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Member of the Taiwan Artificial Intelligence School Curriculum Consultation Committee

Term: July 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022

  • Lee-Feng Chien：Independent Director of Appier and Board Director of iKala.
  • Wei-Chao Chen：Chief Digital Officer & Senior Vice President at Inventec Corporation and the Chairman at Skywatch Innovation.
  • Hsuan-Tien Lin ：Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University and the Chief Data Scientist of Appier.
  • Yeong-Sung Lin：Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Information Management at National Taiwan University.
  • I-Chen Wu： Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Information Management at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and CEO, Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center at Academia Sinica.
Dr. Lee-Feng Chien

Dr. Lee-Feng Chien

Bio:
Dr. Lee-Feng Chien was the first employee of Google Taiwan, and under his leadership, Google Taiwan became the largest research and development base in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr. Chien graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University in 1991 and joined the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica in 1993, where he served as a researcher and deputy director. In 2002, he was appointed as a joint professor with the Department of Information Management at National Taiwan University, and in 2006, he joined Google as the managing director. He retired from Google in 2020 but continues to be actively involved in promoting the internationalization of Taiwan's startup ecosystem, serving as a board member for AI startups such as Appier and iKala.
Experience
  • 2020 - Independent Director of Appier and Board Member of iKala
  • 2016 - Member of the Executive Yuan Science and Technology Advisory Group
  • 2008-2020 - Managing Director of Google Taiwan
  • 2006-2008 - Director of Google Taiwan/Hong Kong Engineering Institute
  • 2003-2006 - Deputy Director of the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica
  • 2000-2006 - Joint Professor with the Department of Information Management at National Taiwan University
  • 2000-2006 - Technical Advisor at Microsoft Research Asia
  • 1993-2006 - Research Assistant, Associate Research Fellow, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica
  • 1991 - Ph.D. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University
Wei-Chao Chen:Chief Digital Officer & Senior Vice President

Wei-Chao Chen：Chief Digital Officer & Senior Vice President

Bio:
Wei-Chao Chen is the Chief Digital Officer and Senior Vice President of Inventec Corp., responsible for the development of products and technologies related to cloud-based video surveillance and IoT. He is also the founder and chairman of Skywatch Inc., which specializes in the same area. His research interests include GPU graphics hardware, computer graphics, computational photography, augmented reality, and computer vision. Dr. Chen graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University, as well as UNC-Chapel Hill in the United States. He has worked as a systems architect at NVIDIA in Silicon Valley, a senior researcher at Nokia Research Palo Alto, an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Information Management at National Taiwan University, and as the head of the AI research center and chief AI consultant at Inventec Corp.

CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K1p-8AMO-m9DEYdHXAL6yBgA8QknWoeG/view

Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin(林軒田)

Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin

Bio:
Prof. Hsuan-Tien Lin received a B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2001, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from California Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University as an assistant professor in 2008, and was promoted to an associate professor in 2012, and has been a professor since August 2017. Between 2016 and 2019, he worked as the Chief Data Scientist of Appier, a startup company that specializes in making AI easier in various domains, such as digital marketing and business intelligence. Currently, he keeps growing with Appier as its Chief Data Science Consultant. From the university, Prof. Lin received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2011, the Outstanding Mentoring Award in 2013, and the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He co-authored the introductory machine learning textbook Learning from Data and offered two popular Mandarin-teaching MOOCs Machine Learning Foundations and Machine Learning Techniques based on the textbook. His research interests include mathematical foundations of machine learning, studies on new learning problems, and improvements on learning algorithms. He received the 2012 K.-T. Li Young Researcher Award from the ACM Taipei Chapter, the 2013 D.-Y. Wu Memorial Award from National Science Council of Taiwan, and the 2017 Creative Young Scholar Award from Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship in Taiwan.

CV:https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~htlin/doc/cv.pdf

Distinguished Prof. Yeong-Sung Lin

Distinguished Prof. Yeong-Sung Lin

Current Positions:
Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Information Management, National Taiwan University
Education
  • Ph.D., USC
  • B.S., Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Experience
  • 1996/7 - now
    Professor, Dept. of Information Management, National Taiwan University
  • 1994/8 - 1996/7
    Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
  • 1991/6 - 1994/8
    Network Planning and Management Member of Technical Staff, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bell Communications Research, Bellcore)
Research Field
  • AI
  • Big Data Analysis
  • Cloud Computing
  • Information Security
  • Network Planning and Capacity (Performance) Management
  • Sensor Network
  • High-speed networks (including 5G, B5G, and low Earth orbit satellite communication systems)
  • Network optimization
  • Network performance evaluation
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Intelligent manufacturing
  • FinTech
  • Biometric technology
  • Content-based retrieval and filtering technology

CV:https://management.ntu.edu.tw/IM/faculty/teacher/sn/18

Prof. I-Chen Wu

Prof. I-Chen Wu

Current Positions
2006/8 - now:
Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University 2020/9 - now:
Research Fellow and Executive Director of AI Innovation Application Center, Information Technology Innovation Center, Academia Sinica (on loan from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
Education
1993/05: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University (Advised by Professor H.T. Kung) 1984/06: M.S. in Computer Science, National Taiwan University (Advised by Professor F.C. Lin) 1982/06: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Experience
  • 2020~now: Executive Director of AI Innovation Application Center and Research Fellow, Information
  • Technology Innovation Center, Academia Sinica
  • 2006~now: Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  • 2018~2021: Vice President, International Computer Games Association (ICGA)
  • 2019~2021: President, Taiwan Computer Games Association
  • 2015~2016: President, Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence
  • 2011~2016: Director, Institute of Multimedia Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
  • 1993~2006: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University

CV:https://cgilab.nctu.edu.tw/~icwu/