Tzung-Pei Hong received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree in computer science and information engineering from the National Chiao-Tung University in 1992. He served in the Department of Computer Science in the Chung-Hua Polytechnic Institute from 1992 to 1994 and in the Department of Information Management in I-Shou University from 1994 to 2001. He was in charge of the whole computerization and library planning for the National University of Kaohsiung in preparation from 1997 to 2000 and served as the first director of the library and computer center in the National University of Kaohsiung from 2000 to 2001, as the dean of academic affairs from 2003 to 2006, as the administrative vice president from 2007 to 2008, and as the academic vice president in 2010. He is currently a distinguished and chair professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and is the director of the AI Research Center in the National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is also a joint professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He received the first national flexible wage award from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. He has published more than 600 research papers in international/national journals and conferences and has planned more than fifty information systems.