Affiliation: China Medical University in Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science, College of Medicine

Tzu-Ching Shih received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the National Taipei University of Technology and Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan. From 2003-2004, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, which belongs to the College of Medicine and College of Engineering, National Taiwan University. In 2005, he joined the faculty of China Medical University as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Radiological Technology. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007. From July 2008 to September 2009, he was a visiting Research Associate at John Tu and Thomas Yuen Center for Functional Onco-Imaging, the University of California at Irvine. He was the Director of the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science from 2013 to 2017 and was the Director of the Beigang Campus from 2017 to 2018, China Medical University. His research focuses on fundamental engineering disciplines such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and acoustics in medicine. He was promoted to Professor of the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science at China Medical University, Taiwan in 2014. Professor Shih has broad research interests. His recent research includes computer methods and programs in biomedicine, computational fluid dynamics simulation in medicine, medical image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis and therapy, high-intensity focused therapeutic ultrasound, and thermal dose calculation of hyperthermia in oncology.