The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently published its 2012 IEEE Fellow list. NTHU professors, Dr. Chin-Liang Wang of Department of Electrical Engineering and Dr. Ci-Ling Pan of Department of Physics were elected as Fellows of IEEE for their respective accomplishments.

Prof. Chin-Liang Wang is a world renowned expert in the field of communication and information processing, and has been a proud faculty member of NTHU for 24 years in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In his research, Prof. Wang not only seeks theological breakthrough, but also emphasizes practicality. His outstanding contribution on signal processing algorithms and architectures for digital communications brought him the title of IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Wang has published over fifty papers and approximately forty were in IEEE mainstream outlets, as well as more than one hundred and forty conference papers mainly presented at international conferences hosted by IEEE. In addition, he also received and achieved numerous domestic and international patents.

Prof. Wang is also the current Communications Engineering Program Convener, Networked Communication Program Convener, MediaTek Foundation Director, as well as the Director of IEEE Taipei Branch, and since 1998 as the Editor of IEEE Transaction on Communications. Moreover, he was also the convener of National Telecommunication Program and numerous other positions relate to the development of domestic industry.

Prof. Ci-Ling Pan's remarkable achievements in the field of ion-implanted semiconductor, liquid crystal devices for ultrafast photonics, terahertz devices have won him the title of IEEE Fellow. Ultrafast technology is a promising field of study. Femtosecond (10^-15 second) ultrafast light pulse is one billion times faster than the flash light used in high speed photography, which will allow scientists to investigate ultra fast chemical, physical and biological phenomenon and its applications. Professor Pan and his research team has developed ion-implanted GaAs ultrafast photonic materials and devices, which can react approximately in a picosecond (10^-12 second), and it shows a great potential in terabyte communication system for the future.

Furthermore, Terahertz wave or Terahertz radiation (10¹² Hz) are essentially sub-millimeter waves or far-infrared red light. Situations such as disease diagnoses, environment monitoring, product quality control, communication and the discovery of the unknown in the universe are all potential applications of terahertz technology. Thus, the Terahertz detector base developed by Professor Pan and his research team had made a world record by demonstrating the practicality of the detector on assessment of burn degree on a burn victim. Moreover, Prof Pan and his colleges successfully displayed the unification of fibre optics network and sub-terahertz (W-band) communication system with transmission rate of 20 Gbit/Sec, this discover shows promising future in wireless broadband data transmission.

In addition, Professor Pan and his wife, Professor Ru-Pin Chao, are two pioneers in the field of terahertz liquid crystal optics. They invented the Liquid Crystal THz Phase Shifter, and which is the only model that can phase shift up to 360 degrees and operate in room temperature, it can also be applied in several different areas such as sub-millimeter-wave phased-array radar and astronomical observation.