Shu-Fen Chuang is a professor in the Institute of Oral Medicine and also the founder of the School of Dentistry, National Cheng Kung University. She leads a laboratory of Advanced Dental Materials, specializing in restorative dental composites, ceramics, and adhesives and has more than 40 journal publications. She has developed the biomechanical method to detect the composite shrinkage by using the Digital Image Correlation method and linked with the numerical analysis. She is also the chief of the clinical training program of Operative Dentistry at the National Cheng Kung University Hospital, and the President of the Academy of Operative Dentistry in Taiwan.