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Michael Chen Email: michael790405@gmail.com Phone: +1(650)285-7867 facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.chen.5492 website: http://web.it.nctu.edu.tw/~yilin/

EDUCATION 08/2012-07/2013 M.S., Institute of Electro-optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung

University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. Thesis: An electrically tunable lens coupler adopting a liquid crystal phase modulation for fiber coupling and variable optical attenuation Advisor: Prof. Chyong-Hua Chen Rank:1/49

09/2008-07/2012 B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Honors Program, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Rank:1/28

08/2011-12/2011 Exchange Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Full scholarship, supported by National Chiao Tung University)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

08/2014-present Graduate Student Researcher Computational Imaging Lab: EECS, University of California Berkeley, U.S.A.

09/2013-01/2014 Teaching Assistant of Fourier Optics: Institute of Electro-optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

08/2013-07/2014 Research Assistant in Liquid Crystal Lab: Institute of Electro-optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

02/2013-06/2013 Teaching Assistant of Physical Optics: Institute of Electro-optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

AWARDS 05/2013 Honorary Membership of The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society

( Awarded to the top 3 students of each department) 09/2012-06/2013 Scholarship of Department of Photonics and Institute of

Electro-Optical Engineering 09/2012-01/2013 Presidential Award for graduate student 04/2011 Send Jane Scholarship

(Awarded to the top 2 students of each college) 05/2009 Scholarship of Cathay Financial Group

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09/2008-06/2011 Presidential Awards for undergraduate student for 4 semesters LEADERSHIP

08/2015- present President of Berkeley Association of Taiwanese Students

08/2013- 06/2014 Secretary of SPIE Student Chapter : National Chiao Tung University

11/2010-07/2011 group leader of activity in Technology Leader Camp, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

09/2009-06/2010 group leader of activity in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department association, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

SKILLS Programming C++, C, SPICE, Matlab, Verilog, Mathematica , 2D Dimmos, Image

J, AutoCAD, LabView, Python Languages Mandarin, English, Taiwanese,

TOEFL: 102 (Reading: 26, Listening: 26, Speaking: 22, Writing: 28) GRE (general): V: 149, Q: 165, AWA:3.0 (2012/09)

Other Polarizing optical microscope, inverted microscope, rotational stage, spin coater, vacuum chamber, Spectrometer, and nano imprint.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 08/2012-present 1. Project: Development of large aperture electrically tunable liquid

crystal spectacles Sponsor: Liqxstal Technology and NSC Contribution: facilities and materials preparation, patents survey, discuss the business model. 2. Design optical shutter for automotive applications for VALEO in France. Contribution: sample fabrication, analysis and delivery to VALEO. 3. Blue phase liquid crystals researches and applications

08/2012-06/2013 1.Project: Development and technical transfer of achromatic liquid crystal phase modulators Sponsor: Nikon and Essilor Research Center Contribution: Design the parameters of liquid crystal devices by Mathematica simulation based on Cauchy’s equations. 2. Topic: Study of liquid crystal phase modulation for optical communication applications Sponsor: National Science Council,(NSC 101-2112-M-009-011-MY3) Contribution: Using lens effect of liquid crystal phase modulation for fiber coupling and variable optical attenuation.

01/2012-08/2012 Project: Research of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal Sponsor: Innolux Corporation, Tainan, Taiwan Contribution: Demonstrate a hysteresis-free polymer-stabilized blue

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phase liquid crystal with crystal growth manipulation and observe the Kossel diagrams.

08/2011-12/2011 Topic: Improvement of time-dependent rate equation modeling of excimer-pumped alkali-vapor lasers Advisor: Prof. J. Gary Eden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U. S. A.

02/2011-06/2011 Topic: Simulation of dielectric constant distribution of liquid crystal and polymer composite film Advisor: Prof. Yi-Hsin Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

02/2010-06/2010 Topic: Introduction to liquid crystals and simulation of liquid crystal lenses and 2D Dimmos simulation Advisor: Prof. Yi-Hsin Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

02/2009-06/2009 Topic: Development of semiconductor fabrication and integrate circuit Advisor: Prof. Horng-Chih Lin, Department of Electronics Engineering , National Chiao Tung University , Taiwan

09/2008-01/2009 Topic: Development of stereo display and applications of 3D human-machine interaction Advisor: Prof. Chun-Jen Tsai, Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Paper:

1. “Computational illumination for gigapixel video microscopy,” Optica (2015, accepted) 2. Hung-Shan Chen, Michael Chen, Chia-Ming Chang, Yu-Jen Wang and Yi-Hsin Lin

