Jin-Wei Shi

Dr. Jin-Wei Shi was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on January 22, 1976. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1998 and a Ph.D. at the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 2002. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), CA, during 2000 and 2001. In 2002-2003, he served as a post-doc researcher at the Electronic Research & Service Organization (ERSO) of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, at National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, where he is now a professor. In 2011, he joined the ECE Dept. of UCSB again as a Visiting Scholar. His current research interests include ultra-high speed/power optoelectronic devices, such as photodetectors, electro-absorption modulators, sub-millimeter wave photonic transmitters, and semiconductor lasers. He has authored or co-authored more than 83 journal papers, 130 conference papers and holds 20 patents. He was the invited speaker of 2002 IEEE LEOS, 2005 SPIE Optics East, 2007 Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonic Conference (AP-MWP), and 2008 Asia Optical Fiber Communication & Optoelectronic Exposition & Conference (AOE). He served as the technical program committee of OFC from 2009-2011. He was the recipient of the 2007 Excellence Young Researcher Award from the Association of Chinese IEEE and the 2010 Da-You Wu Memorial Award.