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Year field Name E-mail
1997 Chemistry Dr. Reuben Jih-Ru Hwu jrhwu@mx.nthu.edu.tw

Dr. Reuben Jih-Ru Hwu

Dr. Reuben Jih-Ru Hwu
Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University

101, , Chemistry Building R602, Sec 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan

Tel : +886 3 571-5131 #33412
Fax: +886 3 5711-082


Brief Resume:

  Dean of College of Science, National Central University (2007–); Chair Professor of Chemistry, National Central University (2008–); Chair Professor of National Tsing Hua University (2006–); Born 1954; B.S. in Chemistry, National Taiwan University (1972–76); Ph.D., Stanford University (1978–82); Associate and Assistant Professors, The Johns Hopkins University (1982–91); Fellow of The Third World Academy of Sciences (1999–); Fellow of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2000–); Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (2005–); Regional Editor, Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry (2000–); Visiting Professor of University of Cape Town, South Africa (1997); Visiting Professor of University of Louis Pasteur and CNRS, France (1998); Visiting Professor of Royal Society of Chemistry for Universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Nottingham, and Imperial College, United Kingdom (2000); Visiting Scholar of Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst for Universities of Berlin, Frankfurt, Gottingen, Hamburg, and Osnabruck, Germany (2001); and Visiting Chair Professor of Peking University, China (2005).

  Awards: Award for an Outstanding Achievement (2008); Honorary Research Fellow Award of National Science Council (2008); Outstanding Scholar Award (2007–12); National Innovation Award (2007); National Biotech. and Medical Care Quality Award (2007); Honorable Research Fellow of National Science Council (twice, 2001–07); Distinguished Research Award, National Science Council, (three times, 1992–2001); The Third World Academy of Sciences Award in Chemistry (1997); The Outstanding Young Persons of the World, Junior Chamber International (1994); Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council (1994); Federation of Asian Chemical Societies 1992/1993 Distinguished Young Chemist Award; Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Republic of China in Scientific and Technological Development (1993); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, U.S.A. (1986–90); Stuart Pharmaceuticals Achievement Award, ICI Americas Inc. (1986); W. H. Nichols Scholarship, Stanford University, U.S.A. (1982); Ming-Yu-Wen-Hwa Award, Ming-Yu Foundation, Japan (1976); Fu-Luen Award, National Taiwan Univ. (1975); Shu-Jan Prizes, National Taiwan Univ. (three times; 1973, 1974, 1975).

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2002 Chemistry Dr. Shie-Ming Peng smpeng@ntu.edu.tw


Dr. Shie-Ming Peng

Dr. Shie-Ming Peng
Dept. of Chemistry, National Taiwan University

No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 10617 Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 3366-1655
Fax: +886 2 8369-3765

 


Brief Resume:

  Shie-Ming Peng received his PhD from the University of Chicago. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University. He became an associate Professor(1976–1980) and a full Professor (1980) of National Taiwan University. He was the Chairman of the Department of Chemistry (1987–1990) and the Vice President of the National Taiwan University (1999–2002). He also served as the President of the Chemical Society in Taipei (2001–2002). In 1998, he was elected as an Academician of Academia Sinica. He is a synthetic and structural coordination chemist. His research is devoted to developing metal string complexes and investigating their application in molecular electronics.

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2006 Engineering Sciences Dr. Chun-Yen Chang cyc@mail.nctu.edu.tw

Dr. Chun-Yen Chang

Dr. Chun-Yen Chang
Rm 411, Microelectronics and Information Systems Research Center,
National Chiao-Tung University

1001, Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

Tel : +886 3 571-2121#59318
Fax: +886 3 572-1500

 


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2007 Engineering Sciences Dr. Chih-Kung Lee cklee@mems.iam.ntu.edu.tw


Dr. Chih-Kung Lee

Dr. Chih-Kung Lee
Institute of Applied Mechanics, Room 423, National Taiwan University

No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 10617 Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 3366-5645
Fax: +886 2 3366-5654


Brief Resume:

