Chyanbin Hwu is Chair Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. He earned a BS at National Taiwan University, ROC, in 1981; an MS at National Tsing-Hua University, ROC, in 1985; and a PhD in engineering mechanics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, United States, in 1988. He was elected the president of the Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ROC) in 2008. He is a fellow of the Aeronautical and Astronautical Society (ROC) and the Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ROC).