Jia-Yush Yen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1980, and his M.S. degree in the Thermal Fluids Group from University of Minnesota, MN, in 1983. In 1989 he received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, CA, under the Systems Control Group. Since 1989, Dr. Yen has been a faculty member at National Taiwan University. Prof. Yen served as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department and as Director of Yen Tjing-Ling Industrial Research Institute at NTU and is now Dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Yen has won a number of awards including the Outstanding Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan. He also has extensive public and industrial service experience. His research interests are in the areas of precision servo control, computer peripherals systems, and nano control, and biomechanical engineering.