EXPERIENCES:
· Distinguished Professor of NTHU, 8/2015
· Chair Professor and Director of EPARC, 8/11-7/12
· Chair Professor and Vice-president of NCCU, Director of EPARC, 1/10-7/11
· Professor and Vice-president of NCCU, Director of EPARC, 9/08-12/09
· Professor and Director of EPARC, 8/08-8/09
· General Manager of E-TON Power Tech. Co., LTD., 8/07-7/08
· Professor and Director of EPARC, 1/06-7/07
· Professor and Director of PEARL, 8/03-12/05
· Professor and Department Chair, 8/99-7/03
· Associate Professor and Department Chair, 8/97-7/99
All in the dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC
· Associate Professor, 8/93-7/97
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, NCCU
· Director, 8/93-12/05
Power Electronics Applied Research Laboratory (PEARL), NCCU
· In charge of totally 40 projects since 1993, which are categorized as follows:
· Research on high performance electronic dimming ballasts
· Investigation of striation effect in fluorescent lamps
· Design and development of single-stage electronic ballasts
· Analysis and design of single-stage converters for dimming ballast applications
· Research on photovoltaic array powered lighting systems
· Design and development of electrode drivers for plasma display panels (PDP)
· Design and development of grid-connection photovoltaic power systems.
· Development of an approach to synthesizing single-stage converters with power factor correction
· Design and development of pulse-electric-field generators for processing
· Design and development of electric stunner
· Design and development of revolving electromagnetic fields for transdermal drug delivery
· Development of control schemes for achieving partial active power filtering
· Development of control schemes for parallel-inverter systems to achieve weighting-current distribution
· Design and development of interleaving PFC IC and LED backlight driving IC for LCD panels.
· Researcher, 2/93-8/93
Industry Technology Research Institute, Sing-Chu, Taiwan, ROC
· Research on high Power Factor electronic dimming ballasts
· Research Associate, 6/92-1/93.
Illinois Power Application Center (IPAC), University of Illinois
· Investigation of the system stability and sub-system interactions of an off-line power system, funded by NCR Corp.
· Research Assistant, 1/90-6/92.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
· Design and development of high power dc-dc converters for space applications, funded by Rocketdyne Division, Rockwell International
· Teaching Assistant, 9/88-12/90
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at UIC
· System Engineer, 6/85-12/86
SAMPO Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan
Development of graphic terminal systems, including hardware and firmware