• Taiwan \ National Taiwan University \ Electrical Engineering \ Ph.D(1999 ~ 2003)
• Taiwan \ National Tsing Hua University \ Computer Science \ M.S.(1994 ~ 1996)
• Taiwan \ National Tsing Hua University \ Computer Science \ B.S.(1989 ~ 1994)

• Taiwanese Association of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) \ \ Chair (2021 ~ now)
• The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) \ \ Vice Chair (2021 ~ now)
• National Cheng Kung University \ Computer Science and Information Engineering \ Professor (2014 ~ now)
• National Cheng Kung University \ Computer Science and Information Engineering \ Associate Professor (2011 ~ 2014)
• National Cheng Kung University \ Computer Science and Information Engineering \ Assistant Professor (2004 ~ 2011)
• Academia Sinica \ Institute of Information Science \ Post-doctoral Fellow (2003 ~ 2004)
• Academia Sinica \ Institute of Information Science \ Research Assistant (1996 ~ 2003)

• 國立成功大學電資學院輔導優良導師, 2014
• 台灣綜合大學系統年輕學者創新競賽佳作獎, 2014
• 國立成功大學教學傑出教師, 2011
• Reseach Grant of Intel Research Quad Core Seeding Program, 2007
• Biographical Listings in Marquis\'s Who\'s Who in Science and Engineering 10th Anniversary Edition, 2007-2008
• Research Grant of Intel Research Quad Core Seeding Program
• Biographical Listings in Marquis\'s Who\'s Who in Science and Engineering 9th Anniversary Edition, 2006-2007
• Long Term Award for PhD Thesis, Acer Foundation

Refereed Papers

• Y.-T. Tang, H.-Y. Kao, S.-J. Tsai, H.-C. Wang "A semi-supervised, weighted pattern-learning approach for extraction of gene regulation relationships from scientific literature" nternational Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Vol. 9, No. 4SCI
• C.-H. Wei, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu "PubTator: a Web-based text mining tool for assisting Biocuration" Nucleic Acids Research, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt441, 2013SCI
• C.-H. Wei, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu "PubTator: a Web-based text mining tool for assisting Biocuration" Nucleic Acids Research, 2013; doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt441SCI
• S. V. Landeghem, J. Bjorne, C.-H. Wei, K. Hakala, S. Pyysalo, S. Ananiadou, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu, T. Salakoski, Y. V. de Peer, F. Ginter "Large-Scale Event Extraction from Literature with Multi-Level Gene Normalization" PLOS ONE, doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0055814, 2013SCI
• C.-H. Wei, B. R. Harris, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu "tmVar: A text mining approach for extracting sequence variants in biomedical literature" Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt156, 2013SCI
• C.-H. Wei and H.-Y. Kao "Unsupervised Corpus Distillation for Represented Indicator Measurement on Focus Species Detection" International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 8(4): 413-426SCI
• W.-T. Yang, and H.-Y. Kao "Measuring Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia Signed Network" Journal of Information Science and Engineering Vol. 29, No. 4, 615-630SCI
• C.-H. Wei, B. R. Harris, D. Li, T. Z. Berardini, E. H., H.-Y. Kao, and Z. Lu "Accelerating literature curation with text mining tools: A case study of using PubTator to curate genes in PubMed abstracts" Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, 2012:bas041. doi: 10.1093/database/bas041, 2012SCI
• Y.-T. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "Augmented Transitive Relationships with High Impact Protein Distillation in Protein Interaction Prediction" BBA - Proteins and Proteomics, Volume 1824, Issue 12, December 2012, Pages 1468–1475, DOI:10.1016/j.bbapap.2012.05.013, 2012SCI
• C.-H. Wei, H.-Y. Kao, Z. Lu "SR4GN: A Species Recognition Software Tool for Gene Normalization" PLoS ONE 7(6): e38460. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038460, 2012SCI
• H.-C. Wang, Y.-S. Chen, H.-Y. Kao and S.-J. Tsai "Inference of transcriptional regulatory network by bootstrapping patterns" Bioinformatics, 27(10), 1422-1428, 2011SCI
• Y.-T. Tang, S.-J. Li, H.-Y. Kao, S.-J. Tsai and H.-C. Wang "Using Unsupervised Patterns to Extract Gene Regulation Relationships for Network Construction" PLoS ONE 6(5): e19633. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019633, May 2011SCI
• Z. Lu, H.-Y. Kao, C.-H. Wei, et. al. "The Gene Normalization Task in BioCreative III" BMC Bioinformatics 12(Suppl 8):S2, 2011SCI
• C.-H. Wei and H.-Y. Kao "Cross-species gene normalization by species inference" BMC Bioinformatics 12(Suppl 8):S5, 2011.SCI
• C.-L. Lin, H.-Y. Kao "Blog Popularity Mining Using Social Interconnection Analysis" IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 41-49, 2010SCI
• H.-Y. Kao, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "WISDOM: Web Intra-page Informative Structure Mining based on Document Object Model" IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, May 2005SCI EI
• H.-Y. Kao, S.-H. Lin, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "Mining Web Information Structures and Contents based on Entropy Analysis" IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2004SCI EI

