| Professor C. C. Yang received his BS degree in 1976 from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, MS (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) degrees also in electrical engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before he joined the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan University, as a full professor in 1993, he has been being a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University. During the period from August 2001 to July 2007, he served as the Chairman/Director of the Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University. His research areas include the MOCVD growth of nitride compounds, MBE growth of nitride and oxide semiconductor nanostructures, white-light light-emitting diodes for solid-state lighting and display, surface plasmonics, photonic crystals, ultrafast optics, and biophotonics (optical coherence tomography). He has published more than 600 journal and conference papers. Professor Yang is a fellow of the Optical Society of America. |
