Jan Sen, a native of Kaohsiung, is a professor at the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University (NTU). He was previously deputy director of the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute at NARLabs and director of NTU’s Institute of Oceanography. His areas of specialization include currents and tides in the Taiwan Strait, tidal waves in the seas of East Asia, internal waves in the South China Sea, and Kuroshio Current variations. Author of over 100 papers, he has been honored with Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council's Outstanding Research Award.