Shih-Yuan Chen was born in Changhua, Taiwan, in May 1978. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communication engineering in 2002 and 2005, respectively, all from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
From 2005-2006, Dr. Chen has been a post doctorate research fellow with the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, working on the 60-GHz switched-beam circularly-polarized antenna module. Since July 2006, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, and served as an assistant professor. From August 2008-July 2009, Dr. Chen visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. His current research interests include the design and analysis of slot antennas/arrays, dielectric lens antennas, microstrip antennas, RFID tag/reader antennas, near-field communication systems, and metamaterial-inspired antennas.