“Simulation Study on Polarization-Independent Microlens Arrays Utilizing Blue Phase Liquid Crystals with Spatially-Distributed Kerr Constants,” Micromachines 5(4), 859-867 (2014)

3. Ming-Syuan Chen, Po-Ju Chen, Michael Chen, and Yi-Hsin Lin “An electrically tunable imaging system with separable focus and zoom functions using composite liquid crystal lenses,” Optics Express 22(10), 11427-11435 (2014)

4. Michael Chen, Chyong-Hua Chen, Yinchieh Lai, Yan-qing Lu, and Yi-Hsin Lin “An Electrically Tunable Polarizer for a Fiber System Based on a Polarization-Dependent Beam Size Derived From a Liquid Crystal Lens,” Photonics Journal 6(3), 7100408(2014)

5. Michael Chen, Yi-Hsin Lin, Hung-Shan Chen, and Hung-Yuan Chen “Electrically assisting crystal growth of blue phase liquid crystals,” Optical Materials Express. (4), Issue 5, 953-959(2014)

6. Michael Chen, Chyong-Hua Chen, Yinchieh Lai and Yi-Hsin Lin “An Electrically Tunable Liquid Crystal Lens for Fiber Coupling and Variable Optical Attenuation,” Electrical and Electronic Systems 3(2), 1000124(2014)

7. Hung-Shan Chen, Yi-Hsin Lin, Chun-Hung Wu, Michael Chen, and Hsu-Kuan Hsu, “Hysteresis-free polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals using thermal recycles,” Optical Materials Express 2(8), 1149-1155(2012)

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Conference Proceedings: 1. Chyong-Hua Chen, Michael Chen, and Yi-Hsin Lin “An electrically-tunable liquid crystal

lens coupler for the fiber communication systems,” SPIE Photonics West 2015 (February 6-12, 2015, San Francisco, U.S.A.)

2. Yi-Hsin Lin, Michael Chen, Hung-Shan Chen, and Shih-Ya Ni “A reflective polarizer-free and hysteresis-free display using dye-doped polymer stabilized blue phase liquid crystals,” International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) 2013(August 26 – 29, 2013, Daegu, Korea) (Oral Presentation)

3. Michael Chen, Hung-Shan Chen, Chun-Hung Wu, Yi-Hsin Lin, and Hsu-Kuan Hsu "Hysteresis-free Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phase Liquid Crytals(PSBP-LCs) Based on a Competition Between the Homogeneous and the Heterogeneous Nuceation," Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Republic of China, 2013(Poster Number: OE-P2-037)

4. Michael Chen, Hung-Shan Chen, Chun-Hung Wu, Yi-Hsin Lin, and Hsu-Kuan Hsu "Hysteresis-free Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phase Liquid Crytals(PSBP-LCs) Based on a Competition Between the Homogeneous and the Heterogeneous Nuceation," Annual Meeting of Taiwan Liquid Crystal Society, 2012 (Poster Number: PP-16)

5. Hung-Shan Chen, Chun-Hung Wu, Michael Chen, and Yi-Hsin Lin, "Hysteresis of polymer stabilized blue phase liquid crystals," SPIE Optics+Photonics 2012 (August 12-16, 2012, San Diego, U. S. A.) (Invited Talk)

OTHERS 07/2013~ 09/2013

Translate and edit articles in Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology into Chinese version for OMICS Group.

03/2013, 09/2013

SPIE student chapter outreach program

12/2012 Review paper for Journal of Polymer Science Part B:Polymer Physics 11/2012 Review paper for Applied Physics Letters 10/2012 Introduction video to liquid crystal lens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VERxs-U-rZs&feature=youtu.be (This video will be played as a special topics of liquid crystals on the week of EO Engineering, 03/2013)

Hosting lab tour for visitors

03/2012 Prof. Yuan-Ron Shen from UC Berkeley 04/2012 Prof. Shun-Lien Chuang from UIUC

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12/2012 Prof. Roman Dabrowski from Military University of Technology in Poland (Also arrange things for the speech)

12/2012 Prof. Yoshio Hayasaki from Utsunomia University in Japan 01/2013 Chairman of Jasper Display Corp. 09/2013 Prof. Daping Chu and from Cambridge University in UK and Jasper

Display Corp. 10/2013 Prof. Guo-Qiang Li from OSU (Also help applying for the travel

support and the process of visiting Taiwan) 12/2013 Prof. Yan-Qing Lu from Nanjing University (Also help applying for

the travel support and the process of visiting Taiwan)