Chih-Kung (C.K.) Lee received his B.S degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1981. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University with a major in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and a minor in Physics. In 1987, he joined IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California as a Research Staff Member and as a Staff to the Laboratory Director where his R&D work was primarily concentrated in the interdisciplinary areas related to magnetic disk drives, optoelectronic systems, metrology systems, and piezoelectric systems. He was awarded an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work on reducing the thermal track mis-registration on a 3.5 inch, 320 MByte, IBM 0661 hard disk file. He received two distinguished Invention Awards for his inventions and patents on laser encoders, nanometer fly height measurement systems, piezoelectric strain rate gages, and acceleration rate sensors for early shock arrival. He joined the faculty of National Taiwan University’s Institute of Applied Mechanics in 1994. His research work on distributed piezoelectric sensors and actuators has made him a well recognized expert in the areas of flexible structure control, shock sensing, and sensor development. His specialty lies in systems integration which combines knowledge of mechanics, optics, electronics, semiconductors, mechanisms, metrology, and interface systems to create new innovative systems. He co-founded the MEMS research group at National Taiwan University. Concurrently, he is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Science & Ocean Engineering at National Taiwan University. His outstanding leadership and vision led to the establishment of the innovative National Taiwan University Nano-Bio-MEMS group. The Group’s perspective of emphasizing social responsibility as a cornerstone of a world class research team sets the team apart from other research teams. He is an Institute of Physics Fellow and ASME Fellow. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Smart Materials and Structures, Journal of Nanobioscience, and The Open Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal. Previously, he was Director General of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Taiwan’s National Science Council. Since October 2007, he holds an adjunct appointment as Executive Vice-President at Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is currently directing his efforts to finding a paradigm to link Taiwan's research in engineering and applied sciences to the next-generation industrial and societal trends.

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2008 Agricultural Sciences Dr. Jei-Fu Shaw shawjf @isu.edu.tw


Dr. Jei-Fu Shaw

Dr. Jei-Fu Shaw
President Office,
I –SHOU University

No.1, Sec. 1, Syuecheng Rd., Dashu District, Kaohsiung City 84001,Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tel : +886 7 6577700
Fax: +886 7 6577051


Brief Resume:

  Dr. Jei-Fu Shaw is a multi-talented, imaginative, distinguished scientist and academic leader. Dr. Shaw was awarded the TWAS Prize for Agricultural Science (The Academy of Sciences in Developing Word) in November 2008. He combines basic biochemistry and biotechnology research with agricultural applications to solve the postharvest problems of crops and to produce value-added products from agricultural produce and agrowaste, which has important contribution to agriculture. After receiving his Ph.D. Degree in biochemistry from University of Arkansas (USA) in 1977, Dr. Shaw returned to Taiwan and devoted himself into research and education. He has served as professor and chairman in the Department of Chemistry of National Kaohsiung Normal University, professor and director of the Marine Biotechnology Institute at National Taiwan Ocean University, director of the Institute of Botany of Academia Sinica, and visiting professor of MIT, USA. In 2004, he became President of National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) and Chair Professor at Department of Food Science and Biotechnology. He has been instrumental in raising the profile of the university. Under his leadership, NCHU not only became one of the top-notched research universities in Taiwan, but it is also prominent on agricultural biotechnology world wide. Dr. Shaw’s distinguished career has been acclaimed by many national and international honors and awards, including Distinguished Research Award of National Science Council, National Agronomy Award, AAAS Fellow (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Biotechnology Lifetime Achievement Award of American oil Chemists’ Society, TWAS Prize for Agricultural Science, and UC Davis Storer Lectureship. He is also currently the President of Academia-Industry Consortium in Central Taiwan Science Park, and the Vice-President of International Society for Biocatalysis and Biotechnology.

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2009 Agricultural Sciences Dr. Huey-Lang Yang hlyang@mail.ncku.edu.tw


Dr. Huey-Lang Yang

Dr. Huey-Lang Yang
Institute of Biotechnology, National Cheng kung university

1, University Road,
Tainan, 701 Taiwan

Tel : +886 6 2757575 #65600
Fax: +886 6 2766505


Brief Resume:

  Dr. Huey-Lang Yang was born in Tainan, Taiwan. He completed his bachelor’s degree at National Taiwan University and conducted his graduate studies at the University of California, Davis. He received his PhD in Bacteriology in 1972 which led him to pursue a career in microbiology. Dr. Yang returned to Taiwan in 1989 to join the Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB). At DCB, he developed diagnostic kits for important diseases prevalent in the Asian population, such as human hepatitis C virus (HCV) and Epstein Bar virus for nasopharyngeal cancer. The development of the HCV diagnostic kit enabled general screening in blood banks in Taiwan, thereby drastically decreasing the transmission of this disease. In recognition of this significant accomplishment, the Executive Yuan of Taiwan honored him with the “Outstanding Contribution in Science and Technology” award in 1992. After successfully developing preventive diagnostic kits for several important infectious diseases for the Asian population, Dr. Yang decided to shift his focus to diseases impacting aquaculture in 1999. He commenced his research on warm water fish at National Cheng Kung University. In less than ten years time, he created a team of five principal investigators and graduate students of over 40 researchers, and built a fish experimental station. Building upon his training and experience in basic research and product development, he has made rapid progress in fish immunology, inventing a novel oral vaccine delivery system, several fish vaccine products, and extended to the establishment of sustainable virus free indoor production system for grouper fingerling. His contribution has led to the industrialization of grouper rearing and experimental station. Dr. Yang’s has established one of the best warm water fish research centers based upon ingenious research and innovation. His contribution in basic research and product development in warm water fish has been recognized both in Taiwan and by the international aquaculture community.

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2009 Engineering Sciences Dr. Liang-Gee Chen lgchen@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw


陳良基教授

Dr. Liang-Gee Chen
EE2-344, Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University

No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 10617 Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 3366-3700#344
Fax: +886 2 2391-2916

 


Brief Resume:

  Prof. Liang-Gee Chen received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1979, 1981, and 1986, respectively. In 1988, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University. During 1993–1994, he was a Visiting Consultant in the DSP Research Department, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. In 1997, he was a Visiting Scholar of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. During 2004-2006, he was the Vice President and General Director of the Electronics Research and Service Organization (ERSO) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. Since 2007, he has been serving as a Co-Director General of National SoC Program. Currently, he is the Deputy Dean of college of EECS and a Distinguished Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. He is the IEEE Fellow from 2001. His research interests include DSP architecture design, video processor design, and video coding systems. He has over 420 publications and 13 US patents. He is a member of Phi Tau Phi. Prof. Chen has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and other international technical journals. He is also involved several IEEE technical committees, including the TPC Chair of 2009 IEEE ICASSP and the TPC chair of ISCAS 2012. He has received several outstanding research awards and outstanding industrial technology contribution awards from NSC. His group has won the DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest for four times since 2004, and had the honor of Student Paper Contest at ICASSP 2006. Prof. Chen has also received the honor of National Professorship from Ministry of Education in 2009.

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2010 Biology Sciences Dr. Soo-Chen Cheng mbscc@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw


Dr. Soo-Chen Cheng
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica
128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

TEL:+886 2 2789-9200
Fax: +886 2 2788-3296

 


Brief Resume:

  Dr. Soo-Chen Cheng received her B. S. from Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University in 1977, and received her Ph. D. from Department of Biochemistry, Duke University in 1983.? After working in the Laboratory of Molecular Virology, National Institutes of Health for one year, she moved to California Institute of Technology to study RNA splicing.? She returned to Taiwan to join Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica in 1988, and continued to study the molecular mechanism of the pre-mRNA splicing reaction using yeast as a model system.? She was promoted to Distinguished Research Fellow in 2003 and elected as Academia Sinica Academician in 2012.

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2011 Engineering Sciences Dr.Yi-Bing Lin liny@cs.nctu.edu.tw


Dr. Yi-Bing Lin
National Chiao Tung University

1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., sinchu, Taiwan 300, R. O. C.

Tel : +886 3 572-8368
Fax: +886 3 573-4935

 


Brief Resume:

   Dr. Yi-Bing Lin is Vice President of National Chiao Tung University. He received the Bachelor degree in National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan) in 1983, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) in 1990. From 1990-95 he was a research scientist with Bellcore (Telcordia). He then joined the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan, where he remains. In 1996, he served as the Deputy Director of Microelectronics and Information Systems Research Center, NCTU. In 1997-1999, Lin was Chairman of the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering, NCTU. Since 2000, he has also been appointed as an Adjunct Research Fellow of Academia Sinica. During 2004-2006, Lin was appointed as the VP (Dean) of Research and Development, NCTU. Since 2007, Lin has served as the Dean of the College of Computer Science, NCTU. Lin’s research interests include mobile computing and performance evaluation. He has published over 240 journal papers and has held over 30 patents from USA, ROC, China, UK, and Germany. He is a senior technical editor of IEEE Network. He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications and IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology. He is General or Program Chair for conferences including ACM MobiCom 2002. He is Guest Editor for several journals including IEEE Transactions on Computers. Lin is the co-author of books Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture (Wiley, 2001), Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (John Wiley,2005), and Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (Wiley, 2008). Lin is listed in ISIHighlyCited.Com among top 1% most-cited Computer Science researchers. He received numerous research awards including 2005 NSC Distinguished Researcher and 2006 Academic Award of Ministry of Education, Taiwan. Lin is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, and an IET Fellow.

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2011 Mathematics Sciences Dr. Shun-Jen Cheng chengsj@math.sinica.edu.tw


Dr. Shun-Jen Cheng
Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica

6th Floor, Astronomy-Mathematics Building, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei,10617,Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 2368-5999#702

 


Brief Resume:

  Prof. Shun-Jen Cheng works on the representation theory of Lie superalgebras. Representation theory deals with explicit realizations of abstract mathematical structures in terms of concrete objects. He has made important contribution towards the classification of conformal superalgebras. Also, he and his co-authors introduced the novel concept of super duality, which establishes a remarkable connection between the representation theories of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras of classical types. Prof. Cheng received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1993. After spending one year at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, he became an associate professor at the National Cheng Kung University. He was promoted to professor in 1998. He became a professor at the National Taiwan University in 2000, and has been a research fellow at the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, since 2006. His honors include the National Science Council Outstanding Research Awards (1997, 1999), Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators (1999), the Academia Sinica Investigator Award (2007), the Khwarizmi International Award (2010), the Academic Award of the Ministry of Education (2011), and the TWAS Prize in Mathematics (2011).

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2012 Biology Dr. Ann-Shyn Chiang aschiang@life.nthu.edu.tw


Dr. Ann-Shyn Chiang
Brain Research Center, National Tsing Hua University

101, Section 2 Kuang Fu Road, Hsinchu, 30013, Taiwan

Tel : +886 3 574-2760
Fax: +886 3 571-7237

 


Brief Resume:

Dr. Ann-Shyn Chiang received his M.S. from Plant Pathology and Entomology, National Taiwan University in 1983, and received his Ph.D. from Entomology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, U.S.A. in 1990. He returned to Taiwan to join Department of Life Science, National Tsing Hua University in 1992, took his sabbatical to study Drosophila memory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2001 and became the adjunct International Faculty of Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind (KIBM) at the University of California, San Diego. He has constructed a comprehensive map of neuronal connections in the Drosophila olfactory circuitry and published the first Cell (2007) paper from Taiwanese scientists. Subsequently, he published another map revealing brain-wide neural networks in the entire Drosophila brain. The study was considered as the first step toward decoding the human brain by The New York Times in 2010. With help from this connectomics map, Chiang and his colleagues discovered that long-term memory formation requires new protein synthesis only in a few neurons in the brain. This ground-breaking finding was soon published in Science (2012), the first full article in Science from Taiwanese scientists. His outstanding contribution in science has been acclaimed by many awards, including: Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council (2004, 2010), Outstanding Scholar Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2007), Sun Yat-sen Academic Award (2007), Academic Award of Ministry of Education (2007), Teco Award of Teco Technology Foundation (2008), Outstanding Contributions in Science and Technology of Executive Yuan (2008), HuiSun Chair of National Chung Hsing University (2008), The Fifty Scientific Achievements, NSC 50th anniversary (2009), AEARU Distinghuished Lecture (2012), TWAS Prize in Biology (2012), and Academic Summit Program, National Science Council (2011-2016)。

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2013 Biology Dr. Sue Lin-Chao mbsue@gate.sinica.edu.tw


Dr. Sue Lin-Chao
Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica 128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

Tel: +886 2 2789-9218
Fax: +886 2 27826085

 


Brief Resume:

Dr. Sue Lin-Chao received her B. S. from Department of Biology, National Changhua University of Education in 1977, and received her Ph. D. from Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas, Dallas, in 1987. She moved to the Department of Genetics in the Stanford University School of Medicine where she studied gene regulation in bacteria. In 1990 she returned to Taiwan to join the Institute of Molecular Biology at Academia Sinica where she conducted research in the molecular mechanism of post-transcriptional regulation in E. coli--especially the elucidation of the function of multi-protein complexes in regulating the stability of message RNA. She was promoted to Distinguished Research Fellow in 2008. Her outstanding contribution in science has been acknowledged by many awards, including the following: The 33rd Annual R.O.C. Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award (1995), Academia Sinica Young Investigator Award (1997), Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council (Awarding continuously for 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002), Outstanding Alumni, National Changhua University of Education (2007), Honorary Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the R.O.C. (2009), Ministry of Education 53rd Academic Award, (2009), Frontier Research Grant Awarded by the National Science Council (Awarding continuously for 1998-2003, 2007-2012), in 2013, she won TWAS Prize in Biology.

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2013 Chemistry Dr. Chung-Yuan Mou cymou@ntu.edu.tw


Dr. Chung-Yuan Mou

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 10617 Taiwan

Tel: +886 2 33668205


Brief Resume:

 

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2013 Medical Sciences Dr. Mei-Hwei Chang changmh@ntu.edu.tw


Dr. Mei-Hwei Chang

Department of Pediatrics,
National Taiwan University Hospital,
No.8, Chung-Shan S. Road,
Taipei, Taiwan


Tel: +886 2 2312-3456#71701
Fax: +886 2 2311-4592


Brief Resume:

Mei-Hwei Chang was graduated from College of Medicine, National Taiwan University in 1974. She received pediatric residency and adult Gastroenterology training in National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital. She joined Professor Marvin Ament’s Pediatric Gastroenterology Group and Professor Tadataka Yamada’s Laboratory at University of California, Los Angeles as a research fellow in 1981. She established the first pediatric gastroenterology fellowship training program in Asia, and was elected as the president of the Federation of International Societies of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition ( 2008~2012). She was appointed as the chairperson of the Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, NTU during 1997 to 2003, and currently is a chair professor of NTU, and the chairperson of the Hepatitis Research Center, NTU hospital. She devoted to the research field of viral hepatitis, liver oncogenesis, and cancer prevention. She provided and liver disease in children, the first evidence to prove the effect of cancer preventive vaccine in human, and promotes the concept of cancer preventive vaccine. She also provided the first and most long-term evidence for the effect of chronic hepatitis and liver dise causes of vaccine failure and strategies to combat it. She has received ISI Citatiease prevention by universal hepatitis B vaccination program, and explored thon Classic Award, Sheila Sherlock Award of the International Association for the Study of the Liver, Asian Pediatrician Award, Academic Award and National Endowed Chair for the Outstanding Research of Ministry of Education, and TWAS prize.

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2014 Earth sciences Dr. Sun-Lin Chung sunlin@ntu.edu.tw


Distinguished Chair Professor Sun-Lin Chung

Department of Geosciences National Taiwan University
No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Tel: +886 2 2312-3456#71701
Fax: +886 2 2311-4592


Brief Resume:

In the past 18+ years, I have continuously played as a lead member in the CREATE (Comprehensive Research on East Asian Tectonic Evolution) integrated research project supported by the National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan and applied geochronological, geochemical and isotopic techniques to study some important petrogenetic and tectonic problems in Asia. For example, by leading one of the first and arguably the most successful research team that applied modern geochemical tools to study Tibetan tectonics related to the continental collision between India and Eurasia, I and colleagues have published some significant papers with emphasis on petrogenesis, mountain building processes and environmental impacts, which have attracted extensive attention and noticeable citations.

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2014 Medical Sciences Dr. Tse-Wen Chang twchang@gate.sinica.edu.tw


Distinguished Research Fellow Tse-Wen Chang

Genomic Research Center,Academia Sinica
NO.128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, 115, Taiwan
TEL:+886 2 27871252


Brief Resume:

 

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2014 Engineering Sciences Dr. Chih-Yuan (C.Y.) Lu CYLu@mxic.com.tw


Dr. Chih-Yuan (C.Y.) Lu

MACRONIX International Co., Ltd.
No. 16, Li-Hsin Road, Science Park, Hsin-chu, 30078 Taiwan, R. O. C.
TEL:+886 2 27871252


Brief Resume:

Chih-Yuan Lu received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1972, and M.A., M.Ph., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 1974, 1975, and 1977, respectively, all in physics.He became an Associate Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan (1978-83). In 1984, Dr. Lu joined AT&T Bell Laboratories where he has been engaged in very high voltage Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCDMOS) IC technology for telecommunication applications, CMOS DRAM technology, published the first pioneered paper on “variable hold time” in DRAM phenomena and its model, memory laser programmable redundancy technology and modeling, and the most advanced submicron CMOS ULSI technology in 1980’s.

Dr. Lu joined Electronics Research & Service Organization, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ERSO/ITRI) in late 1989 as a Deputy General Director responsible for semiconductor and integrated circuit operation, especially the national Submicron Project. This project later successfully developed Taiwan first 8-inch CMOS submicron manufacturing technology with high density DRAM/SRAM as the technology vehicles.Dr. Lu has published more than 400 technical papers and has been granted 150 international invention patents. C.Y. has been awarded the National Invention Award in 1995.

 

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2015 Chemistry Sciences Dr. Pi-Tai Chou chop@ntu.edu.tw


Dr. Pi-Tai Chou

Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 10617 Taiwan(R.O.C.
TEL:+886 2 33663894


Brief Resume:

  • Ph.D., Physical and Biophysical Chemistry, The Florida State University. 1984.
  • DOE Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. 1985-1987.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia. 1987-1994.
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Chung-Cheng University. 1994-2000.
  • Professor, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University. 2001-present.

 

 

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2018 Engineering sciences Dr. Yu-Chee Tseng yctseng@cs.nctu.edu.tw


Dr. Yu-Chee Tseng

Department of Computer Science National Chiao Tung University
Hsin-Chu, 30010, TAIWAN
TEL:+886 3 5712121#54700


Brief Resume:

    Professor Yu-Chee Tseng has been awarded as National Chiao Tung University Chair Professor since 2011. His research interests include mobile computing, wireless communication, and Internet of Things. Dr. Tseng is an Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. His h-index is more than 50. Professor Tseng has made significant contributions to mobile wireless networks.

     

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TWAS Regional Prize for Scientific Institution Building TWAS Regional Prize for Scientific Institution Building
Year field Name E-mail

 

The Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize The Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize
Year field Name E-mail
2006 Medical and Health Sciences Dr. Ding-Shinn Chen, M.D. dschen@ha.mc.edu.tw


Dr. Ding-Shinn Chen, M.D.

Dr. Ding-Shinn Chen, M.D.
Hepatitis Research Center National Taiwan University Hospital

7, Chung Shan South Road, Taipei 10002, Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 2397-0800 #7120
Fax: +886 2 2331-7624


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TWAS Regional Prize for Scientific Institution Building TWAS Regional Prize for Scientific Institution Building
Year field Name E-mail
2009 Scientific Institution Building Dr. Cheng-Wen Wu ken@ibms.sinica.edu.tw


Dr. Cheng-Wen Wu

Dr. Cheng-Wen Wu
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica

128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 2652-3015
Fax: +886 2 2652-3075

 


Brief Resume:

National Yang-Ming University Institute of Biomedical Sciences,
Academia Sinica
National Health Research Institutes

Professor Wu is the Distinguish Chair Professor of the National Yang-Ming University, and Corresponding Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica. He graduated from the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University with an M.D. degree in 1964. He then attended Case Western Reserve University in the US, where he obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1969. Professor Wu is best known for his pioneer work on the four-step mechanism of gene transcription: DNA binding, RNA chain initiation, elongation and termination. He discovered intrinsic zinc RNA polymerase and transcription factors (later known as zinc fingers), and elucidated their roles in transcription. All these represent important breakthroughs in the field of molecular biology. During the past decade, due to the rising mortality of lung cancer in the world as well as in Taiwan, Professor Wu has initiated and led a national research program for lung cancer in Taiwan . In this program, he not only has achieved national and international impacts but also spurred numerous international collaborations. Professor Wu has published over 270 articles in international journals and won several prestigious awards including election to Academia Sinica. He is the founder of two most important biomedical research institutions in Taiwan: the Institute of Biomedical Reserch Institute at Academia Sinica, and the National Health Research Institutes which is an NIH equivalent in Taiwan.

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TWAS Prizes for Young Scientists in Developing Countries TWAS Prizes for Young Scientists in Developing Countries
Year of selection Affiliate TWAS Regional Office Name E-mail
2008 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Chun-Hung Hans Lin chunhung@gate.sinica.edu.tw


Dr. Chun-Hung Hans Lin
Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica

128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 2789-0110
Fax: +886 2 2788-9759

 


Brief Resume:

 

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2009 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Che_Alex Ma cma@gate.sinica.edu.tw


Dr. Che_Alex Ma

Dr. Che_Alex Ma
The Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica

128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 2787-1233
Fax: +886 2 2789-9931

 


Brief Resume:

Dr. Che Alex Ma received his Bachelor degree in 1992 from National Taiwan University and Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied the structure of an integral membrane protein Vpu from HIV-1 using NMR spectroscopy. During 2001-2004, he studied the structure of a bacterial efflux pump EmrE using X-ray crystallography as a postdoctoral fellow at The Scrippe Research Institute. In 2004, he joined the faculty of Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica as a Assistant Research Fellow. The main focus of Ma laboratory is to study the structure and function of membrane proteins, and to understand their relationships with human diseases. Over the last few years, major efforts have been made in the two following topics in infectious diseases. First, in order to overcome the problems of drug-resistant bacterial infection, a new enzyme target for antibiotic development, the membrane-bound bifunctional transglycosylase, has been chosen for structural and functional analysis. Dr. Ma and colleagues have recently determined the X-ray crystal structure of this membrane-bound enzyme in complex with its inhibitor moenomycin, and studied its mechanism of peptidoglycan synthesis. A high-throughput screening method for finding new antibiotics has been developed using the purified full-length membrane protein. In addition, structure-based drug design with the crystal structure is ongoing. Second, the research team has also studied the effect of glycosylation on influenza virus major surface protein hemagglutinin (HA) with regards to its role in receptor binding and immune response, and developed a new strategy for molecular vaccine design.

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2011 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Kang-Hui Lin khlin@phys.sinica.edu.tw


Dr. Kang-Hui Lin
Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan

Tel : +886 2 2789-6763

 


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2012 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Tzu-Ching Chang tcchang@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw


Dr. Tzu-Ching Chang
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica
11F of Astronomy-Mathematics Building, AS/NTU. No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd, Taipei

Tel :+886 2 2366-5457


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2013 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Jeng-Da Chai jdchai@phys.ntu.edu.tw


Dr. Jeng-Da Chai
Department of Physics, National Taiwan University No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

Tel: +886 2 3366-5586
Fax: +886 2 2363-9984

 


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Dr. Jeng-Da Chai, who was born in Hualien, Taiwan, received his B.S. degree in Physics from National Taiwan University (June 1997), M.S. degree in Physics from The Ohio State University (June 2002), and Ph.D. degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Maryland (December 2005). After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Chai performed postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley (January 2006 ~ June 2009). Since August 2009, he has joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University. His group has focused on the development of new quantum-mechanical methods suitable for the study of nanoscale systems (with 100 ~ 1,000,000 electrons), and their applications to materials for new energy (e.g., solar cells and hydrogen storage materials). Dr. Chai, who is one of the active developers of Q-Chem (a well-known quantum chemistry software), currently serves in the Editorial Boards of “Open Journal of Physical Chemistry”, “Dataset Papers in Science”, “Journal of Theoretical Chemistry”, and “Orectic Journal of Physical Chemistry”. As of now, the 22 SCI papers published by Dr. Chai have been cited more than 1,300 times. Among them, one paper has been cited more than 700 times. Dr. Chai was elected as a “TWAS Young Affiliate” by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) - for the advancement of science in developing countries in 2013. He received “Epson Scholarship Award” from The International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics in 2011, “Young Theorist Award” from the National Center for Theoretical Sciences of Taiwan in 2012, and “Career Development Award” from National Taiwan University in 2013.

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2014 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Denise Hsien Wu wuhsien@gmail.com


Dr. Denise Hsien Wu
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University

No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan(R.O.C.)
Tel: +886 3-422151#65205

 


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2014/2-present
Director, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
National Central University, Taiwan
2009/8-present
Associate Professor, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
National Central University, Taiwan
2005/2-2009/7
Assistant Professor, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
National Central University, Taiwan
2003/2-2005/1
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Advisor: Dr. Anjan Chatte

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2015 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Yun-Ru Ruby Chen yrchen@gate.sinica.edu.tw


Dr.Yun-Ru Ruby Chen
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica

128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, 115, Taiwan
Tel: +886 2 2787-1275

 


Brief Resume:

B. S., Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 1996
Ph.D., Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, North Carolina State University, 2003
Postdoctoral Researcher, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California at Irvine, 2004-2006
Postdoctoral Researcher, The Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, 2006-2007
Assistant Research Fellow, The Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, 2007-2014
Associate Research Fellow, The Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, 2014-present

 

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2016 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Yu-Chin Hsu ychsu@econ.sinica.edu.tw


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Dr.Yu-Chin Hsu
Institute of Economics Academia Sinica

128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang, Taipei, 115, Taiwan
Tel: +886 2782-2791#322

 


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B. S., Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 1996
Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics, November 2014 - present
Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Economics,August 2012 -November 2014
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri at Columbia, Department of Economics,September 2010-May 2012

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2019 TWAS Regional Office for East &
Southeast Asia and the Pacific
(TWAS-ROESEAP)
Dr. Han-Ching Wang wanghc@mail.ncku.edu.tw


Dr.Han-Ching Wang
Department of Biotechnology and Bioindustry Sciences, National Cheng Kung University

1 University Road, Tainan City, Taiwan
Tel: +886 6-2757575#58219

 


Brief Resume:

Young affiliate Han-Ching Wang has been elected for her contribution towards elucidating pathogenesis of the deadliest contagious shrimp diseases and shrimp immunology for developing strategies for selection of disease-resistant shrimps. As an Asian representative on several International scientific boards and committees, one of Dr. Wang’s prime responsibilities are to promote timely dissemination of scientific advances and policies that impact shrimp aquaculture of developing countries in Asia and other countries.

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