The National Science Council announced the winners of Wu Ta-You Memorial Award. Four of our associate professors were selected to receive this honor—Dr. Wang Daw- Wei of the Department of Physics, Dr. Hou Jiang-Liang of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Dr. Huang Chin-Yu of the Department of Computer Science and Dr. Liu Shu-Chin of the Institute of Taiwan Literature.

Dr. Wang Daw-Wei was an undergraduate of the Department of Physics at Tsing Hua before studying at the University of Maryland for his doctoral. In his major research he proposed a quantifiable explanation of Raman scattering in semiconductor quantum wire or surface, marking the first successful description of the phenomenon in twenty years. In the last three years, he has published five papers consecutively in Phys. Rev. Lett., a leading journal in the field of physics.

Professor Jiang-Liang Hou graduated from Tsing Hua's Institute of Industrial Engineering with a Ph.D. in 1998. His research subject has evolved over time in different phases. He first studied manufacturing automation, analyzing the digitization demands of various industries and researched the fundamental problems in industrial operation. His research findings were practically applied to industries, including introducing the intelligent knowledge management technology he developed to Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, and Avectec. He has also collaborated with Maojet Technology Corp. and Avectec to apply intelligent knowledge management technology into documents/patents monitoring.

Dr. Huang Chin-Yu earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the Institute of Electronics Engineering at National Taiwan University. He had work experience in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company as a senior software engineer in the E-beam Operations Department. Huang is currently heading the SELab (software engineering laboratory) of the Department of Computer Science at NTHU. His academic specialties include software reliability engineering, software testing, software metric, software project management, fault tree analysis and system testability.

Dr. Liu Shu-Chin is the only winner in the literature category this year. The focuses of her research are Taiwanese literature during the Japanese colonial period, analysis of the relationship between colonialism and the production of literature and the intertextual relationship between Taiwanese literature and East Asian literature. Her notable works include A Difficult Path: Literary Activities and Cultural Resistance of Taiwanese Youths Studying in Japan (Linking Books), Taiwanese Literature and Cross-Cultural Flow (Council for Cultural Affairs), "Local Culture" in the Empire: Cultural Conditions in Taiwan during the Kominka Movement (Seed Dissemination Publishing).