Ying-Ren Chien received a B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu, Taiwan, in 1999 and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in communication engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2001 and 2009, respectively. In 2012, Dr. Chien joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Ilan University, Yilan City, Taiwan. Since 2018, he has been promoted to Full Professor and has served as the Chair. Since 2022, he has been the vice chair of IEEE CESoc Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Metaverse (VAM). Dr. Chien is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS. He has received Best Paper Awards, including ICCCAS 2007, ROCKLING 2017, and IEEE ISPACS 2021. Dr. Chien was presented with the IEEE CESoc/CTSoc Service Awards (2019), NSC/MOST Special Outstanding Talent Award (2021, 2023), Excellent Research-teacher Award (2018 and 2022), and Excellent Teaching Awar