Dr. Kien Wen Sun was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey, United States. From 1995-2000, he was on the faculty of the Electronic Engineering at Feng Chia University, Taiwan. He jointed the faculty of Department of Physics as a professor at National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, from 2000-2005. Since year 2005, he became a professor of Department of Applied Chemistry at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (formerly known as National Chiao Tung University), Hsinchu, Taiwan. During his sabbatical in 2012, he was a visiting professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Sun was appointed as the Department Chair of Applied Chemistry at NCTU from 2012-2014. He was also a Joint Appointment Professor at Department of Electronics Engineering and Director of the Center of Nano Science and Technology at National Chiao Tung University from 2016-2019. His research interests include femtosecond laser and laser spectroscopy in III-V compound semiconductors, spintronics, nanoimprint, nanolithography, nanoelectronics, organic/inorganic solar cells, diamond related nanomaterials, perovskites and perovskite LEDs, and chemosensors. He has published more than 110 SCI journal papers in above research fields. He is a member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society and Fellow of Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (HKCBEES). He was given the Rudolph A. Marcus Award by Publishing Division of Cognizure and LOGNOR in 2017 and Taiwan Future Tech Award on 2020. He has served as reviewers for numerous high impact international journals, such as Nature Communications, Advanced Functional Materials, Progress in Photovoltaics, Nanoscale Horizons, etc. He served as Guest Editors of several Special Issues in Chemosensors and is now a Topic Editor of Chemosensors.

Professor Tek Tjing Lie is the Deputy Head of School at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences. He received his BS degree from the Oklahoma State University, MS and PhD degrees from Michigan State University. He has previously held academic positions in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are in the fields of Power System Operation and Control, Deregulated Electrical Power Markets, AI Application to Power Systems, Renewable Energy and Smart Grids.