Tzu-Chieh Chou

Tzu-Chieh Chou (周資傑) is a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering Department at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He joined the Caltech Micromachining Laboratory in 2014 and has been supervised under Prof. Yu-Chong Tai since then. He received the Bachelor's degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University in 2014, and the Master's degree from the Electrical Engineering Department at Caltech in 2015. He was awarded the Gold Medal Prize at the International Earth Science Olympiad in 2009, and Irving T. Ho Memorial Scholarship in 2012 and 2013.

His research interests are bioMEMS with neurological and medical applications, and smart dust based on ultrasonic power transferring and communication. In Spring 2013, he was with the Intelligent Robotics and Automation Lab to conduct research under the supervision of Prof. Ren C. Luo, an Irving T. Ho Chair Professor. In Summer 2013, he was selected by the Stanford Undergraduate Visiting Research (UGVR) Internship Program to participate in a research project on thermoacoustic imaging under the supervision of Prof. Amin Arbabian. The image processing method for tissue segmentation and artifact removal was published in EMBC 2014, pp. 4747 - 4750. In September 2013, he attended the University of California, San Diego as an exchange student and joined the Energy-Efficient Microsystems Group to research on energy-harvesting smart dust under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Mercier. The preliminary results from finite element simulation and ex vivo experiments were published in BioCAS 2014, pp. 440 - 443.