Lifetime Achievement Award
Recognizing outstanding contributions
Dr. Tei-Wei Kuo
CTO, Delta Electronics · Academician, Academia Sinica
Dr. Tei-Wei Kuo
CTO, Delta Electronics · Academician, Academia Sinica
Pioneering hardware–software co-design for durable non-volatile storage, with landmark contributions to embedded and real-time systems.
About
Dr. Kuo received his bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from National Taiwan University and the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 and 1994, respectively. He is CTO of Delta Electronics and was a Distinguished Professor in Computer Science and Information Engineering and Interim President of National Taiwan University from October 2017 to January 2019. His research interests include flash-memory storage systems, non-volatile memory systems, and embedded systems. Dr. Kuo is an Academician of Academia Sinica and a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and the US National Academy of Inventors.
Legacy & Achievements
Pioneering Durable Flash-Memory Systems
Dr. Kuo pioneered hardware-software co-design of flash-memory storage systems, overcoming the scalability limits of traditional ECC-based hardware solutions through intelligent distribution of read, write, and erase interference across chips and through static wear leveling. He also made foundational contributions to address mapping, initialization, and striping architecture.
Foundational Advances in Real-Time Computing
He is widely recognized for fundamental technical contributions to real-time task scheduling theories, advancing the foundations of embedded and real-time computing systems.
Shaping the Global Research Community
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems from 2015 to 2021 and serves as Chair of ACM SIGAPP from 2023 to 2027. He also served as Program Chair and General Chair of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium and as General Chair of ESWEEK 2025.
A Career of International Distinction
His honors include the Humboldt Research Award, Taiwan's Ministry of Education Academic Award, the National Science and Technology Council Distinguished Research Award, the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award, and best paper awards from ACM/IEEE CODES in 2019, 2022, and 2024.
Dr. Goichiro Hanaoka
Principal Researcher, AIST, Japan
Dr. Goichiro Hanaoka
Principal Researcher, AIST, Japan
Advancing cryptographic science from foundational research to real-world deployment—and shaping its global research community.
About
Dr. Hanaoka received his B.E. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering from the same university in 2002. After serving as a JSPS Research Fellow (PD), he joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2005 and has been a Principal Researcher since 2021. For nearly three decades, he has devoted his career to the research, development, and social implementation of advanced cryptographic technologies.
Legacy & Achievements
Advancing the Frontiers of Modern Cryptography
More than 270 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in advanced cryptography, including multi-party computation, identity-based encryption, attribute-based encryption, proxy re-encryption, homomorphic encryption, and zero-knowledge proofs.
Shaping the International Cryptographic Community
He has served in numerous leadership roles in the international cryptographic community, including Chair of the PKC Steering Committee, Program Co-Chair of ASIACRYPT 2025, Program Chair of PKC 2022 and IWSEC 2012, General Chair of PKC 2013, and General Co-Chair of MobiSec 2024 and 2025, among many other Program Chair, General Chair, and committee appointments.
Recognition for Scientific Excellence
He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards in Japan, including the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the 15th NTT DOCOMO Mobile Science Award (Advanced Technology Division). He also received the AIST President's Award twice as project leader.
Leadership in Japan's Strategic Research Programs
He has led numerous large-scale national research projects in Japan as Principal Investigator and currently serves as PI of a project under the Economic Security Critical Technology Development Program (K Program). He also contributed to the Cabinet Office's Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) as a Sub-Program Director.
Bringing Cryptographic Research into Practice
As a Principal Researcher at AIST, Dr. Hanaoka has conducted numerous industry-academia collaborative projects and contributed to the practical deployment of advanced cryptographic technologies through extensive collaboration with industrial partners.