Yi-Jun Jen
Vice President, National Taipei University of Technology
Lifetime Distinguished Professor, Department of Electro-Optical Engineering
OPTICA Fellow
RESEARCH INTEREST:
• Optical Coatings of Metamaterials
• Dielectric Anisotropic Thin Films: Design and Application
• Novel Polarization Devices: Polarization Converters, Perfect Wave plate
• Surface Plasmon Resonance
• 2-D and 3-D Nanosculptured Thin Films
Dr. Yi-Jun Jen joined the Department of Electro-Optical Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology in 2002, where he is currently a professor. He also holds the position of Lifetime Distinguished Professor in the same department.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from National Central University, Taiwan. He then earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Institute of Optical Sciences at National Central University in 1994 and 2001, respectively.
Dr. Jen’s research primarily focuses on the fabrication of nanosculptured thin films, the development of novel optical devices based on anisotropic thin films, and the optical property analysis of subwavelength-scale composite materials.
HONORS & AWARDS:
• OPTICA Fellow (2025)
• 2024Taiwan Innotech Expo Gold Medal Award
• Leader of OSA Thin Films Technical Group (2021)
• SPIE Fellow (2015)
• SPIE Senior Member (2009)
• Distinguished Professor of National Taipei University of Technology (2012~present)
• Excellent Research Award of National Taipei University of Technology (2009)
• Excellent Research Award of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NTUT (2007)
• Excellent Teaching Award of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NTUT (2006)
• Excellent Research Award of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NTUT (2006)
• Who’s Who in the World(2006)
• Excellent Teaching Award of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NTUT (2005)
• Who’s Who in Science and Engineering(2005)
• Excellent Tutor of National Taipei University of Technology (2003)