Prof. Dr. Yung-Fu Chen received his B.S. and Ph.D in Electronics Engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinichu, Taiwan, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. In 1994, he worked at the Precision Instrument Development Center, National Science Council, Taiwan, where his research mainly concerned the development of diode-pumped solid-state lasers as well as quantitative analysis in surface electron spectroscopy. In 1999, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). In 2001, he was promoted to Professor of NCTU. He was an Executive Dean at the College of Science, NCTU, between 2006 and 2007. He also served as Chair of the Department of Electrophysics between 2011 and 2013. Since 2011, he has been a Distinguished Professor. He is currently a Dean at the College of Science, NCTU. His main research includes laser physics, solid-state lasers, Q-switched lasers, mode-locked lasers, and transverse pattern formation in microchip lasers. He is a member of the Optical Society of America and the IEEE Photonics Society. He is currently an Associate Editor for the journals "Optics Express" and "Applied Physics B". He was the recipient of several outstanding awards, such as a Sun-Yet-Sen Academic Award for excellent papers in 2008, Outstanding Research Awards from the National Science Council in 2004 and 2011, and an Outstanding Honorary Award from the Ho C.T. Education Foundation in 2011.