Dr. Jong-Shinn Wu

Prof. Jong-Shinn Wu received his MS and BS degrees both in Mech. Eng. of National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1986 and 1988, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Eng., U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 1994. Then he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow until 1995 in the same department. Later he worked at the NSPO of Taiwan for two years. He then joined the Dept. of Mech. Eng. of NCTU, Taiwan, in 1998 till now as a Distinguished Professor and the director of ARRC. He has worked on rarefied gas dynamics, low-temperature plasma physics, kinetic-based numerical schemes, hybrid rocket propulsion, plasma medicine, and parallel scientific computing. He has published >150 journal papers until now (May 2024). He has been constantly invited to give lectures in parallel simulation of plasma and rarefied gas dynamics internationally (6 keynotes and > 30 invited talks). Recently, he received the most prestigious 2018 Outstanding Research Award of MOST (Ministry of Science & Technology), Taiwan. He is now an ASME Fellow, AIAA Associate Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, AIAA Hybrid Rocket Technical Committee member, and Emerging Plasma Nanotechnologies (TC 17 member) of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. He was the ass. editor of the Int. Journal of Plasma Science & Engineering (2008-2010), an editorial board member of Coatings, Int. J. Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (2006~) and a guest editor of Computers & Fluids (2010-2012), IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (2014-2016), and Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications (2015-2016). He has been a member of the Advisory/Organizing Committee of many important international conferences for the past 10 years. He became the Director General of NSPO (National Space Organization), Taiwan in 2021. NSPO was transformed as TASA (Taiwan Space Agency) in January 2023.