Dr. Chi-Fang Chen received her Ph.D. with the Department of Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991, and started her career as a faculty member of the Department of Naval Architecture of National Taiwan University from 1991 until present. (Department of Naval Architecture was renamed as the Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering in 2000). Her research expertise and interests are underwater acoustics and underwater acoustic propagation. She is conducting passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) in recognizing sounds from different species in the ocean which includes Sousa Chinensis in Taiwan waters. She is also interested in autonomous ocean sensing, and has supervised two master’s theses in AUV, and is now supervising five graduate students in an autonomous surface vehicle study.