Honors and Awards

1. IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics,and Frequency Control Society Achievement Award,2013).


2. Academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan, equivalent to US Academies of Science and Engineering, 2000).


3. Russian Academy of Engineering Science ( Foreign Member, 2001 ) .


4. Distinguished Alumnus Award for Research Achievement, National Taiwan Univ. (2007).


5. UC Irvine Chancellor's Professorship (Jan. 2008 - ).


6. 1995 International Microoptics Award (Biennial research award bestowed jointly by the Optical Society of Japan and the Japanese Applied Physics Society since 1989).


7. Founding Director,Inst.For Applied Science and Engineering,Academia Sinica (1999 - 2002).


8. UC Irvine Faculty Senate Distinguished Faculty Lectureship for Research (1995) and delivered a public lecture entitled,"Photons: Express Messengers of the Information Superhighway".


9. Russian Popov Society (Honorary Foreign Member, 2002 ).


10. Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, OSA, SPIE, IAE, and PSCA in 1992, 1983, 1983, 1987, 1983, and 1983, respectively.


11. Professor, Above-Scale, UC Irvine (1991 - ).


12. Taiwanese - American Foundation Prize in Science and Engineering (1991).


13. IEEE Ultrasonics/Ferroelectrics Soc. Distinguished Lectureship Award and completed a full-year lecture tour on " Guided-Wave Acoustooptics " in US, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, England, Taiwan, and China (1987).


14. Best Paper Award bestowed by IEEE Reliability and Electronic Devices Groups (1980).


15. A finalist for the IEEE Donald Fink Prize Award for the invited paper published in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems (1979).


16. UC Irvine Lauds/Laurels Award for Distinguished Research (1987).


17. Awarded Chair Professorship at Carnegie-Melon University (1980).


18. Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan .


19. Honorary Director, Information and Electronics Coordinated Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2002 - 2007).


20. Honorary Distinguished Professorship, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2006 - ).


21. Honorary Distinguished Professorship of Six Other Prestigious Universities in Taiwan, China,and Japan (1986- )


22. Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award of Utah State University (1984).


23. UC Irvine First Engineering Research Award (1986).


24. UC Irvine Engineering Instructor of The Year Award (1984 - 1985).


25. The first " Hall of Fame Professor " honored by the graduate students body of EECS (1989).

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