Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University
Director General, Taiwan Instrument Research Institute Email: yjy@ntu.edu.tw
Yao-Joe "YJ" YANG received his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT EECS). Also, he received his M.S. degree from UCLA and B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University (NTU) in mechanical engineering.
After his doctoral studies, Dr. Yang started as a junior faculty member at NTU. Currently he is a full professor, and holds the Distinguished Professorship of NTU. From 2011 to 2017, he served as the chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department of NTU. From 2017 to 2023, he served as the Director General of the Taiwan Instrument Research Institute (TIRI), which is one of the National Labs affiliated with the National Science and Technology Council (NSCT). Since 2022, he serves as the Program Director of the Automation Technology of NSCT. In addition, he serves as the chairman of the Taipei Chapter of IEEE IMS (Instrumentation and Measurement Society), and the chairman of ASME Taipei Section. He also serves as the board director of the Chinese Institute of Automation Engineering (CIAE), and the board director of the Chinese Metrology Society. Dr. Yang was elected as a Fellow of ASME and and a Fellow of CIAE.
Dr. Yang's research interests include microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), nanotechnology, high-precision micromachining, flexible sensing arrays, sensor network, parallel processing, and semiconductor devices and vacuum microelectronics modeling. He has been consulted by more than three U.S.-based companies and four Taiwan-based organizations. Dr. Yang is a senior member of IEEE. He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Research Award as well as Dr. Da-Yu Wu Memorial Award (Outstanding Young Researcher Award) of the National Science Council. He also received the NTU Outstanding Researcher Award.
楊燿州 博士 台灣大學機械系 特聘教授
Yao-Joe Yang, Sc.D. Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University
