Principal Investigator

Education

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, USA, 2015 – 2019

M.S. in Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2011 – 2013

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2007 – 2011

Experience

● Associate professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 2025/02 – present

● Tenure-track assistant professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 2021/08 – 2025/02

● Associate Professor (joint appointment), Program on Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing, Academy of Innovative Semiconductor and Sustainable Manufacturing, National Cheng Kung University, 2025/02 – present

● Assistant Professor (joint appointment), Program on Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing, Academy of Innovative Semiconductor and Sustainable Manufacturing, National Cheng Kung University, 2021/08 – 2025/02

● Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, 2019 – 2021,

● Research Intern, Battery Materials division, BASF, USA, 2018

● Research Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, 2016 – 2019

● Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, 2015

● Teaching Staff for Chemical Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2014 – 2015

● Second Lieutenant (少尉輔導長), R.O.C. army, 2013 – 2014

Awards

● 2025 LCY Outstanding Junior Professor Award (李長榮學術研究傑出青年教授獎)
● 2025 NSTC 2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Award – Emerging Young Scholars (國科會2030新秀學者)
● 2024 Chemical Engineering Masterpiece Award by the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (台灣化工學會 – 化工傑作獎)
● 2024 Journal of Materials Chemistry A – Emerging Investigators
● 2024 Rising Star by the college of engineering of NCKU (成大工學院明日之星)
● 2023 Sustainable Interdisciplinary Research Excellence Award by NCKU (成大永續跨領域研究-優良獎)

Press

● 2025 國科會自然處《化學圖書服務計畫》114年7月號電子報-台灣研究新發現: Utilizing Electron-Sink-Enhanced Nanoshells for Amplified Nanoplasmonic SERS-Based In Situ Detection of Cancer Cells, Linking Signal Enhancement with Cellular Damage
● 2025 聯合報: 成大研發全新癌細胞「說話」技術能微量偵測殺癌細胞
● 2024 工商時報: 成大首研發奈米級螢光元氣彈 讓癌細胞「發光」
● 2023 國科會自然處《化學圖書服務計畫》112年11月號電子報-台灣研究新發現: Reversal of methanation-oriented to RWGS-oriented Ni/SiO2 catalysts by the exsolution of Ni2+ confined in silicalite-1
● 2023 國科會自然處《化學圖書服務計畫》112年11月號電子報-台灣研究新發現: Prussian blue analog with separated active sites to catalyze water driven enhanced catalytic treatments

Research Grants (學術研究計畫)

● 2025/04 – 2026/03, 成大敏求學院-AI永續發展未來之星計畫 (主持人), “應用機器學習原子間勢能模型於全固態電池的晶界結構演變與機械性質研究”
● 2024/08 – 2027/08, 國科會計畫 (主持人), National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), “結合機器學習勢能與多尺度模擬技術深入解析全固態電池的動態機械性衰退現象.”
● 2021/10 – 2024/09, 國科會計畫 (主持人), National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), “結合多尺度計算模擬方法及機器學習模型設計新型材料以克服全固態電池中之界面問題.”
● 2023/10 – 2024/09, 國科會計畫 (共同主持人), NSTC, “複合固態電池之前瞻應用材料(第三期)(1/3).”
● 2024/04 – 2025/03, 成大敏求學院-AI永續發展未來之星計畫 (主持人), “結合多尺度計算模擬方法及機器學習勢能分析全固態電池中的界面相演變.”
● 2023/06 – 2024/12, 成大永續跨領域計畫 (共同主持人), “Development of Lead-free Perovskite Solar Cell Technology for Sustainable Green Energy in the Environment.”
● 2023/04 – 2023/12, 台綜大永續跨領域計畫 (共同主持人), “Optical Loss Reduction in Glass/ITO-Based Perovskite Solar Cells with MgF/ZnS Bilayer Antireflection Coating: Numerical Simulation and Fabrication Study.”
● 2025/08 – 2029/07, 國科會計畫 (主持人), “多尺度模擬與機器學習勢能模型驅動的固態複合電解質機制解析與全固態電池性能最佳化” (國科會2030跨世代年輕學者方案-新秀學者)
● 2025/08 – 2030/07, 國科會計畫 (共同主持人), “具靭性無陽極全固態金屬電池” (國科會學術攻頂計畫)

Industrial Grants (業界產學計畫)

● 2025/03 – 2026/02, 產學計畫 (主持人), TSMC (台積電), “Numerical Simulations of Wet Chemical Cleaning and Lateral Etching Behavior for Small Trenches and Nano-Sheets.”
● 2024/03 – 2026/02, 產學計畫 (主持人), Delta Electronics-Cyntec (台達電子-乾坤科技), “有限元素法模擬最佳化充放電行為.”
● 2023/10 – 2024/09, 產學計畫 (主持人) – ASE (日月光半導體), “電鍍技術精進 – 合作開發電鍍模型, 探討電鍍液配比提升電鍍速率及改善共平面度.”
● 2025/04 – 2025/12, 產學計畫 (共同主持人) – Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI ,工研院), 釩離子擴散與平衡對電容量影響之研究
● 2024/04 – 2024/12, 產學計畫 (共同主持人) – Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI ,工研院), “鈣鈦礦量子點合成與塗佈技術開發.”
● 2024/04 – 2024/12, 產學計畫 (共同主持人) – Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI ,工研院), “釩離子擴散與平衡研究.”

