Photonics for the New Era

Professor Din Ping Tsai received his Ph.D degree in Physics from University of Cincinnati, USA in 1990. He was a Member of Research Staff at Micro Lithography Inc. from 1990 to 1991, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Center, Toronto from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 1999 he was an Associate Professor at National Chung Cheng University. He joined National Taiwan University (NTU) as an Associate Professor in 1999, and became Professor and Distinguished Professor at NTU in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He served as the Director General of the National Instrument Technology Research Center located in Hsinchu Science Park from 2008 to 2012. He is the Director and Distinguished Research Fellow of Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica since 2012. His current research interests are applications of nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials on energy, environmental and better life. Professor Tsai is the President of Taiwan Photonics Society (TPS) and Taiwan Information Storage Association (TISA), and a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), Electro Magnetics Academy (EMA), and Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM).