Li-Chiu Chang received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1991, 1994, and 2001, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Tamkang University, Taipei. She also serves as the Executive Director with the Taiwan Hydro-Informatics Society, Tainan, Taiwan. She has coordinated more than ten government projects related to optimal reservoir operation and an integration platform for flood warning systems in Taiwan. She has published over 40 technical and scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored a textbook entitled Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks. Her current research interests include water resources management, reservoir operation, artificial intelligence (artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy sets), flood forecasting, and data mining.