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University of Southern California


Chun-Nan Hsu
 
 
  
 Honors & Patents  
 
 Honors and Awards  
 
  Senior Member , Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2011.  
 
  1st place winner, Biocreative 3 Challenge Evaluation for Gene Normalization Task, September 2010, Bathesda, MD, 2010.  
 
  Best Newcomer Award, Pascal Large Scale Learning Challenge in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2008), 2008. (with Post-doc Han-Shen Huang)  
 
  2nd and 3rd place winners, BioCreative 2 Challenge Evaluation for Gene Mention Task, April 2007, National Center for Cancer Research, Madrid, Spain; and 1st place winner for an unbiased test corpus, 2007.  
 
  The Best e-Government Application Award, IT Month Exhibitions, for a project that automatically integrated more than 4000 heterogeneous information sources of the government agencies in Taiwan. (Awardee: Research Development and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, Taiwan.), 2003.  
 
  Innovation Research Award, Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. (Awardee: DeepSpot Intelligent Systems Inc.), 2003.  
 
  The First Linux Golden Penguin Award, the best Linux software products in Taiwan, Taipei Computer Association, Taipei, Taiwan. (Awardee: DeepSpot Intelligent Systems Inc.), 2003.  
 
  Best poster paper award, the first place winner, Symposium and Workshop of Bioinformatics in Taiwan, September 5, 2003, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, 2003.  
 
  Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Adviser award, Institute of Information and Computing Machinery (IICM), Taiwan (joint society of ACM in Taiwan), 2002.  
 
  Best paper award finalist, Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT-2001), Maebashi city, Japan, 2001.  
 
  Best leadership award, International Students Office, University of Southern California, CA, USA., 1994.  
 
  Academic achievement award, International Student Office, University of Southern California, CA, USA., 1992.  
 
 Patents  
 
  System and method for semi-structured electronic documents rapid information extraction and retrieval  
  Chun-Nan Hsu and Chien-Chi Chang  
  Taiwan ROC Patent No. 145175I, December 1, 2001 - November 16, 2019.  
 
 Patents Pending  
 
  Recognizing multiple appliance operating states using circuit-level electrical information.  
  Chun-Nan Hsu et al.  
  US Patent No. 61/353,847, June 11, 2010.  
 
 
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