List of National Taiwan University people

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The list of National Taiwan University people includes alumni and prominent faculty and staff.

University chancellors

Tien, Chang-lin (田長霖): the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley

Henry T. Yang (楊祖佑): the 5th Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Academia

Benjamin Hsiao (BS, Chemical Engineering 1980) : Chief Research Officer and Vice-President for Research at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Larry Hsien Ping Lang (郎咸平): Chair Professor of Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ruey-Shiung Lin (林瑞雄): Professor Emeritus of Public Health, National Taiwan University

Jiun-Huei Proty Wu: physics professor and Deputy Vice President for International Affairs, National Taiwan University

Kwang-chih Chang (張光直): Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

Peter Chen (陳品山): originator of the Entity-Relationship Model

Leo Ou-fan Lee (李歐梵): Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University; Fellow of Academia Sinica

Russell Leong: Professor of English and Asian-American studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Li Ji: father of Chinese archeology

Lin Wenyue(林文月): prominent prose writer; translator of classical and modern Japanese literature; Professor of Chinese Literature, NTU

Pai Hsien-yung (白先勇): prominent novelist; Professor of Chinese Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara

George C. Tiao (刁錦寰): Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago

David Der-wei Wang(王德威): critic of contemporary Sinophone literature, Edward C. Henderson Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Harvard University; Fellow of Academia Sinica

Angela Yang: President of Chinese American Librarians Association from 1992-1993, multicultural and outreach services librarian

Yu Ying-shih (余英時): Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering

Ching-Li Chai (翟敬立): Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania

Chen-Yu Chi (齊震宇): Junior Fellow, Harvard University

Wu-Chung Hsiang (項武忠): Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University

Wu-Yi Hsiang (項武義): Professor of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Chun-Hway Hsueh: ISI high-cited researcher in materials science; Distinguished R&D Staff, Metals & Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jin Au Kong (孔金甌): Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lee Si-Chen (李嗣涔): semiconductor researcher; IEEE Fellow, 2002; Professor of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University; President of National Taiwan University (2005 - )

Yuan-Tseh Lee (李遠哲): Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1986; Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry, National Taiwan University

Chang-Shou Lin (林長壽): Director, Taida Institute of Mathematical Sciences (TIMS), Fellow of Academia Sinica

Tai-Ping Liu (劉太平): Director, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica

Ho-Kwang Mao (毛河光): Balzan Prize, 2005; Gregori Aminoff Prize, 2005; Roebling Medal, 2005; Staff, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Chiang-Chung Mei (梅強中): Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Teresa H. Meng(孟懷縈): Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; Founder of Atheros Communications, Inc.

Simon Min Sze (施敏): pioneer in MOSFET; IEEE J J Ebers Award, 1991

Yu-Chong Tai (戴聿昌): pioneer in microelectromechanical system (MEMS); Professor of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Kuan-Chong Ting : Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tsay Ting-kuei (蔡丁貴), Professor of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University since 1990

Chin-Lung Wang (王金龍): National Endowed Chair Professor and Professor of Mathematics, National Taiwan University

Weng I. Wang (王文一): Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Chi-Huey Wong (翁啟惠): Professor of Chemistry, the Scripps Research Institute; President of Academia Sinica (in Taiwan)

C.F. Jeff Wu (吳建福): Coca Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Engineering, USA

YAO, Andrew (姚期智): Turing Award 2000; Professor, Princeton University; Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing (2004 - )

Horng-Tzer Yau (姚鴻澤): MacArthur Fellowship, 2000; Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

Nai-Chang Yeh (葉乃裳): Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology

Life sciences

Chuan-Chiung Chang (張傳炯): co-discoverer of bungarotoxin; Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University

Ding-Shinn Chen, M.D. (陳定信): authority on hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma; Dean, NTU College of Medicine; Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA

Lan-Bo Chen (陳良博): Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Pei-Jer Chen, M.D. (陳培哲): authority on hepatitis D virus; Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar; Professor of Medicine, NTU

Wei-Jao Chen, M.D. (陳維昭): President, NTU, 1993–2005; pioneer in surgical separation of ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins

Yuan-Tsong Chen, M.D. (陳垣崇): inventor of Myozyme, the first EMEA- and U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment for Pompe disease (approved in 2006); Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica; former Chief and Professor, the Pediatrics Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University Medical Center

Yao-Tseng Chen, M.D.: Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

Yu-Ray Chen, M.D. (陳昱瑞): President, International Society of Craniofacial Surgery, 1999–2000

Shu Chien, M.D. (錢煦): University Professor, University of California; President, the American Physiological Society, 1990-1; President Elect, the Biomedical Engineering Society, USA, 2005-6

Tuan-Hua David Ho (賀端華): ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) highly cited researcher in plant and animal science; UNESCO Professorship, 2004; Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, 2003–2008, Currently a Professor in the Biology Department Washington University in St. Louis.

