Kang-Ping Lin obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1994 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Biomedical Physics. He is the Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of Technology Translation Center for Medical Device at Chung-Yuan Christian University (CYCU), Taiwan. He serves several positions including the President of Taiwanese Society of Molecular Imaging (2022~2025), the Editor-in-Chief of JMBE (2020~now), the Vice-President, the Chair of Awards Committee and Strategic Planning Committee in IFMBE (2022~2025), and one of Administrative Council members, the member of Rules Committee, and one of members of Congress Coordinating Committee in IUPESM (2022~2025). He earned awards including the 2016 Chinese Institute of Engineers: Outstanding Engineering Professors Award, the 2017 ACCE (USA) Antonio Hernandez International Clinical Engineering Award, and the 2019 TSBME Wei Han Biomedical Engineering Service Award. His research interests include handheld medical devices, physiological signal processing, and medical image processing. In addition to his research work, he has long been involved in continuing education and training programs in clinical engineering. 

Technology Translation Center for Medical Device at Chung Yuan Christian University (TTMD) was established on 1st January, 2011. The center, which is led by Prof. Kang-ping Lin, integrates research and development capacity from both industry and academia in the field of Medical Devices.
 

Mission:
To intergrade innovative medical device research, medical device product testing, medical device regulations and to foster talent in the academia and the industry.
To assist the domestic electronic information industry which are willing to devote to the medical device industry to develop high value-added medical electronic devices.
To upgrade innovative medical device research and development in the industry, academia and research center, which enable the industry to fully apply its intellectual property to create economic value.
 

Research areas:
1. Medical Device for Chinese Medicine
  - Chinese Medicine Pulse Diagnosis System
  - Automatic Tongue Diagnosis System
  - Constitution in Chinese Medicine Questionnaire
2. Cardiovascular and Peripheral Microcirculation Devices
  - Portable Electrocardiograph (ECG)
  - Automatic external defibrillator (AED)
  - Microcirculation
3. Industry and Academia Service Platform
  - Taiwan Accreditation Foundation (TAF)
  - Biomechanical Testing Lab(ISO/IEC 17025 )
  - Medical and Electronic Device Design & Development
  - Medical Device Regulations Consultation