NCKU’s professors received the 2013 Ta-You Wu Memorial Award - Noodls
Tainan, Taiwan, September 9, 2013
As the 2013 list of winners of the National Science Council's (NSC) Ta-You Wu Memorial Award has been officially released, young teaching staff from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has performed tremendously well, with Associate Professor Shu-Chin Grace Kuo from the NCKU Department of Law, Asssociate Professor Yueh-Nan Chen from the NCKU Department of Physics and Associate Professor Cheng-Ta Yang from the NCKU Department of Psychology receiving the award.
NSC has set up the Ta-You Wu Memorial Awards to nurture young and upcoming researchers, offer grants to future national researchers for committing to long term research as well as commemorate Mr. Ta-You Wu's great contributions to research and development in science and technology.
Every year, each academic unit will pick outstanding researchers among special topic research plan moderators who are 42 years old or below and hold the position of associate professor, associate research fellow or equivalent positions within the year of review. From then on, 40 outstanding young scholars will be chosen by the review committee to be given the award.
Each award winner not only will research medals and cash award, they will also be given the opportunity to propose a multi-year (two to five years) special topic research plan under the regulations of NSC and the award winner's academic career planning.
NCKU Department of Law Associate Professor Shu-Chin Grace Kuo, who graduated with a PhD degree in law from Northwestern University in U.S.A., specializes in legal anthropology, identity law, gender and law, civil law and others. Her research focuses on how Taiwanese law knowledge systems and applications can affect each other, as well as ways to respond legal questions in the context of social development in Taiwan.
Associate Professor Kuo was of the opinion that such research direction can make contributions to the implementation of judicial practice knowledge in the context of law and society in Taiwan, as well as initiate theory-based dialogue of academic research in the world of international law and sociology.
"Winning the award is also a responsibility," Associate Professor Kuo stressed while showing gratitude for the help, inspiration and encouragement she received during her tedious research period.
In the future, she wishes to integrate the area of traditional law into the research of the law discipline and ensure mutual understanding of inter-disciplinary research in law, so as to reach an acceptable solution for disputes and come up with reasonable procedures which can appease all parties and lighten the mood between people in cases of dispute.
Upon receiving the award, NCKU Department of Physics Associate Professor Yueh-Nan Chen, who received the 2010 National Center for Theoretical Science (CTS) Young Theorist Award and the 2012 K.T. Li Research Award based on his research on quantum teleportation and quantum information, thanked the department for their support, and also the Top Tier University Plan and CTS for their financial support that has enabled the establishment of a successful partnership between his research team and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN).
"In the last two years, our research collaboration with RIKEN focuses on the emerging field of quantum biology…," explained Associate Professor Chen. "… by using the perspective of quantum mechanics to understand the dynamic process of some biological systems such as photosynthesis to explain the function of such systems." This research has recently been published on the journal, "Quantum Biology: Nature Science" and has garnered attention from researchers in this field.
NCKU Department of Psychology Associate Professor Cheng-Ta Yang, who specializes in attention, memory, object recognition, mathematical psychology, scene perception and others, has utilized behavioral experiments and mathematical simulation methods to study issues related to human attention, memory and decision-making.
His research concentrates on studying how humans respond to changes in dynamic environments, and more specifically detecting changes in inner mental processes. Being committed to applied research, Associate Professor Yang not only studies the internal mechanism of human behavior, he also hopes to apply psychology to normal daily lives while actively nurturing inter-disciplinary research talents.
Regarding the award, Associate Professor Yang expressed his utmost gratitude to his research assistants, students and colleagues, as well as NCKU and NSC for their assistance in terms of resource provision.
Besides, he also thanked his PhD degree thesis advisor Professor Yei-Yu Yeh and Professor Yung-Feng Hsu from the National Taiwan University (NTU) Department of Law for their guidance. Lastly, he dedicated his award to his family for their understanding and support so that he could focus on his research with no worries. Enditem/
As the 2013 list of winners of the National Science Council's (NSC) Ta-You Wu Memorial Award has been officially released, young teaching staff from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has performed tremendously well, with Associate Professor Shu-Chin Grace Kuo from the NCKU Department of Law, Asssociate Professor Yueh-Nan Chen from the NCKU Department of Physics and Associate Professor Cheng-Ta Yang from the NCKU Department of Psychology receiving the award.
NSC has set up the Ta-You Wu Memorial Awards to nurture young and upcoming researchers, offer grants to future national researchers for committing to long term research as well as commemorate Mr. Ta-You Wu's great contributions to research and development in science and technology.
Every year, each academic unit will pick outstanding researchers among special topic research plan moderators who are 42 years old or below and hold the position of associate professor, associate research fellow or equivalent positions within the year of review. From then on, 40 outstanding young scholars will be chosen by the review committee to be given the award.
Each award winner not only will research medals and cash award, they will also be given the opportunity to propose a multi-year (two to five years) special topic research plan under the regulations of NSC and the award winner's academic career planning.
NCKU Department of Law Associate Professor Shu-Chin Grace Kuo, who graduated with a PhD degree in law from Northwestern University in U.S.A., specializes in legal anthropology, identity law, gender and law, civil law and others. Her research focuses on how Taiwanese law knowledge systems and applications can affect each other, as well as ways to respond legal questions in the context of social development in Taiwan.
Associate Professor Kuo was of the opinion that such research direction can make contributions to the implementation of judicial practice knowledge in the context of law and society in Taiwan, as well as initiate theory-based dialogue of academic research in the world of international law and sociology.
"Winning the award is also a responsibility," Associate Professor Kuo stressed while showing gratitude for the help, inspiration and encouragement she received during her tedious research period.
In the future, she wishes to integrate the area of traditional law into the research of the law discipline and ensure mutual understanding of inter-disciplinary research in law, so as to reach an acceptable solution for disputes and come up with reasonable procedures which can appease all parties and lighten the mood between people in cases of dispute.
Upon receiving the award, NCKU Department of Physics Associate Professor Yueh-Nan Chen, who received the 2010 National Center for Theoretical Science (CTS) Young Theorist Award and the 2012 K.T. Li Research Award based on his research on quantum teleportation and quantum information, thanked the department for their support, and also the Top Tier University Plan and CTS for their financial support that has enabled the establishment of a successful partnership between his research team and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN).
"In the last two years, our research collaboration with RIKEN focuses on the emerging field of quantum biology…," explained Associate Professor Chen. "… by using the perspective of quantum mechanics to understand the dynamic process of some biological systems such as photosynthesis to explain the function of such systems." This research has recently been published on the journal, "Quantum Biology: Nature Science" and has garnered attention from researchers in this field.
NCKU Department of Psychology Associate Professor Cheng-Ta Yang, who specializes in attention, memory, object recognition, mathematical psychology, scene perception and others, has utilized behavioral experiments and mathematical simulation methods to study issues related to human attention, memory and decision-making.
His research concentrates on studying how humans respond to changes in dynamic environments, and more specifically detecting changes in inner mental processes. Being committed to applied research, Associate Professor Yang not only studies the internal mechanism of human behavior, he also hopes to apply psychology to normal daily lives while actively nurturing inter-disciplinary research talents.
Regarding the award, Associate Professor Yang expressed his utmost gratitude to his research assistants, students and colleagues, as well as NCKU and NSC for their assistance in terms of resource provision.
Besides, he also thanked his PhD degree thesis advisor Professor Yei-Yu Yeh and Professor Yung-Feng Hsu from the National Taiwan University (NTU) Department of Law for their guidance. Lastly, he dedicated his award to his family for their understanding and support so that he could focus on his research with no worries. Enditem/
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