Chen S. Tsai, Chancellor’s Professor of the University of California at Irvine (UCI), received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1965. He joined Carnegie-Mellon University as Assistant Professor (1969), and was advanced to Full Professor in 1973 and awarded Endowed Chair Professorship (1979). He joined UCI in 1980, and served as the Founding Director of the Institute for Applied Science and Engineering of Academia Sinica in Taiwan (1999-2002). He authored or coauthored 200 journal papers, 450 conference papers, and 14 encyclopedia and book chapters; received numerous awards and honors including the 2013 IEEE UFFC Society Lifetime Achievement Award with award citation “For pioneering contributions to the science and technology of integrated acousto-optics, ultrasonic monodisperse micro droplet generation, acoustic microscopy, and guided-wave magneto-optics”, International Micro-Optics Award, and Distinguished Alumus Award of National Taiwan University. He is Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellows of OSA, AAAS, SPIE, Russian Popov Society, Academician of Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of Russian Academy of Applied Sciences.
