Yean-Ru Chen

Brief Biography

Yean-Ru Chen received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC in 2002. From 2002 to 2003, she was employed as an engineer in SoC Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC. She received the M.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the National Chung Cheng University, ChiaYi, Taiwan, ROC in 2006. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. Her current research interests include model checking, safety-critical systems, Electronic System Level (ESL) Design and Multi-Core embedded software.

My advisors

Dr. Sao-Jie Chen (GIEE,NTU) and Dr. Pao-Ann Hsiung (CSIE,CCU)

Publication list

International Journal Papers

(1) P.-A.Hsiung, S.-W.Lin, Y.-R.Chen, C.-H.Huang, and W. C. Chu, "Modeling and Verification of Real-Time Embedded Systems with Urgency," has been accepted by Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) (SCI), Elsevier, 2009. (accepted for publication).

(2) P.-A. Hsiung, Y.-R. Chen and Y.-H. Lin, "Model Checking Safety-Critical Systems using Safecharts," IEEE Transactions on Computers (SCI), Vol. 56, No. 5, pp. 692-705, May 2007.

(3) Y.-R. Chen and P.-A. Hsiung, "Automatic Failure Analysis using Safecharts", International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) (SCI), Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 57-78, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, February 2007.(an SEKE'2005 special issue, out of 225 submissions and 115 paper presentations, only 5 papers were published in this special issue)

Books and Chapters

(1) P.-A. Hsiung , Y.-H. Lin, and Y.-R. Chen, "Safecharts Model Checking for the Verification of Safety-Critical Systems," in Verification, Validation and Testing in Software Engineering , editors Aristides Dasso, Ana Funes, IDEA Group, Inc., USA, ISBN: 1-59140-851-2, 2007.

International Conference Papers

(1) Y.-R. Chen, T.-Y. Chen, P.-A. Hsiung, S.-J. Chen and Y.-H. Hu, "Compositional Automata Reduction with Non-critical Path Slicing," The 2009 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'09), (accepted as a Regular Research Paper), July 2009. (Acceptance Rate = 24%)

(2) P.-A. Hsiung, C.-S. Lin, S.-W. Lin, Y.-R. Chen, C.-H. Lu, S.-Y. Tong, W.-T. Su, C. Shih, C.-S. Koong, N.-L. Hsueh, C.-H. Chang, William C. Chu, "VERTAF/Multi-Core: A SysML-based Application Framework for Multi-Core Embedded Software Development," Proceedings of the International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), LNCS, Springer Verlag, (accepted for presentation), June 2009.

(3) P.-A. Hsiung, S.-W. Lin, Y.-R. Chen, N.-L. Hsueh, C.-H. Chang, C.-H. Shih, C.-S. Koong, C.-S. Lin, C.-H. Lu, S.-Y. Tong, W.-T. Su, and W. C. Chu, "Model-Driven Development of Multi-Core Embedded Software," Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multicore Software Engineering (IWMSE), (accepted for presentation), May 2009.

(4) Y.-R. Chen, P.-A. Hsiung, and S.-J. Chen, "Modeling and Automatic Failure Analysis of Safety-Critical Systems using Extended Safecharts," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP, Nuremberg, Germany), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 4680, pp. 451-464, Springer Verlag, September 2007. (Acceptance Rate = 33/136 = 24.26%)

(5) P.-A. Hsiung , S.-W. Lin, Y.-R. Chen, C.-H. Huang, J.-J. Yeh, H.-Y. Sun, C.-S. Lin, and H.-W. Liao, "Model Checking Timed Systems with Urgencies," Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA, Beijing, China), LNCS Vol. 4218, pp. 67-81, Springer-Verlag, October 2006. (Acceptance Rate = 35/137 = 25.6%)

(6) S.-W. Lin, P.-A. Hsiung , C.-H. Huang, and Y.-R. Chen, "Model Checking Prioritized Timed Automata," Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA, Taipei, Taiwan), LNCS Vol. 3707, pp. 370-384, Springer Verlag, October 2005.

Others (Chinese Articles, Technical Reports, ...)

(1) Y.-R. Chen, Y.-H. Lin, and P.-A. Hsiung , "Model Checking Safety-Critical Systems using Safecharts," Electron Technology Information Magazine , Volume 66, pp. 41-45, Gal-Lant Co. Ltd., Taiwan, June 2006. (in Chinese)

Awards and Honors

Annual Excellent Thesis Award of Institute of Information & Computing Machinery,2006. (Acceptance Rate: 12%)

Interests

Badminton : 1998 - 2001 one of badmiton team of CSIE,NCTU had won the third among the winners of the contest on CSCUP on 1999 and 2000. (大專院校資訊盃男女混雙,交大資工季軍)

swimming , traveling , cooking and etc.

Mail to me : d95943037 AT ntu.edu.tw

©2009 Yean-Ru Chen at Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering of National Taiwan University