Professor
Snow H. Tseng

Awards

• 2020 National Excellent Teacher Award
• 2018 National Eminent Award on Life Education
• 2017 National Outstanding Counselor Award, the first recipient of National Taiwan University
• 2017 National Taiwan University Distinguished Service Award (Mentor of the Year)
• 2005 Best Paper Award, American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery
• 2004 Outstanding Presentation Award, Gordon Research Conference: Lasers in Medicine & Biology

Conference experience

• 2024 The First Asian Chairman of Gordon Research Conference: Lasers in Medicine & Biology
• 2022 Vice-Chairman of Gordon Research Conference: Lasers in Medicine & Biology
• 2020 Visiting Scholar, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, University of California, Irvine
• 2009 Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• 2002 Visiting Engineer/Technical Scholar at Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory Medical Physics and Biophysics Division, Livermore, CA
• 2001 Summer Internship in Japan, National Science Foundation Award, USA Interaction Laboratory, Computer Science Laboratory, SONY Headquarter
• 2000 Research Intern, Systems Engineering Division, Northrop Grumman, Rolling Meadows, IL, USA
• 1999 The Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, McCormick School, Northwestern University

Education

• Doctor of Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University (2005)
• Master of Physics, University of Chicago (1997)
• Bachelor of Physics, National Taiwan University (1994)

Experience

Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2018/08~Present Professor
• 2010/08~2018/07 Associate Professor
• 2006/02~2010/08 Assistant Professor

• 2019 (2)~present Director of Leadership Program
• 2019 Career Center Director
• 2019 Deputy Director of Leadership Program

Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

• 2005/06~2005/10 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Dr. Yia-Chung Chang)

Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

• 2005/11~2006/02 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Dr. Vadim Backman)

Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory, Medical Physics and Biophysics Division, Livermore, CA

• 2002/06~2002/09 Scientist Engineer, Technical Scholar (Dr. Duncan Maitland)

Sony Interaction Laboratory, Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan

• 2001/06~2002/09 Electrical Engineering Graduate Intern (Drs. Jun Rekimoto & Ivan Poupyrev)

Northrop Grumman Corporation, Rolling Meadows, IL, USA

• 2000/06~2000/09 Systems Engineering Graduate Intern

Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory, McCormick Engineering & Applied Science School, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

• 1999~2005 Research Assistant (Drs. J. Walsh, Vadim Backman, and Allen Taflove)
• 1999~2005 Undergraduate Tutor

Kindletec International Ltd. Department of Research & Development, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1997~1998 Research Assistant

Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

• 1995~1997 Research Assistant (Drs. Sidney Nagel & Heinrich Jaeger)
• 1995~1997 Teaching Assistant

Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• 1994~1995 Research Assistant (Drs. Ruth Klauser 柯陸詩 & Tong Chuang 莊東榮)

Invited Talks

• "Numerical Analysis of the Feasibility of Propagating Light through Biological Turbid Medium, ICB2019," The 4th International Conference on Biophotonics, Taipei, Taiwan (Sep 15-18, 2019)
• "Modeling light propagation through scattering medium via numerical solutions of Maxwell’s equations," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA. USA (Jan 31st, 2017)
• "Virtual optics: Seeing through turbid media and beyond," USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting, CO. USA (Jan 9th, 2013)

