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Eight NTU Professors Win Academic Awards from the Ministry of Education;Professor J.D. Wang and Professor Lin-Shan Lee Are Elected Lifelong National Chair Professors

  The Academic Review Committee of the Ministry of Education has announced the roster of winners for the 11th National Chair Professorships and the 51st Academic Awards. Professor J. D. Wang and Professor Lin-shan Lee of NTU were elected for the second time as lifelong national chair professors. In addition, among the nine professors awarded national chair professorship, NTU has five, adding proof of the scholastic attainment of National Taiwan University.

  Professor J.D. Wang's area of specialization lies in environmental and occupational health, epidemiology and other related fields. He has won many scholastic achievement awards in the past, including the "outstanding science and technology honorary award" of the Executive Yuan in 1998, and the Ministry of Education's.

  Academic Award in 2001. His highest honor was being selected as an academician for the Collegium Ramazzini, which is commonly recognized as the loftiest honor for occupational medicine practitioners. In 2003 he was awarded national chair professorship by the Ministry of Education. This year he won the same honor for the second time, and became a lifelong national chair professor.

  Personal Website of Professor J.D. Wang:
  http://omih.ntu.edu.tw/JDWang/CHT/

  Professor Lin- Shan Lee specialized in the study of communications in his early days, and subsequently gained prominence for his research in the fields of digital acoustic processing, digital signal processing, and digital transmission. He is well known for blazing the trail for digital phonology research. In the past he won many honors, including being selected IEEE Fellow, Ministry of Education's National Chair Professor, NTU's Chair Professor, and NTU's Tenured Professor by Special Appointment, etc. This year Professor Lee made another great stride by winning the lifelong national chair professorship.

  Professor Lin-Shan Lee's personal website:
  http://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/2004/people/faculty/ls-lee/ls-lee.htm

  Other NTU winners of the 11th national chair professorships include Department of International Business Professor Mao-Wei Hung (in the social sciences category), Department of Atmospheric Science Professor Hung-Chi Kuo (in the math and natural sciences category), and School of Medicine Professor Pan-chyr Yang (in the catergory of biology, medicine, and agriculture).

  Professor Mao-Wei Hung dedicates himself to research in financial engineering, behavioral finance, asset pricing theory, international investment and asset management. He has won many awards and international recognition. Apart from being listed among the top twenty researchers in the Asia Pacific region in finance (he was the only nominee from Taiwan), he also won the outstanding scholar chair professorship from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholars, and the Distinguished Research Award in Management from the National Science Council .

  Professor Hung-Chi Kuo is well recognized in the studies of typhoon and vortex dynamics, computational mathematics and atmospheric/ocean fluid dynamics. He distinguished himself in understanding important typhoon problems such as landfall track deflection in Taiwan, elliptical eyewall rotation, successive formation of typhoons, formation dynamics of concentric eyewall, and equatorial typhoon genesis. He has been honored three times the Distinguished Research Award by Taiwan's National Science Council. He was awarded the title of Lifelong Distinguished Professor in 2006 when the honorary title system was first established by NTU.

  Professor Pan-chyr Yang, on the other hand, is known for his achievements in the studies of the technology of chest sonography, and the pathogenic mechanisms of lung cancer.. For his successful establishment of the metastasis model of lung cancer, he was elected into Academia Sinica in 2006.

  Professor Mao-Wei Hung's Personal Website:
  http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~mwhung/

  Professor Hung-Chi Kuo's Personal Website:
  http://kelvin.as.ntu.edu.tw/Kuo_0.htm

  Professor Pan-chyr Yang's Personal Website:
  http://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/html/pi/pcyang_c.html

  Among the winners of the 51st Ministry of Education's Academic Awards, three come from NTU. They are, respectively, Professor Yi-ting Li (Department of Economics), Professor Grace Chu-fang Lo (Department of Biotechnology), and Professor Wang Huei (Department of Electrical Engineering).

  Professor Yi-ting Li specializes in monetary theories and macroeconomics theories. His past honors include winning Academia Sinica's Young Scholar's Research Writing Award, and the National Science Council's Outstanding Achievement Award, among others.

  Professor Grace Chu-fang Lo's recent research focuses on the viral diseases of aquatic crustaceans (shrimps), the prevention of diseases for aquaculture species, and basic biology research of viruses She has won many lofty academic awards for her distinguished research achievements, including the Executive Yuan's Outstanding Technology Award, National Science Council's Outstanding Research Award (three times), and the Chinese Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Outstanding Biological Science Research Award., etc.

Professor J.D. Wang
Professor J.D. Wang

Professor Lin- Shan Lee
Professor Lin- Shan Lee

Professor Mao-Wei Hung
Professor Mao-Wei Hung

Professor Hung-chi Kuo
Professor Hung-chi Kuo

Professor Pan-chyr Yang
Professor Pan-chyr Yang

Professor Yi-ting Li
Professor Yi-ting Li

Professor Grace Chu-fang Lo
Professor Grace Chu-fang Lo

Professor Wang Huei
Professor Wang Huei

  Professor Wang Huei's research specialization lies in high frequency integrated circuits. His research topics include circuit design, component models and measurements. In addition to winning this award, he has won other honors, including the National Science Council's Outstanding Research Award, the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholars' chair professorship, and the chair professorship in Dr. Ming-hung Hung's academic forum.

  Professor Yi-ting Li's Personal Website:
  http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~yitingli/

  Professor Grace Chu-fang Lo's Personal Website:
  http://zoology.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/faculty/lo_cf.htm

  Profefessor Wang Huei's Personal Website:
  http://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/2003/people/faculty/h-wang/h-wang.htm

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