The research interests of Prof. Kuo include embedded systems, non-volatile memory storage/memory software designs (such as those of flash memory and PCM), neuromorphic computing, and real-time systems.
Dr. Kuo is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and US Academy of Inventors. He is also now an executive committee member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems and the Vice Chair of SIGAPP. He also served as a member in the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee (Computer Society, 2011, 2013). He received the highest honor from the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems in 2017: The Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award. He also received the Distinguished Leadership Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems in 2017. He received the Distinguished Research Award from the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation and the Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Chair Professorship from the Far Eastern Y. Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation both in 2018, the TECO Award in 2015, the Distinguished Research Award from the ROC National Science Council/Ministry of Science and Technology in 2003, 2011, and 2014, the Distinguished EE Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2007, the ROC Ten Young Outstanding Persons Award in 2004, the Young Research Investigators Award from Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC, in 2001, and the Investigative Research Award from the Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, Taiwan, ROC, in 1999, and received teaching awards from the National Taiwan University in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015, including the Distinguished Teaching Award (top 1%; 2005). Prof. Kuo was a chair of the Embedded Systems Group of the Networked Communication Program Office. He is the Program Director of the Computer Science Division of the ROC National Science Council/Ministry of Science and Technology since January 2013.