Arthur Chun-Chieh Shih was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on September 26, 1966. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Chinese Culture University, Taipei, in 1992, the M.S. degree also in electrical engineering from National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, in 1994 and a Ph.D. degree in computer science and information engineering from National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, in 1998. From October 1998 to July 2002, he worked for the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and the Department of Ecology and Evolution, the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He joined the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, as an Assistant Research Fellow in July 2002 and became an Associate Research Fellow in 2008. His current research interests include molecular evolution, bioinformatics, and multimedia signal processing.