Background
Kuo, Jan-Tai was born on July 18, 1949 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Son of Ho-Li and Show-Luan (Chang) Kuo.
Kuo, Jan-Tai was born on July 18, 1949 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Son of Ho-Li and Show-Luan (Chang) Kuo.
Bachelor of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 1971. Master of Electrical Engineering, Manhattan College, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1981.
Project engineer AWARE Corporation, Nashville, 1979-1981. Senior scientist General Software Corporation, Landover, Maryland, 1981-1982. Associate professor National Taiwan University, Taipei, 1982-1987, professor, since 1987.
Committee member Regional planning committee Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan, since 1995. Consultant River Protection Organization China times, Taiwan, 1995—1999. Director Hydrotech Research Institute, National Taiwan University, 2000—2003.
Member, board directors New Environmental Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, since 1994. 2nd lieutenant Chinese Army in Taiwan, 1971-1973. Member American Society of Civil Engineers (chair probalistic approaches to water resources engineering committee 1998), Chinese Taiwan Division International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, International Association for Hydraulic Research (chairman committee probalistic methods hydraulics since 1998), International Water Association.
Married Kuang-Hsiang Yang Kuo, July 16, 1978. Children: Chi-Fen Kuo, Chi-Wen Kuo.