# Phillip C.-Y. Sheu

Chen-Yu (Phillip) Sheu is a professor with joint appointments in electrical engineering, computer science and biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He has contributed to semantic computing, robotics computing, artificial intelligence, biomedical computing, and multimedia computing.
Sheu has published more than 100 papers on object-relational data, their applications and knowledge engineering. He has also written papers in Computer Science, drug discovery, biomedical engineering, and machine learning. Additionally, he published two books: Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems and Software Engineering and Environment - An Object-Oriented Perspective; and was co-editor of Semantic Computing (IEEE Press/Wiley).

## Education

Sheu, an American citizen originally from Taiwan has a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and an M.S. in Computer from UC Berkeley. In 1986, he completed his doctoral thesis Logic-oriented Object Bases under the guidance of C.V. Ramamoorthy.

## Career and contributions

Sheu's current research is about semantic computing. Currently, he is a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
He is known for starting the field of semantic computing; semantics addresses all the resources including data, documents, tools, devices, processes, and people. Moreover, the scope of Semantic Computing includes analytics, semantics description language and integration, interface, and its applications. The latest development of ChatGPT demonstrates the importance of semantic computing.
Sheu is also recognized for his founding role in renowned conferences and initiatives. He founded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Technical Committee on Semantic Computing (TCSEM) and the Institute for Semantic Computing Foundation. He has the vision behind the IEEE International Conferences of Semantic Computing (ICSC) and Transdisciplinary AI (TransAI).
Sheu is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC) and the Encyclopedia of Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence (ESCRI). These platforms have contributed to disseminating knowledge and advancements in the respective fields. At Systems Control Technology Inc. (SCT), he worked as a computer scientist, moreover, at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), he worked as a product planning engineer.

## Awards

Sheu received an IEEE fellow award in 2003. He is the inaugural educator-in-chief of the IEEE AI Academy and also the part of IEEE conferences.

## Books

He has published books on the state of the technology and future of semantic computing:
* Sheu, Phillip; Yu, Heather; Ramamoorthy, C. V.; Joshi, Arvind K.; Zadeh, Lotfi A. (2010-07-08). Semantic Computing. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-58821-5.
* Sheu, Phillip C.-Y.; Xue, Qing (1993). Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-02-0759-5.
* Sheu, Phillip C.-Y. (2012-12-06). Software Engineering and Environment: An Object-Oriented Perspective. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4615-5907-8.
He is also a co-editor of Semantic Computing (IEEE Press/Wiley).

## Research and publications

Sheu has published more than a hundred research papers since 1986 but his recent work in the field of semantic computing, bioinformatics, and health informatics is as follows:
* Li, Haosong; Sheu, Phillip C.-Y. (2022-03-28). "A scalable association rule learning and recommendation algorithm for large-scale microarray datasets". Journal of Big Data. 9 (1): 35. doi:10.1186/s40537-022-00577-4. ISSN 2196-1115.
* Li, Haosong; Sheu, Phillip C.-Y. (2021-06-09). "A scalable association rule learning heuristic for large datasets". Journal of Big Data. 8 (1): 86. doi:10.1186/s40537-021-00473-3. ISSN 2196-1115.
* Wang, Charles C. N.; Jin, Jennifer; Chang, Jan-Gowth; Hayakawa, Masahiro; Kitazawa, Atsushi; Tsai, Jeffrey J. P.; Sheu, Phillip C.-Y. (2020-09-03). "Identification of most influential co-occurring gene suites for gastrointestinal cancer using biomedical literature mining and graph-based influence maximization". BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 20 (1): 208. doi:10.1186/s12911-020-01227-6. ISSN 1472-6947. PMC 7469322. PMID 32883271.
* Chou, Chung-Hsien; Sheu, Phillip; Hayakawa, Masahiro; Kitazawa, Atsushi (2020-08-01). "Querying large graphs in biomedicine with colored graphs and decomposition". Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 108: 103503. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2020.103503. ISSN 1532-0464. PMID 32682828.
* Lin, Hsuan-Jen; Sheu, Phillip C.-Y.; Tsai, Jeffrey J. P.; Wang, Charles C. N.; Chou, Che-Yi (2020-05-24). "Text mining in a literature review of urothelial cancer using topic model". BMC Cancer. 20 (1): 462. doi:10.1186/s12885-020-06931-0. ISSN 1471-2407. PMC 7245902. PMID 32448176.
* Wang, Charles C. N.; Li, Chia Ying; Cai, Jia-Hua; Sheu, Phillip C.-Y.; Tsai, Jeffrey J. P.; Wu, Meng-Yu; Li, Chia-Jung; Hou, Ming-Feng (2019). "Identification of Prognostic Candidate Genes in Breast Cancer by Integrated Bioinformatic Analysis". Journal of Clinical Medicine. 8 (8): 1160. doi:10.3390/jcm8081160. ISSN 2077-0383. PMC 6723760. PMID 31382519.
* Wang, Shaoting; Zhang, Guigang; Sheu, Phillip; Hayakawa, Masahiro; Shigematsu, Hiroyuki; Kitazawa, Atsushi (2018). "Lossy Graph Data Reduction". International Journal of Semantic Computing. 12 (3): 425–456. doi:10.1142/S1793351X18500022. ISSN 1793-351X.
* Rahman, A. B. M. Mohaimenur; Li, Ting; Wang, Yu (2020). "Recent Advances in Indoor Localization via Visible Lights: A Survey". Sensors. 20 (5): 1382. Bibcode:2020Senso..20.1382R. doi:10.3390/s20051382. ISSN 1424-8220. PMC 7085740. PMID 32138305.
* Zhang, Mingxi; Li, Pohan; Wang, Wei (2017-05-16). "An index-based algorithm for fast on-line query processing of latent semantic analysis". PLOS ONE. 12 (5): e0177523. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1277523Z. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177523. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 5433746. PMID 28520747.
* Pouyanfar, Samira; Yang, Yimin; Chen, Shu-Ching; Shyu, Mei-Ling; Iyengar, S. S. (2018-01-10). "Multimedia Big Data Analytics: A Survey". ACM Computing Surveys. 51 (1): 10:1–10:34. doi:10.1145/3150226. ISSN 0360-0300.
* Wang, Charles C. N.; Sheu, Phillip C.-Y.; Tsai, Jeffrey J. P. (2015). "Towards Semantic Biomedical Problem Solving". International Journal of Semantic Computing. 09 (4): 415–431. doi:10.1142/S1793351X15500075. ISSN 1793-351X.