CHEN Pin-Hsi is a PhD student in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education at the University of Pittsburgh. CHEN received her Masters of Arts in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies with an emphasis on Comparative/International Education, Policy Studies, and History of Education from the University of Iowa. Prior to pursuing her graduate studies in the United States, CHEN earned her Bachelor of Education (BEd) from Taipei Municipal Teachers College. Her BEd thesis looked at "The Effect of Mnemonic Strategies on Memory Faculty of the Second Grade Elementary School Students- Pocket Monster as an Example."

In 2006, CHEN served as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Neuroscience in the National Yang-Ming University in Taipei, Taiwan working on a project titled "Neural Mechanisms of Language Processing in Multi-Lingual Taiwan: Bilingual Neural Mechanisms of Reading." She was also a research assistant at the Department of Early Childhood Education at the Taipei Municipal Teachers College in Taipei, Taiwan from 2002 to 2003, where she worked on a project titled "The Relation among Taiwanese Children's Multiple-Character Word Comprehension, Representation, and Reading Development."

CHEN has almost ten years of teaching experience, ranging from teaching Chinese to non-Chinese speakers in a US context, to teaching grade-level students in a Chinese setting a variety of subjects such as mathematics, science, and social sciences. In addition to her rich teaching background, CHEN has assumed numerous leadership roles both in the United States and in Taiwan. Among these roles, she has served as the Representative of Teacher Candidates and the Associate Student Representative at the Department of Early Childhood Education at Taipei Municipal Teachers College in Taipei, Taiwan (2003-2004) where she represented teachers to meet with campus administrators, coordinated various sources of support, and conducted and managed student meetings. CHEN has received a number of awards, such as the Excellent Teaching Portfolio (2002) from Taipei Municipal Teachers College.