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Gwo-Bin “Vincent” Lee
Tsing Hua Chair Professor
Department of Power Mechanical Engineering,
Institute of Biomedical Engineering,
Institute of NanoEngineering and Microsystems,
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
E-mail: gwobin@pme.nthu.edu.tw
 

1. Education

1994-1998   Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, USA

1989-1991   M.S., National Taiwan University, Taiwan

1985-1989   B.S., National Taiwan University, Taiwan


2. Professional  Experiences:

2014/08-prsent, Tsing Hua Chair Professor, Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan


2018/08-2021/07, Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2011/02-2014/08, Distinguished Professor, Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2007/12- 2009/11, Deputy General Director, Medical Electronics and Device Technology Center, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan

2008- 2011/02, Distinguished Professor, Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2005-2008, Professor, Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2002-2005, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

1998-2002, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

1994-1998, Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA, USA

3. Specialty

Microfluidics, Nanofluidics, Micro-total-analysis-systems, Micro-sensors, Medical electronics, Medical devices

4. Journal Editorial Board
  • Editor-in-chief, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (SCI indexed) (2020/01~)
  • Joint Editor-in-chief, Micro and Nano Letters (SCI indexed) (2012/12~2019/12)
  • Associate Editor-in-chief, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (SCI indexed) (2017/04~2019/12)
  • Editor, International editorial board member, IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology (2020/01~)
  • Editor, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (SCI indexed) (2014/01~2019/12)
  • Editor, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) (SCI indexed) (2016/09~)
  • Advisory board member, Lab on a chip (SCI-indexed) (2016/08~)
  • Section editor, IEEE Nanotechnology magazine (2012~)
  • Editor, IET Nanobiotechnology (SCI indexed) (2006/5~)
  • Section editor, Encyclopedia of microfluidics and Nanofluidics (2012/06~)
5. Conference Organization
  • Chair, International Steering Committee, IEEE NEMS 2022
  • Program Co-Chair, IEEE NEMS 2020,
  • General Co-Chair, Micro TAS 2018
  • Program Chair, IEEE NEMS 2016
  • Co-Chair, IEEE NEMS 2014
  • Chair, International steering committee, IEEE MEMS (2014)
  • General Co-Chair, IEEE MEMS 2013 (the most prestigious conferences in this field)
  • General Co-chair, IEEE Nanomed 2012
  • General Chair, IEEE NEMS 2011
  • Co-chair, Executive Organizing Committee, Transducers 2011
6. Invited Lectures

I have delivered more than 100 plenary/keynote/invited talks in international/ local conferences.


7. Publication records

I have published 355 SCI journal papers. Eight of my works have been selected as “highly cited papers”. In Google Scholar, citations of all my papers exceed 23,200 times with an h-index of 77. I am ranked as the 7th - 9th researcher in both fields of “Lab-on-chip” and “BioMEMS” in Google Scholar.

8. Patents

I have filed 156 patents (including 45 USA patents). 133 of them have been granted. 16 patents have been licensed to local industry.

9. Professional memberships
  • Member, International Academy of Engineering (since 2022)
  • Elected as one of 10-14 directors of Chemical & Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS) (since 2022)
  • 111年孫方鐸教授力學獎章（中華民國力學學會最高榮譽）
  • Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 2022)
  • One of 1,000 most influential medicine scholars by Tsinghua Aminer (since 2021)
  • World's Top 1% most-cited scientists (career) by Stanford University in 2020
  • TECO Award (2021)
  • NAI (National Academy of Inventers) Fellow (since 2021/12)
  • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Nanotechnology Council (since 2021)
  • Corresponding member, International Institute of Engineering (since 2018)
  • AIMBE Fellow (since 2018)
  • Ministry of Education Academic Award (2017)
  • IEEE Fellow (since 2017)
  • Fellow, School of Engineering, U. Tokyo (since 2015)
  • IET Fellow (since 2015)
  • RSC Fellow (since 2014)
  • IEEE senior member (since 2003)
  • ASME Fellow (since 2013)
  • The Chinese Institute of Engineers (life-time member)
  • The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (since 2004)
  • The Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (life-time member and Fellow)
  • Nanotechnology and micro system association (life-time member)
  • Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Republic of China (life-time member and Fellow)
10.   Brief CV

Gwo-Bin Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Department of Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 1998. Dr. Gwo-Bin Lee is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University. His research interests lie on nano-biotechnology, micro/nanofluidics and their biomedical applications. He is the director of “Microfluidic Biochips Lab”. Dr. Lee has been very active in the field of micro/nanofluidic systems, and has developed integrated micro/nano systems incorporated with nano/biotechnology for biomedical applications. He has developed several micro/nano-scale platforms for cell, protein, and DNA manipulation and detection. He has developed several micro/nano-scale platforms for cell, protein, and DNA manipulation and detection. He has also worked onnano-fluidics for a variety of biomedical applications, including optically-induced dielectrophosis (ODEP) for manipulation/sorting of nano-particles (including carbon nanotube (CNT), extracellular vesicles (EVs), nano golds etc.), ssDNA aptamer screening, synthesis of nanoparticles (gold, iron oxide etc.) on integrated micro-/nano-fluidic platforms, nanoparticles for electromagnetic thermotherapy (EMT), DNA stretching by using micromachined magnetic tweezers, nano-sized magnetic beads for pretreatment of sample purification and generation of nano-electrosprays for mass spectrometry. Dr. Lee has published over 355 SCI journal papers, 450 conference papers, and filed 156 patents (133 patents granted) in the past 25 years. In Google Scholar, citations of all Dr. Lee’s papers are 23,200 times with an h-index of 77. He also published 8 book chapters.
He has served as a technical or organizing committee member in many international conferences. He was General Co-chair of Micro TAS 2018, General Co-chair of IEEE NEMS 2014, General Co-chair of IEEE MEMS 2013, General chair of IEEE NEMS 2011, and General co-chair of IEEE NANOMED 2013. He was elected as one of 10-14 directors of Chemical & Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS) in 2022.
He has received several academic awards, including孫方鐸教授力學獎章（中華民國力學學會最高榮譽）(2022), TECO Award (2021)(Biomedical Engineering), Ministry of Education Academic Award(2017), Dragon Thesis Award (2002), Distinguished Research Award from Engineering School of National Cheng Kung University (2002), Distinguished Young Engineer Award from Chinese Engineering Society (2003), K. T. Lee Research Award from K. T. Lee Foundation (2004), Distinguished Mechanical Engineer Award from Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (2004), Distinguished Young Electrical Engineer Award from Chinese Electrical Engineering Society (2005), Young People of the Year (2006), Distinguished Engineering Professor from Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society (2006), Engineering Professor Award from Southern Division of Chinese Engineering Society (2007), Excellent Research Award from National Science Council /Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan (2007, 2011, 2014), National Innovation Award (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2016), Distinguished Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Engineering Society (2009), Distinguished Kuo-Ting Lee Researcher Award from Kuo-Ting Lee Foundation (2009), and Outstanding Inventor Award (2011).
He was the Fellow of Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the Fellow of Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineering. He was an elected ASME Fellow in 2013, an elected RSC Fellow in 2014, elected IET Fellow in 2015, elected IEEE Fellow in 2017, elected AIBMB Fellow in 2018 and elected NAI Fellow in 2021. He has been invited in various conferences for plenary and keynote talks. He is Editor-in-chief of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (SCI-indexed). He was joint Editor-in-chief of Micro and Nano Letters (SCI indexed) and Associate Editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions of Nanotechnology (SCI indexed). He also serves as editor for several journals, including Scientific Reports (SCI indexed), IET Bionanotechnology (SCI indexed), Micro and Nanosystem, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (EIC, SCI indexed) and Recent Patents on Nanotechnology. He was an elected member of International Academy of Engineering and European Academy of Sciences and Arts.