Dong-Bo Hsu obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Linguistics and received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA, in May 2009. After graduating from UIUC, he accepted the position of Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in August 2009. He was promoted to Associate Professor in Feb 2014 in the department, which changed its name to the Department of Chinese as a Second Language after several different units within the NTNU merged, and was promoted to Professorship in Feb 2018. His research interests include language acquisition, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and syntactic theories, with a particular interest in how grammatical information can be acquired, comprehended, represented, and produced across adults, children, and second language users in Mandarin Chinese. He is currently a lifelong member of the Linguistics Society in Taiwan (LST) and a regular member of the Cognitive Science Society and Psychonomic Society.