Dr. Tun-Wen Pai received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. He works currently as a full professor at National Taipei University of Technology and served as the Department Chairman and the Director of Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Research Center, Taipei, Taiwan. He is also a jointly appointed professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University where he taught from 1997 to 2018 and served as the Department Chairman from 2002 to 2004. Dr. Pai has received several teaching and research awards from National Taiwan Ocean University and he served as general chairs and regular program committees for several international conferences in the areas of bioinformatics, medical informatics, machine learning, and data engineering, and he also served as a chief guest editor of several special issues from the journal of Biomed Research International. Dr. Pai is member of ACM and IEEE SMC societies.