Deep Learning Institute and has received NVIDIA research grant support. His recent work connects AI robotics, digital twins, reliability-aware navigation, and intelligent decision support for advanced manufacturing and autonomous systems.