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B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department/Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1986, 1988, and 1993, respectively.

He served the VLSI Design Department of the Computer and Communication Research Laboratories (CCL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, from 1994 to 1999.

He returned to the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University to be Assistant Professor in 1999. Since 2004, he has been promoted to be a Full Professor. Currently, he has been the Distinguished Professor (特聘教授) in the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

During 2008 ~ 2011, he was rotated to be a Chair Professor (讲座教授) and the Vice President (研究副校长) of I-Shou University (义守大学), Kaohsiung, Taiwan. During 2012 ~ 2015, he has been the Dean (院长) of the College of Photonics (光电学院), National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan.

He ever served as the Executive Director (执行长) of National Science and Technology Program on System-on-Chip (晶片系统国家型科技计画) in Taiwan during 2010 ~ 2011; and the Executive Director (执行长) of National Science and Technology Program on Nano Technology (奈米国家型科技计画) in Taiwan (2011 ~ 2015). Since 2014, Prof. Ker has been the leader to chair 科技部「ESD产学联盟」, where 30 companies of IC design and/or semiconductors manufacturing joined as members.

Now, he is also serving as the Director (主任) of the Biomedical Electronics Translational Research Center (生医电子转译研究中心/医疗电子系统实验室) in NCTU to lead some biomedical electronics translational projects.

In the technical field of ESD protection and reliability design for microelectronic circuits and systems, he has published over 500 technical papers in international journals and conferences. He has proposed many solutions to improve the reliability and quality of integrated circuits and systems, which have been granted with 226 U.S. patents and 208 Taiwan patents.

He had been invited to teach and/or to consult the reliability and quality design for integrated circuits by hundreds of design houses and semiconductor companies in the worldwide IC industry.

Prof. Ker has served as member of the Technical Program Committee and the Session Chair of numerous international conferences for many years. He ever served as the Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VLSI SYSTEMS, 2006-2007. He was selected as the Distinguished Lecturer in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2006–2007) and in the IEEE Electron Devices Society (2008–2015). He was the Founding President (创会理事长) of Taiwan ESD Association. Currently, he is the Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEVICE AND MATERIALS RELIABILITY.

In 2008, Prof. Ker has been elevated as an IEEE Fellow “for his contributions to the electrostatic protection in integrated circuits and the performance optimization of VLSI Microsystems”. In 2003, he was awarded as one of the "Ten Outstanding Youths Award" of ROC (中华民国第四十一届『十大杰出青年』). In 2009, he was awarded as one of the top ten Distinguished Inventors (十大杰出发明家) in Taiwan. In 2009, he was also awarded as 杰出工程教授by Chinese Institute of Engineers (中国工程师学会). In 2015, Prof. Ker received the Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Contribution, the Executive Yuan, Taiwan (行政院杰出科技贡献奖).