He received his M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from Fujen University, Taiwan, in 1989 and Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University, U.S.A, in 1998. He is an elected member of International Statistical Association (ISI), a member of American Statistical Association (ASA), Chinese Institute of Probability and Statistics (CIPS), and Chung-hua Data Mining Society (CDMS). His research interests include product reliability, software reliability, statistical computing, industrial statistics and data mining. His current research also involves accelerated degradation modeling for reliability assessment in nanotechnology.