Chao-Ching (Burt) Ho received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2008. He served as a naval engineer officer from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2003, he worked as an R&D manager at 3DFamily Inc. From 2009 to 2016, Dr. Ho was an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. He joined National Taipei University of Technology in 2016 as a Professor at the Graduate Institute of Manufacturing Technology and Department of Mechanical Engineering, and he has held the title of Distinguished Professor since 2024.
His research interests include industrial AI, in-situ monitoring and inspection, laser drilling and ablation, electrical chemical discharge machining, machine vision, as well as stereo vision. He has served as an academic editor for the Journal of Technology (JOT), Smart Science, British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, Journal Technologies, Journal of Science and Innovation , and as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Innovative Technology and Education. Additionally, he has been a topic editor for Chemosensors and a board member of the World Journal of Textile Engineering and Technology. He is a member of SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Taipei), SPIE and the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) TC10 (Measurement for Diagnostics, Optimization & Control).