Yen-Liang Pan received B.S. and M.S. degrees in aeronautical engineering from Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan, in 1996 and 2001, respectively, and a Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from National Defense University, Taipei, Taiwan, R. O. C. in 2011. He is a full professor and chair at the General Education Center, Air Force Academy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Discrete Event System Laboratory, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), in 2009. His research interests include Petri net theory and applications, computer-integrated manufacturing, automation, and supervisory control of discrete event systems. In 2013, he was invited by the Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing chairman at AsicMIC 2013. Also, he was invited to organize one particular section, "Petri Nets' Applications in Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems," and be the chairman at ICITES 2013. He was awarded for excellent research at the Air Force Academy in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2019.