Chia-Ho Ou received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and the dean of the College of Computer Science, National Pingtung University, Pingtung, Taiwan. He was a visiting professor with the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, a visiting scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, and a visiting scholar with the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. His current research interests include Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet of Things. Dr. Ou was a recipient of the Lam Research Thesis Award. He is a member of the IEEE, the ACM, and the Phi Tau Phi Honor Scholastic Society.

Our college, in collaboration with Compal Electronics, jointly promotes the establishment of the "Quantum Computing Center," officially launching in June 2024. This groundbreaking initiative marks the inauguration of the nation's first domestically developed quantum annealing computing center, representing a significant milestone in quantum computing and breaking the previous dominance of foreign technologies in quantum annealing systems.

The center will utilize GPU-accelerated quantum annealing services provided by Compal Electronics on our NVIDIA GPU servers to support research activities. Additionally, the center aims to advance the research and application of quantum computing technology through academic journal publications and collaborations with related industries.