Wei-Pang Yang was born on May 17, 1950 in Hualien, TAIWAN. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from National Taiwan Normal University in 1974, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the National Chiao Tung University in 1979 and 1984, respectively, both in computer engineering.
Since August 1979, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. In the academic year 1985-1986, he was awarded the National Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. From 1986 to 1987. He was the Director of the Computer Center of National Chiao Tung University. In August 1988, he joined the Department of Computer and Information Science at National Chiao Tung University, and acted as the Head of the Department for one year. Then he went to IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California for another one year as visiting scientist. From 1990 to 1992, he was the Head of the Department of Computer and Information Science again. He was the visiting scholar of the University of Washington in Seattle for one year in 1996-97. He was the Director of University Library from 1988-2004.
Back to home town Hualien. Since 2004 he has transferred to National Dong Hwa University at Hualien (the most beautiful county in Taiwan and Wei-Pang was born here). And acted as the Head of the Department of Information Management. Now he is the Dean of College of Management. His research interests include database theory and application, information retrieval, data miming, digital library, and digital museum.
Dr. Yang is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ACM. He was the winner of the 1988, and 1992 AceR Long Term Award for Outstanding M.S. Thesis Supervision, 1993 AceR Long Term Award for Outstanding Ph. D. Dissertation Supervision, and the winner of 1990 Outstanding Paper Award of the Computer Society of the Republic of China. He also obtained the Outstanding Research Award of National Science Council of Taiwan. And he was the winner of the Outstanding Project Award, National Chiao Tung University, 2004.
