{"id":1217,"date":"2023-05-30T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fipp.creol.ucf.edu\/?page_id=1217"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:34:09","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lcd\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1217\" class=\"elementor elementor-1217\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ab111aa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ab111aa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9b60deb\" data-id=\"9b60deb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f65e786 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f65e786\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"229\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2025\/08\/Shin-Tson-Wu-Speaking.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2109\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2025\/08\/Shin-Tson-Wu-Speaking.jpg 229w, https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/lcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2025\/08\/Shin-Tson-Wu-Speaking-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d35849 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d35849\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"font-size-lg\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"mailto:swu@creol.ucf.edu\">Dr. Shin-Tson Wu<\/a><\/strong><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Trustee Chair Professor<\/em><\/p><div style=\"text-align: center;\">Phone: (407) 823-4763<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\">Fax: (407) 823-6880<\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:swu@creol.ucf.edu\">swu@creol.ucf.edu<\/a><\/p><div style=\"text-align: center;\">College of Optics &amp; Photonics,<br \/>4304 Scorpius St. Building #53<\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Orlando, Florida 32816-2700<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1ac95c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d1ac95c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Recent News:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jasper received\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilcsoc.org\/awards\/FRL%20Research-ILCS%20Liquid%20Crystal%20Research\/frl-research-ilcs-liquid-crystal-research-award.html\"><strong>ILCS-FRL Diamond award<\/strong><\/a><\/b>.<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kelly\u00a0received\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilcsoc.org\/awards\/FRL%20Research-ILCS%20Liquid%20Crystal%20Research\/frl-research-ilcs-liquid-crystal-research-award.html\"><strong>ILCS-FRL Platinum award<\/strong><\/a><\/b>.<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jasper received\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/page\/journal\/19383657\/homepage\/jsid_best_paper_awards.htm\">JSID Best Paper Award 2020<\/a><\/b>.<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/tradition-of-excellence-recognized-in-new-article-from-society-for-information-display\/\">Our group was recognized in a new article in SID magazine (Feb. Edition.)<\/a><\/b><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our alumni Prof. Yi-Pai Huang and Prof. Yi-Hsin Lin were selected as OSA Fellows.<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tommy won<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/news\/tao-zhan-wins-first-place-in-spie-ar-vr-xr-optical-design-challenge\/\">First Place of SPIE Photonics West AR\/VR\/MR Optical Design Challenge<\/a><\/b>. (2020\/02)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grace Gou received 2019<b><a href=\"https:\/\/spie.org\/membership\/student-services\/scholarships\/winners\/2019-optics-and-photonics-education-scholarship-recipients\">SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship<\/a><\/b>. (2019\/05)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our alumni Prof. Yi-Pai Huang was selected as SID Fellow. (2019\/05)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our JOSA-B paper was selected by OSA as<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osapublishing.org\/spotlight\/summary.cfm?id=405862\">Spotlight on Optics<\/a><\/b>. (2019\/05)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our paper was elected as2018\u00a0JSID Outstanding Student Paper of the Year award. (2019\/05)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guanjun Tan won<b><a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/conferences-and-exhibitions\/photonics-west\/ar-vr-mr\/design-challenge?SSO=1\">First Place of SPIE Photonics West AR\/VR\/MR Optical Design Challenge<\/a><\/b>. (2019\/02)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guanjun Tan receivedUCF Graduate Deans Dissertation Completion Fellowship. (2019\/01)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haiwei Chen received 2018<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilcsoc.org\/awards\/announcement-2018\/\">ILCS Glenn Brown Prize<\/a><\/b>. (2018\/06)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our alumna Prof. Qionghua Wang was selected asSID Fellow. (2018\/05)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guanjun and Rachel received 2018SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. (2018\/05)<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d738de\" data-id=\"3d738de\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e84378e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e84378e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Biography<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20c9133 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"20c9133\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Dr. Shin-Tson Wu is a Trustee Chair Professor at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics. Prior to joining UCF in 2001, he was with Hughes Research Laboratories (Malibu, California) where the first laser and liquid-crystal-on-silicon were invented. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and BS in Physics from National Taiwan University (Taipei). His research interests at UCF focus on augmented reality and virtual reality, including light engines (mini-LEDs, micro-LEDs, and OLEDs), optical systems (lightguide, diffractive optics, and projection optics), and display materials (liquid crystals, quantum dots, and perovskites).\u00a0<\/p><p>Dr. Wu is a recipient of the SID Lawrence Tannas Award (2025), UCF Medal of Societal Impact (2024), Optica\/IS&amp;T Edwin H. Land medal (2022), SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer award (2022), OSA (now Optica) Esther Hoffman Beller Medal (2014), SID Slottow-Owaki Prize (2011), OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award (2010), SPIE G. G. Stokes Award (2008), and SID Jan Rajchman Prize (2008). He has co-authored 7 books, 700 journal papers and 330 conference papers, and obtained 101 issued US patents. His publications have accumulated over 58,000\u00a0citations, with an h-index of 114.<\/p><p>Dr. Wu is an Academician of Academia Sinica (2022), a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2012), a member of Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida, and one of the first six inductees to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame (2014). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, SID and SPIE. 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