Contact Information
Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chung Hsing University
145 Xingda Rd, Taichung 40227, TaiwanOffice Tel : +886-4-2285-3459, +886-4-2284-0421~4 ext. 620
Line: yin-shihEmail: yintzer_shih AT email.nchu.edu.tw; yintzer.shih AT gmail.com
Professional Activities
- Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2024.07-2025.12
- Member and Executive member (2020.01-2021.12), the Mathematical Society of the ROC (TMS)
- Member and Executive member 2020.06-2022.05, the Taiwan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (TW-SIAM)
Research Interests
Numerical Partial Differential Equations, Imaging Process, Data Analysis, Scientific Computing
Education
- Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 1998
- M.S. National Tsing Hua University, 1987
- B.S. National Chung Hsing University, 1985
Experience
- 2023/08 ~ 2024/07 Vice President, NCHU
- 2021/01 ~ 2024/07 Director, Big Data Center, NCHU
- 2018/02 ~ 2024/01 Dean, College of Science, NCHU
- 2019/07 ~ 2024/01 Director, Data Science & AI Master Program, NCHU
- 2016/08 ~ 2019/01, 2023/08-2024/07 Director, Alumni Center, NCHU
- 2015/08 ~ 2017/07 Chair of Applied Mathematics & Director of Graduate Institute of Statistics, NCHU
- 2014/02 ~ Present Professor, NCHU
- 2010/08 ~ 2014/01 Associate Professor, NCHU
- 2004/02 ~ 2010/07 Assistant Professor, NCHU
- 2003/08 ~ 2004/01 Assistant Professor, CSMU
- 2000/05 ~ 2003/07 RSIS for Aviation Weather Center/NWS/NOAA, Kansas City, MO
- 1998/10 ~ 2000/04 Senior Software Analyst, Medical Optical Imaging, Charlotte, NC
- 1989/9 ~ 1992/01 Software Analyst, INER, Long-Tan, Tauyuan, Taiwan
Publications
Selected recent publications: (2025/10/23 updated)
Yin-Tzer Shih, Hung-Hsu Tsai*, Yen-Ning Su, Shih-Chen Lo, Cheng-Wei Yeh, and Yu-Che Chuang (2026, Jan.). Design of Cough Sound Classifiers Based on Attention Mechanism and Contrastive Loss for Detection of Coronavirus Disease 2019. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 163(3): 112949. (2024 IF=8.0 JIF=97.5% Ranking 5/179 in ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095219762502980X)
I-Hung Lee, Sanaullah Saqib, Qin Sheng, Yin-Tzer Shih* (2025, Oct). An Epidemiological Model of the Mumps Virus via Mittag-Leffler Kernel: Stability Analysis and Artificial Neural Network Solutions. AIMS Mathematics. 10(10): 24923–24957. (2024 IF=1.8 JIF=91.6% Rank 41/483 in MATH, JIF=77.4% 78/343 APP MATH) (https://doi:10.3934/math.20251103)
Ya-Lun Li, Yang-Che Wu, Chien-Fu Tseng, Yung-Li Wang, Sin-Yu Li, Thi Thuy Tien Vo, Yuh-Lien Chen, Yin-Tzer Shih*, I-Ta Lee* (2025, Nov). Nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2/heme oxygenase-1 activation by nattokinase reduces pro-inflammatory and matrix-degrading mediators in human gingival fibroblasts. Journal of Dental Science (Accepted on 10/16/2025) (2024 IF=3.1 JIF=81.9% Rank 30/163 DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2025.10.022)
H-T Chang, C-M Lin, C-Y Lin, Y-T. Shih* (2025, Oct.) Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on 30-Day Readmission Rates in Hospitalized Stroke Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of Central Nervous System Disease. 2025;17. (2024 IF=2.8 Ranking Q2 121/286 in CLINICAL NEUROLOGY) (https://doi:10.1177/11795735251381889)
Muhammad Wajahat Anjum, Sana Ullah Saqib‡, Yin-Tzer Shih*, Ines Hilali Jaghdam, Nidhal Becheikh, Lioua Kolsi (2025, Oct.). An Intelligent Soft Computing Model for Predicting the Thermal Behavior of Blood-Based Trihybrid Nanofluids Flow in Biomedical Drug Delivery Applications. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 74, 106742. (2024 IF=6.4 JIF=93\% Ranking 6/79 in THERMODYNAMICS) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2025.106742 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25010020)
