National Taiwan UniversityDepartment of Electrical Engineering

Founded: 1928 (Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University)

Students: ~33,000Full-time Faculty: ~1,900Colleges: 11 Departments: 54Grad. Institutes: 103Research Centers: 66

National Taiwan University

Campus

Taipei Campus （ ~ 184 hectares ）• Main campus, College of Law, Social Sciences and

College of Medicine, University Hospital, University Farm, Wenshan Botanical Garden.

Chupei Branch Campus （ ~ 22 hectares ）• In preparation

Experimental Forest （ ~ 34,400 hectares ）• Highland Farm, Hsitou Experimental Forest

University Hospital Yunlin Branch （ ~ 5 hectares ）

NTU Total Campus Area ： ~ 34,676 hectaresTaiwan Total Area ： 3,600,000 hectares

NTU ≒ 1% Taiwan

Organization

National Taiwan University

11 Colleges

Liberal Arts Science Medicine Law Bio-Resources and AgricultureEngineering

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Management Public HealthSocial Sciences Life Science

2 Professional SchoolsSchool of Veterinary MedicineSchool of Dentistry

CS DeptCS Dept

Net. & Multi 2004

CS

A Brief History to EE Division

(1943 EE, TIU)

1945 B.S.1947 M.S.1968 Ph.D.

EE DeptEE Dept

Elec.Eng

Phot. & Opto-electron

1992

Comm.1997

Electron. 2001

Bio-medical2006

1977

CS Division

EE Division EE DivisionEE Division

• One DepartmentOne Department

• Five Graduate InstitutesFive Graduate Institutes

• Ten research groupsTen research groups

Research Groups

GI Elec. Engr.Control / CS / Power

GI Phot. & Opto-electronGI Phot. & Opto-electron.. Optoelectronics

GI Comm. Engr.EM wave / Comm. & Signal Processing

GI Electron. Engr.ICS / Nano-Electron. /EDA

GI Biomedical Electron & Bioinf. Biomedical

Students (EE Division, 2010)

Total = 2827BS : MS : Ph.D. 1.1: 1.4 : 1

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Full-time TA: 11, Staff: 25

Full-time Faculty: 127

EE Buildings

1969, 2050m2 1985/1993, 15870m2

2004, 11570m2

2007, 11500m2

Curriculum

Curriculum Requirements

BSMinimum: 137 credit hoursRequired & EE courses: 125Others: 12 or more

MS/Ph.DRequired: Thesis, SeminarMS: 24 credit hoursPh.D: 18 credit hours

Curriculum Design (for undergraduates)

Basics (20): Physics, Chemistry/Bio, Calculus, Physics & Chemistry Lab.,

EE (44): • Computer programming, Introductory Computer, Switching circuits & logic design, Signal & System• Circuits, Electronics, EM• Prob. & Statistics, Diff. Eq., Linear algebra, Complex variable/Discrete math.• Electronics & Electric Lab.(1,2,3)

Required Options (13): • Science & System (3 from 10)• Lab. (2 from 10)

Humanity and General Education (30) Elective (30)

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Humanity & GEBasicsEE CoreRequired OptionsElective

Required Options – EE Advanced

Science: Modern Physics Introductory Electo-

Optics Solid state electronics Introductory microwave

system Introductory biomedical

engineering

At least 3 courses, at least one in each category

System: Communications theory Data structure &

computer programming Introductory power

engineering System control IC design Introductory EDA

Research Activities and Highlights

10 Sponsor # projects Amount (NT$)

NSC Regular projects 229 338,103,000

Energy technology 3 2,227,000

Industry involved 12 57,304,411

Undergraduatestudent involved

12 564,000

MOE   12 18,710,395

MOEA 1 2,940,000

ITRI   8 7,310,000

NHRI   2 4,790,000

Industry & Other 76 134,082,186

Total 355 616,030,992

Research Grant (2009. -2010.09)

21M US$

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total

No. of Papers 256 383 384 417 393 1833

No. of Full-Time Faculty Members 107 119 124 125 127 602

Average SCI Papers per Faculty Member

2.39 3.22 3.10 3.34 3.09 3.04

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total

Total no. of IEEE/IEE Papers 116 125 136 135 109 621

No. of Full-Time Faculty Members 107 119 124 125 127 602

Average IEEE/IEE Papers per Faculty Member

1.08 1.05 1.10 1.08 0.86 1.03

SCI Journal Papers

IEEE/IEE Journal Papers

Publications in SCI & IEEE(2005~2009)

International RecognitionInternational Recognition

IEEE Fellow 27

OSA Fellow 4

SPIE Fellow 4

IET Fellow 2

ACM Fellow 1

IAMBE Fellow 1

Microwave

Two Major Publications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT)

IEEE Microwave Wireless Components Letters (MWCL)

NTU remains top university/institution worldwide in 2006-2010 in terms of total number of papers and total number of citations, while average citations per paper also top very often on MTT.

