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  • Pulche Podcast #17 - Shih-Chieh Hsu

    Joining us this week is the esteemed professor, Dr. Shih-Chieh Hsu, associate professor at the University of Washington and currently visiting associate professor at National Tsing Hua University. In this video Dr. Hsu speaks about his passion to travel and how this linked to his career path. He also speaks about his research topics from undergrad through to PhD which include the Extreme Forward Calorimeter for Belle experiment, ATLAS Pixel DAQ software and FASER: ForwArd Search Experiment.   

    #ParticlePhysics #BeautyParticles #FASER #ATLAS #PulchePodcast #ScienceJournalism #TravelforScience

    Work Experience:

    -Local chair, Dark Matter @ Large Hadron Collider 2019 (Seattle, USA)
    -Coordinator, FASER tracking reconstruction
    -Manager, US ATLAS Analysis Center at LBNL  

    Most recent publications:

    -X. Chen, S.-C. Hsu, et al., “Search for a generic heavy Higgs at the LHC,” Phys. Lett. B 804, 135358 (2020) doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135358 [arXiv:1905.05421 [hep-ph]].
    -J. Duarte, S.-C. Hsu, et al., et al., “FPGA-accelerated machine learning inference as a service for particle physics computing,” Comput. Softw. Big Sci. 3, no. 1, 13 (2019) doi:10.1007/s41781-019-0027-2 [arXiv:1904.08986 [physics.data-an]].
    -ATLAS Collaboration, “Constraints on mediator-based dark matter and scalar dark energymodels using √s= 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS detector,” JHEP1905, 142 (2019) [arXiv:1903.01400 [hep-ex]].   

    Public Page: https://phys.washington.edu/people/shih-chieh-hsu

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    50 min
  • Pulche Podcast #16 Jack Giletycz

    Joining us this week is esteemed guest, Slawomir Jack Giletycz, PhD from the Department of the Earth Sciences, National Central University where his research focus was in tectonic geomorphology, fluvial processes and structural geology.  Dr. Giletycz is a naturalist who has a love for the rocks and nature. He has been in Taiwan since 2004 and has learnt Chinese extensively. In this video he speaks about his research in the field of geology and its various applications, as well as how geology helps understand our topography and landscape organization. 

    #NTU #ChemicalEngineering #PulchePodcast #STEAMPodcast #STEMPodcast #TectonicPlates #Geology #Research #Geomorphology #NaturalDisasters #Geomorphology 

    Experience:

    - Research Assistant in the Institute of Geophysics at National Central University(2005-2007)
    - Post-Doctoral researcher at National Taiwan University (August 2014—2016)
    - Post-Doctoral researcher at National Central University (August 2017-Present)  

    Public Page:  http://basin.earth.ncu.edu.tw/People/Giletycz%20Slawomir%20Jacek.htm 

    Most recent publications:  

    -Ephemeral lakes and topography rearrangement of a newly emerging geomorphic system in the southern orogeny of Taiwan (Hengchun Peninsula), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
    -Regional geology, extreme weather events and natural disasters: Environmentally-forced, involuntary settlement migrations of the indigenous people of southern Taiwan, Tectonophysics, Special Issue- GEET-SEA.
    -Relicts of mud diapirism of the emerged wedge-top as an indicator of gas hydrates destabilization in the Manila accretionary prism in southern Taiwan (Hengchun Peninsula). Geomorphology, 336, 1-17.  

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    32 min
  • Pulche Podcast #15 - Min-Hui Lo

    Join us this week for our esteemed guest, Dr. Min-Hui Lo, Ph.D. in Earth System Science, University of California. His research varies in the area of remote sensing on global and terrestrial hydrology to hydro-climatology in cloud forest. In this video he goes into detail about the use of GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) and it’s importance in water mass detection on earth.  

    Work Experience:

    -Panel committee member, Atmos. Sci., Div. of Natural Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2018/01- 2020/12/31
    -Co-Chairman of panel committee, Atmos. Sci., Div. of Natural Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2020/01- 2020/12/31  

    Most recent publications:

    -Temporal Changes in Land-Surface Coupling Strength: An Example in A Semi-Arid Region of Australia, accepted in Journal of Climate.
    -Amplified seasonal cycle in hydroclimate over the Amazon river basin and its plume region. Nature Communications 11, 4390 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18187-0
    -Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models,Biogeosciences, 17, 5615–5638, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5615-2020 

    Public Page: http://www.as.ntu.edu.tw/index.php/stafflist-6/faculty/item/185-min-hui-lo.html 

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    46 min
  • Pulche Podcast #14 - Scott Pursner

    Joining us this week is Scott Pursner, MS. He completed his Master’s in Wildlife Conservation at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology and undergraduate in International Studies at Adelphi University. In this episode we learn more of how Scott’s Huayu Scholarship turnt into a 10 year experience. Scott’s master’s research focused in the studies pangolins and working with aboriginal villages on how they would do conservation work. Furthermore, Scott has been the past editor for Want China Times and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of China (Taiwan).  

