Chang-Ming Liaw (S’88-M’89) was born in Taiching, Taiwan, ROC, on June 19, 1951. He received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the evening department at Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, in 1981 and 1988, respectively.
In 1988, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University as an Associate Professor. Since 1993, he has been a professor in the same department. His research interests are power electronics, motor drives, and electric machine control. Dr. Liaw is a life member of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE), a member of the IEEE, an editor of International Journal of Electrical Engineering, ROC., an editorial board member of IET Power Electronics and an editorial board member of Hindawi Advances in Power Electronics.