Conference

2019

• Pei-Lin Chou （周沛霖） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulation Investigation of the Feasibility to Propagate and Focus Continuous-wave (CW) Light through a Turbid Medium (Oral presentation), " PIERS 2019, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium. Xiamen, China.
• Liang-Yu Huang （黃亮瑜） and Snow H. Tseng, "FDTD Modeling and Simulation of Structural Colors from Biological Creatures (Oral presentation), "PIERS 2019, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium. Xiamen, China.
• Tzu-Hao Kuo （郭子豪） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulation of Light Propagation through Chicken Cornea Tissue (Oral presentation), "PIERS 2019, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium. Xiamen, China.
• Liang-Yu Huang （黃亮瑜） and Snow H. Tseng, "FDTD Simulation Analysis of Biological Creatures Color Appearances Caused by Nanostructures," OPTIC 2019, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taichung, Taiwan.
• Ting-Yu Chang （張庭宇）, Ting-An Kuo （郭庭安） and Snow H. Tseng, "Improving the Performance of an Image Classifying Model by Modifying Receptive Fields," OPTIC 2019, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taichung, Taiwan.
• Tzu-Hao Kuo （郭子豪） and Snow H. Tseng, "PSTD Simulation of a Virtual Chicken Cornea Tissue," OPTIC 2019, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taichung, Taiwan.
• Snow H. Tseng* and Tzu-Chia Kao（高子佳）, "Investigating the Feasibility to Estimate System Performance Based upon Limited Data of the Taipei Metro System," ICONS 2019, Valencia, Spain, 2019.
• Cheng-Wei Ho （何承緯） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulation analysis of the enhancement of asymmetric illumination-based differential phase contrast microscope," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2019.
• Hong-Yu Su （蘇虹瑜） and Snow H. Tseng, "Analysis of Leaky Wave and Guided Wave in Ultrasound-guided Needles with FDTD Simulation," TPS 2019, 台灣物理年會暨科技部計畫成果發表會. Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• Jen-Yu Huang （黃任佑） and Snow H. Tseng, "Effective Classification of mice skin lesion on Optical Coherence Tomography Images Using Deep Learning," TPS 2019, 台灣物理年會暨科技部計畫成果發表會. Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• Ting-An Kuo （郭庭安） and Snow H. Tseng, "Automatic Multi-Class Classification of Mice SCC Using Deep Learning," TPS 2019, 台灣物理年會暨科技部計畫成果發表會. Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• Cheng-Wei Ho （何承緯） and Snow H. Tseng, "Numerical analysis of amplitude pattern effect in asymmetric illumination-based differential phase contrast microscope," TPS 2019, 台灣物理年會暨科技部計畫成果發表會. Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• Ting-An Kou （郭庭安） and Snow H. Tseng, "Segmentation of dermal-epidermal junction on optical coherence tomography images using a fully convolutional neural network approach," SPIE Medical Imaging 2019, San Diego, California, United States.
• Cheng-Wei Ho （何承緯） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulation analysis of the enhancement of asymmetric illumination-based differential phase contrast microscope," SPIE Photonics West 2019, San Francisco, United States.

