CHYI-YEU LIN received his Ph.D. degree in engineering mechanics from University of Florida in 1991 and joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in August 1992. He became a Professor in August 1999. He founded and served as the director of the Center for Intelligent Robotics in NTUST in 2007. He served as the chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering between December 2008 and July 2012. His research focuses on intelligent robots, intelligent machines, computer vision, artificial intelligence, optimal design, and structural optimization.