James Tu (塗百堅 ) - President

Mr. James Tu has more than 20 years experiences in both the aerospace and application software industries. He worked in system analysis and R&D for famous aerospace companies such as Rockwell International and Lockheed on satellites, Space Shuttle and Space Station. Later, he focused on application software development and support ranging from automatic meter reading technology, nuclear power-plant pipeline maintenance system and semiconductor CIM framework to computer network and system monitoring, database integration and unified communication system. Currently, he devotes himself to promoting an educational program that facilitates children’s independent and creative thinking as well as their problem solving skills.

James obtained his MSE degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and conducted his PhD research at the same school. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering. He later received a Software Programming Certificate from University of California, Santa Cruz.

James has very impressive community service records in the Taiwanese American community. From time to time, he is invited to attend radio talk show as a guest political analyzer to speak for Taiwan.

• Southeast Bay Taiwanese American Association, Northern California (SEBTA) – President (19
99)
• North America Taiwanese Engineers’ Association (NATEA) – Vice President (1999), President (2000) and Advisor (2001)
• Northern California Formosan Federation (NCFF), now Taiwanese American Federation Northern California (TAFNC) – President (2002)
• Northern California Taiwanese American Senior Evergreen College – Principal (2004)

C. Y. Chang, Ph.D.( 張謙益) - Vice President


C.Y. Chang (張謙益) received his B.S. from National Taiwan University and M.S. & Ph.D from Rice University (Houston, Texas), all in electrical engineering where he majored in information theory and image & signal processing. He had been a part-time faculty at the University of Houston at Clear Lake and the University of Texas at Dallas, respectively. C.Y. was instrumental in founding the Dallas Chapter of North America Taiwanese Engineers’ Association (NATEA-Dallas) in December, 2004 where he served as the Chapter’s first president in 2005. He also served as NATEA-Headquarters Vice President in 2007. Presently he is a NATEA-Dallas Advisor, as well as a Vice-President of WTSTA (Worldwide Taiwanese Science and Technology Association).

For the past 35 years until retirement, C.Y. had been working mostly in the US defense industry with the exception of a brief period in the oil company. During those years, he was primarily involved in the algorithms development and program management in the areas of statistical pattern recognition, automatic target detection, non-imaging armor classification, computer vision, electronic image stabilization, and image & signal processing for military applications, and in the areas of multi-spectral pattern recognition and digital signal processing and adaptive filtering applicable to both NASA’s remote sensing and oil industry’s exploration seismic data processing programs. He has presented/published numerous research papers in conferences as well as technical journals in the aforementioned areas. C.Y.’s professional careers were culminated as one of the recipients of Raytheon Corporation’s Excellence in Technology Award in 2002. He is currently a Life Senior Member of IEEE.

From June to July of 2006, C.Y. participated in the Elite Project (伯樂計劃), sponsored by Taiwan’s National Science Council (NSC). His primary consultation services were focused on examining the Taiwan government’s policies and implications from both military and commercial high-tech point of views where relevant defense industry technologies could be mutually leveraged upon. He has been sharing this unique experience with NATEA-Dallas members and bringing awareness to them many Taiwan’s high-tech accomplishments and recruiting efforts during the technical seminars occasions.

John Pang Yu, Ph.D. (余金榜) - President Emeritus

BIRTH PLACE: Hsinchu, Taiwan

EDUCATION: Hsinchu High School; National Taipei University of Technology; Kansas State University, USA (BSEE & MSEE); The University of Connecticut, USA (Ph.D. in EE)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 2004 to Present: Limited Partner for the Emerging Technologies Cooperative, Inc., Managing hi-tech business transaction, focusing on VoIP, Set-Top Box, triple play technologies, digital content and video conferencing, data communication, Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS), wire-line and wireless broadband access communications.
• 1985 to 2004: Vice President of Engineering & Chief Engineer managing new engineering departments at major corporations and start-ups in Silicon Valley such as, Electro Sound Corp., NEC Technology Research Center, Intel Corp. and most recently Lucent Technologies; designing and developing Core and Edge Network product lines, video / computer graphics products, first generation of TFT color notebook computers, computer graphics display monitors, computer telephony integration (CTI) voice, fax, data telecom product lines.
• 1975 to 1985: Senior MTS & Project Manager: Focusing on design and development of consumer electronics such as TV transmitters, home communications picture phones, videotext interactive terminals, laser video disc recording standards & magnetic systems at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
• Granted 10 (ten) US and corresponding foreign patents related to broadband wire-line and wireless home communications.
• Published numerous technical papers on Voice over IP (VoIP), video teleconferencing, digital signal processing, multimedia communications and triple play technologies.

COMMUNITY SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Initiated and founded the North America Taiwanese Engineers’ Association (NATEA) in 1991 to grow its membership from less than 100 to more than 2000 with 12 Regional Chapters across North America in 2009.
• Planned annual US Taiwan High-Tech Summit Forums in Taiwan since 2002, co-sponsored by NATEA, TAITA-SV, National Science Council (NSC), the Ministry of Economic Affairs, ITRI, III, NCTU, NCHU, and Taiwan Industrial Technology Association.
• Presented technology-related keynote speeches in Taiwan at US Taiwan Technology and Industry Summit Forum, Institute for Information Industry (I I I), Industry Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Southern Taiwan University of Technology, National Taipei University of Technology, National Chung Hsing University, National Taichung University, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, and many others.
• Participated in several key Taiwanese American community services and engineering professional organizations such as: Commissioner of Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission of Taiwan and Senior Adviser of National Applied Research Laboratory (NARL) in Taiwan.
• Promoted the Faculty and Student Exchange Programs between UC Berkeley and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.
• Founding President of Worldwide Taiwanese Science and Technology Association (WTSTA).
• Commissioner and Vice-Chair of Santa Clara County / Hsinchu Sister-County Commission.
• NATEA Adviser; Board member of IEEE-Engineering Management Society; Member of IEEE-Computer Society.