2015~2018

• Jen-Yu Huang （黃任佑） and Snow H. Tseng, "Effective Segmentation and Classification on Optical Coherence Tomography Images Using Deep Learning," OPTIC 2018, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Tainan, Taiwan.
• Ting-An Kuo （郭庭安） and Snow H. Tseng, "Automatic Segmentation of Dermal-Epidermal Junction Using Deep Learning," OPTIC 2018, 台灣光電科技研討會暨科技部光電學門研究成果發表會. Tainan, Taiwan.
• Cheng-Wei Ho （何承緯） and Snow H. Tseng, "Modeling the Effect of Amplitude Pattern in Asymmetric Illumination-based Differential Phase Contrast Microscope," OPTIC 2018, 台灣光電科技研討會暨科技部光電學門研究成果發表會. Tainan, Taiwan.
• Tzu-Chia Kao（高子佳） and Snow H. Tseng*, "System performance condition curve estimation based on data analysis of the Taipei metro system," ICONS 2018, Athens, Greece.
• Han Lee （李思翰） and Snow H. Tseng, "The Simulation of Ultrasound and analysis of Needle Detection by Leaky Acoustic Waves ," TPS 2018, 台灣物理年會暨科技部計畫成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan.
• Shi-Xuan Yang （楊士玄） and Snow H. Tseng, "PSTD simulation of expending beam width with random scattering medium," TPS 2018, 台灣物理年會暨科技部計畫成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan.
• Jia-Hao Li （李家豪） and Snow H. Tseng, "The cornea and sclera scattering light characteristics simulation analysis," TPS 2018, 台灣物理年會暨科技部計畫成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan.
• Jia-Hao Li （李家豪） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulation analysis of the transmittance of Cornea and Sclera," OPTIC 2017, 台灣光電科技研討會暨科技部光電學門研究成果發表會. Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• Cheng-Wei Ho （何承緯） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulating the Amplitude Pattern in Differential Phase Contrast Microscope by Numerical Simulation," PIERS 2018, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium. Toyama, Japan.
• Snow H. Tseng and Chih-Yao Yang （楊智堯）, "Modeling light propagation through scattering medium via numerical solutions of Maxwell’s equations （Invited Paper）," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2017.
• Chih-Yao Yang （楊智堯）and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulation analysis of the transparency of cornea and sclera," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2017.
• Han Lee （李思翰） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulation Analysis of Laser Generated Leaky Waves for Needle Detection within Biological Tissue," OPTIC 2017, 台灣光電科技研討會暨科技部光電學門研究成果發表會. Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2017.
• Shi-Xuan Yang （楊士玄） and Snow H. Tseng, "PSTD simulation of expending beam width with the presence of a scattering medium," OPTIC 2017, 台灣光電科技研討會暨科技部光電學門研究成果發表會. Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• Chih-Yao Yang （楊智堯）, and Snow H. Tseng. "Pseudospectral time-domain methods for modeling the transparency of Cornea and Sclera." 2016 Optics & Photonics Taiwan, International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan. 2016.
• Min-Lun Yu （游旻倫）, and Snow H. Tseng, " Simulation of the detuning wavelength analysis via Optical Phase Conjugation Phenomenon using Pseudospectral time-domain technique,"2016 OPTIC Conference, Taipei, Taiwan. 2016.
• Min-Lun Yu （游旻倫）, Chia-Ta Tseng （曾家達）, Snow H. Tseng, "2-D PSTD Simulation of wave behavior analysis via Optical Phase Conjugation Phenomenon," OSA Biomedical Optics Congress, Hollywood, Florida, USA, 2016.
• Snow H. Tseng, Te-Jen Kung, Min-Lun Yu. "Propagating light through a scattering medium with specific amplitude and phase," SPIE Photonics West BIOS 2016, International Conference, San Francisco, California, United States, 2016
• Te-Jen Kung （孔德仁）, Chia-Ta Tseng （曾家達）, and Snow H. Tseng. "Study the effect of resolution on focusing process via optical phase conjugation," SPIE Photonics West BIOS 2016, International Conference, San Francisco, California, United States, 2016
• Snow H. Tseng, Te-Jen Kung （孔德仁）, and Chia-Ta Tseng （曾家達）, "Manipulating light propagation through scattering media," Proceedings Imaging and Applied Optics, 2015
• Shi-Hao Huang （黃士豪）, Shiang-Jiu Wang（王祥舉）, Snow H. Tseng, "Tomographic reconstruction of melanin structures of optical coherence tomography via the finite-difference time-domain simulation," Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9328, 93281T （2015）
• Chia-Ta Tseng（曾家達）, Snow H. Tseng, "Analysis of the angular span of the optical phase conjugation phenomenon", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9335, 933509 （2015）

