Ching-Chou Wu has been a tenured distinguished professor in the Department of Bio-industrial Mechatronics Engineering (BIME) at National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) since 2024. He received his PhD from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan 2003. Then, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Tomokazu Matsue’s group at Tohoku University, Japan, from 2003 to 2005. Dr. Wu joined NCHU in 2005 as an assistant professor, was promoted to professor in 2014, and a distinguished professor in 2018. Dr. Wu was the Chair of BIME from August 2017 to July 2020, the President of the Association of Chemical Sensors in Taiwan (ACST) from 2018 to 2020, and the stirring committee of the Asia Conference of Chemical Sensors from 2018. He is a faculty member of the NCHU Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture and a stirring member of the Asian Conference of Chemical Sensors. Dr. Wu has more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and 21 patents and has received funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, the Ministry of Education, and cooperative industrial companies. He is an associate editor of Biomedical Microdevices (Springer), an editor of Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (Begell House), a guest editor of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI), and an editorial board member of Biosensors and Bioelectronics X (Elsevier). He had been a guest editor of Biosensors (MDPI).

1. Development of micro-electrochemical biosensors and their applications in cellular oxygen consumption rate or mitochondrial activity

• Miniaturized oxygen sensor for the estimation of cellular respiratory rate
• Miniaturized IrOx-pH sensor for the estimation of cellular acidification
• The applications in embryo quality detection and  GelMA-based 3D-cultured cells (國科會醫材專案計畫-胚胎品質檢測與3D培養下細胞呼吸率評估)

2. The effect of environmental parameters (temperature, pH, wastewater, and herbicide) on microalgae photosynthesis(淨零碳排團隊計畫)

• Estimation by oxygen production rate (OPR) and (OCR) (微藻光合作用與呼吸作用效率評估/微藻環境感測器)
• Microalgae encapsulation in alginate beads and image analysis (微藻粒珠包埋培養)
• Microfluidic control and object detection to select the dominant microalgae (AI物件檢測+微流體控制挑選優勢藻株)

3. Impedimetric bio-affinity sensors integrated with AC electrokinetics

• Immunosensing chip
• DNA biosensing chip
• AC electrokinetic control (DEP, ACEOF, biased ACEOF, ACET)
• Fish-borne bacteria detection (國科會水產養殖魚致病菌的快速檢測試片(電極介面、辨識分子固定、電化學檢測)開發)