NCKU Senior Executive Vice President, Dr. Da-Hsuan Feng, Received "Chime Bell Award 2009"

TAINAN, Taiwan--(Business Wire)--
Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP) of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU),
Dr. Da-Hsuan Feng, has recently been honored with "Chime Bell Award 2009" from
The People`s Government of Hubei Province in China with the recognition of his
personnel outstanding contributions to the economic construction and social
development. It is also a great honor of NCKU.

Dr. Feng has devoted himself deeply for a long while to scientific research,
social development and welfare of human beings, as well as has long-term
contributions to China. For example, he formed a panel of top experts from many
fields around the world to help establish the International Advisory Board for
Biomedical Photonics (BC CBMP) in Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology
(HUST) in the end of 2006. The Center Advisory Board has the plenary session
once a year with the constant encouragement of Dr. Feng. Many international and
domestic scholars and experts of related fields as well as entrepreneurs are
attracted to get together for the development of biomedical photonics.

Dr. Feng also facilitates regularly the scientific communication between HUST
and NCKU to create a cross-strait mutual beneficial condition in exchange of
idea and experience on technologic and industrial development. Both universities
have reached and realized a plan on regular academic visit to each other. For
example, delegate from Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) just
visited NCKU this June, and WNLO also successfully held HUST -NCKU Solid-State
Photonics and Bio-Photonics Seminar in China this August.

Furthermore, his contributions to Hubei also include the establishment of Alan
G. MacDiarmid Research Institute of Renewable Energy in China Three Gorges
University (CTGU), and setting up of the first Confucius Institute in Texas
which was the brilliant success in cooperation between CTGU and UT Dallas. This
is an important step in internationalization on renewable energy for CTGU and
Hubei Province.

Chime Bell Award was established by The People`s Government of Hubei Province in
1994, given to the foreign experts with outstanding contributions to the
economic construction and social development of Hubei Province. There are 168
foreign experts rewarded this honor till now.

About NCKU Senior Executive Vice President, Dr. Da-Hsuan Feng

Da Hsuan Feng was born on October 28, 1945, in New Delhi, India to a musician
mother and journalist father. In the early 50`s, he moved to Singapore. After
two years in civil engineering from Singapore Polytechnic, his interest in basic
science shifted dramatically. Dr. Feng received his physics BA and Ph.D. from
Drew University (1968) and the University of Minnesota (1972) respectively.
Prior to joining Drexel University in 1976, where in 1990 he became M. Russell
Wehr Chair Professor, Feng was a postdoc at U of Manchester and U of Texas at
Austin. During his tenure at Drexel, he served two years as NSF Program Director
of Theoretical Physics and visiting professor of Niels Bohr Institutet,
Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen), Denmark, and Daresbury
Laboratory in Cheshire, UK, respectively. On December 9, 2000, Feng assumed the
Vice President for Research and Professor of Physics at the University of Texas
at Dallas. Feng`s objective at UT Dallas, as designated by the President and the
Provost, is to enhance UT Dallas` quality research breath and depth and expand
the university`s research reputation nationally and globally.

Dr. Feng received the accolade Fellow of the American Physical Society. He also
received the "friendship award" from Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU) and
is the honorary professor of eleven Chinese universities which included Peking
Union Medical College. Dr. Feng has been a consultant for three major national
laboratories of USA, including Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Brookhaven, and UK`s
Daresbury Laboratory. In 2003, he was appointed as honorary member in Board of
Trustee of Nanjing University, and, in 2005, he was elected as a member of
CellStar Board of Directors, a 1-billion-US-dollar annual revenue global handset
distribution company. Dr. Feng`s other honors include Special Advisor for Korean
American Science and Technology Network, a member of the Computer
Science/Engineering Evaluation Task Force of the University of South Carolina
(1998), a member of the Field Initiated Studies Technology Panel of the US
Department of Education (2000), and currently a member of the Science and
Engineering Technology Executive Committee of the National Defense Industrial
Association.

As a teacher, Dr. Feng cannot think of anything more important to accomplish
than the production of 7 Ph.D.`s, 6 postdoctoral fellows and many
undergraduates. He also organized over 30 international conferences, and
everyone was funded. He was an editor of seven international journals. His
research was funded by NSF from 1979~1995. In 1997~1998, Dr. Feng was a global
technical advisor to Rep. Curt Weldon, now Vice Chair of the US House Armed
Services Committee, regarding Central Europe and Asia. He was part of two
Congressional Delegations to East Asia and Central Europe. From 1998 until 2000,
he was the Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation
(SAIC), a multinational Fortune 500 company. At SAIC, Dr. Feng developed the
HUBS project, the catalyst and integration of information systems in four
northeastern states. The project received nearly $60 million federal funding
from 1998 to 2003.

Dr. Feng also created a unique and powerful Research Advisory Board for
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), whose members are truly outstanding
individuals globally in academia, industrial and political arenas (See
http://www.utdallas.edu/research/rab.html). In six years, he worked closely with
this group of individuals and in turn, the group provided invaluable advice and
global connections to Dr. Feng, the research intensive faculty and the
university at large. In past six years, UTD research expenditure increased
three-fold, from $14 million in 2001 to nearly $50 million in 2006. So are the
intellectual strengths. He personally recruited two Nobel laureates (Dr. Alan G.
MacDiarmid and Dr. Russell Hulse), the former European Space Agency director and
the entire nanotechnology team from Honeywell. He also secured a $1 million
endowed James Von Ehr Chair of science and technology which is now held by Alan
MacDiarmid.

