Chen Wen-tsuen (Chinese: 陳文村; pinyin: Chén Wéncūn; born 27 May 1948) is an ethnic Taiwanese computer scientist, a distinguished research fellow at the Academia Sinica and a lifelong national chair of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan.
He has since witnessed and contributed to its development from an agrarian economy to a world center for ICT technologies and products.
Chen started his academic career as a faculty member of the computer science program of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of National Tsing Hua University.
During his 4-year term of presidency, the university was noted for initiating the "Project Thousand Points of Light" (繁星計畫) university entrance program, which was enthusiastically endorsed and adopted by the Ministry of Education,[2] and launching the Tsing Hua College (清華學院]), a residential college for undergraduate education, the first of its kind in Taiwan.
In 2008 Chen met with Vice President Chang Shih-Lin and together they held a press conference with Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators.
[9] In March 2012 he joined the Academia Sinica as a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Information Science.
His research results have been used in an automated software testing system designed for NASA of United States.
From 2000 for eight years, Chen was the principal investigator of a project under the Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the National Science Council, leading a team of researchers from National Tsing Hua University and National Chiao Tung University to research on broadband packet switching networks, heterogeneous wireless networks, and advanced Internet applications.