Principle Investigator
Shang-Hua Yang | 楊尚樺

shanghua@ee.nthu.edu.tw
Delta R909, 101, Sec 2, Guangfu Rd, Hsinchu City, Taiwan 30013 / 國立清華大學 台達館 909室
Phone: (03) 516-2435 (Local) / 886-3-516-2435 (Intl.)
Fax: (03) 575-2120 (Local) / 886-3-575-2120 (Intl.)

Dr. Shang-Hua (Steve) Yang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the College of Semiconductor Research at National Tsing Hua University. He also holds the position of Honorary Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Dr. Yang is renowned for his significant contributions to THz optoelectronics, communication, imaging, and innovative plasmonic photonics applications. His research findings are published in over 100 refereed papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Yang has received several prestigious awards and scholarships, including the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award (2014), the Taiwanese Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (2015), and the Joan and Irvin Jacobs TIX Institute Industry Scholar (2017, 2018). He was also honored with the MOST Young Scholar Fellowship (2018), the NTHU Young Faculty Research Award (2020), the Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant Award (2020), CIEE Excellent Electrical Engineer Award (2022), and Ta- You Wu Memorial Award (2024). He is a senior member of IEEE, Optica, and SPIE and has served on Technical Program Committee boards for IEEE and SPIE conferences. Dr. Yang currently serves as the Director of the NTHU THz Optics & Photonics Center, Taiwan’s first dedicated THz research center.

Associate Professor, NTHU, College of Semiconductor Research, Taiwan, 2023 – Present
Associate Professor, NTHU, Department of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan, 2023 – Present
Director, Terahertz Optics & Photonics Center, NTHU, Taiwan, 2023 – Present
Visiting Associate Professor, Departmentment of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA, 2024- 2025
Honorary Professor, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2020 – Present
Distinguished Research Fellow, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, 2023 – Present
Deputy Director, Terahertz Optics & Photonics Center, NTHU, Taiwan, 2019 – 2023
Assistant Professor, NTHU, Department of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan, 2017 – 2023
Director, NTHU Garage Incubator, Taiwan, 2018 – 2020 Director, NTHU Garage Incubator, Taiwan, 2018 – 2020
Deputy Executive Director, NTHU Zai Wu College, Taiwan, 2018 – 2020

2011/9 – 2016/8
Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2007/9 – 2009/6
M.S. in Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
2003/9 – 2007/6 ​
B.S in Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University

I. Microwave Photonics, Nanoscale Optoelectronics, Nanofabrication, Ultrafast Electro-Optics, Plasmonic Photonics
II. Terahertz Electronic Device, Terahertz Spectroscopy, Terahertz Medical Imaging
III. High Speed Wireless Datalink, Biomedical Sensing Systems, Wearable Electronics

Professional Memberships

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
OPTICA, Senior Member
International Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), Senior Member
IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society, Member
IEEE Photonics Society, Member
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Member
American Physical Society (APS), Member
Taiwan Photonics Society, Life Member

Program Committees

Technical program committee (TPC), Asia-Pacific Laser Symposium (2025)
TPC, IRMMW-THz (2024 – Present)
TPC, SPIE Optics + Photonics (2023 – Present)
TPC, IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (2023 – Present)
TPC, OPTIC (2023 – Present)
TPC, IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (2022 – Present)
TPC, International Electron Devices & Materials Symposium (2021 – Present)
TPC, SPIE Photonics Europe (2020 – Present)
Session Chair, IRMMW-THz (2024 – Present)
Session Chair, SPIE Optics + Photonics (2023 – Present)
Track chair, IEEE Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (2023 – Present)
Board member, Education committee, Taiwan Photonics Society (2023 – Present)

Editorial Services

Optics Express (Associate Editor)
The Journal of Chemical Physics (Guest Editor) – Special Topic Issue on Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging
Electronics (Guest Editor) – Special Issue on Integrated Terahertz Systems

Reviewer Services

Journal Referee: Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, IEEE Access, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Journal of Microwave, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Optical Materials Express, Optics Communications, Applied Physics Letters, APL Photonics, Nanoscale Research Letters, Scientific Report, Photonics Research, Journal of Applied Physics,
ACS Photonics, Chinese Journal of Physics, AI in Medicine

Conference Referee: IEEE AP-S/URSI, IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing, SPIE Photonics Europe, International Electron Devices & Materials Symposium, OPTIC 

Proposal Referee: Dutch Research Council, National Science and Technology Council, National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology

  • Ta-You Wu Memorial Award, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan (2024)
  • Excellent Young Scholar Research Award, NSTC, Taiwan (2024)
  • NTHU Outstanding Talent Development Fund Award, Taiwan (2024)
  • NTHU Performance-based Salary Scale for Outstanding Faculty Award, Taiwan (2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024)
  • Future Tech Awards, NSTC, Taiwan (2023)
  • CIEE Excellent Electrical Engineer Award, The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE), Taiwan (2022)
  • HFSP Research Grant Award, Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), France (2020 – 2023)
  • MOST Young Scholar Fellowship, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan (2018 –2022)
  • Macronix Golden Silicon Awards, Macronix (2022)
  • NTHU High Quality Research Award, NTHU, Taiwan (2020, 2021, 2022)
  • Future Tech Awards (Shortlist), MOST, Taiwan (2021)
  • NTHU Young Faculty Research Award, NTHU, Taiwan (2020)
  • NTHU EECS Young Faculty Research Award, NTHU, Taiwan (2020)
  • Special Outstanding Talent Award, MOST, Taiwan (2017)
  • Joan and Irvin Jacobs TIX Institute Industry Scholar (2017, 2018)
  • Finalist, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation Student Paper Competition (2016)
  • Litron Best Student Paper Award (2016)
  • Taiwanese Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan (2016) • Finalist, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Competition (2016)
  • Rackham Summer Award, University of Michigan (2015)
  • Rackham Travel Grant, University of Michigan (2014, 2015)
  • IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award (2014)
  • Honorable Mention Award, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation Student Paper Competition (2014)
  • Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize (Finalist), University of Michigan (2014)
  • Finalist, IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards (2014)
  • SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics (2012)
  • Rackham Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan (2011)
2024
  • Pouya Torkaman, Wen-You Wang and Yi-Jie Wang won 2024 Micron Mimory Awards
  • Yi-Yao Zhang received funding from SIAM
  • Yi-Yao Zhang won Best Poster Prize during Poster Day in University of Liverpool
2023
  • Xuan-Wei Miao, won the silver medal award of implementation project contest
  • Yiyao Zhang, Pin-Han Lee and Ching-Hsun Hsu won the Second Prize of CMMT Dreamer Contest
2022
  • Xuan-Wei Miao, won the First Place of implementation project contest
  • Jerry Yu and Hao-Yu Yang, won the merit award of macronix golden silicon awards
  • THz team led by Jian-Yu Wu won ATIDA THz Innovative Competition
  • THz team led by Tsung-Han Wu won ATIDA THz Innovative Competition
  • THz team led by Yu-Shin Huang won ATIDA THz Innovative Competition
2021
  • Hao-Yu Yang, the undergraduate student in YRG, won the First Place of implementation project contest! (Department of Electrical Engineering , NTHU, 2021 second semester)
  • Hao-Yu Yang won 2021 MOST undergraduate student research grant.
  • 2021.05 Yu-Chi Lin, the undergraduate student in YRG, won NTHU Dr. I-Chi Mei Memorial Medal in 2021!
  • Zhao-Hong Tu, the undergraduate student in YRG, won the Bronze Medal of implementation project contest! (College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NTHU, 2021)
2020
  • Yu-Chi Lin, the undergraduate student in YRG, awarded the 2020 Lin Xiong zheng Xuetian Foundation scholarship.
  • Yi-Chun Hung won UCLA J. Yang Scholarship.
  • Yu-Ting Yang and Yu-Chi Lin, the undergraduate students in YRG, won the second prize of reserch project contest (Department of electrical engineering, NTHU, 2019 second semester )
  • Zhao-Hong Tu, the undergraduate student in YRG, won the first prize of reserch project contest! (Department of electrical engineering, NTHU, 2019 second semester )
  • Yu-Chi Lin, the undergraduate student in YRG, awarded the 2020 Zhu Shun Yi He Qin scholarship
  • Fang-Sung Xiao, Wang-Chien Chen, Peter Chiu, Jean Shih won MOE Pilot Overseas Internship Scholarship (教育部學海築夢獎) for summer exchange in Japan.
2019
  • Ting-Ya Chen, Wang-Chien Chen, Yi-Liang Yeh won MOE Pilot Overseas Internship Scholarship (教育部學海築夢獎) for summer exchange in UCLA.
  • Bo-Yi Wu won 20k NTHU EECS Visiting Student Award (清大國際訪問獎) for oral presentation in IRMMW-THz 2019 (Paris).
  • Fang-Sung Xiao, won 100k NTHU Visiting Student Award (清大國際訪問獎) to develop high-speed THz spectrometer in Univ. of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Huang-Ting Chun (黃亭鈞) won NTHU CTM Scholarship for Extraordinary Students.
2018
  • Yi-Chun Hung won 2018 MOST undergraduate student research grant for his work on terahertz imaging.
  • Fang-Song Xiao won MOE scholarship (新南向學海築夢計畫) to perform his THz research in Univ. of West Australia.
  • Tien-Yun Wei (魏天韻) and Feng-Sung Xiao (蕭芳松) won IEEE Young Professionals Arctic Challenge for their research project.
  • Cheng-Chi Huang (黃晟齊) and Yi-Chun Hung (洪繹峻) won IEEE Young Professionals Arctic Challenge for their research project.
  • Nexfood (趙偉旭、趙達軒、林聖皓、黃信源) has been selected in TOP15 entrepreneurial teams of 龍騰微笑智聯網創業競賽.
  • 『Madball』 has awarded Top Maker Team (Cash Prize 100k NTD) from MOE EC-SOS Program.
  • Ta-Hsuan Chao and Wei-Hsu Chao won NTHU EECS Best Studet Award (電資院優秀學生獎學金)
  • Ta-Hsuan Chao (趙達軒) has awarded Position Paper Award from WFUNA International Model United Nations.
2017
  • Hao-Chien Cheng has been awarded 2017 Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Student Fellowship.