Biography

Dr. Mau-Chung Frank Chang is currently the President of National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China. He is also the Wintek Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. Prior to joining UCLA in 1997, Dr. Chang was the Assistant Director and Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory at Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, California. Throughout his career, his research has primarily focused on the development of high-speed semiconductor devices and high frequency integrated circuits for radio, radar and imaging system-on-chip applications up to terahertz frequency regime.

He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors, an Academician of Academia Sinica of Taiwan, and a Fellow of IEEE. He was honored with the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 2006 for developing and commercializing GaAs HBT and BiFET power amplifiers for modern high efficiency and high linearity smart-phones throughout the past 2.5 decades. He has also received numerous awards including Rockwell's Leonardo Da Vinci Award (Engineer of the Year, 1992), Pan Wen Yuan Foundation Award (2008), CESASC Life-Time Achievement Award (2009), John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Engineers' Council (2014), IET’s J.J. Thomson Medal for Achievement in Electronics (2017), and IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Vladimir Karapetoff Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (2018).

He has founded and co-founded several companies in both US and Taiwan, including a Fabless RF-Chip Design House G-Plus (acquired by SST in 2004 and renamed as SST Communications), and a GaAs HBT Foundry GCTC (merged with Win Semiconductor and became the world’s largest GaAs HBT PA Foundry and went public in Taiwan’s Stock Exchange). He recently spun-off from his UCLA High-Speed Electronics Lab a high data rate (6Gbps) Near-Field-Communication Company (Keyssa and Kneron), invested by Intel Capital & ALP Venture Capitals. Kneron is the leading provider of edge AI solutions, providing software and hardware integrated AI solutions, including neural processing unit (NPU), a dedicated edge AI device processor, and a range of visual recognition software for customers worldwide

Dr. Chang has published more than 433 technical papers and 57 US patents in the area of high speed electronic devices and integrated circuits and systems. During his tenure with UCLA, he has graduated more than 49 Ph.D. students and 89 MS students.

Biography

徐清祥博士於2000年創立力旺電子並擔任總經理，訂定公司營運目標並帶領團隊共同努力，致力研發最創新、最易於普及的邏輯製程非揮發性記憶體技術。在徐清祥博士的領導下，力旺電子的技術團隊得以一再突破技術限制，榮獲多項國內外技術創新獎項，並成為全球最大的邏輯製程非揮發性記憶體矽智財廠商。徐清祥博士於2009年任命為力旺電子董事長。

徐清祥博士畢業於台灣清華大學電機系，赴美於伊利諾依大學香檳校區電機系深造，於1987年取得博士學位，並於同年加入美國紐約州IBM T. J.華生研究中心，擔任研究員。1992年徐清祥博士受母校清華大學之邀，回台擔任清大電機系副教授，四年後升任教授，同時間亦擔任自強中心及育成中心主任。徐清祥博士於1998年任命為清華大學電子所所長。

徐清祥博士在半導體研究領域有傑出貢獻，擁有超過200個半導體相關專利，發表超過120篇半導體學術論文。