Pei-Chun Lin is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from NTU in 1996 and 1998, respectively, as well as an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. in 2005. He then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to NTU in 2007. He is the director of the Bio-inspired Robotics Laboratory (BioRoLa) at NTU. His research interests include bio-inspired robotics, mechanical design, sensor design/fusion, control, locomotion, and polymer applications in robotics. He is the Secretary General of the ASME Taiwan Section, he is also the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics. He was the recipient of the 2012 Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from the National Science Council, and the 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award from National Taiwan University.