Shang-Ho (Lawrence) Tsai received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), USA, in August 2005. From June 1999 to July 2002, he was with Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation (SiS), where he participated the VLSI design for DMT-ADSL systems. From September 2005 to January 2007, he was with MediaTek Inc. (MTK) participating in the VLSI design for MIMO-OFDM systems and standard specifications for IEEE 802.11n. Since February 2007, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (now National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), where he is currently a Professor. From June 2013 to December 2013, he was a Visiting Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University.
His research interests are in the areas of signal processing for communications, statistical signal processing, and machine learning. He was in the Editorial Board of IEEE SigPort in 2018-2020. He is an Editor of APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing since 2022. He is in the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM TC) of IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2023-2025.
Dr. Tsai was awarded a Government Scholarship for Overseas Study from the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, from 2002 to 2005. He was awarded the Micron Teacher Award in 2018. He is a distinguished lecturer in the APSIPA in 2022-2023.