William is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Environmental Biology and Fisheries Science, National Taiwan Ocean University. He has received his Ph.D. from the National Taiwan University and conducted his postdoctoral research at the Northwestern University, USA, and Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is currently the director of the Advanced Computation Laboratory, leading a research team in big data computation and physical cloud computation infrastructure construction, the coach of the competitive programming team of his institute, and a member of the special interest group (SIG) of the Agriculture 4.0 project.William is interested in cloud system implementation, big data analysis, embedded hardware and software design, and financial engineering. He developed the Financial Cloud infrastructure, a modular approach which various service providers and users can utilize. His current research lies in developing systems and algorithms for far seas, overseas, deep seas, and offshore fishery, including stock assessments, resource management and estimation, cloud infrastructure for monitoring, and oceanic big data processing. He is the father of the DeepSea 9 system, which uses the vessel monitoring system (VMS) system to track vessels of overseas fisheries. The Fisheries Agency of Taiwan has another system, namely the voyage data recorder (VDR) system for offshore and coastal fisheries. The information these systems hold is voluminous, nearly 10 thousand vessels including more than 58 billion rows of GPS data, fishing logbooks, transshipments and landing records, and administrative information. He is currently working on combining the 2 systems for the government.