Similar on MWCL, including serving as the Editor-in-chief.

University 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010NTU 31(516) 25(209) 15(88) 23(46) 16GeorgiaTech 13 (167) 13 (116) 14 (55) 6 (10) 10NCTU 9 (134) 7 (63) 11(55) 14 (36) 13Purdue 6 (87) 3 (31) 6 (37) 10 (1) 11Michigan 6 (97) 3 (34) 14 (103) 4 (11) 4KAIST 5 (123) 7 (84) 3 (17) 8 (13) 4CIT 9 (87) 3 (31) 3 (37) 1 (1) 5UCLA 2 (8) 3 (35) 2 (13) 4 (15) 7Illinois 5 (15) 3 (12) 4 (17) 1 (1) 2MIT 4  (41) 0  (0) 4 (22) 2 (1) 1

In terms of paper number, NTU Systems-on-a-chip (SOC) team has ranked the first among all academic research institutes in the world at the prestigious IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) for six consecutive years 2005-2010.

IC Design

Adv. Packaging Design of Lossy Lines Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions

on Advanced Packaging, 2009

5mil (H)

Rx

Rin ≈ ∞VO

Metal : Copper

εr = 4.4tan δ = 0.02

8mil (W)2mil (T)

Microstrip line( Z0 ≈ 50Ω, Length : 30" )

+ VS

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Tx ГS ГL

RL= 50Ω

W. D. Kuo, J. H. Lin, C. M. Lin, T. W. Huang, and R. B. Wu, “ Fast methodology for determining eye-diagram characteristics of lossy transmission lines,” IEEE Trans. Adv. Packag., Feb. 2009 .

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Analytic analysis 2 att. parameters: An (skin loss) & Bn (dielectric loss)

Experimental validation

Dispersive loss of tx-lines may induce serious ISI. Eye-diagram can be determined by two anti-polarity one-bit patterns..

Key findings:

w/ DUTw/o DUT

Eye Height Design Chart

Best Paper A

ward

Integration of Video Stabilizer with Video CodecBest Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and

Systems for Video Technology 2008

Test bed Performance

Hardware-oriented design that improves computational efficiency by making video codec and video stabilizer sharing a common motion estimation process

Applicable to digital video camera and many applications

Accurate global motion estimation comparable to gyro sensors

2008 Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

H. H. Chen, C.-K. Liang, Y.-C. Peng, and H.-A. Chang, “Integration of digital stabilizer with video codec for digital video cameras,” IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., vol. 17, no. 7, 801-813, Jul. 2007.

Cognitive Radio Resource Management for QoS Guarantees in Autonomous

Femtocell Networks ICC 2010 Best Paper Award

Applying cognitive radio technology to femtocells, CRRM resolves 3 fundamental challenges in femtocell deployments

Interference mitigation between Macro- and femtocell.Providing statistical QoS guarantees in femtocellFully radio resources exploitation

Femto-BS

Femto-BS

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Macro-MS Macro-MS

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Sensing period (Ts)

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RBEach frame

consists of M RBs

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RB utilized by the femto-network

RB occupied by the Macro-network

RB utilized by the femto-network

S.Y. Lien, K.C. Chen, “Cognitive Radio Resource Management for QoS Guarantees in Autonomous Femtocell Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Cape Town, 2010. (Wireless Networks Symposium)

J. Lee, ISSCC 2007, Feb., 2007.

First 75-GHz fully-integrated PLL in 90-nm

CMOS technology (ISSCC 2007)

--2007 Beatrice Winner Editorial Award--2008 Takuo Sugano Award

•Fastest fully integrated PLL (among all technologies)

•Clock jitter as low as 87 fs,rms with only 88 mW power

ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence (2007)

Research LabsResearch Labs

網路多媒體實驗室

分子束磊晶實驗室

微波及毫米波電路實驗室

無反射實驗室

MRI實驗室

Industry Donation on Lab. Establishment

(1999, Intel, Media Lab.)

(2005, IBM, SUR Program)(2006, ALTERA, EDA/SOPC Lab )

(2004, ADI, DSP Lab)

International Exchange Programs

University Level Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, etc.

UIUC Winterbreak Program at NTUEECS

MoU Signing Ceremony with USC Viterbi School of Engineering

College Level USC, UIUC, MSU, UCSB, UH, etc.

UH Dean Visit

Goal

Strive for the best in

research and education

Thank You