Jung-Chuan Chou was born in Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China, on July 13, 1954. He received the B. S. degree in physics from Kaohisung Normal College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1976; the M. S. degree in applied physics from Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, in 1979; and the Ph.D. degree in electronics from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1988. Since 1979 to 1991, he served as Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Director of Department of Electronic Engineering and Graduate School of Electronic Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University. Since 1991 he worked as an associate professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. And since 2010, he has been a professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. Since 2011 to 2017, he worked as distinguished professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan. And since 2018 he has worked as Lifetime Chair Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan. His research interests are in the areas of sensor material and device, biosensor and system, microelectronic engineering, optoelectronic engineering, solar cell and solid state electronics.