Meta-Devices Lab

Din-Ping Tsai received Ph.D from University of Cincinnati, USA in 1990. He worked at Micro Lithography Inc., California, USA, Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Center, Toronto, Canada, and National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan from 1990 to 1999. He joined National Taiwan University (NTU) as an Associate Professor in 1999, and became Professor and Distinguished Professor of Department of Physics at NTU in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He served as the Director General of the Taiwan Instrument Research Institute located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan from 2008 to 2012, and the Director and Distinguished Research Fellow of Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica from 2012 to 2019. He was the Chair Professor and Head of Department of Electronic and Information Engineeringthe at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from August 2019 to July 2021. He joined City University of Hong Kong as Chair Professor in August 2021.

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Professor Tsai is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Physical Society (APS), Electro Magnetics Academy (EMA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Optical Society of America (OSA), and Taiwan Physical Society. He is also Member of International Academy of Engineering (IAE), and Academician of Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). He is author and coauthor of 324 SCI journal papers (more than 14,000 SCI cited times, H-index 58), 65 book chapters and books, and 39 technical reports and articles. He had 68 patents in USA (19), Japan (3), Canada (3), Germany (2), etc. Twenty of them have been licensed to 5 different companies. He was recognized by Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) as the Top 1% Highly Cited Researcher of 2019 and 2020. His current research interests are nanostructured semiconductor electronic and photonic meta-devices and systems for emerging electronics and high dimensional quantum optical information applications.

 

Professor Tsai currently serves as Editor of Progress in Quantum Electronics, and Light: Advanced Manufacturing, respectively; Associate Editor of Journal of Lightwave Technology, Member of Editorial boards of Nano Letters, Small Methods, Advanced Quantum Technologies, Advanced Optical Materials, ACS photonics, APL Photonics, Physical Review Applied, Opto-Electronic Advances, Optics Communications, Plasmonics, Optoelectronics Letters, and Frontiers of Optoelectronics, respectively. He served as committee member for IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation & Measurement (2013-2016); and the award committee for OSA and IS&T Edwin H. Land Medal (2014-2016). He was the Director of the Board of SPIE from 2012 to 2014, and Chair (2009-2013) of IEEE Instrument and Measurement Society, Taipei Chapter, Member of SPIE Fellow Committee for three years (2010-2013), and Member of OSA Fellows and Honorary Members Committee for 2008 & 2009, respectively. He was the chair of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Taiwan chapter for the 2004 and 2005. He was also a member of technical committee of IEEE/LEOS nanophotonics. He was the President of Taiwan Photonics Society (2014-2016) and Taiwan Information Storage Association (2015-2019). He served as chairs and committee members of international conferences and symposiums, such as ISOM, ODS, ISOS, ISPS, NFO, SPP, APNFO, SPIE O+P, etc.

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