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ProfileNational Cheng Kung University (NCKU) reaches out from the historic city of Tainan in Taiwan. It is a university with a pragmatic academic climate, solid research strengths, an international learning environment, interdisciplinary innovation, effective academia-industry cooperation and a pragmatic approach to issues. It is a school that actively exerts a positive influence in many areas of endeavour while simultaneously embracing the world.NCKU’s practical academic climate is conducive to the steadfast pursuit of knowledge and truth. Since its foundation, NCKU has undergone tremendous transformation and growth. Today the school comprises 10 colleges: Engineering; Management; Liberal Arts; Sciences; Medicine; Social Science; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Planning and Design; Bioscience and Biotechnology; and Computing. Within these colleges there are 43 undergraduate programmes, 36 independent graduate institutes and nine degree programmes. The colleges are located on the main campus, while the Kuei-Jen, An-Nan and Dou-Liu campuses are home to, respectively, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory and NCKU Hospital Dou-Liou Branch. These features make NCKU one of the most academically comprehensive research universities in the region.NCKU is a university that promotes high self-expectations for the future of the country and for social responsibility. Today, NCKU students originate from more than 80 countries. Currently, there are about 22,000 students enrolled at NCKU with the number of alumni reaching 190,000 globally. NCKU believes that a university should nourish the culture of society and all citizens, while acting as an integral element of enlightenment among individuals. NCKU embraces educational innovation, research excellence and social responsibility as the main axis to build a pioneering university with teaching, research and social responsibility as the vision for excellence.NCKU prioritises talent cultivation. In addition to improving students’ domain knowledge, it also aims to equip students with language proficiency; knowledge of the world’s many cultural values; flexibility to adapt to any environment; and familiarity with the use of information technology. All these abilities are necessary for world-class, globally mobile talent. In the Global 2000 Leading Companies for 2017, published by Forbes, NCKU ranked 48th among universities worldwide in terms of number of alumni who have gone on to become CEOs.NCKU has always been a national leader in terms of performance in industry-academia collaboration. Funding from such collaboration at NCKU reached NT$4.79 billion (£100 million) in 2019. NCKU has also achieved excellent performance in terms of income derived from intellectual property rights, and in terms of number of patents and utility models. NCKU’s results from collaboration with enterprise also lead the nation. In the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, NCKU ranked 16th in the world in terms of industry income per staff member. It was counted among the top 100 universities worldwide in the number of US patents approved from 2012 to 2019. The amount of technology transfer signing fees collected each year has exceeded NT$100 million for 11 consecutive years since 2009. NCKU is the only university in the nation to achieve such performance.With effective interdisciplinary integration and outstanding academic achievement, and through its research centers, NCKU stays in close touch with social trends and developments. It assumes a core role in industry and public policy, social engagement and sustainable innovation, and its achievement in these are well recognised around the world. Miin Wu School of ComputingNCKU transforms the moment with computing to weave the future with intelligenceTo cultivate talents and implement computing in fields that help to make a better world, the Miin Wu School of Computing at NCKU, based on the excellent foundations of NCKU as a comprehensive university, is designed to link external industry resources to provide a complete cross-disciplinary teaching and research environment.Announced in August 2020, a gift of NT$1 billion from Macronix Electronics represents a fully supported commitment of NCKU towards the Miin Wu School of Computing. As mentioned at the launching ceremony by NCKU president Huey-Jen Jenny Su, with this donation NCKU seeks to propose fundamental solutions, create a new era of interdisciplinary computing talent cultivation, and set a new paradigm in Taiwan.Vision and aimsBilingual: cultivate talents with dual competency (both domain-specific and computing expertise)X-disciplinary: bring together niches of the nine colleges to develop computing-centric, cross-disciplinary technologies and applicationsV-integration: conduct requirements analysis and system design to benefit human societyI-liaison: establish solid industrial and international links FeaturesThe School of Computing consists of degree programmes – associated with the research centers – and industrial liaison programmes. Featured programmes and strategies include:Application-oriented research and interdisciplinary programmesBalanced funding from the private sector and governmentTightly coupled industrial liaison programmesInterdisciplinary research centers for all faculty membersHighly flexible and industry-oriented degree programmesInnovative international and industrial collaboration Academic programmesVarious cross-disciplinary programmes are on offer, including both degree programmes and credit programmes, tailored for different applications while linking the School of Computing with the existing colleges of NCKU. The programmes listed below will soon be open to students. Graduate programmesAI robotics graduate programmesIntelligent computing graduate programmesIntelligent computing industrial doctorate programme Computational biomedicine graduate programmesUndergraduate programmesIntelligent computing credit programme for EECS and non-EECS students Research centersThe research centers in Miin Wu School of Computing are eager to form strong, large-scale research and development teams aiming at high-impact, long-term projects. The topics will be aligned with the degree programmes and industrial liaison programmes. Upcoming openings of research centers include: Center for AI Robotics Service robotics and related applicationsCenter for Future Computing Memory-centric computingNeuromorphic computingQuantum computingCenter for Computational Biomedicine Industrial liaison programmesThe industrial liaison programmes are associated with the research centers, the industrial master’s and doctorate programmes, and extension courses in the Miin Wu School of Computing. This is in addition to international collaboration on joint educational programmes, courses and research projects, as well as exchange programmes for faculty members and students.