Cheng-Jian Lin received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ta Tung Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1986 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and control engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1991 and 1996, respectively.  Currently, he is a chair professor of the Computer Science and Information Engineering Department, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. His current research interests are machine learning, pattern recognition, intelligent control, image processing, intelligent manufacturing, and evolutionary robots.