Professor HH Chen is the Director of the Institute of Communications Engineering at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.  He is also an Honorable Guest Professor at Zhejiang University in China and a Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chen received his BSc and MSc degrees from Zhejiang University, China, and his PhD degree from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 1982, 1985 and 1990, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Since then he has held a number of posts within academia in Finland, Taiwan, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong.  His research efforts in spread spectrum and CDMA communication systems has resulted in nine US, Finnish and Taiwanese patents, most of which have been licensed to industry for commercial applications. He has served and been serving as the Editor of the special issues of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and is a recipient of the numerous research and teaching Awards from the National Science Council, the Ministry of Education and other professional associations in Taiwan. He has recently become the Editor for Asia & the Pacific for the Wiley journal Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing.