Biography
In the order according to the
Table of Program
Dr. Kuang-Tai Yen
(顏光泰)
Conference Co-Chair and President of TAASA
Email:
taasa_mail@yahoo.com
Dr. Kuang-Tai Yen is an Engineer/Scientist of The Boeing Company. He
obtained a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Feng Chia University in 1971, a MS
in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1975, a Engineer degree
in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering from University of Central Florida in 1995. Dr. Yen
taught in Feng Chia University as an Associate Professor in 1978.
Dr. Yen is recognized as an expert on the thermal analysis, computational fluid
dynamic analysis and non-linear structural analysis. In his 18 years service at
Boeing, he was involved the design and the development of the Tomahawk Cruise
Missile, the Titan and Altas Rockets, the delta IV EELV rockets, the
interceptors for Aegis Ballastic Missile Defense, C-17 aircraft and 747-8
aircraft. Through his excellence job performance, He has earned many Excellence
Awards from Boeing. Dr. Yen
was honored
and elected as a Boeing’s Associate Technical Fellow and
is currently President of TAASA.
Dr.
Hsin-Chieh Chou
(周信結)
Conference Co-Chair and President of NATPA-SCAL
Email:
jchou@hp.com
URL:
http://zen.sandiego.edu/natpa
Dr. Hsin-Chieh Chou
is a R&D engineer for
Hewlett-Packard Company. He is the lead for H.P. semiconductor, materials
packaging and reliability world wide team for Ink Jet Commercial Printing
Platform. He obtained his BS from National Taiwan University, M.S. of Polymer
Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University and Ph.D. in
Chemical Engineering from University of Missouri. Dr. Chou was a research
Faculty member of Lehigh University Polymer Research Center before he joined H.P.
He holds several US patents with ink jet application and published many research
papers in Journal of Applied Polymer Science.
Dr.
Maw-Kuen Wu
（吳茂昆）
Director of the Institute of Physics
Academia Sinica in Taiwan
Email:
mkwu@phys.sinica.edu.tw
Dr. Maw-Ken Wu is a solid state experimentalist specialized in magnetism and
superconductivity. Currently he also serves as the Director General of the
National Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Program of Taiwan. He received his
bachelor and master degrees in physics from Tamkang University in Taiwan, and
completed his Ph.D., also in Physics, at the University of Houston. He has been
a professor of physics at several institutions in Taiwan and in the U.S.;
including University of Alabama (in Huntsville), Columbia University (New York
City) and National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan). He has also served as a member
of the Cabinet in Taiwan, once as deputy minister (May 2000—Feb. 2002), and then
minister (May 2004—Jan. 2006) of the National Science Council, which is the
ministry in charge of science and technology development of Taiwan. Because of
his discovery of the first superconductor with superconducting temperature
higher than the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen, he has been awarded many
honors including a special award from NASA (1988), the US National Academy of
Sciences Comstock Prize (1988), and the Bern Matthias Prize (1994). He was
elected to the membership of Academia Sinica (Taiwan) in 1998, the foreign
associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2004, and the Third World
Academy of Sciences also in 2004.
Dr. G. P. Li
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCI
Irvine Division Director, California Institute of Telecommunications and
Information Technology (Calit2)
Director, UCI’s Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, Henry Samueli School
of Engineering
Email:
gpli@uci.edu
URL:
http://www.eng.uci.edu/faculty_research/profile/gpli
Dr. G. P. Li is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, with
appointments in three Departments: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering. He
serves as Irvine Division Director of the California Institute of
Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Director of UCI’s
Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility in the Henry Samueli School of
Engineering. He also serves as chair of executive committee of Electronics
manufacturing research and new materials sector in UC Discovery. He holds 6 US
patents and has published over 240 research papers involving microelectronic
semiconductor materials/devices/technologies, mixed signal
digital/analog/microwave microelectronic circuit design, RF-MEMS communication
systems, Bio-nano technology, and Bio-MEMS instrument for life sciences. During
his tenure as a research staff member and manager of the technology group at IBM
T. J. Watson Research Center from 1983 to 1988, he worked in the area of silicon
bipolar (0.5 um and 0.25 um) VLSI technology and process-related device physics,
as well as researching optical switches and optoelectronics for ultra-high-speed
IC measurements. He also led a research/development team to transfer the bipolar
VLSI technology from research to manufacturing in IBM. In 1987, he chaired the
committee for defining IBM semiconductor technology roadmap for beyond the year
2000. He has been a member of numerous technical committees at professional
conferences, and in 2006 was the chair for the
Taiwan VLSI Technology, Circuit, and System Conference. He received the
outstanding research contribution award from IBM (1987), outstanding engineering
professor award from UCI (1997, 2001), UCI
Innovators Award (2005), and Best paper award in the ITC International
Telemetering Conference (2005). His current research interests focus on “LifeChips”,
which represent the convergence and fusion of two large, important industries:
Life Sciences (including biotech and biomedical devices) and IT (including
consumer, computing, and communication) microelectronics (chips).
Dr. Bon–chu
Chung
（鍾邦柱）
Institute of Molecular Biology,
Academia
Sinica,
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel: 886-2-2789-9215, FAX: 886-2-2788-3464
e-mail:
mbchung@sinica.edu.tw,
URL:
http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/chung/
Professor Bon-chu Chung just finished her term as the Director General in
the Department of Life Sciences of National Science Council, Taiwan, in
2005-2007. During this period, she was in charge of funding and promoting
research in the area of life sciences in Taiwan including biology, agriculture,
and medicine. She also oversaw three major national science and technology
programs in genomic medicine, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture and
biotechnology. She currently holds the position of Distinguished Research Fellow
at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, in which she has been
working for 21 years. Dr. Chung’s research area is in the studies of steroid
function and regulation using techniques in molecular, cellular, and
developmental biology. Prior to her service in National Science Council, she
served as the Deputy Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology (1997-1999),
Deputy Executive Secretary (1999-2001) and then Executive Secretary (2002-2004)
of the Central Academic Advisory Committee of Academia Sinica. She received her
PhD degree from the Graduate Institute of Biochemistry, University of
Pennsylvania, and BS degree from the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan
University.
Dr.
Gabriel Rebeiz
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Email:
rebeiz@ece.ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-336-3186
Dr. Gabriel Rebeiz
is a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, San
Diego. Prior to this appointment, he was at the University of Michigan from 1988
to 2004. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He
has contributed to mm-wave electronics and THz antennas and imaging arrays from
1988-1998, and to the development of RF MEMS from 1996 to present. He is the
author of the book, RF MEMS: Theory, Design and Technology, Wiley (2003) and is
considered as one of the fathers of Metal RF MEMS. His group has developed
state-of-the-art switching networks, tunable filters and phase shifters from 2
to 110 GHz, and recently, very high reliability switched capacitors with Q>500
for tunable filter applications. His students have contributed to the
development of RF MEMS technology at the MIT-LL, U-Va, Texas A&M, Univ. of
Limoges, Intel, Raytheon, and Hitachi. He received many awards for teaching and
research, including the IEEE Microwave Prize in 2000, its Outstanding Young
Engineering Award in 2003, and he is a Fellow of the IEEE. Prof. Rebeiz heads
the UCSD/NEU DARPA Center on RF MEMS Reliability and Design Fundamentals and
Agilent is a member of this center.
Vice President, Southern California Region
Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
Email:
gary.s.toyama@boeing.com
Mr.
Toyama is Vice President, Southern California Region for Boeing Integrated
Defense Systems (IDS), overseeing infrastructure and efficiency efforts across
the region that includes six major Boeing sites with 30,000 employees as
California’s largest manufacturer. He has over 20 years of executive management
experience in Southern California with The Boeing Company. Mr. Toyama also
serves as the Boeing Seal Beach site executive.
Director of NASA Management Office
Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, California
Email:
eugene.h.trinh@nasa.gov
Dr. Eugene H. Trinh is currently the Director of the
NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology. Until December 2005, he was the NASA Headquarters Manager of the
Human System Research and Technology development program in the Exploration
Systems Mission Directorate in Washington DC. Since 1999 Dr. Trinh has held NASA
Headquarters positions of Director of the Physical Sciences Research division in
the former Office of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR) and of Director of
the Microgravity Research Division in the former Office of Life and Microgravity
Sciences and Applications (OLMSA). In 1999 he left his position as a Senior
Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute
of Technology in Pasadena, California, where, for twenty years, he had conducted
experimental and theoretical research in Fluid Dynamics, Fundamental Materials
Science, and Levitation Technology. Dr. Trinh was one of two science payload
specialists on the first United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1) Space
Shuttle flight. This Spacelab mission was launched on June 25 1992, and lasted
a record-breaking 14 days.
Dr. Trinh graduated with a BS in Engineering from
Columbia University and obtained a PhD degree in Engineering from Yale
University in 1979.
Dr. Julius C. Shu
（許清煌）
Senior Project Systems
Engineer,
The Boeing Satellite
Development Center
Email: julius.c.shu@boeing.com
Dr. Julius Shu has over
30 years of technical and engineering management experience in the aerospace
industry and R&D institution. His career includes two decades of system
analyses, modeling, simulations and design and 15 years of space system
engineering at Boeing (including former Rockwell International and Hughes Space
and Communication Inc.), Lockheed Martin and Nothrop-Gruman in USA , and NSPO in
Taiwan
.
Dr. Shu’s initial engineering
work was in the inertial navigation and then satellite navigation fields and
later in the area of space system engineering related to the development of
missile system and satellite systems with communication, navigation and remote
sensing payloads.
Dr. Shu is a senior member of
AIAA. He received a Ph.D. in Control Systems and Communication from State
University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y. in 1972.
Dr.
Kuang Yu Hsieh
Director Nano-technology R&D Div.
Emerging Central Lab./CTO Office
Macronix International Co., Ltd.
