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Ching-Chih Tsai received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the National Taipei Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1981, the M.S. degree in control engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, in 1991. He is currently a Life Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taichung. He has been elevated as the Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Institute of Engineering Technology (IET), Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS), Robotics Society of Taiwan (RST), and Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association (TFSA). From 2003 to 2005, he served as the Director of the Center of Research Development and Engineering Technology, College of Engineering, National Chung Hsing University. In 2006, he served as the Director of the Center for Advanced Industry Technology and Precision, National Chung Hsing University. He served as the department chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, NCHU, from 2012 to 2014. From 2012 to 2016, he served two-term President of the Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS), Taiwan. From 2016 to 2019, he served two-term President of the Robotics Society of Taiwan (RST). From 2019 to 2023, he served as the President Elect and President for International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), respectively. Since August, 2024, he has served as the Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He also served as two-term BoG members of IEEE SMCS from 2017 to 2019 and from 2022 to 2024, respectively. In recent years, he has served associate editors of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial CPS, and International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, respectively. He has published and co-authored more than 700 technical articles. His current research interests include intelligent control systems, smart mobile robotics and intelligent automation with their applications to smart hospitals, semiconductor manufacturing and clean energy.