Chia-Chin Chiang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering of National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan, in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and received his Ph.D. from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2005. He subsequently began lecturing at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, and became a Professor in 2015 and a Distinguished Professor in 2021. His research interests include fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), optical fiber sensors, smart materials and structure.