Fang-Chung Chen is a Professor at the Department of Photonics, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University. He received a B.S. and master's degree in Chemistry from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, in 2003. He was a teaching assistant at the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University in 1998. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA, from Oct. to Dec. in 2003. He joined the Department of Photonics and Display Institute at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Feb. 2004 as an assistant Professor. He became a full Professor in 2012. He was also the chairman of the Degree Program of Flat Panel Display Technology at NCTU. His research interests include polymer solar cells, organic photodetectors, organic memories, organic light-emitting diodes and organic thin-film transistors. He is a recipient of the Award for Junior Research Investigators of Academia Sinica 2008, which is one of the most important awards for junior research investigators in all research fields in Taiwan.
Kazuhiro Ohkawa is currently a Professor at the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and Principal Investigator of the Energy Conversion Devices and Materials (ECO Devices) Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He is also a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. He was with Panasonic, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, as a lifelong Honorary Professor, and Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. He was a technical advisor to approximately 20 companies in the fields of LEDs and LDs, MOVPE and photocatalysis. His research projects are energy-saving devices such as LEDs and laser diodes. His research interests include the original MOVPE technology and material science.
Jr-Hau He is a Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. He received his BS and PhD degrees at the National Tsing Hua University in 1999 and 2005, respectively. He has been an influential scientist in optoelectronics. He has made a major contribution to understanding light-mater interactions, which reflects on his achievement of photon management on light-harvesting devices. He has conducted highly interdisciplinary research to bridge those gaps between various research fields and between academia and industry. The great success of his research is reflected by his research funding, publications, awards, honors, patents and technology transfer to industry. He participates actively in activities and services in scientific professional societies. He serves as a member of the editorial board for numerous prestigious journals, and as a chair, co-chair and a member of technical and steering committees for national and international symposiums. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) Newsletter. He serves as the IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) and NTC Distinguished Lecturer, SPIE Visiting Lecturer and OSA Travelling Lecturer. He is a Fellow of the OSA, RSC and SPIE, and a senior member of IEEE.
Prof. Hao-Chung Kuo achieved a B.S. degree in Physics from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, an M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, in 1999. From 1993 to 1995, he was a Research Consultant at Lucent Technologies and Bell Laboratories, and from 1999 to 2001, he was a Member of the Technical Staff in the Fiber-Optics Division at Agilent Technologies. From 2001 to 2002, he was with LuxNet Corporation. Since October 2002, he has been a Faculty Member of the Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Currently, Prof. Hao-Chung Kuo is the Director of the Semiconductor Research Center, Semiconductor Research Center, and Hon Hai Research Institute. His current research interests include semiconductor lasers, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, blue and UV LED lasers, quantum-confined optoelectronic structures, optoelectronic materials, and solar cells.
