Prof. Wei Lee

Wei Lee received his M.S. degree in electro-optical engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, in 1987 and his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL, in 1993. He was a lecturer at UAB between 1993 and 1994 and a visiting assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Toledo, OH, between 1994 and 1997. From August 1997 through January 2012, Dr. Lee was affiliated with Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan. He took his sabbatical leaves as a visiting professor of optics at CREOL of the University of Central Florida, FL, between 2009 and 2010, and a visiting scholar at the L. V. Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, in 2010, 2015 and 2018. Prof. Lee was Director of the Institute of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics, College of Photonics, NCTU, between 2012 and 2015. As one of the founding editors, he served on the editorial board for the OSA journal Optical Materials Express between January 2011 and December 2016 and has been a guest editor for various journals. Dr. Lee has served as President of Taiwan Liquid Crystal Society for two terms. He was Conference Chair of the 3rd Asian Conference on Liquid Crystals (ACLC 2017) held in Tainan, Taiwan and Chair of the 102nd OSA annual meeting (FiO/LS 2018) held in Washington, DC. He is currently a board member of the International Liquid Crystal Society. Dr. Lee, fellow of SPIE, has been a reviewer for 100 different SCI-indexed academic journals. His current research interests include liquid crystal photonics, photonic crystals, green energy and liquid-crystal-based biosensing.