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2021-10-08Academic News
Black carbon over an urban atmosphere in northern peninsular Southeast Asia: Characteristics, source apportionment, and associated health risks
Southeast Asia is one of the major biomass-burning (BB) source regions in the world, and the BB-derived emissions are the main air pollution issue in Southeast Asia. Our research results indicate that effective management strategies are needed to reduce Equivalent BC (EBC) emissions in Chiang Mai, and it is necessary for public health authorities to give proper health advice during haze events to safeguard the vulnerable groups within the population. The reduction of open vegetation burning activities in northern peninsular Southeast Asia (PSEA) will bring considerable climate and health co-benefits to Southeast Asia and downwind regions (such as Taiwan).
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2021-09-27Headlines
AI-Based Brain-Computer Interface Research Team at NCU Set Foot in Future Learning
How could we take a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a confined soul, for a “video ride” by brain wave? A research team of AI-based brain-computer interfaces at NCU has broken through various limitations for recovering ALS patients’ autonomy and dignity. Furthermore, with the help of AI, the team has recently developed a next-gen tiny brainwave control device. In addition to medical treatment, the device can also be applied to future life and future education. With the brainwave control device, one can command a robot proxy for pandemic prevention and control. This innovation unfolds the future of “zero contact.”
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2021-09-17Academic News
Innovative PM2.5 monitoring data fusion technology published to the top journal of environmental science field by the team of NCU
Under the guidance of Dr. Lin, Yuan-Chien — an Associate Professor from the Department of Civil Engineering, the team including postgraduates Chi, Wan-Ju and Lin, Yong-Qing from Hydrological and Environmental Informatics Laboratory integrated the application of Internet of Things (IoT) and spatiotemporal big data analysis, and developed novel data fusion technology to provide high spatiotemporal resolution PM2.5 concentration information. The results were published in a top SCI international journal "Environment International" in the field of environmental science.
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2021-09-17Academic News
A New Type of Memory Developed by Research Team at Dept. of Electrical Engineering—Research Results Covered by 2021 Symposia on VLSI Technology
The research team led by Assistant Professor E Ray Hsieh in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at NCU has developed a new type of three-dimensional Fe Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FeFinFET) NVM, which is highly efficient and energy-saving. It can operate under 3V and take only 80 nanoseconds to complete operation. Furthermore, it has a linear-tuning window of conductance that is 30,000 times wider (Fig. 2), its continual endurance cycles exceeded one million times (Fig. 3), and it has the ideal activation function of AI (Fig. 4). These characteristics make FeFinFET NVMs very suitable for highly dense storage with multi-bit-per-cell capacity and AI inference applications based on in-memory computing. This research has been selected by an international flagship conference—2021 Symposia on VLSI Technology—to be covered in its Focus Session.
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2021-09-15Headlines
NCU Made a Splash in the 2021 Future Tech Awards
The list of winners of the 2021 Future Tech Awards was just released. Thirteen NCU research teams won the prizes, and another 13 technologies were nominated to the final list for demonstration. NCU took the stage at the 2021 FUTEX in the fields of space technology, atmospheric sciences, materials, biotechnology, cognitive neuroscience, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. The technologies developed by the NCU teams were gaining favors with the reviewers. NCU was one of the biggest winners in the 2021 Future Tech Awards, demonstrating NCU’s strength in research development and innovation.