Shin-Tson Wu is a Trustee Chair Professor at College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida (UCF). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and a BS in Physics from the National Taiwan University (Taipei). Prior to joining UCF, he was with Hughes Research Laboratories (HRL) for 18 years. He is an Academician of Academia Sinica, a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a member of the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida, one of the first six inductees to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, and a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, SID, and SPIE. In the past, he served as founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, OSA Publications Council Chair and Board of Directors, and SID honors and awards committee chair. His received honors and awards include: the Optica (formerly OSA) Edwin H. Land Medal (2022), SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award (2022), OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Medal (2014), SID Slottow-Owaki Prize (2011), OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award (2010), SPIE G. G. Stokes Award (2008), SID Jan Rajchman Prize (2008), and Honorary Professor of National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University (2018) and of Nanjing University (2013).