Oscal Tzyh-Chiang Chen (Senior Member, IEEE) received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He worked with the Computer Processor Architecture Department, Computer Communication & Research Laboratories (CCL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), serving a system design engineer, project leader, and section chief from 1994 to 1995. He was an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University (NCCU), Chiayi, Taiwan, from September 1995 to August 2003. He also served as the Director of the Academic Development Division, Office of Research and Development, NCCU, from July 2001 to July 2004, and the Director of the Technology Transfer Center, NCCU, from July 2003 to July 2004. Since August 2003, he has been a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, NCCU, in which he served as the Department Chair from August 2018 to July 2021. He was a visiting scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, from December 2007 to May 2008, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, from February 2011 to July 2011. He has published more than 170 journal and conference papers and five book chapters, and holds 36 Taiwan patents, 22 U.S. patents, and one Chinese patent. His research interests include multimedia processing and understanding, neural networks, VLSI systems, and communication systems. He is a life member of the Chinese Fuzzy Systems Association. In the technical society, he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, from August 2003 to December 2006, and a founding member of the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He also participated in the technical program committees of many IEEE international conferences and symposiums. Prof. Chen has been listed among world's top 2% of most-cited scientists by Stanford University Ranking in the category of career-long impact (1960-2020~2023) (Scopus).

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