Hsin-Hsi Chen (陳信希) was born in Chiayi, Taiwan, on September 23, 1957. He received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in computer science and information engineering in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1988, all from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Since August 1995, he has been a Professor in Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. He served as the vice chair of the department from 2000 to 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he was the chairman of the department. His research interests are computational linguistics, Chinese language processing, information retrieval and extraction, Internet and database design. He has published more than 130 papers in these research areas.

He is a member of ACL (1986-) and ROCLING (1988-). He serves on the Board of Directors of ROCLING (1992-2003), and is Chair of Academic Committee (1994-1995) in this society. He is also Editorial Board member (2000-) of International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing