Y. Robert C. is a Senior Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services, having previously held a position as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica from 2006 to 2022. They served as a Joint Professor at National Tsing Hua University and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics, National Taiwan University from 2011 to 2017. Y. Robert obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where they also completed their B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Caltech.