Miin-Shen Yang received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, in 1977, the M.S. degree in applied mathematics from National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree in statistics from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, in 1989. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics, Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU), as an Associate Professor, where he has been a Professor, since 1994. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Since 2012, he has been a Distinguished Professor, and now a life Distinguished Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics, CYCU. He was the Chairperson of the Department of Applied Mathematics, the Director of Chaplain’s Office, and the Dean of the College of Science, CYCU. His research interests include applications of statistics, fuzzy clustering, soft computing, pattern recognition, and machine learning. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems from 2005 to 2011, and is an Editorial Board Member of Computer Science and Engineering section in the journal Electronics (MDPI). According to Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists, he is among top 2% scientists as career impact and also single year impact of 2022 in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing. He is also listed in 2022 as ScholarGPS global top 0.5% scholar.