Biography

Wood-Hi Cheng (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA, in 1978. From 1994 to 2014, he was a Professor, the Director of the Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, the Dean of College Engineering, the Director of the Southern Taiwan Opto-Electronics Center of Excellence, and a Chair Professor with National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is currently a Chair Professor with the Graduate Institute of Optoelectronic Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan. His research and development has contributed to photonic package technologies, including high-speed laser module packaging, high-coupling devices and modules packaging, mode-locked fiber lasers employing carbon nanotubes and graphene, high-reliability glass-doped white-light-emitting diodes, and 300-nm ultrabroadband Cr-doped fiber amplifiers. Dr. Cheng is a Fellow of OSA and SPIE. From 1999 to 2000, he was the Chair for the IEEE Photonics Society, Taipei Chapter, from 2005 to 2006, he was the Chair of the OSA, Taipei Chapter, and from 2009 to 2011, he was the Program Director of optoelectronics with the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, providing research grants and direction. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Research Award by the MOST, three times, the IEEE Photonics Engineering Achievement Award in 2010 for his contributions to design, development and commercialization of compact solid-state laser modules, and the 2011–2013 IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award for the title of lecturers, which include the art and science of packing photonics devices and broadband chromium-doped fiber amplifiers for next-generation optical communication system.