Da-Jeng Yao is a Professor in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering of the Institute of NanoEngineering and MicroSystems (NEMS), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1969. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2001. His research involves fertilization on a chip, intelligent gas sensing system, EWOD and digital microfluidic system, and terahertz system development. More than 100 multidisciplinary projects have been completed as a result of collaboration between his research team and another organization (NTHU LS, CHEM, EE, PME, NEMS, ESS, NTU ME, NCTU ME, Chang-Gung Hospital, ITRI, etc.). Over 100 of his papers have been published in top journals, including Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Biomicrofludics, Nanotechnology, Applied Energy, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, and Lab on a Chip. He was awarded the Wu-Da-Yu Memorial Award (Young Investigator) by the National Science Council in 2009, the Shen-Yin award in 2010, the Young Researcher award by the Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Republic of China in 2011, the National Innovation Award in 2012 and 2014, second prize in Xprize (a USD 10 million award) by Qualcomm with the HTC team in 2017, and the MOST excellent research award in 2020. He has been an ASME fellow since 2013 and an RSC fellow since 2018.