Wu Meta-Optics Laboratory
About Dr. Pin Chieh Wu (吳品頡)
Dr. Wu is currently a Professor in the Department of Photonics at National Cheng Kung University. In January 2015, Dr Wu completed his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics at National Taiwan University under the guidance of Prof. Din Ping Tsai. Subsequently, he joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and worked on microfluidic metamaterials and metasurfaces for the development of dynamic wavefront control. While at NTU, he also gained experience on quantum optics and on-chip waveguides for quantum computation and communications.
Thereafter, in April 2016, he joined Prof. Din Ping Tsai’s group at Academia Sinica as a Postdoctoral Researcher. During this period, he was actively involved in innovating the design principle for broadband achromatic metalens, introducing aluminum plasmonics for achieving a versatile polarization generator at visible light, toroidal metamaterials, etc.
In June 2017, He joined California Institute of Technology (Caltech) under Prof. Harry Atwater’s group. His research aimed at developing flat optical components using dynamic metasurfaces with active materials such as transparent conductive oxide (TCO) and III-V quantum well structures.
Up to now, he has published more than 40 journal papers on Nano Letters, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Laser and Photonics Reviewers, ACS Photonics, Advanced Optical Materials, etc. as the first and co-author. He is also an invited reviewer of several scientific journal such as Science, Nature Communications, Optics, ACS Nano, ACS Photonics, Laser and Photonics Reviewers, Light: Science & Applications, Optics Express, Advanced Optical Materials, Applied Physics Express, etc.
Education
2012/09 - 2015/01
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Ph.D., Graduate Institute of Applied Physics
Research Career and Employment
2025/08 - present
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Professor, Department of Photonics
2022/08 - present
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Division Director, Micro/Nano Technology Division, Core Facility Center
2022/08 - 2025/07
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Associate Professor, Department of Photonics
2019/02 - 2022/07
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Assistant Professor, Department of Photonics
2019/02 - 2022/07
California Institute of Technology, CA, USA
Visiting Associate, Applied Physics and Materials Science
2017/06 - 2019/01
California Institute of Technology, CA, USA
Postdoctoral Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science
2016/04 - 2017/05
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Center for Applied Sciences
2014/08 - 2016/03
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Researcher Fellow, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Awards and Honors
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2026 Ten Outstanding Young Persons (中華民國第64屆十大傑出青年-科學及技術研究發展類)
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2026 Fellow of SPIE
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2025 TCUS the Selection of R&D Result for Young Scholars - Outstanding Award (114年臺綜大年輕學者創新研發成果選拔傑出獎)
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World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024
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2025 K. T. Li Research Award (114學年度李國鼎研究獎)
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2025 Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (114學年吳大猷先生紀念獎)
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2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Award - Project for Excellent Junior Research Investigators (優秀年輕學者研究計畫)
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World’s Top 2% Scientists 2023
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第22屆「有庠科技論文獎」- 光電科技類
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“Yushan Young Scholar” supported by Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan (2024-2029)
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World’s Top 2% Scientists 2022
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Dr Wu is awarded "台南市112年社會優秀青年"
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“Outstanding Young Physicist Award” (傑出年輕物理學者獎) supported by The Physical Society of Taiwan (2022)
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2021 Top 2% scientists of the world (https://www.elsevier.com/zh-tw/solutions/scopus/worlds-top-2-percent-scientists-2022-taiwan)
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“Young Optical Engineering Award” (青年光電工程獎) supported by Taiwan Photonics Society, Taiwan (2021)
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2020 Top 2% scientists of the world (https://www.elsevier.com/zh-tw/solutions/scopus/worlds-top-2-percent-scientists-2021-taiwan)
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Outstanding Reviewer of IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020
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Outstanding Reviewer of IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019
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“Yushan Young Scholar” supported by Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan (2019-2024)
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Outstanding Alumni of National University of Kaohsiung, 2019
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Outstanding Reviewer of IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2018
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“Postdoctoral Research Abroad Fellowship” Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology 2017
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"Best PhD Dissertation Award," Taiwan Photonics Society 2015, Taiwan
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Selected participant for the Global Young Scientists Summit 2015 (GYSS@one-north), Singapore
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"Best Paper Award," Japan Taiwan Bilateral Conference on Biomedical and Plasmonic Imaging 2014, Taipei, Taiwan
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Dean’s Award, 碩士生優良畢業論文院長獎, National Taiwan University, 2012
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Student Innovation Award, IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetic, Taiwan, 2011