Sophy Shu-Jiun Chen is an Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology and serves as the Executive Secretary of the Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures. She holds an M.A. in Information Studies from the University of Sheffield, UK, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from National Taiwan University.

Additionally, she is a Jointly Appointed Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Library, Information and Archival Studies, National Chengchi University, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the iSchools of National Taiwan University. Her research focuses on cultural heritage informatics, digital libraries, digital humanities, knowledge organization, linked data, and digital curation.

She initiated the Chinese AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus Taiwan) project (https://aat.teldap.tw/), which has evolved into a collaborative project with the Getty Research Institute, USA, and established the Linked Open Data Lab at Academia Sinica (https://lodlab.ascdc.tw/).