Academician Chen S. Tsai, the winner of National Taiwan University Distinguished Alumnus Award in the category of research achievement in November, 2007, was a Chancellor Professorship of the University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. in late January, 2008. Academician Tsai was a Distinguished Research Fellow and the Founding Director of the Institute for Applied Science and Engineering Research (now the Research Center for Applied Sciences) during 1999-2002 at Academia Sinica.
The Chancellor Professorship is designed to recognize scholars who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and promise for continued scholarly achievement. Academician Tsai is the latest addition to only 18 faculty members currently holding this prestigious Chair Professorship among a faculty body of around 2,000.
Prof. Tsai and his entire research group left Carnegie-Mellon University to join the University of California in July 1980. His research group has made seminal contributions in integrated optics, ultrasonics, and magnetic microwave devices. Professor Tsai has reestablished his research group since resuming full-time teaching and research at UC Irvine in Fall 2002. The group is currently engaged in research on Ultrasonic Nozzles for Biomedical Applications, Silicon Photonics, and Magnetic Microwave Devices. The first project was initiated at the Academia Sinica during his tenure and remains a joint project with university researchers in Taiwan.