Sana Ullah Saqib, Yin-Tzer Shih*, Muhammad Wajahat Anjum (2025, July). Advanced Heuristic Computing with Gudermannian Neural Networks for Mathematical Modeling of Divorced Dynamics in Social Networks. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 239 (2026) 745–765. (2024 IF=4.4 JIF=85.5% Rank 19/128 in COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037847542500312X)
M. W. Anjum, S.U. Saqib, Yin-Tzer Shih*, I.Ul Hassan, Adnan, I. H. Jaghdam, M. Aoudia, and L. Kolsi (2025, June). Application of Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) for solitary-Peakon investigation of Lax model. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 73, 106537. (2024 IF=6.4 JIF=93% Ranking 6/79 in THERMODYNAMICS) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X2500797X)
Sana Ullah Saqib, Ali Hasan, and Yin-Tzer Shih* (2025, June). A novel hybrid fractional approach to nonlinear dynamics of HIV transmission among men who have sex with men in Taiwan. AIMS Mathematics, 10(6), 13204-13230. (2024 IF=1.8 JIF=91.6% 41/483 MATH, JIF=77.4% 78/343 APP MATH) (https://www.aimspress.com/aimspress-data/math/2025/6/PDF/math-10-06-592.pdf)
SU Saqib, Y.T. Shih*, M.W. Anjum, and M.Z. Bani-Fwaz, (2025, Apr.). AI driven RNN approach for investigation of thermal features in magneto-radiative nanofluid under random microbial movement. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 125, 152-166. (2024 IF=6.8 JIF=95.1% Ranking 9/175 in ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016825005216)
SU Saqib, U Farooq, N Fatima, Yin-Tzer Shih*, A Mir, L Kolsi (2024, Dec). Novel Recurrent Neural Networks for Efficient Heat Transfer Analysis in Radiative Moving Porous Triangular Fin with Heat Generation. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 64, 105516. (2024 IF=6.4 JIF=93 % Ranking 6/79 in THERMODYNAMICS) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X24015478)
Y.-H. Chen, Y.-T. Shih*, C.-S. Chien, and C.-S. Tsai (2022, Dec). Predicting Adverse Drug Effects: A Heterogeneous Graph Convolution Network with a Multi-layer Perceptron Approach. PLoS One. 17(12), e0266435. (2024 IF=2.6 JIF=67.8% Ranking 44/135 in MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES) (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266435)
Jiang, T. W., Hsu, Y. L., Yang, J. L., Shih, Y. T., and Lin, C. M. (2023). The role of extracranial carotid duplex in predicting functional outcome in first time lacunae strokes. Neurological Research, 45(4), 300-311.
Liu, S. Y., Hsu, Y. L., Tu, Y. C., Lin, C. H., Wang, S. C., Lee, Y. W., ... and Lin, C. M. (2022). Functional outcome prediction of ischemic stroke patients with atrial fibrillation accepting post-acute care training. Frontiers in Neurology, 13, 954212.
Sirilak Sriburadet,Yin-Tzer Shih*, B.-W. Jeng, C.-H. Hsueh, and C.-S. Chien (2021, Nov). A numerical scheme for the ground state of rotating spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates. Scientific Reports, 11:22801.
Y.-T. Lin, Y.-T. Shih*, C.-S. Chien and Q. Sheng (2021). A note on stochastic polynomial chaos expansions for uncertain volatility and Asian option pricing, Applied Mathematics and Computation 393 , 125764.
S Sriburadet, YT Shih*, CS Chien (2019). Stability analysis and continuation for the coupled Gross–Pitaevskii equations, Computers & Mathematics with Applications 78 (3), 807-826.
Houde Han, Yintzer Shih*, Tongsheng Yin (2017). Tailored Finite Point Methods for Solving Singularly Perturbed Eigenvalue Problems with Higher Eigenvalues, J. Scientific Computing, 73(1), 242-282.
Chih-Ching Tsai, Yin-Tzer Shih*, Yu-Tuan Lin and Hui-Ching Wang (2017). Tailored finite point method for solving one-dimensional Burgers' equation. International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 94(4), 800-812.
Sirilak Sriburadet, Y.-S. Wang, C.-S. Chien*, Y. Shih (2016). Pseudo arclength continuation algorithms for binary Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensates. Communications in Computational Physics, 19(4), 1067-1093.
Yu-Tuan Lin, Yin-Tzer Shih* and Chih-Ching Tsai (2016). An Anisotropic Convection-Diffusion Model Using Tailored Finite Point Method for Image Denoising and Compression. Communications in Computational Physics, 19(5), 1357-1374.
Po-Wen Hsieh, Yin-Tzer Shih, Suh-Yuh Yang*, and Cheng-Shu You (2016). A Novel Technique for Constructing Difference Schemes for Systems of Singularly Perturbed Equations. Communications in Computational Physics, 19(5), 1287-1301.
H. Han, Y. Shih* and C. Tsai (2014). Tailored finite point method for numerical solutions of singular perturbed eigenvalue problems, Adv. Appl. Math. Mech. (AAMM), 6, pp. 376-402.
Y. Shih* and C. Tsai (2013). A two-parameter continuation algorithm using radial basis function collocation method for rotating Bose-Eistein condensates, J Phy., 252 37-51.
Y. Shih*, C.S. Chien and C.Y. Chung (2012). An Adaptive Parameterized Block-Based Singular Value Decomposition for Image Denoising and Compression, Applied Mathematics and Computation , 218, 21, 10370-10385.
Y. Shih*, J.Y. Cheng and K.T. Chen (2011). An exponential fitting finite element scheme for convection-diffusion problems, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 217, pp. 5798-5809.
Y. Shih*, R.B. Kellogg and Y. Chang (2011). Characteristic tailored finite point method for convection-dominated convection-diffusion-reaction problems, Journal of Scientific Computing, 47, 198-215.
Po-Wen Hsieh, Yintzer Shih and Suh-Yuh Yang* (2011). A tailored finite point method for steady MHD duct flow problems with boundary layers, Communications in Computational Physics (CiCP), 10, pp. 161-182.
Y. Shih*, R.B. Kellogg and P.S. Tsai (2010). A Tailored Finite Point Method for Convection-Diffusion-Reaction Problems, Journal of Scientific Computing, 43, pp. 239-260.
C.S. Chien and Y. Shih* (2009). A cubic Hermite finite element and continuation methods for numerical solution of the von K\'arm\'an equations, Applied Mathematics and Computation., Vol. 209, 356-368.
Y. Shih*, C. Rei and H. Wang (2009). A novel PDE based image restoration: convection-diffusion equation for image denoising Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 231, pp. 771-779.
Y.T. Shih* and T.R. Lucas (2007). A new implementation of the elliptic systems method in time dependent diffusion tomography with back reflected and transmitted boundary data, Applied Mathematics and Computation. Vol. 188, 64-74.
Y. Shih and H.C. Elman* (2000). Iterative Methods for Stabilized Discrete Convection-Diffusion Problems, IMA, Numerical Analysis, Vol 20, No 3,333-385.
Y. Shih and H.C. Elman* (1999). Modified Streamline Diffusion Schemes for Convection-Diffusion LIroblems, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 174, 137-151.
Patents :
KY Huang, YL Hsu and YT Shih, Respiratory extubation review evaluation system and call Aspirator assessment method, ROC pattern number: I777611. National Chung Hsing University and Changhua Christian Hospital, 2022/09–2041/06.
KY Huang, YL Hsu, S Yin-Tzer. System and method for assessing extubation. US Patent 11,915,818, 2024
Technology transfer :
National Chung Hsing University and Changhua Christian Hospital fully authorize Huide Technology Co., Ltd. to implement the above pattern during 2022/10–2025/12.