Prof. Pai-Chi Li
Prof. Pai-Chi Li received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1987 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He joined Acuson Corporation, Mountain View, CA, as a Member of the Technical Staff in June 1994. In August 1997, he returned to National Taiwan University, where he has been a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics. At National Taiwan University, he also served as Vice President for Research and Development from 2019 to 2023, Associate Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 2015 to 2018, and was the Founding Director of the Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics from 2006 to 2009 and the National Taiwan University Yong-Lin Biomedical Engineering Center in 2009. In September 2024, he joined the Asian Institute of Technology and has served as its President since then.
His research interests include biomedical ultrasound, photoacoustics, and medical devices. Dr. Li is IEEE Fellow, IAMBE Fellow, AIUM Fellow, and SPIE Fellow. He has won numerous awards, including the IEEE UFFC Rayleigh Ultrasonics Award, the ISTU Fry Award, the AIUM Joseph Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award, the IEEE UFFC Distinguished Lecturer Award, the IFMBE Otto Schmitt Award, the IFMBE Vladimir K. Zworykin Award, the Distinguished Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, the Dr. Wu Dayou Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan, and the Academic Award and Distinguished Industrial Collaboration Award from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering and Deputy Editor of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, and on the Editorial Board of Ultrasonic Imaging and Photoacoustics.