International Collaboration Grants (國際合作計畫)

● 2025/01 – 2025/12, 成大跨國研究計畫 (主持人) – with Prof. Ken Sakaushi at NIMS and the University of Tsukuba, Japan, “結合機器學習與第一原理計算解析高熵合金與二氧化釕界面相對氧氣析出反應活性的影響”
● 2025/04 – 2027/03, 國科會雙邊協議型擴充加值 國際合作研究計畫, with Dr. Yen-Ju Wu at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. “利用資料驅動的機器學習模型和第一原理計算進行能源材料的策略性逆向設計”
● 2024/01 – 2024/12, 成大跨國研究計畫 (主持人) – with Prof. Ken Sakaushi at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. “探索有機金屬骨架電催化觸媒的最佳雙金屬組成與活性:結合實驗、理論計算與機器學習模型”
● 2023/01 – 2023/12, 成大跨國研究計畫 (主持人) – with Prof. Ken Sakaushi at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. “金屬有機骨架薄膜中的異質金屬調控及其電化學催化特性研究.

Conference Talks

● 2025/10 (chair and oral) ECS Fall Meeting @Chicago, USA
● 2025/09 (Invited) International Workshop on Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multidisciplinary Research on Materials and Structures (m3MS) @National University of Singapore, Singapore
● 2025/07 (Invited) Annual Meeting of Taiwan Nanomedicine Society (TNS2025, 台灣奈米生醫年會) @Taichung.
● 2025/07(Invited) Taiwan International Conference on Taiwanese Colloid and Interface Society (2025 TWCIS) @TKU, Taipei.
● 2025/06 (Invited) Taiwan International Conference on Catalysis (TICC-2025, 台灣國際觸媒年會) @NTHU, Hsinchu.
● 2025/06 (Invited) The 11th General Conference of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (ACCMS-11) @Yokohama, Japan
● 2025/04 (Invited) – TW-DN Battery Project Annual Meeting (台德電池計畫雙邊會議) @Nantou
● 2025/05 (Invited) – 工業觸媒工作坊 @CPC, Kaohsiung
● 2025/04 (Invited) – Symposium on Thermodynamics and Process Systems Engineering (熱力學暨程序系統工程研討會) @Sun Moon Lake(日月潭), Nantou.
● 2025/04 (Invited) – 2025 International Seminar of Advanced Lithium-ion Battery and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electrochemical Energy Storage (國際先進鋰離子電池與氫能燃料電池電化學儲能研討會) @Tainan
● 2025/01 (Chair) – Advanced Green-Energy Materials Conference @NCKU, Tainan.
● 2024/11 (Invited) – TwIChE 2024 (台灣化工年會) @CYCU, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
● 2024/11 (Invited) – ICGET-TW 2024 (台灣綠色電化學科技國際研討會) @NCHU, Taichung, Taiwan.
● 2024/11 (Invited) – ECI Mixed Conducting and Nonstoichiometric Compounds VIII (國際工程會議) @NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan.
● 2024/10 (Invited) – PRiME 2024 (環太平洋電化學國際會議) @Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
● 2024/10 (Keynote) – ACMT2024 (台灣計算力學年會) @NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan.
● 2024/06 (Invited) – TICC 2024 (台灣國際觸媒年會) @NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan.
● 2024/04 (Oral) – MRS Spring Meeting, Seattle @USA.
● 2024/03 (Invited) – Chemistry National Meeting (台灣化學年會), TKU.
● 2023/12 (Invited) – TwIChE Annual Meeting (台灣化工年會) @NTU.
● 2023/11 (Invited) – Annual Meeting of Taiwan Theoretical and Computational Molecular Sciences Association (T2CoMSA)
● 2023/10 (Invited) – the 6th International Conference on Molecular Simulation (ICMS) @NTU.
● 2023/07 (Invited) – 界面科學學會年會, Yunlin Tech.
● 2023/05 (Invited) – 化學與材料模擬趨勢暨產業應用論壇 @NCKU
● 2023/04 (Oral) – MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco @USA.
● 2021/11 (Invited) – Materials Research Society-Taiwan International Conference (MRSTIC)

Invited Seminar Talks

● 2025/10 – seminar talk in Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science at Michigan State University (MSU), USA.
● 2025/09 – seminar talk in Miin Wu School of Computing at National Cheng Kung University (成大敏求智慧運算學院).
● 2025/09 – seminar talk in the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University (台大化工系).
● 2025/03 – seminar talk in the Department of Chemistry at National Taiwan University (台大化學系).
● 2024/12 – seminar talk in the Department of Chemical Engineering at NTUST (台科大化工系).
● 2024/10 – seminar talk in the Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science (LCS), Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大學), Japan.
● 2023/11 – Department of Chemistry at National Taiwan Normal University (師大化學系)
● 2023/11 – Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS) of Academia Sinica (中研院原分所)
● 2023/11 – Department of Chemical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University (清大化工系)
● 2023/10 – Department of Medicinal and Applied Chemistry at Kaohsiung Medical University (高醫醫化系)
● 2022/04 – Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at National Central University (中央化材系)
● 2021/12 – Department of Chemical Engineering at National Chung Hsing University (中興化工系)
● 2021/11 – Department of Chemical Engineering at Feng Chia University (逢甲化工系)
● 2021/11 – Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology at Taipei Tech (北科化工系)
● 2021/08 – Hierarchical Green-Energy Materials Research Center (Hi-GEM, 成大跨維綠能材料研究中心) at NCKU

Invited Reviewer for SCI Journals:

● The Journal of Chemical Physics
● npj Computational Materials
● Journal of Electronic Materials
●Journal of Materials Chemistry A
● Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers
● Nature Communications
● Chemical Engineering Journal
● ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
● Journal of Catalysis
● ChemCatChem
● Solid State Ionics
● Advanced Materials
● Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering