Hsuan-Teh Hu received his B.S. from National Cheng Kung University in 1980 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983 and 1988. He was a research engineer at the National Center for Composite Materials Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1988 to 1991. In 1992, he joined the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan as an associate professor. In 1998, he was promoted to professor and was the chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering, NCKU from 2015 to 2018. He was appointed as the vice president of the National United University, Taiwan from 2020 to 2022. Now, he is a distinguished professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at NCKU. His research interests include finite element analysis, buckling and postbuckling analysis of plates and shells, constitutive modeling of composite materials, structural optimization, and spinal biomechanics. Professor Hu has been continuously on the list of Stanford University's Top 2% Scientists of the World from 2020 to 2024.