Puma Shen (沈伯洋) is a criminologist from Taiwan. He is an associate professor at the Institute of Criminology, National Taipei University. He is qualified as a lawyer in the Republic of China and has taught criminal law in a local cram school, and was a member of the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee from 2018 to 2020. In recent years, he has also studied information warfare and founded the Kuma Academy with Ho Cheng-Hui to promote national defense in Taiwan.
Puma Shen was born in 1982 in Taipei, Taiwan. His father was a businessman who traveled to Ecuador to do business. He graduated from Fuhsing Kindergarten, Fuhsing Elementary School, Fuhsing High School (as a junior high school student), Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, and the Law Department of National Taiwan University. After entering the Graduate School of Law at National Taiwan University, he taught criminal law to students taking the national examination of the Republic of China.
Later, he went to the United States to study and received his master's degree in law from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a doctoral degree from the University of California, Irvine. His doctoral dissertation examined the comparison of white-collar crime in the United States and China, for which he received his doctorate in crime and the sociology of law.
After receiving his Ph.D., he declined an appointment at North Carolina State University and returned to Taiwan, where he took over as an assistant professor at the Institute of Criminology, College of Social Sciences, National Taipei University in 2017.
From October 2018 to August 2020, he served as a part-time member of the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee. Later, together with strategic scholar Ho Cheng-Hui, he launched the Kuma Academy to promote national defense for the general public in Taiwan, which was sponsored by former United Microelectronics Corporation Chairman Tsao Hsing-Cheng with an investment of NT$600 million.