He received the distinguished paper award of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in 1990, the Outstanding Academy-Industry Cooperation Achievement Award granted by Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan, in 2002, and the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from CIEE in 2006. His research interests include logic and physical synthesis, design verification, CAD for low power and Network on Chips. He has published more than 160 technical papers. Dr. Jou is a Fellow of IEEE.

He was elected to the President of the Taiwan Integrated Circuit Design Society (TICD) 2007-2008. He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems from 2007 to 2010. He was the Technical Program Chairs of 2007 VLSI-DAT, the 12th VLSI Design/CAD Symposium (2001), and the Asia-Pacific Conference on Hardware Description Languages (APCHDL’97). He was the Honorary Chair of International Workshop on Multi-Project Chip (IWMC’06, 2006), and the Executive Chair of the 2nd Taiwan-Japan Microelectronics International Symposium (2002).