Prof. Jin-Wei Shi (M’03–SM’12) was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on January 22, 1976.  In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, where he has served as Professor since 2011. In 2011-2012 and 2016-2017, he joined the ECE Dept. of UCSB as a Visiting Professor. His current research interests include ultra-high speed/power photodetectors, electro-absorption modulators, THz photonic transmitters, single-photon and high-speed avalanche photodiodes and VCSELs. He has authored or co-authored more than 4 book chapters, 160 Journal papers, 200 conference papers and holds 30 patents. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Da-You Wu Memorial Award.