Professor Hwa Chien is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Institute of Hydrological and Oceanic Sciences, National Central University, and serves as Director of the Center for Advanced Earth Science Applications. He also serves as Vice Dean of the Graduate College of Sustainability and Green Energy.

His research expertise includes air-sea interaction, coastal sediment transport, high-frequency and microwave radar ocean remote sensing, and wave dynamics. He has long been engaged in ocean observation and marine-dynamics research, integrating Earth sciences with advanced applications in marine technology.

His academic background spans ocean observation, coastal hydrology, and ocean engineering. With extensive experience in research, teaching, academic administration, and research-center management, he works to integrate interdisciplinary research resources and advance marine and Earth-science research.

Professor Cheng-I Chen currently serves as Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Central University, as well as Vice Dean of the Graduate College of Sustainability and Green Energy. He also serves as Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society Taipei Chapter and as a Distinguished Research Consultant at the Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories of the Industrial Technology Research Institute.

His long-term research focuses on power-quality analysis, instrumentation and measurement, digital signal processing, power electronics, smart grids, and microgrid control. In recent years, his work has emphasized renewable-energy and energy-storage integration, interconnected and modular cluster-based microgrids, intelligent energy management, optimal power dispatch, and grid resilience. Artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning are also incorporated to enhance energy autonomy, power-supply reliability, and low-carbon operational performance.

His research combines theoretical innovation, system implementation, and industrial application, covering power-quality monitoring, multimode energy-storage control, virtual power plants, and energy sharing. His achievements have received recognition including the Future Tech Award and inclusion among the world's top 2% of scientists. His work contributes substantially to smart-grid development, net-zero transformation, and power-engineering talent development in Taiwan.