Education

2011-2016 National Yang-Ming University (Taipei, Taiwan) PhD of Science, Department of Dentistry 

2013-2014 Harvard School of Dental Medicine (Boston, MA, USA) Visiting Student, Department of Developmental Biology

2007-2010 National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) Master of Science, Institute of Zoology

2004-2007 National University of Kaohsiung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) Bachelor of Science, Department of Life Science

Research and Work Experience

2025-Current   National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan)

Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering 

2024-2025   Taipei Medical University (Taipei, Taiwan) 

Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering

2022-2023   University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) 

Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, with Prof. Hagan Bayley

2020-2024   Taipei Medical University (Taipei, Taiwan) 

Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering

2019-2020   Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Linkou, Taiwan)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tissue Engineering, with Prof. Ming-Huei Cheng 

2017-2019   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, MA, USA)

Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Koch Institute, with Prof. Robert S. Langer and Prof. Giovanni Traverso.

2016-2017   National Yang-Ming University (Taipei, Taiwan)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Dentistry, with Prof. Shyh-Yuan Lee and Prof. Yuan-Min Lin.

2011-2016   National Yang-Ming University (Taipei, Taiwan)

PhD Student, Department of Dentistry, with Prof. Shyh-Yuan Lee and Prof. Yuan-Min Lin.

2013-2014   Harvard School of Dental Medicine (Boston, MA, USA)

Visiting Student, Department of Developmental Biology, with Prof. Bjorn Olsen.

2010-2011   Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Taipei, Taiwan)

Research Assistant, Heart Valve Tissue Bank.

2007-2010   National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan)

Graduate Student, Department of Life Science, with Prof. Hsinyu Lee.

Awards and Honors

1. Academician Savio L.-Y. Woo New Faculty Research Grant, 2025

2. Outstanding teaching award, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, 2025. 

3. Outstanding mentor award, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, 2025

4. Outstanding mentor award, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, 2024. 

5. Visiting fellowship from the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) to pursue advanced research at the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford (2022-2023).  

6. Postdoctoral fellowship from the NSC to study at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017-2018).

7. Graduate Student travel grant from the NSC to participate in an international conference (9th Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials, Reykjavik, Iceland), May 2016. 

8. Graduate student study abroad scholarship from NSC to study at the Department of Developmental Biology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (2013-2014).