The National Science Council (NSC) recently announced the 2011 Wu Ta-You Memorial Award winners and five of NTHU young faculty members were among of the list. They are Dr. Ming-Jer Tsai, assoc. professor. at the Dept. of Computer Science, Dr. Chuan-Chin Chiao, assoc. professor of the College of Life Science, Dr. Ray-Kuang Lee, Dr. Yao-Win Hong as well as Dr. Meng-Fan Chang all from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Of the four award winners in the category of electrical engineering, it is worth noting, that three of them are from NTHU's Department of Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Ming-Jer Tsai's award-winning research focuses on how to allow the nodes in a wireless ad-hoc network to select appropriate route to transmit packets. The ad-hoc network routing scheme that he and his students developed is more energy efficient than other schemes published in relevant literatures. Dr. Tsai thanks the University for supporting his project and is very grateful for the invaluable research experiences and suggestion made available to him by his senior colleagues, namely, Professors Cheng-Shang Chang, Chung-Ta Chin, Chien-Ping Hsu and Shih-Chieh Chang. He is also very thankful that he has the opportunity to work with a group of talented students who provided him with numerous innovative ideas as well as a great deal of assistance in the research process.

Dr. Chuan-Chin Chiao's research scope covers cellular biology to neuroethology; he utilizes different tools to study the evolution and functions of the visual system through the perspective of comparative biology as well as visual environment and retina physiology. In his research on the retina of mammals, he has discovered many new neural network connections and important factors for retina development. In his research on neuroethology, Dr. Chiao is continuing his long term collaboration with the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute to study the camouflage and visual mechanism of squids. He has documented the squid’s camouflage color and posture under different bottom environments with hyper spectral image photography system. In addition, he also simulated the visual system of the squid's natural enemy and discovered that squids are able to present excellent camouflage colors under circumstance where there is a lack of color vision; this, in turn initiated new research directions.

Dr. Ray-Kuang Lee from the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and the Institute of Photonics Technologies specializes in quantum optics and theory analysis. His research results have systematically and stringently demonstrated how to generate non-liner fiber optics light source that also exhibits quantum entanglement characteristics and has laid a firm foundation for potential novel quantum applications.

Dr. Yao-Win Hong of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and the Institute of Communication Engineering has research focuses on the design and performance analysis of multiuser radio communication system, including cross level design, physical layer secure communication for cooperative communication, wireless sensor network and wireless network. These are all important technologies for improving the performance of next generation wireless communication systems. In particular, the cooperative and relay communication technologies play crucial roles in LTE and WiMax system and will have great impacts on the future development of domestic as well as overseas communication industry.

Dr. Meng-Fan Chang, associate professor of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering has demonstrated outstanding performance in the IC design and research field. He has applied memristor to design the first certified resistor based NVSRAN in the world, which features world-leading fast and low energy consumption non volatile storage and low read/write operating voltage. In addition, Dr. Chang's research accomplishments also include ultra low voltage embedded memory, high speed read/write resistor type memory and quickly detectable small memory cell voltage sense amplifier. Such research results will significantly increased the reading speed of current flash memory and SSDs, making it the first in the world.