Professor Hung received his B.A. in Mathematics from the National Taiwan University, an M.B.A. in Statistics from the National Chengchi University and a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Michigan (in Ann Arbor), USA.
Professor Hung entered academia in Taiwan right after receiving the Ph.D. degree. Before joining the faculty of the Institute of Industrial Engineering at NTU, he had taught at the Institute of Statistics of the National Central University (NCU) and the Department of Statistics of the National Chengchi University (NCCU), and severed as the department Chair and the Director of the Statistical Consulting Center at NCCU. In addition, Professor Hung was the adjunct professor at the NTU Math Dept and the Taipei Medical University (College of Nursing), the Board of Directors for the Chinese Institute of Probability and Statistics, and the Contracted Visiting Professor and visiting scholar for a number of international research institutes, including the Informatics Institute at the University of Florida, the Dept. of Membership Knowledge & Growth at the Microsoft Corporation, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics and Doshisha University in Japan, the Dept. of Statistics & Applied Probability at the National Singapore University, etc. Professor Hung is now serving on the Board of Directors for the Asian Section Region of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC-ARS), founded by the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
Professor Hung’s research interest includes: Computational Statistics (computer simulation, experiments, modelling and statistical output analysis), uncertainty quantification, applied statistics, stochastic control and optimization, statistical machine learning, Granger causality test and applications in data science.
More information is available on Professor Hung’s personal website.