    #BirdConservation #Sustainability #STEMPodcast #STEAMPodcast #NTU #Engineering

    Experience:

    -The Taiwan Wild Bird Federation- Director International Affairs (December 2018-present)
    -The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of China (Taiwan)
    -Foreign Editor (January 2016-December 2017) -Want China Times-Writer/Editor (October 2014-September 2015)  

    Most recent publications:  

    -The State of Taiwan’s Birds 2020 Da-Li Lin, Scott Pursner (ed.) 2020. State of Taiwan’s Birds. Endemic Species Research Institute, Taiwan Wild Bird Federation, Taiwan. https://tinyurl.com/ygufzkqn
    -Taiwan New Year Bird Count 2020 Report (English Editor, 2020): https://tinyurl.com/y4kz3jg8
    -The 2020 CWBF Checklist of the Birds of Taiwan (Eng. Editor) 3/23/2020 https://tinyurl.com/y2525wp9 

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    44 min
  • Pulche Podcast #13 - Andrea Mejia

    Joining us this week is Andrea Mejia, Alumni from the Department of Chemical Engineering and MBA from EUDE Business School in Spain. Andrea’s focus us in her undergraduate was in  “Crystallization of Adipic Acid utilizing Reverse Osmosis Membrane” and her focus in her MBA was in project management. In the episode of Pulche Podcast our host talks to her senior and gives us a breakdown of her university life including the do’s and the don’ts of NTU. She also speaks about her journey entering the the textile industry and an eye opener of what the textile industry truly is.  

     #NTU #ChemicalEngineering #PulchePodcast #STEAMPodcast #STEMPodcast #TextileIndustry #SeniorExperience #GirlPower #HondurasInTaiwan 

    Experience:  

    -International Business Specialist:Far Eastern New Century
    -Project Portfolio Planner/Innovation Management Specialist:Maxam
    -Research Assistant: Process System Engineering and Crystallization Laboratory  

    Most recent published papers:

    -Crystallization of Adipic Acid utilizing Reverse Osmosis Membrane  

    Public Page:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreamejia3 

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    34 min
  • Pulche Podcast #12 - Vivek Sharma

    This week’s guest is the esteemed, Dr. Vivek Sharma, Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica. In this episode Dr. Sharma speaks about high energy physics specifically the process behind Neutrino. He also spreads some light on the history behind radioactivity and its development and understanding through time.

    Experience:

    -Member of TEXONO-CDEX Collaboration: building Gaseous RPC detectors and Plastic scintillator detectors
    -Editorial member of TEXONO Collaboration.
    -Run Coordinator organizing the research task at KSNL for smooth data taking/analysis  

    Publications:

    -Studies of Quantum-Mechanical Coherency Effects in Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Scattering, V. Sharma et al.,  arXiv:2010.06810v1 (2020).
    -Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Photons with the CDEX-10 Experimen tat the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, Z. She, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 111301 (2020). 
    -Improved limits on solar axions and bosonic dark matter from the CDEX-1B experiment using the profile likelihood ratio method, Y. Wang, et al., Phys. Rev. D 101, 052003 (2020). 

     #Neutrino #TEXONO #ParticlePhysics #HEPTaiwan #QuantumPhysics #TexonoProjectTaiwan #AcademiaSinica #Physics #STEMPodcast #STEAMPodcast #NTU 

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    30 min
  • Pulche Podcast #11 Miguel Torres

    This week’s guest is Miguel Torres, MSc, a Mexican national and worldwide traveller. Miguel has dual master’s degrees in  Structural Engineering and Project management from The University of Sheffield and The University of Aberdeen respectively. He has years of knowledge in several sectors of project management and experience in all phases of project cycles in the energy sector. Currently, Miguel is the engineering manager of an offshore wind project.  In this episode he speaks much more of how his career led him to management of various projects over the world and especially the principles within offshore wind turbines.   

    Experience: 

     -Engineering Manager, Hai Long Offshore Wind Project Northland Power International, Taipei, Taiwan (05/2020 – Present)

    -Offshore Wind Specialist Mott MacDonald, Taipei, Taiwan (09/2018 – 04/2020)
    -Delivery Manager, TLP Repsol Vietnam, Ca Rong Do Project, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam (07/2017 – 08/2018)

    Additional Training:

    -Decommissioning
    –From Planning through completion
    -FPSO Design -Project Leadership Skills
    -Project Management for Engineering and Construction  

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    34 min
  • Pulche Podcast #10 Ricardo Pontaza

    Our guest this week is Ricardo Pontaza, MSc. Ricardo is a Guatemalan who has a passion for learning from a young age; studying advanced mathematics and Chinese from his childhood. He has been in Taiwan for about 10 years with dual degrees and years of experience in the computer science and electrical engineering field. He has attained two masters from National Taiwan University in the fields of Computer Science and Information Engineering as well as Mathematics and is currently pursuing two PhD Degrees in Computer Science and Information Engineering and Electrical Engineering.  His research focuses ranges in the field of computer theory and algorithms. Ricardo dives deep into the logics and concepts of computer theory and cryptography and how all this ties into his dual degrees.


