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Bio 

Dr. Yao-Wei Huang is an Assistant Professor of Photonics and Yushan Young Scholar at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU). He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Dr. Huang has extensive research experience from prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Caltech, and NUS. His expertise spans nanophotonics, physics, materials science, nanofabrication, and nanotechnology, and he earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from National Taiwan University.

 

Dr. Huang’s research focuses on nanophotonics, metasurfaces, inverse design, nonlocal effects, structured light, dispersion engineering, and computational visual sensing, with innovative applications in extended reality and LiDAR. He has authored and co-authored over 60 scientific publications, proceedings, and patents, including articles in Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE, Science Advances, Nano Letters, etc. His contributions to the field have been recognized with awards such as the Google Gift, and his research aims to advance metasurface technologies for the betterment of human well-being.
 

Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Photonics, NYCU (present)

  • Research Associate & Postdoctoral Fellow, SEAS, Harvard University

  • Research Fellow, ECE, National University of Singapore

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, RCAS, Academia Sinica

  • Visiting Research Student, AP, Caltech

Education

  • PhD & MS in Applied Physics, National Taiwan University

  • BS in Optics and Photonics, National Central University

Lecture
Peer Reviewer

​Dr. Huang has reviewer experiences for Nature Communications, Science advances, Light: Science & Applications, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Advanced Optical Materials, Opto-Electronic Advances, ACS Photonics, Photonics Research, Optics Express, etc.

Membership

  • Fellow HEA 

  • Lifetime member of SPIE, OPTICA, The Physical Society of Taiwan (TPS, 台灣物理學會), & the Taiwan Photonics Society (TPS, 中華民國光電學會)

  • Member of IEEE, IEEE Photonics Society, MRS, & SID

Awards & Honors

  • 2024, Google Gift, Google Asia Pacific

  • 2023, World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023 (single year 2022), Elsevier Scopus

  • 2023, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE, UK

  • 2022, World’s Top 2% Scientists 2022 (single year 2021), Elsevier Scopus

  • 2021, Yushan Young Scholar, Ministry of Education, Taiwan

  • 2019, Prize for Frontiers of Biomedical Optoelectronics, POEM 2019, Wuhan, China

  • 2016, Postdoctoral Scholarship, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

  • 2015, Dean's Award, PhD degree, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • 2014, Visiting Student Researcher Scholarship, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

  • 2014, Best Poster Award, FOP3, Xiamen, China

  • 2013, Best Poster Paper Award, ICMAT 2013, Singapore

  • 2012, Best Master Thesis Award, Taiwan Photonics Society, Taiwan

  • 2012, Dean's Award, MS degree, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • 2012, Outstanding Poster Presentation Prize, ICNP 2012, Beijing, China

  • 2012, Best Poster Paper Award, Taiwan-Japan Nanophotonics and Plasmonic Metamaterials Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan

  • 2011, Student Paper Award, International Photonics Conference 2011, Tainan, Taiwan

  • 2011, SPIE Student Travel Grant, SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA, USA

  • 2011, The Honorable Prize Award, IEEE iWEM 2011, New Taipei, Taiwan

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Yao-Wei Huang 黃耀緯

PI, Assistant Professor

Department of Photonics

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

 

office: TKP Photonics 312

phone: +886 (3) 571-2121 ext. 56384

email: ywh@nycu.edu.tw

  • Google Scholar
  • ORCID
  • Web of Science
  • Scopus
  • NYCU Academic Hub
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