Newsletter Issue 5_Research Excellence
NCKU Faculty Honored with Major National Awards

NCKU promotes research incentives and industry collaboration, and several of our professors have been recognized for their outstanding achievements in R&D and academia–industry partnership.
9th National Industrial Innovation Award
● Professor Chuan-Pu Liu (Materials Science and Engineering).
Founded two startups that have developed high-purity silicon carbide and nano-silicon powders for energy storage and green energy applications.
● Director Fan-Tien Cheng (Intelligent Manufacturing Research Center).
Facilitated 63 technology transfers, generating over 270 million NTD in licensing revenue and advancing Taiwan’s manufacturing industry toward net-zero carbon emissions.
2025 NSTC Ta-You Wu Memorial Award
● Associate Professor Pin-Chieh Wu (Photonics).
Recipient of the Yu-Hsiu Technology Paper Award and ranked among the top 2% scientists worldwide for four consecutive years.
● Assistant Professor Chyuan-Chuan Wu (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology).
Published three research papers in Nucleic Acids Research.
●Associate Professor Sheng-Heng Chung (Materials Science and Engineering).
Author of nearly 100 journal papers and owner of 15 patents with over 15,000 citations and an h-index of 50; ranked 4th globally in lithium–sulfur battery research by ScholarGPS, placing him among the top 0.02% researchers worldwide.



