Biography
Dr. Chen S. Tsai, UC Irvine Chancellor's Professor, received his B.S. from National Taiwan University in 1957, M.S. from Utah State University in 1961 and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1965, all in Electrical Engineering. He was with the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Center as a Research Scientist for three and a half years before joining Carnegie-Mellon University as an Assistant Professor in 1969. In 1974, he was promoted to Professor and was awarded an Endowed Chair Professorship in 1980. In 1980, he joined University of California , Irvine as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, served as Acting Department Chair from 1985-86, and was advanced to Professor, Above-Scale in 1991. He served as the Distinguished Research Fellow and Founding Director of the Institute for Applied Science and Engineering Research with the Academia Sinica in Taiwan from 1999-2002. Dr. Tsai returned to UC Irvine for full-time teaching and research in Fall 2002. Professor Tsai's group at UC Irvine and Carnegie-Mellon University have conducted basic research on Guided-Wave Acoustooptics, Electrooptics and Magnetooptics, Acoustic Microscopy, Wideband Ferromagnetic Microwave Filters, MEMS-Based MHz Ultrasonic Nozzles, and Silicon Nanophotonics through the sponsorships of the UC MICRO/DISCOVERY/ Industry programs, the NSF, the NSA, the AROD, the AFOSR, the ONR, and the NIH. He has published some 500 journal and conference papers among which more than 125 are by invitation, and 17 encyclopedia and book chapters in the areas of integrated acoustooptics, magnetooptic and electrooptic devices, acoustic microscopy, magnetic microwave devices, silicon-based nanophotonic devices, and MHz ultrasonic nozzles. He was the editor and contributed four chapters to the first topical volume on Guided-Wave Acoustooptics, published by Springer-Verlag in 1990.
Among the awards and honors Dr. Tsai has received are the Fellows of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), Russia Popov Society, and International Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), the IEEE Distinguished Lectureship Award, IEEE Society Best Paper Award, Member (Academician) of Academia Sinica (Taiwan), UC Irvine Chancellor Professorship, UC Irvine Faculty Senate Distinguished Research Lectureship Award, UC Irvine Lauds and Laurels Award for Distinguished Research, Taiwanese-American Foundation Prize in Science and Technology, the International Microoptics Award, the Distinguished Alumnus Award of National Taiwan University in the category of Research Achievement, and UC Irvine School of Engineering Instructor of The Year Award.
Dr. Tsai is a member of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a member of Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences.