• Visiting Professor,Tokyo University Japan (2011/06--2011/09)
• Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University (Since 2010/08)
• Visiting Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Japan (2008/06--2008/09)
• Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University (2007/08-2010/07)
• Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University (2004/08--2007/07)
• Visiting Scholar, Nanotechnology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA (2002/09--2004/08)
• Postdoctoral Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (2002/09--2004/08)
• Visiting Scholar, Institute of Molecular Science, Japan (2001/05--2001/12)
• Research Associate, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (1999/10--2002/09)
• Postdoctoral fellow, National Center for High-Performance Computing(1999/04--1999/10) 

• Finite-element simulations (solid-fluid interfaces)
• Microfluidic bio-medical sensors (electrokinetic effects)
• De novo design of optomechanical materials (optical forces and torques)
• Thermodynamics of nano/micro-scale mechanical structures (nano/micro-machines)
• Molecular dynamics simulations with ab initio force fields (intermolecular forces)
• Development of energy extraction systems (wave energy resources)

• STAM Service Award (2016)
• NSC Project for Excellent Junior Research Investigators (2012-2014)
• NSC Ta-You Wu Memorial Award(2008) 

• Construction of Force Fields based on Coarse Grained Rigid Blob—Small Oscillation Model and its applications
  (Ministry of Science and Technology, 2015/08/01~2018/07/31, PI)
• First-principles molecular dynamics simulations.
  (National Science Council,2012/08/01~2015/07/31, PI) 

Journal Papers

• Y. C. Ho, Y. S. Wang and S. D. Chao*, 2017:Molecular dynamics simulations of fluid cyclopropane with MP2/CBS-fitted intermolecular interaction potentials.J. Chem. Phys., 147, 064507/9.
• Y. D. Lin, Y. S. Wang and S. D. Chao*, 2017:Comparative studies of density functionals in modelling hydrogen bonding energetics of acrylamide dimers.Coupled Systems Mechanics, 6, 369-376 
•  Z. Y. Zeng, Y. S. Wang and S. D. Chao*, 2017/8  Hydrogen bonded dimers of small alkyl substituted amides: Structures, energetics, and spectral analyses based on density functional theory calculations. Comp. Theo. Chem., 1113, 1-7. 
• Y. H. Chen and S. D. Chao*, 2017/3:Kinetic energy partition method applied to ground state helium-like atoms.J. Chem. Phys., 146, 124120/7.
• Y. H. Chen and S. D. Chao*, 2017: The kinetic energy partition method applied to quantum eigenvalue problems with many harmonic-oscillator potentials.  J. Math. Chem., 55, 1322-1341.
• Y. S. Wang, K. L. Shen and S. D. Chao*, 2017:A density functional theory study of double proton transfer reactions in formamide, formamide-formic acid and formic acid dimers.  Chin. J. Phys. (Taipei), 55, 719-728.
• S. D. Chao*, 2017/3: Einstein's Sigh: Hidden Symmetry in Einstein's Derivation of the Lorentz Transformation. Euro. J. Phys., 38, 025601/11. 
• Y. S. Wang, Y. D. Lin and S. D. Chao*, 2016/12: Hydrogen bonding structures and energetics of acrylamide isomers, tautomers and dimers: An ab initio study and spectral analysis.   J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 63, 968-976. [Cover picture DOI: 10.1002/jccs.201681201]
• S. D. Chao*, 2016/9:Lorentz transformations from intrinsic SymmetriesSymmetry, 8, 94/6. 
• Y. H. Chen and S. D. Chao*, 2016:A split kinetic energy solution scheme applied to various delta potentials in quantum mechanical systems.  Coupled Systems Mechanics, 6, 17-28 (2017) [ merged from Multiscale Multiphysics Mechanics, 1, 189-200 (2016) ]
•  A. H.-T. Li and S. D. Chao*, 2016:  A Refined Intermolecular Interaction Potential for Methane: Spectral Analysis and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 63, 282-289. 
• Y. S. Wang, C. C. Yin, and S. D. Chao*, 2014/10:Intermolecular interactions of trifluorohalomethanes with Lewis bases in the gas phase: An ab initiostudy. J. Chem. Phys. 141, 134308/9.
•  Y.-H. Huang, J.-S. Chang*, S. D. Chao, K.-C. Wu, L.-S. Huang, 2014/9: Improving the Binding Efficiency of QCM Biosensors by Applying the Electrothermal Effect. Biomicrofluidics, 8, 054116/13.
• H. Mineo, S. D. Chao*, 2014/11:Kinetic Energy Partition Method for Competing Modes. J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 61, 1205-1210.
• Y. D. Chen, A. H.-T. Li, Y. S. Wang and S. D. Chao*, 2013/12:Molecular dynamics simulations of liquid water structure and diffusivity.Chin. J. Phys. (Taipei), 51, 1218-1229.
• C. C. Yin, A. H.-T. Li and S. D. Chao*, 2013/11: Liquid chloroform structure from computer simulation with a full ab initio intermolecular interaction potential. J. Chem. Phys. 139, 194501/7.
•  Q. Wang, Y. A. Dyakov, D. Wu, D. D. Zhang, M. X. Jin, F. C. Liu, H. Liu, Z. Hu, D. J. Ding*, H. Mineo, Y. Teranishi, S. D. Chao, S. H. Lin, O. K. Kosheleva, A. M. Mebel*, 2013/10:Ionization/dissociation processes of methyl-substituted derivates of cyclopentanone in intense femtosecond laser field.
     Chem. Phys. Lett.586, 21-28.  
• H. Mineo, S. D. Chao*, T. Kato , K. Yamanouchi, 2013/10:
     Breakdown of Born-Oppenheimer Approximation as a Physical Mechanism for Ultrafast Hydrogen Migrations in Strong Laser Driven Molecules.
     J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 60, 1207-1211.

• USA Patent 9303617 B2 (April 2016 – Sept 2034) “WAVE ENERGY GATHERING AND ENHANCING DEVICE UTILIZING LINEARIZED SHALLOW WATER WAVE THEORY” Sheng-Der CHAO, Shuo-Feng CHIU, Yao-Hung HUANG, Chun-Chieh WANG, Ssu-Che WANG, Chin-Chou CHU

My Website:http://msds.iam.ntu.edu.tw/