Conference Papers

• Y.-F. Lin and H.-Y. Kao "The Retrieval of Important News Stories by Influence Propagation among Communities and Categories" Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2012), Dec. 4 - Dec. 6, 2012.EI
• L.-C. Lai and H.-Y. Kao "Question Routing by Modeling User Expertise and Activity in cQA services" Proc. of the 26th Annual Conference of JSAI, Yamaguchi, Japan, 2012
• C.-H. Wei, H.-Y. Kao and Z. Lu "PubTator: A PubMed-like interactive curation system for document triage and literature curation" BioCreative 2012 workshop, Washington DC, USA, 145-150, 2012
• Y.-Y. Hsu and H.-Y. Kao "CoIN: a network exploration for document triage" BioCreative 2012 workshop, Washington DC, USA, 39-44, 2012
• Y.-T. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "Augmented Transitive Relationships with High Impact Protein Distillation in Protein Interaction Prediction" Proc. of the 10th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC-2012), Jan. 17-19, 2012
• Wen-Teng Yang and H.-Y. Kao "Measuring Semantic Relatedness using Wikipedia Revision Information in a Signed Network" Proc. of the 2011 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2011), Nov. 11-13, 2011
• H.-Y. Kao, Y.-T. Tang and J.-F. Wang "Evolutional dependency parse trees for biological relation extraction" Proc. of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE-2011), Oct. 24-26, 2011
• H.-C. Huang and H.-Y. Kao "CAIS: Community based Annotation Insight Search in a Folksonomy Network" Proc. of 2011 International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM-2011), July 25-July 27, 2011.
• Y.-T. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "Augmented Transitive Relationships in Direct Protein–Protein Interaction Prediction" Proc. of 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine (IIBM-2011), June 30- July 2, 2011.
• Y.-T. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "TransDomain: A Transitive Domain-Based Method in Protein–Protein Interaction Prediction" Proc. of 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA-2011), May 27-29, 2011.
• Y.-F. Lin, J.-H. Wang, L.-C. Lai, H.-Y. Kao "Top Stories Identification From Blog to News In TREC 2010 Blog Track" Proc. of TREC-2010, 2010.
• H.-Y. Kao and C.-H. Wei "Inference network method on cross species gene normalization in full-text articles" Proc. of 2010 BioCreative III workshop, Bethesda, Maryland, 73-81, 2010.
• C.-H. Wei and H.-Y. Kao "Represented Indicator Measurement and Corpus Distillation on Focus Species Detection" Proc. of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM-2010), Dec. 18-21, 2010.
• Y.-L. Chen and H.-Y. Kao "Finding Hard Questions by Knowledge Gap Analysis in Question Answer Communities" Proc. of the Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS-2010), December 1-3, 2010.
• H.-Y. Kao and Z.-Y. Lin "A Categorized Sentiment Analysis of Chinese Reviews by Mining Dependency in Product Features and Opinions from Blogs" Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2010), Sept 1-3, 2010.
• C.-L. Lin, H.-L. Tang and H.-Y. Kao "Utilizing Social Relationships for Blog Popularity Mining" Proc. of the The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS-2009), October 21-23, 2009.
