Prof. Liang-Chia Chen is currently working as a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan. He obtained his Ph.D. in advanced manufacturing and mechanical engineering, the University of South Australia in 2000. Prior to embarking on his academic career in Taiwan, he worked as a full-time research engineer in Gerard Industries of Australia (Clipsal) between 1996-2000 and Institute of nuclear energy research (INER) of Taiwan between 1991-1995. Before joining NTU, he worked as a distinguished professor in National Taipei University of Technology between 2001-2009 in Taipei. Up to now, he has received the outstanding research award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Taiwan in 2016, National year invention gold awards consecutively in 2013 & 2014, and the 2014 outstanding award on technology transfer from the MOST. His major research fields are in precision metrology and manufacturing, automated optical inspection (AOI), opto-mechatronics instrumentation and 3-D machine vision and algorithms for automation. In publication, he has published one textbook, three book chapters, more than 120 referred journal papers and 60 invention patents internationally. For academic services, he served as the president of the international committee of measurement and instrumentation (ICMI) between 2015-2017 and currently serves as a steering committee member in ICMI and IMEKO.
Prof. Liang-Chia Chen is currently working as a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan. He obtained his Ph.D. in advanced manufacturing and mechanical engineering, the University of South Australia in 2000. Prior to embarking on his academic career in Taiwan, he worked as a full-time research engineer in Gerard Industries of Australia (Clipsal) between 1996-2000 and Institute of nuclear energy research (INER) of Taiwan between 1991-1995. Before joining NTU, he worked as a distinguished professor in National Taipei University of Technology between 2001-2009 in Taipei. Up to now, he has received the outstanding research award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Taiwan in 2016, National year invention gold awards consecutively in 2013 & 2014, and the 2014 outstanding award on technology transfer from the MOST. His major research fields are in precision metrology and manufacturing, automated optical inspection (AOI), opto-mechatronics instrumentation and 3-D machine vision and algorithms for automation. In publication, he has published one textbook, three book chapters, more than 120 referred journal papers and 60 invention patents internationally. For academic services, he served as the president of the international committee of measurement and instrumentation (ICMI) between 2015-2017 and currently serves as a steering committee member in ICMI and IMEKO.