TEL:886-3-5786688 ext 78026
FAX:886-3-5789087
E-mail:kenhsieh@mxic.com.tw
Dr. Kuang-Yeu Hsieh
was born in Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C., in
1958. He received the B.S degree in physics from National Tsing-Hua University,
Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1980 and the M.S. degree in materials science from National
Sun Yet-sen University (NSYSU) in 1985, respectively. He received his Ph.D.
degree in materials science from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in
1989. Before he joined Macronix International Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, in 2001,
he was an Associate Professor at Institute of materials science, NSYSU
(1993-2001). Currently, He is director of nano-technology R&D Div/ Emerging
Central Lab in MXIC.
His research interests
include MBE thin film growth, characterization of material, solid-state physics,
IC fabrication, and optoelectronic materials. Currently, his research involves
in developing new nonvolatile memory devices and exploring new material for the
next generation nonvolatile. Meanwhile, he has more than 60 journal papers
published and 15 patents granted.
Dr. March A. Meyers
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Email:
mameyers@ucsd.edu
Dr. Marc Andre Meyers, Professor of Materials Science, UC San Diego,
received his Mechanical Engineering Diploma from the Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brazil and Ph. D. from the U. of Denver. He has carried out research in
a broad range of areas within Materials Science, ranging from dynamic processing
(explosive consolidation, synthesis, welding, shock- and shear induced
reactions, and combustion synthesis), dynamic and shock response of materials
(dynamic fracture and fragmentation, shock compression, shear localization),
martensitic transformations, twinning, constitutive equations, and the effect of
grain size on the strength of metals. In the past ten years he has investigated
biological and nanostructured materials, concentrating on their structure and
mechanical properties. He is a co-founder of the Center for Explosives
Technology Research (Associate Director, 1983-1988), in Socorro, New Mexico, and
was co-founder and co-chair of the EXPLOMET conference series (1980, 1985, 1990,
1995, 2000). He served as Advisor to the Director, Materials Science Division,
US Army Research Office (1985-1987). In that capacity, he was actively engaged
in stimulating and directing research in the dynamic behavior of materials. He
was Associate Director and Director, Institute for Mechanics and Materials
(1992-1997). He is a Fellow of ASM International, Humboldt Senior Scientist
Award recipient, and received the Structural Materials Division (TMS)
Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award. He is the author or co-author of ~300
research papers and three books; he co-edited seven books. As a hobby, he writes
fiction and surfs.
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Dr.
Chih-Kung (C.K.) Lee
(李世光)
Director, Dept. of Applied Engineering and
Sciences
National Science Council, Taiwan
Email:
cklee@mems.iam.ntu.edu.tw
Dr. Chih-Kung Lee
graduated from National Taiwan University and
received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York. He was with IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San
Jose, California for 7 years before joining the faculty at National Taiwan
University. He holds joint faculty appointments at the Institute of Applied
Mechanics and the Dept. of Engineering Sciences & Ocean Engineering, National
Taiwan University, Taiwan. He just completed a three-year appointment at
Taiwan’s National Science Council as Director General of Engineering & Applied
Sciences. His research interests include MEMS, nanotechnology systems,
piezoelectric systems, automation, optoelectronic systems design & fabrication,
precision metrology, and biochip systems. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Physics and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Dr. Charles W. Tu（杜武青）
Co-program coordinator/NATPA
Email:
ctu@ece.ucsd.edu
URL:
http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/faculty_research/home/ctu/
Dr. Charles W. Tu is an Associate Dean of the Jacobs School of
Engineering and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of California, San Diego. He obtained B.Sc. (Honors) in
Physics from McGill in 1971 and Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from
Yale in 1978. He was a lecturer at Yale until 1980, and from 1980-88 he was a
member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New
Jersey. In 1988 he joined the faculty of the ECE Department at UCSD, where he
was the department chairman from 1999 to 2003.
Since 1995 Tu has also been an adjunct professor at Gwangju Institute of Science
and Technology, Gwangju, Korea. His research interest is molecular beam epitaxy
of novel compound semiconductors for electronic and optoelectronic
applications. He has authored or co-authored over 300 journal papers and over
100 conference proceedings papers. His awards include Horace Watson Gold Metal in
Physics from McGill and Distinguished MTS from AT&T Bell Labs. He is a Fellow
of the IEEE, AVS, and American Physical Society.
Dr.
Ching-fen Tsai（蔡清芬）
Co-program coordinator/TAASA
E-mail:
tsaicf28@yahoo.com
Dr. Ching-Fen Tsai received his Ph.D. degree
from University of Miami and has more than thirty years of experience and
contributions in the field of mechanical engineering. His expertise includes
thermodynamics, heat transfer, thermal management, gas dynamics, and fluid
dynamics. Within Boeing, he has developed many unique analytical methods and
state-of-the-art computer codes for many vital advanced programs, such as
National Aerospace Plane (X-30), Space Shuttle, Russian Mir Station Docking,
International Space Station (ISS), and hypersonic research & applications. In
1999, he was honored and elected as a Boeing’s Associate Technical Fellow. In
May of 2004, Dr. Tsai was also elected as the Fellow Grade of American Society
of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - International in the category of “Engineering
Product Application”.
Mr.
Gary S. Toyama