Li-An Chu was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1985. She received the B.S. degree from the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2007. Then, she changed her major into life science and received the M.S. degree from the Institute of Biotechnology, Tsing-Hua University in 2009. Currently, she is working towards the Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Biotechnology. Her major research interests include neuroscience including neuroimaging, animal behaviors, and developing new machines for optogenetic research.