English Name | Prof. Wentai Liu | ||
Hanji Name | 劉文泰教授 | ||
Birth Year | 1948 | ||
Birth Place | Tainan, Taiwan | ||
First year / First city / State in U.S. | -/-/- | ||
Address | CA | ||
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Education | School Name | Year – Year | Degree and major |
1. National Chiao Tung Univ. |
– |
B.S. | |
2. National Taiwan Univ. |
– |
M.S. | |
3. Univ. of Michigan |
1983 |
Ph.D. | |
Employment | Company Name | Year – Year | Position or title |
1. UCLA |
2011- |
Professor, Department of Bioengineering | |
2. National Science Society (NSF) Bionic Microelectronic System Engineering Research |
2011 |
Director of UC Santa Cruz Branch | |
3. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz |
2003-2011 |
Professor of Electronic Engineering | |
Accomplishment | 1. Inventor of the Artificial Retina for Blind People, One of the Greatest Technical Breakthroughs of the 21 Century
2. Father of Bionic Eye 3. Distinguished Professor of The Bioengineering Dept. of UCLA 4. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Fellow, 2016 5. Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award, 2010 6. Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering 7. Chair Professorship and Founder/Honorary Director of Biomimetic Systems Research Center, National Chiao-Tung Univ./Taiwan 8. Outstanding Taiwanese American Elected by T.A. Archives in 04/2019 |
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