Yu-Hsiang Cheng 鄭宇翔

Yu-Hsiang Cheng 鄭宇翔

Professor of Electronics Engineering

National Taiwan University

My personal website can be found at https://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~yuhsiang/pi.html.

Yu-Hsiang Cheng was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1987. He received the double B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from National Taiwan University in 2011 (Presidential Award for 8 semesters). In the fall semester in 2009, he studied at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an exchange student. He received the M.S. degree in Photonics and Optoelectronics from National Taiwan University in 2013. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute Technology in 2019. He joined Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering at National Taiwan University in 2019 and Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics in 2025, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests include terahertz electronics and ultrafast spectroscopy. Up to 2025, Prof. Cheng has published 17 journal papers and 61 conference papers, including 6 paper awards, 5 travel grants, 4 invited talks, and 2 news highlights. Prof. Cheng received incentives for newly hired exceptional talents from 2019 to 2022 and received Excellence in Teaching Award at National Taiwan University in 2025. Prof. Cheng is currently the IEEE AP-Society Taipei Chapter Chair. In addition to research and teaching, Prof. Cheng loves triathlon, volleyball, calligraphy, amateur radio (call sign: BU2GD), anime, games, and traveling.

Interests
  • THz electronics
  • Ultrafast spectroscopy
Education
  • Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

  • M.S. in Photonics and Optoelectronics, 2013

    National Taiwan University

  • BSc in Electrical Engineering AND Physics, 2011

    National Taiwan University