Sheng-De Wang (王勝德) was born in Taiwan in 1957. He received the B.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1980, and the M. S. and the Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1982 and 1986, respectively. Since 1986 he has been on the faculty of the department of electrical engineering at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, where he is currently a professor. From 1995 to 2001, he also served as the director of computer operating group of computer and information network center, National Taiwan University. He was a visiting scholar in Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle during the academic year of 1998-1999. From 2001 to 2003, He has been served as the Department Chair of Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Puli, Taiwan for the 2-year appointment. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, embedded systems, and intelligent systems. Dr. Wang is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE computer societies. He is also a member of Phi Tau Phi Honor society.