Pei-Chun Lin

Biography

Pei-Chun Lin is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from NTU in 1996 and 1998, respectively, as well as an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. in 2005. He then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to NTU in 2007.
He is the director of the Bio-inspired Robotics Laboratory (BioRoLa) at NTU. His research interests include bio-inspired robotics, mechanical design, sensor design/fusion, control, locomotion, and robotic applications. He is a Fellow of ASME, a Fellow of IET, a senior member of IEEE, and member of CSME (Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers), CIAE (Chinese Institute of Automation Engineers), and RST (Robotics Society of Taiwan). He had served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics between 2016-2020, and he is current a technical editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. He was the recipient of the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (i.e., Outstanding Young Investigator Award) and Outstanding Research Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, and of the Distinguished Teaching Award, National Taiwan University (i.e., top 1% of faculty).