Feipei Lai received a B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and 1987, respectively.

 He is a professor in the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, the Graduate Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, the Graduate Institute of Health Policy and Management, the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. He serves as secretary in medical affairs, National Taiwan University Hospital. He was a vice superintendent of National Taiwan University Hospital. He was the chairman of Taiwan Network Information Center. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. He was also a guest Professor at University of Dortmund, Germany and a visiting senior computer system engineer in the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interest is Medical Informatics.

 Prof. Lai is one of the founders of the Institute of Information & Computing Machinery and served as the President during 2009/7-2013/7. He is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Tau Phi, Chinese Institute of Engineers, Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers. Prof. Lai was the chairman of Taiwan Internet Content Rating Foundation. He received the Taiwan Fuji Xerox Research Award in 1991, K-T Li Breakthrough Award in 2008, IBM Faculty Award, NTU Distinguished Service Award in 2009, Taiwan 2010 IT Distinguished Professionals and 2013 Telehealthcare Distinguished Contribution Award.