RS member in IEEE Fellow Class of 2014


This year the Reliability Society has a senior member named IEEE Fellow. Professor Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh is being recognized for advances in pattern-oriented intrusion detection and fault-tolerant protection. Dr. Shieh’s intrusion detection technology is regarded as having profound, ground breaking impacts. He (along with Virgil Gligor of CMU) invented the first US patent in the intrusion detection field. His work discovered the shared context-dependent data and privilege flow property of seemingly unrelated intrusion types caused by systemic and operational security problems. Based on his discoveries, all new models and implementations track both data and privilege flows in computer systems and networks to detect context-dependent intrusions, enabling the uniform representation of various types of intrusion patterns.

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one-percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

Prof. Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh is a professor and the past chair of the Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), and the Director of Taiwan Information Security Center at NCTU. He is actively involved in IEEE Reliability Society where he has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Program Chair of IEEE Software Security and Reliability (SERE), and Chair of IEEE Reliability Society Taipei/Tainan Chapter. During his term as the chapter chair, the Chapter received the best chapter award from both the RS society and the IEEE Taipei Section (among the 41 chapters in TS), respectively. He is also an ACM Distinguished Scientist. His research interest includes reliability and security hybrid mechanisms, network and system security, and software program behavior analysis.

Prof. Shieh is also awarded recently with 2013 NCTU Distinguished Teaching Award where only less than 1% of NCTU’s faculty members are selected annually.


In the photo: Professor Shieh at the Yellow Mountain.

2013 Annual NCTU Distinguished Teaching Award Ceremony
(From left to right: NCTU President Yan-Hwa Wu, Professor Shieh)