Yu-Chong Tai

by | Feb 21, 2024

Yu-Chong Tai
California Institute of Technology, USA
2021

Yu-Chong Tai is the Anna L. Rosen Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at California Institute of Technology (i.e., Caltech). He is also the inaugural and current Executive Officer (i.e., Chair) of the Department of Medical Engineering. He developed the first electrically-spun polysilicon micromotor at UC Berkeley. After joining Caltech, his research has been focused on advanced biomedical MicroElectroMechanicalSystem (MEMS) devices (mems.caltech.edu). Examples include wireless heart-rate sensors, ECG sensors, lab-on-a-chip diagnostics (e.g., complete blood count), retinal prosthetic implants for blind people, oxygen-supplying devices for diabetic retinopathy, spinal cord implants, brain implants, micro drug delivery, etc. His ongoing research include new devices atherosclerosis, diabetes, and cancer. He is the recipient of the (Berkeley EECS) Best Thesis Award, IBM Fellowship, Ross Tucker Award, Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award, Packard Award, ALA Achievement Award, (Popular Mechanics) Breakthrough Award, the (inaugural) IEEE Robert Bosch MEMS/NEMS Award, and National Acadamy Inventor Award. He has more than 800 articles/patents in the field of MEMS devices. He is IEEE and AIMBE Fellow. He is an academician of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC. He is a member of US National Academy of Engineering (NAE).