Wei-Hua Chieng was born in Taiwan in 1959. He received B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1982 and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and in electrical engineering and Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, in 1986, 1987, and 1989, respectively. From 1987 to 1989, he was awarded an IBM Manufacturing Fellowship. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu. His research interests include automatic control, mechatronics and electronic circuit design.