Dr. Chih-Chen Kao (高至辰) earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2017.

He has successfully led numerous outsourcing projects and software developments across a wide range of domains, including Linux kernel development, financial systems, and mobile applications. From 2011 to 2012, he was invited to participate in the OPTIMI (Online Predictive Tools for Intervention in Mental Illness) program, a research initiative funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme Personal Health Systems, hosted at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

His areas of expertise encompass Computer Graphics, Physically-Based Rendering, Heterogeneous Computing, and Parallel Computing.

On a personal note, he regards programming as a lifelong passion, often expressing, “While others may code to live, I live to code.”