Yen-Wen Lu received his Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He received an M.S. from the University of Michigan and a B.S. from the National Taiwan University. He was a faculty member in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Rutgers University and later in the Microsystems Engineering Doctoral Program at Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States. He received several awards, including an FEAD Faculty Award and a Texas Instruments/

Harvey Award. His research projects have been supported by federal agencies and industrial companies in the United States

and Taiwan.

His research interests have focused on soft robotics, blood engineering and lab-on-a-chip devices for agricultural and biomedical applications. He is currently with Department of Biomechatronics Engineering and Institute of Biotechnology at National Taiwan University