Prof. Shih-chi CHEN

Prof. Shih-Chi Chen received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1999. He received his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Following his graduate work, he entered a post-doctoral fellowship in the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School, where his research focused on biomedical optics and endomicroscopy. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Senior Scientist at Nano Terra, Inc., a start-up company founded by Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University, to develop precision instruments for novel nanofabrication processes. Prof. Chen joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011 and was promoted to Professor in 2020. His current research interests include ultrafast laser applications, biomedical optics, precision engineering, and nanomanufacturing. Prof. Chen is a member of the American Society for Precision Engineering (ASPE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), SPIE, and the Optical Society (OSA). He received the prestigious R&D 100 Award in 2003 and 2018 for developing a six-axis nanopositioner and an ultrafast nanoscale 3-D printer respectively.