    Experience

    • Semiconductor cryptography module design: National Chiao Tung University/Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) (2016-Present)
    • Arcadian lighting: United States of America/Taiwan (2016-2020)
    • Mathematic Analysis Expert & Financial Software Development: National Stock Exchange1 (2010-2011)


      • Public Page: https://www.rpontaza.com/


      Publications

      • The Zeta Function and its Relation to Arithmetic Functions (in Spanish) (https://ecfm.usac.edu.gt/index.php/taxonomy/term/191)


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          • 1 hr 1 min
        • Pulche Podcast #9 Moises Osorto

          Our guest this week is Honduran national, Moises Osorto, MSE, an alumni from National Taiwan University’s department of Construction Engineering and Management. Moises received his bachelor’s in architecture in Honduras and came to Taiwan under the MOFA scholarship to study his master’s where his research focused in using visual reality applied to architecture. Moises’ most recent publications is based on “A Possible Adaptation of Architecture for Peace in Honduras” and is currently an Architectural Design intern at JJpan Architects and Planners in Taipei. In our very first Spanish episode you can learn more about how virtual reality is change the game in the architectural field.

          #Pulche #EdibleScience #ScienceJournalism #CivilE #Honduras #ArchitectDesign #MixedReality #RevolutionizingArchitecture\


          Experience

          • Internship JJpan Architects and Planners (2020.08 - 2021.04)
          • Assistant Architect at CONASH (2017.03 - 2017.07)
          • Supervisor Architect at Consortium CONASH-ICSA (2016.06 - 2017.07) 


            • Most recent published papers

            1. A Possible Adaptation of Architecture for Peace in Honduras (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342308833_IRENO-ARCHITECTURE_A_Possible_Adaptation_of_Architecture_for_Peace_in_Honduras)


              2. Public Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moisés-osorto-183835124


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                • 32 min
              • Pulche Podcast #8 Chu-Yang Chou

                For this week’s episode, we have the esteemed Dr. Chu-Yang Chou, Associate Professor from the Department of Biomechatronic Engineering at National Taiwan University. Dr. Chou has been in the field of waste water treatment for more than thirty years. His masters research was focused in waste and wastewater treatment and his doctorate in computer control of anaerobic process. Professor Chou has also been a member of various environmental and agricultural associations in both Taiwan and the US. Join us he dives deep into the principles of automated systems applied to wastewater treatment and farming as well as the necessity of such a system.


                Experience

                • Associate Professor Department of Biomechatronic Engineering at National Taiwan University (1989 to present)
                • Director at the Biological Energy Research Center (Aug. 2014 to 2020)
                • Committee Member, Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Committee, Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (Jan. 2002 to 2008)


                  • Most recent published papers

                  1. A Network-Based Approach to Deciphering A Dynamic Microbiome’s Response to A Subtle Perturbation (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341393230_A_NetworkBased_Approach_to_Deciphering_A_Dynamic_Microbiome's_Response_to_A_Subtle_Perturbation)
                  2. Integration of an automatic agricultural and livestock production management system and an agriculture and food traceability system based on the Internet of Things technology (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323532184_Integration_of_an_automatic_agricultural_and_livestock_production_management_system_and_an_agriculture_and_food_traceability_system_based_on_the_Internet_of_Things_technology?_sg=uIwOs_z8eA9rOT6IpECeFpqfcp8U4E-93y9HJFXa05ge5DZEk1GMZiksggqi03RT-g_Tkig7QAjh4YEEuh7SCBWmmafWl3k1zKVB-aIw.YbPzppXQ5ouC52nUqD-DD8Kh5ajKOSMh6ttKnwdy3Y2tF_tmjGEu2g7erAbT96rjl-ZZK-p7vsWt0xxvQmC04A)
                  3. Inferring microbial interactions in thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic digestion of HOG waste (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318614546_Inferring_microbial_interactions_in_thermophilic_and_mesophilic_anaerobic_digestion_of_HOG_waste?_sg=uIwOs_z8eA9rOT6IpECeFpqfcp8U4E-93y9HJFXa05ge5DZEk1GMZiksggqi03RT-g_Tkig7QAjh4YEEuh7SCBWmmafWl3k1zKVB-aIw.YbPzppXQ5ouC52nUqD-DD8Kh5ajKOSMh6ttKnwdy3Y2tF_tmjGEu2g7erAbT96rjl-ZZK-p7vsWt0xxvQmC04A)


                    4. Public Page: https://www.bime.ntu.edu.tw/en/member/faculty/Chu-Yang-Chou-78754433


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                      • 30 min

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