He has received many awards for his work and teaching, including the Best Paper Award for Young Scholars by the IEEE Communications Society and IT Society (Taipei/Tainan Chapters) in 2009, the NCTU Excellent Teaching Award and the NCTU Outstanding Mentoring Award (both in 2007).Po-Ning Chen is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). Amongst his awards, he has received the 2000 Young Scholar Paper Award from Academia Sinica. He was also selected as the Outstanding Tutor Teacher of NCTU in 2002 and he received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003.