Pu-Jen Cheng

Professor Pu-Jen Cheng is affiliated with National Taiwan University as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and jointly appointed at the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia. He serves as Director of the Web Mining and Information Retrieval Laboratory.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University (2001)
• Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica (2001–2006)
• Professor at National Taiwan University (2006–present)

Research Interests: Focuses on Information Retrieval, Text Mining, and Machine Learning, with applications in Multimedia Databases, Chinese Information Processing, and Information Extraction. His work explores neural language models, recommendation systems, and graph-based approaches.

Scientific Awards:

• Microsoft Research Awards (2008, 2016)
• Google Research Award (2007)
• ROCLING Best Paper Award (2009)
• Multiple National Taiwan University Excellent Teaching Awards (2014–2021)
• Appier AI Chair Professorship (2022)

Professional Leadership: Serves as Director of the ACM-ICPC Contest Council for Taiwan and holds editorial roles for journals like International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. He has chaired major conferences including Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference (AIRS) and ROCLING IR Workshop.