Shin-Tson Wu

Shin-Tson Wu, is a Taiwanese-American physicist. He is a Pegasus Professor at the University of Central Florida College of Optics and Photonics. He is known for his contributions to liquid-crystal research and the resulting patent portfolio for next-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs), adaptive optics, laser-beam steering, and new photonic materials.

Early life and education Wu's invention of mixed-mode twisted nematic liquid crystal display have been widely implemented in commercial products. Wu was born in Nantou, Taiwan. After high school, he graduated from National Taiwan University with a B.S. in physics in 1975. He then earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Southern California in 1981.

Career Shin-Tson Wu is a Trustee chair professor at College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida (UCF). His research interests at UCF focus on augmented reality and virtual reality displays, including light engines (LCOS, mini-LED, micro-LED, and OLED), optical systems (lightguide, diffractive optics, and projection optics), and display materials (liquid crystals, quantum dots, and perovskites).

He was the founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, SID Honors and Awards Committee chair, and Optica (formerly OSA) publications council chair and board of directors.

Awards and honors

Memberships 2022, Academician of Academia Sinica 2014, Among the first six inductees to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame 2012, Charter Fellow of National Academy of Inventors 2007, Fellow of The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) 2004, Fellow of the IEEE 2001, Fellow of the Society for Information Displays (SID) 1993, Fellow of the Optical Society of America (Optica)

Awards 2024, UCF Medal of Societal Impact 2022, Academician of Academia Sinica 2022, SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award 2022, Optica Edwin H. Land Medal 2014, Optica Esther Hoffman Beller Medal 2011, SID Slottow-Owaki Prize 2010, Optica Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize 2008, SID Jan Rajchman Prize 2008, SPIE G. G. Stokes Award 2000, SID Special Recognition Award 1991, Hughes Research Laboratories Team Achievement Award

Honorary Titles 2014, Inaugural Inductee of Florida Inventors Hall of Fame

Books J. H. Lee, I.C. Cheng, H. Hua, and S. T. Wu, Introduction to Flat Panel Displays 2nd Edition. (Wiley, 2020) D. K. Yang and S. T. Wu, Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices, 2nd Edition (Wiley, 2014) H. Ren and S. T. Wu, Introduction to Adaptive Lenses (Wiley, 2012) Z. Ge and S. T. Wu, Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays (Wiley, 2010) D. Armitage, I. Underwood and S. T. Wu, Introduction to Microdisplays (Wiley, 2006) S. T. Wu and D. K. Yang, Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays (Wiley, 2001) I. C. Khoo and S. T. Wu, Optics and Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals (World Scientific, 1993)