2010~2014

• Sergio Cantero, Shuai-Hsun Lee （李帥勳）, and Snow H. Tseng, "Shaping the CPML absorbing boundary condition to eliminate impinging light at a specific position inside electromagnetic simulations," PIERS, Guanzhou, China, 2014.
• Sergio Cantero, Yian Huang （黃奕安）, and Snow H. Tseng, "FDTD Simulation of an Optical Absorber based on CPML absorbing boundary condition," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2014.
• Sergio Cantero, Yian Huang （黃奕安）, and Snow H. Tseng, "A CPML Optical Target that Eliminates Incident Light in an Optical Simulation," 2013 Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, Taipei, Taiwan. 2013.
• Yu-Ting Hung （洪郁婷）, Snow H. Tseng, " Simulating Optical Coherence Tomography Using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2013.
• Wei-Lun Ting（丁偉倫）, Snow H. Tseng, "Simulating the Digitally Time-Reversed Ultrasound-Encoded Light," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2013.
• Yu-Ting Hung （洪郁婷） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulating Optical Coherence Tomography using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method," OPT 2012, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan.
• Wei-Lun Ting（丁偉倫）, Yi-An Huang（黃奕安）, and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulating the Phenomenon of Digital Optical Phase Conjugation," OPT 2012, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan.
• Yi-An Huang （黃奕安）and Snow H. Tseng, "PSTD simulation of the Optical Phase Conjugation Phenomenon," Gordon Research Conferences: Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Holderness, NH, USA, 2012.
• Snow H. Tseng, "Undoing the Light Scattering Effect of Macroscopic Random media via Optical phase Conjugation," Gordon Research Conferences: Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Holderness, NH, USA, 2010.
• M. Y. Yeh （葉明瑜） and Snow H. Tseng （曾雪峰）, "Investigation of DOPC for Tissue Optics by using Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method," Gordon Research Conferences: Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Holderness, NH, USA, 2010.
• C. S. Lee （李將碩） and Snow H. Tseng （曾雪峰）, "Analyzing the Diffraction Limit and Optical Phase Conjugation via FDTD Numerical Solutions of Maxwell’s equations," Gordon Research Conferences: Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Holderness, NH, USA, 2010.
• Snow H. Tseng, Meng Cui, Changhuei Yang, "Simulating the Optical Phase Conjugation Phenomenon of Light Multiply Scattered through a Macroscopic Random Medium," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 2010.

2005~2009

• M. Y. Yeh （葉明瑜） and Snow H. Tseng （曾雪峰）, "Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulation of Time Reversal Mirror" DP-004, OPT 2009, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan.
• C. S. Lee （李將碩） and Snow H. Tseng （曾雪峰）, "FDTD Simulation Analysis of the Evanescent Field," DP-005, OPT 2009, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan.
• H. T. Chan （詹昕庭） and Snow H. Tseng （曾雪峰）, "Simulating the Flexible Electronic Display using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method," GP-008, OPT 2009, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan
• Y. C. Chou （周彥均） and Snow H. Tseng （曾雪峰）, " Simulation of the Transparency of the Cornea and Sclera by numerically solving Maxwell’s equations" FP-020, OPT 2009, 台灣光電科技研討會暨國科會光電學門研究成果發表會. Taipei, Taiwan
• Snow H. Tseng, "Simulating the Optical Phase Conjugation of a Phase Conjugate Mirror," Gordon Research Conferences: Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Holderness, NH, USA, 2008.
• Yu-Cheng Hong （洪于晟）and Snow H. Tseng, "The Analysis of Light Scattering from Random Structures in Display," International Conference on Optics and Photonics in Taiwan 2008, p. 189.
• Muhammad Rizki Ramadhani （馬富月） and Snow H. Tseng, "Simulation of Optical Coherence Tomography by Using FDTD method," International Conference on Laser Applications in Life Science 2008, p. 184.
• Cheng-Hao Tsai （蔡政豪） and Snow H. Tseng, "The Inaccuracy of the Optical Theorem Used in the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Simulation," International Conference on Laser Applications in Life Science 2008, p. 147.
• H. H. Tsai （蔡宏鑫） and Sow. H. Tseng, "Light scattering from biological cells containing gold nanoparticles and silica/gold nanoshells," Optics and Photonics Taiwan 2007, Dec. 2007
• H. H. Tsai （蔡宏鑫） and Sow. H. Tseng, "2-D simulation of light scattering from biological cells: FDTD modeling," PSROC 2008, PE-80, Jan. 2008
• Snow. H. Tseng, "What information is contained in light multiply scattered through macroscopic random media?" SPIE Photonics WEST 2007, Jan. 2007
• Snow. H. Tseng, "Extracting information from light multiply scattered through macroscopic random media," SPIE Photonics WEST 2007, Jan. 2007
• Wei-Chun Chung （鐘煒竣） and Snow H. Tseng, "FDTD simulation of surface plasmon in 2D symmetric silver nanocylinders," OPT 2006, Taiwan, Dec. 2006
• Wei-Tien Chang （張維典） and Snow H. Tseng, "2-D Numerical Simulation of the Photonic Nanojet," OPT 2006, Taiwan, Dec. 2006
• Bo-Yeh Huang （黃柏燁） and Snow H. Tseng, "Monte Carlo simulation of light scattering by multi-spheres," OPT 2006, Taiwan, Dec. 2006
• You-Ling Weng （翁佑菱） and Snow H. Tseng, "FDTD analysis of 2D photonic crystal reflection characteristics," OPT 2006, Taiwan, Dec. 2006
• Snow H. Tseng, "What Information Can Possibly Be Obtained from Light Multiply Scattered through Random Media?" Gordon Research Conference: Lasers in Medicine and Biology, July 2006
• Snow H. Tseng, "Possibility of Obtaining Microscopic Structural Information from Light Scattered by Random Media of Closely Packed Scatterers," Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences Academia Sinica, Taiwan, May 25th, 2005
• Snow H. Tseng, "Rigorous Computational Solution of Maxwell’s Equations Reveals: Possibility of obtaining Microscopic Structural Information from Macroscopic Optical Measurements of Biological Tissues," Photonics West Symposium, San Jose, California, 2005
• Snow H. Tseng, "When Photons Meet Cells," Photonics West Symposium, San Jose, California, 2005
• Snow H. Tseng, "Rigorous Investigation of Tissue Optics," Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, January 20th, 2005

