Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree with major in computer science and information engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 2008. During February 2010 to August 2013, he served as an assistant professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Tamkang University. He has a wide variety of research interests covering data mining, database systems, time series, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, and fuzzy theory. He has published more than 75 research papers in referred journals and international conferences. He has served as reviewer of a number of journals including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and Knowledge-Based Systems.