He also initiated a consortium of seven universities in Texas known as Strategic
Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology (SPRING) and followed through with a
$41.5 million earmark fund, allocating $1.5 million and $1 million earmark funds
respectively for Sickle Cell and Texas border disease tracking studies, funded a
"nano at the border" program to accelerate the research infrastructures of two
Texas border universities. He also cultivated industrial collaborative
relations, such as the Oracle Spatial Data Center.

In 2004, Dr. Feng led a delegation of 9 VP`s from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and
Mexico to Korea and China and in the same year, he led a UTD delegation to
India. Agreements on faculty and students exchange were agreed between UTD and
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and Korean Sungkyunkwan University. In
2003~2006, he initiated and followed through with relations with one of the
Latin America`s strongest mathematics institutes, Mexico`s Centro de
Investigacion en Mathematicas. This collaboration substantially enhanced UTD
mathematics research. In 2003, he was the Founder and Chairman of an Ad Hoc
Committee to Fight SARS. World renowned infectious disease and zoonautics expert
Dr. Scott Lillibridge of the University of Texas in the committee was dispatched
to Taipei and Beijing during the worse period of the epidemics.

In 2005, he was invited by United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research
(AFOSR) to be a member of its nanotechnology delegation to visit Taiwan`s
National Science Council and its affiliated research centers. Also, in 2006,
together with a Dallas startup company, i-Tex Wireless, he initiated a strong
three way collaboration for aircraft wireless communications with Europe`s
Airbus Corporation. Dr. Feng is also on seven business and scientific boards of
startups and medium size companies, whose core technologies range from
bioinformatics, to drug discovery, to software for health care systems. He is
also on the advisory board of an early venture multinational company. Dr. Feng
has published more than 180 scientific papers, edited more than 20 books. In 25
years of extensive research in nuclear physics, quantum optics and quantum
chaos, Dr. Feng`s notable contributions are reflected as

(1) the first to successfully deploy Monte-Carlo process to analyze nuclear
reactions,

(2) the first to apply coherent states to study nuclear phase transitions,

(3) one of the pioneers to study optical bistability,

(4) the first to introduce the Fermion Dynamical Symmetry Model in nuclear
structure physics, and

(5) the first, in collaboration with Prof. Wei-Min Zhang of NCKU Physics
Department, to amploy coherent states to study quantum chaos.

Dr. Feng has been recruited as Senior Executive Vice President of NCKU upon
invitation of NCKU President, Academician Michael Ming-Chiao Lai, with his
characteristics of clear-eyed scientist having a wealth of administrative
experience. He recommended a number of Nobel Prize Laureates or the
internationally top scholars and experts to lecture in NCKU, and establish
cooperative mechanisms widely with international famous research institution.
His contribution opened an international perspective but also upgrade the
academic status of NCKU.

Dr. Feng also attached great importance to the social responsibility of
universities, and concerned about the country's economic construction and social
development, such as his establishment of faculty and staff health volunteer
corps and medical team, and post-disaster reconstruction team of professionals
into the disaster areas services and participation in the reconstruction project
to launch the first time to send love to the disaster area when 88 Flood caused
by Typhoon Morakot. In addition, he set up a project of Xiamen - Kinmen Life
Area with professors from NCKU, Xiamen University (XMU), National Kinmen
Institute of Technology (KMIT), Tung-Hai University (THU) and Harvard University
by a high degree of positive public opinion and international attention.

About National Cheng Kung University (NCKU):

NCKU is located in the ancient city of Tainan, the historical and ancient
cultural capital city of Taiwan, which boasts more than 50 national relics
sanctioned by the government and is approximately 250 kilometers south of
Taipei. It is connected to all major cities in Taiwan by the recently initiated
state-of-the-art Taiwan High Speed Rail. Further, this historical heritage is
the pride of Tainan City and represents a rich cultural resource to NCKU. The
technological sectors in the Southern Taiwan Science Park offer students at NCKU
with a stage to apply what they have learned into practice.

With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over
130,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme
successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare and
are ready and willing to assist, with 22,000 academic selective students and
1200 academically significant faculty members currently, both have healthy
dosage of international flavor, with enormous regional support, and with a
permeating culture of proactive intellectual growth on the world`s stage, NCKU
in Tainan, Taiwan, has evolved from its engineering genesis to become a powerful
comprehensive, research and international university in Asia Pacific.

Since NCKU`s establishment in 1931, it has developed into a research intensive
and comprehensive university with integrated academic fields in nine colleges:
Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
Planning & Design, Management, Social Sciences, Medicine, and Bioscience &
Biotechnology. NCKU currently offers 40 undergraduate programs (excluding
Program of Bachelor`s Degree), 78 master`s degree programs, 54 doctoral programs
and 20 master`s degree programs for working professionals.

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