Chyi-Ren Dow received BS and MS degrees in information engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1984 and 1988, respectively, and a second MS degree and PhD in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. His research interests include mobile computing, ad hoc wireless networks, telematics, the Internet of Things, and machine learning.