2024 - 2025 NATEA Headquarters Leadership

HQ President Emeritus & Executive Advisers

NATEA HQ Board Members

Regional Chapter Presidents

University Student Chapter Presidents

Yao-Hung Yang

NATEA HQ, President (2024-2025)

Engineering Professional with Can-Do spirit with prioritized multitasking, problem-solving and organizational skills. Excellent sense of urgency + Sense of ownership

– 17+ years Project/Program/Portfolio Management with solid 24 years on engineering

design & development background and extended Engineering Operations & Supply

chain experience.

– Demonstrated strong leadership in managing large, complex projects. Great interpersonal skill that brings talents from multiple disciplines and geographical (India, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, US East coast and Bay Area) together developed products from concept, prototype to production.

– Excelled in dynamic, fast paced working environment, manage cross-functional teams

– Solid new product R&D background in the semiconductor capital equipment &

Inkjet LCD color filter equipment development. Expertise in mechanical design of

complex vacuum, CVD, PECVD, Plasma Etch, ALD / RF plasma / UV Curing

systems and CMP/PVD/FEP/EPI reactors and critical components development

– Multi-lingual skill and extensive experience working with global / cross-functional

teams, Experienced Engineering Program Manager for multiple customers including

TSMC /Samsung/Intel and other major customers.

Professional Experience & Community Services:

– [Applied Materials] Senior Director of Engineering (AMAT-US, AMI-India & AMK-Korea) 2006 – present (Except 14′-17′)
– [Veeco Instrument] ALD PBG Director of Engineering & Program Management, 2014 – 2017
– [NATEA] Life-time member, 2004 – present, 2018 SV president, 2022-2023 HQ VP
– [OCAC] Taiwan’s Overseas Community Affairs Council, Associate Adviser, 2018 – present – [TCCSFBA] Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce San Francisco Bay Area, industrial advisor, 2020 – present

Community Services: [Stanford University] MSME, MSCE & EngD [National Taiwan Univeristy] Dual Bachelors in Civil Eng’g + Bio-Environmental Systems Engineering 26+ US and International patents Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/honyang/

Ya Tien Angela Chen, MS

NATEA HQ, Treasurer (2024-2025);  Thermo Fisher Scientific 

Ya Tien Angela Chen is a Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific.  Her research is focused on the development of Human Identification products and robotic platform migration.  Before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific, Angela was the scientist in Genomic Health to develop the Oncotype DX breast, colon and prostate cancer products and NGS products for early cancer detection