Yao-Joe Joseph Yang received his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In addition, he received his M.S. degree from UCLA and B.S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU) in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Yang joined Coventor, Inc. (Cambridge, MA) as a senior application engineer for one year before he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NTU. Currently, he is a Full Professor and holds the NTU Distinguished Professorship. From 2011 to 2017, He served as the Department Chair. Since 2017, he serves as the Director General of the Taiwan Instrument Research Institute. In addition, he serves as the Chairman of the Taipei Chapter of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the Chairman of the ASME Taipei Section. He also serves as the Board Director of the Chinese Institute of Automation Engineering (CIAE) and the Board Director of the Chinese Metrology Society. His research interests include microelectromechanical systems, nanotechnology, high-precision micromachining, flexible sensing arrays, sensor network, parallel processing, semiconductor devices, and vacuum microelectronics modeling. Dr. Yang is a Fellow of ASME and a Fellow of CIAE. He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Dr. Da-Yu Wu Award) and the Outstanding Research Award of the National Science Council. He also received the NTU Outstanding Researcher Award.