1996~2004

• Snow H. Tseng, "A Novel Research Tool for Tissue Optics," Beckman Laser Institute, University of California at Irvine, November 4th, 2004
• Snow H. Tseng, "A Rigorous Solution for Tissue Optics: Solving Maxwell’s Equations for the Problem of Light Scattering by Macroscopic Biological Random Media," NATO Advanced Study Institute: Biophotonics, Ottawa, Canada, 2004
• Snow H. Tseng, "Rigorously solving Maxwell’s equations for the problem of light scattering by macroscopic random media," NATO Advanced Study Institute: Biophotonics, Ottawa, Canada, September 2004
• Snow H. Tseng, "First Full-Vector Maxwell’s Equations Model of Light Scattering in a Macroscopic Random Medium," SPIE Photonics North Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, September 2004
• Snow H. Tseng, "Rigorously solving Maxwell’s equations for the problem of light scattering by macroscopic random media," Gordon Research Conference: Lasers in Medicine and Biology, July 2004
• Snow H. Tseng, "Pseudo spectral time-domain Maxwell’s equations solution of Optical Scattering by Tissue-like Structures," 24th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, March 31st, 2004
• Snow H. Tseng, "PSTD Simulation of 2-D Scattering by a Random Cluster of Electrically Large Dielectric Cylinders," IEEE APS International Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, June 2003
• Snow H. Tseng, "Click! Tactile Feedback for Mobile Devices," Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, August 2001
• Snow H. Tseng, "Possibilities of Solution Propagation in Holey Fibers," Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, May 2000
• Snow H. Tseng, "Electron Paramagnetic Resonance," University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, December, 1996

Conference-chair Positions

• Chair of Gordon Research Conference: Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology, USA 2024.
• Vice-chair of Gordon Research Conference: Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology, USA 2022.
• Session-chair of Biomedical Simulation and Deep Learning, ICB2019, The 4th International Conference on Biophotonics, Taipei, Taiwan, September 15-18, 2019.
• Session-Chair of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, ICONS2019, Valencia, Spain 2019.
• Session-Chair of Gordon Research Conference: Computed Optical Imaging, Modeling, and Processing, Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Holderness, NH. USA 2014.
• Co-Chair of Biophotonics and Medical Imaging, OPTIC 2007, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
• Organizer and Moderator of session, The Future of Rigorous Solutions of Maxwell’s Equations in Tissue Optics, NATO Advanced Study Institute: Biophotonics, Ottawa, Canada 2004.