Fushih Pan, Ph. D.: Plastic Surgeon, Developer of the MIRA Procedure

Ru-Chih Chow Huang (黃周汝吉): American Women in Science, 1985; Professor of Biology, Johns Hopkins University

Tao-shih Hsieh (謝道時): Professor of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center

Su-Ming Hsu, M.D. (許世明): ISI highly cited researcher in clinical medicine (cited more than 10,000 times between 1981 and 1992); Professor of Pathology, NTU

Lily Y. Jan (葉公杼): Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco

Yuh Nung Jan (詹裕農): Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Professor of Molecular Physiology, University of California, San Francisco

Selina Chen-Kiang: Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

George Kuo, Co-discoverer of Hepatitis C

Michael M. C. Lai, M.D. (賴明詔): President, National Cheng Kung University, 2007–present; Vice President, Academia Sinica, 2003–2007; Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, 1990–2003

Chen-Yuan Lee, M.D. (李鎮源): co-discoverer of bungarotoxin; Redi Award, 1976; Former President, International Society on Toxinology

Tun-Hou Lee (李惇厚): Professor of Virology, Harvard School of Public Health

Ching-Hon Pui, M.D.: Chair, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; ISI highly cited researcher in clinical medicine

Vivian E. Shih, M.D.: Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Ming T. Tsuang, M.D. (莊明哲): University Professor, University of California; Director, Institute of Behavioral Genomics, University of California, San Diego; Director, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics

Ching-Chung Wang (王正中): Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco

James C. Wang (王倬): discoverer of topoisomerase; Chair (1983–1985) and Professor (1977–2005), Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Tzyy Choou Wu, M.D.: Professor of Pathology, Professor of Oncology, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University

Jang Yen Wu (吳政彥): ISI highly cited researcher in neuroscience; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Senior Schmidt Fellow, Department of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University

Fun-Sun Frank Yao, M.D.: Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Politics

Chang Chau-hsiung, M.D. (張昭雄): vice-chairman, People First Party, 2000-

Chang Po-ya (張博雅), M.P.H.: Minister of Health, R.O.C., 1979–1986

General Chen Chao-min, M.B.A. (陳肇敏): Commander-in-Chief, R.O.C. Air Force, 1998–2002; Deputy Defense Minister, R.O.C., 2002-

Chen Ding-nan (陳定南): Minister of Justice, R.O.C., 2000–2005

Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁): Mayor of Taipei, 1994–1998; President of R.O.C., 2000–2008

Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌): Chairperson of the New Power Party, Taiwan, 2015-

Chen, Sisy (陳文茜): famous talk show host in Taiwan

Frank Hsieh (謝長廷): Mayor of Kaohsiung, 1998–2005; Premier of R.O.C., 2005–2006

Lee Teng-hui (李登輝): President of R.O.C., 1988–2000

Lien Chan (連戰): Vice President of R.O.C., 1996–2000

Lin Yang-kang (林洋港): President, Judicial Yuan, R.O.C., 1987–1994

Lin Yi-hsiung (林義雄): chairman, Democratic Progressive Party, 1998–2000

Lu, Annette (呂秀蓮): Vice President of R.O.C., 2000–2008

Li Ao (李敖): A writer, social commentator, historian, independent scholar and politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九): President of R.O.C., 2008-

Peng Ming-min (彭明敏): former Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, NTU; political activist for Taiwan independence

Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌): Premier of R.O.C., 2006–2007

Shen Fu-hsiung, M.D. (沈富雄): Member, Legislative Yuan, R.O.C., 1992–2004; former Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle; former Director, Hemodialysis Unit, Seattle Veterans Administration Hospital

Wu Den-yih (吳敦義): Mayor of Kaohsiung, 1990–1998; Member, Legislative Yuan, 2002- ; Secretary-General of the KMT Central Committee, 2007-; Premier of R.O.C., 2009-

Chen Changwen: president of Red Cross Society of the Republic of China and the secretary of Straits Exchange Foundation.

Business

Felice Chen: Former Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking for UBS Investment Bank in Taipei

Wen Chi Chen (陳文琦): President and CEO of VIA Technologies

Robert Chiu: Managing Director, Head of Telecommunications, Media and Technology investment banking at Nomura

John Chou (周鴻成): Chief Actuary and Senior Vice President of Liberty National Life Insurance Co., the founding division of Torchmark Corporation

Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫): Former Chairman of the Koos Group of companies

T.J. Huang (黃宗仁): Founder and Managing Partner of AsiaVest Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in the Far East

Steven Hung: Chairman of Waterland Financial Holding Co., Ltd.

Min H. Kao (高民環): Co-founder of Garmin Corporation, the GPS manufacturer

Barry Lam: (林百里): Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide

Fred Pai: Chairman of Central Insurance Co. and brother of Wayne Pai, founder and former chairman of Polaris Financial Group

John Shen: Executive of Globalization Services, IBM China Development Laboratory

Rick Tsai (蔡力行): President and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Chang Yi Wang: Chairperson and CEO of the United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) Group of companies.

Entertainment

Chen Kuangyi: (陳匡怡) actress and model

Wakin Chau (周華健): singer; majored in mathematics

Alec Su (蘇有朋): actor and singer; majored in mechanical engineering (did not graduate)

Tsai Lan-chin (蔡藍欽): singer and songwriter (1964–1987)(did not graduate)

William Wei (韋禮安): singer; majored in foreign languages

Wen Tzang Yi (溫尚翊): guitarist and band leader of Mayday (1994–1999)(did not graduate)

Smire Weng(翁滋蔓): TV show host and actress in Taiwan

References

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