Chun-Yin Doris Chen, a Distinguished Professor at NTNU, earned her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991.Her research interests include first/second language acquisition, teaching Chinese as a second language, and syntax–semantics interface. Her contributions to the field of linguistics are extensive. 

She served as the President of the Taiwan Linguistic Society from 2012 to 2014 and later as the Convener of the Linguistics Division of the National Science and Technology Council from 2016 to 2018. Additionally, she held editorial roles for Concentric: Studies in Linguistics and Chinese Teaching and Learning. 

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Siaw-Fong Chung currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of English at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Beginning February 1, 2024, she is honored to serve as the Director of the EMI Resource Center within the Bilingual Education and Multicultural Promotion Office at the university. Additionally, she has the privilege of being the 13th President of the Linguistic Society of Taiwan and the Associate Editor of the International Review of Pragmatics journal (Scopus). From February 2022 to January 2024, she had the opportunity to serve as the Chairperson of the department. Her professional focus encompasses the domains of corpus linguistics, lexical semantics, and cognitive linguistics. 

Her professional focus lies within the domains of corpus linguistics, lexical semantics, and cognitive linguistics. Throughout her career, she has conducted research and published extensively on a variety of subjects, including Malay corpus linguistics, near-synonym analysis, and most recently, an investigation into language use on social media using a corpus-based approach. At her university, she leads a dynamic and dedicated research team specializing in corpus-based research. 

Hsiao-Hung Iris Wu received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT in 2008 and has been a member of the linguistics faculty at National Taiwan Normal University since then. 

Her research interests include syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface and comparative syntax from both macro-and micro-parametric perspectives. Over the years, she has explored a variety of syntactic issues in Isbukun Bunun, Mandarin, Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka, trying to make these issues to relate to the entire field by identifying the theoretical challenges they pose.