Topic 1:
Prof. Jen-Yuan Chang (張禎元), ASME & RAeS Fellow
- Chair Professor and Sr. Vice President, National Formosa University, Taiwan
- Tsing Hua Chair Professor, Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
- Fellow of ASME, RAeS, CSME, RST, and STAM
Prof. Jen-Yuan (James) Chang is currently on secondment appointment as a Chair Professor and Sr. Vice President of National Formosa University (NFU), Yulin, Taiwan. He is also a Chair Professor in the Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University located in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Prior to his academic career (USA, New Zealand and Taiwan), Dr. Chang had worked at various posts on research, development, design and manufacturing of various servo-mechanical and robotics areas for high-end computer hard disk drives, the critical data storage devices for AI computation and information storage, with IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies located in San Jose, California (the Silicon Valley), USA. His technical specializations are in the areas of turbomachinery dynamics, vibrations, and controls, robotics, mechanics, design, and mechanical vibrations, dynamics, control, and mechatronics emphasizing on dynamics and control of continuous systems and precision machines. Dr. Chang is active in government sector including his service as a Program Officer for Taiwan’s national program on additive manufacturing, a Taiwan’s version similar to US’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, a Distinguished Research Fellow and a Technical Advisor for Industry and Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, and member of Taiwan’s UAV National Team representing National Formosa University in charge of Asia UAV AI Innovation Application R&D Center located in Chiayi, Taiwan. He is Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), USA, Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), UK, Taiwan’s Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME), Robotics Society of Taiwan (RST), and Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (STAM). Currently recognized as a NSTC Research Fellow, Dr. Chang received the Outstanding Research Award in 2019 and 2022 from Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council (aka NSTC, similar to NSF in US) and Distinguished Institution Award and Outstanding Contribution Award from ASME for his contributions in information storage and processing systems.
Topic 2: Development of the Semiconductor Material InGaAlN and Its Associated Innovations
Prof. Takashi Matsuoka (松岡隆志), IEEE Life Fellow
- Emeritus Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Specially Appointed Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of JSAP
- Life Member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), Life Member of IEICE, and Senior Member of JACG.
Dr. Takashi Matsuoka started his career at the Laboratories of NTT in 1978. He moved to Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University as a Professor in February 2005. He has been an Emeritus Professor, and a Specially Appointed Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center since April 2019.
The contributions of his research cover electronic materials and devices. It is worthy of special mention that in 1981 he succeeded in the first CW operation of InGaAsP DFB lasers used worldwide for optical communications systems. He also proposed the InGaAlN system in 1986 and successfully grew InGaN for blue light in 1988. Based on his results, blue LEDs have become commercially available. In 2002, he corrected the band-gap energy of InN from 2 eV to 0.8 eV. This result has expanded the application of nitride semiconductors from infrared to ultraviolet. He also noted the crystalline polarity and developed N-polar HEMT for 5G.
He has received the Best Paper Award at the 10th European Conference on Optical Communication, the President Award of NTT Corporation, the Fellow Award of The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), the Achievement Award of The Japanese Association for Crystal Growth (JACG), the Award for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Electronics Society Award of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Kahoku Cultural Award, the Compound Semiconductor Electronics Achievement Award of JSAP, the JSAP Paper Award, and the Life Fellow Award of IEEE.
He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and active in the Materials Research Society (MRS), a Life Member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), a Life Member of IEICE, a Fellow of JSAP, and a Senior Member of JACG.