• H.-Y. Kao and W.-T. Cho "Entropy-based Visual Tree Evaluation on Block Extraction" Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2009), Sept 15-18, 2009.
• H.-Y. Kao, C.-S. Liu, C.-C. Shih and T.-M. Tsai "DRANK+: a directory based pagerank prediction method for fast pagerank convergence" Proc. of 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST'08)
• H.-Y. Kao, H.-W. Hsiao, C.-L. Lin, C.-C. Shih and T.-M. Tsai "An Entropy-Based Hierarchical Search Result Clustering Method by Utilizing Augmented Information" Proc. of the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS'08)
• H.-Y. Kao and S.-F. Lin "A Fast PageRank Convergence Method based on the Cluster Prediction" Proc. of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2007)
• Yi-Feng Tseng, Hung-Yu Kao "The Mining and Extraction of Primary Informative Blocks and Data Objects from Systematic Web Pages" 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2006)
• C.-L. Lin and H.-Y. Kao "Query Result Aggregation on Multiple Search Engines" Proc. of International Workshop on Software Engineering, Databases, and Knowledge Discovery
• Yi-Feng Tseng, H.-Y. Kao "Web Information Hierarchy and Importance Mining Based on DOM Information Distillation" Proceedings of the 5th Emerging Information Technology Conference (EITC-05)
• I-Ane Huang, Jan-Ming Ho, Hung-Yu Kao, Wen-Chang Lin "Extracting Citation Metadata from Online Publication Lists Using BLAST" Proceedings of the Eighth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-04)
• H.-Y. Kao, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "DOMISA: DOM-based Information Space Adsorption for Web Information Hierarchy Mining" Proc. of the 4th SIAM Intern'l Conference on Data Mining (SDM-04)
• H.-Y. Kao, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "Clustering for Web Information Hierarchy Mining" Proc. of the IEEE 2003 Intern'l Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI-2003)
• H.-Y. Kao, S.-H. Lin, J.-M. Ho and M.-S. Chen "Entropy-Based Link Analysis for Mining Web Informative Structures" Proceedings of the ACM 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-02)
• Chia-Hui Wang, H.-Y. Kao, Shin-Hung Chang, Ray-I Chang, Shun-Chin Hsu, Jan-Ming Ho "Design and Implementation of an Interactive True VOD System on ADSL with Scarce Resources at the Set-top Box" The International Computer Symposium on Workshop on Computer Networks, Internet, and Multimedia, 2000
• H.-Y. Kao, Shin-Yuan Iap, Yau-Tsung Lee, Shian-Hua Lin, et. al. "Design and Implementation of ASIS Multimedia Digital Library" Proceedings of SPIE on Multimedia Systems and Applications, 1999
• H.-Y. Kao, Sin-Yuan Iap, Chin-Fu Ku, Yau-Tsung Lee, Shian-Hua Lin, Yu-Chung Pan, Chi-Sheng Shih, Chia-Hui Wang, Yu-Chung, Meng-Chang Chen, Jan-Ming Ho, Ming-Ta Kao "ASIS MDL: a prototype electronic content service" IEEE workshop on Dependable and Real-time E-Commerce Systems, Denver, 1998
• H.-Y. Kao, Yu-Chen Kuo, Shing-Tsaan Huang, Biing-Feng Wang "Design and Implementation of a PC-based Video-On-Demand System" The 12th International Conference on information Networking (ICOIN-12), Jan 1998