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Johnny Lin

NATEA Silicon Valley, President (2025)
NATEA Silicon Valley, Vice President (2024)

I have a passion to drive positive change.
I love it when people discover the beauty of Taiwan.

  • Business Management, TSMC
  • 14 years in the semiconductor capital equipment industry
  • 10 years of sales & operations leadership
  • MBA, University of California – Berkeley Haas School of Business
  • M.S., Material Science Engineering, Stanford University
  • B.S., Material Science Engineering, Columbia University
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Jeff Lee

NATEA Silicon Valley, Vice President (2025)
NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2024)

An engineer turned investor, focusing on corporate strategy and venture.

  • Investment manager, Global Lighting Technology
  • Senior embedded software Engineer, View
  • Prototype engineer, Soraa
  • President, Taiwanese Graduate Student Association, UC Irvine
  • M.S., Computer Science, UC Irvine
  • B.S., Biomechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University
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Justin Chiang

NATEA Silicon Valley, Vice President (2025)
NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2024)

An AI enthusiast and practitioner, I transitioned from a process engineering role in Taiwan to an NLP Data Scientist in the U.S, a path inspired by the transformative power of AI.

  • Senior NLP Data Scientist, American Express (2021 ~ present)
  • Process Engineer, Corning Inc. (2015 ~ 2017)
  • M.S., Computer Science, New York University
  • M.S., Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
  • Co-host 6 in-person tech meetup in NYC with NATEA in 2023
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Constance Liu

NATEA Silicon Valley, Secretary General (2024-2025)

Constance Liu is a strategic professional with expertise in product strategy, partner collaboration, and go-to-market execution. With experience across the U.S. and Taiwan, she brings a strong cross-cultural perspective and a hands-on, cross-functional approach. Constance holds an MBA from USC Marshall and actively supports the Taiwanese professional community through career events and mentorship.

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Iris Lin

NATEA Silicon Valley, Treasurer (2024-2025)
NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2023)

Project management professional with extensive experience in operational optimization and consumer electronics manufacturing processes. Skilled at connecting key stakeholders and fostering collaboration, happy and honored to serve as a bridge between Taiwanese professionals and the Bay Area community. 😊

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Ming-Yen Kao, Ph.D.

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

Ming-Yen is a senior hardware engineer at Nvidia Timing Methodology Team. He focuses on advanced modeling of cell-level timing library for static-timing analysis (STA). He received his Ph.D. degree in May 2022 from UC Berkeley EECS advised by Prof. Chenming Hu. He received his B.S. from NTUEE.

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Chih-Ling (Nicole) Chang

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

An emerging hardware product design engineer with a combination of business and engineering expertise, she is interested in user experience and social innovation. Her dedication also extends to mentoring and connecting international students those on a similar journey.

  • Display Mechanical Engineer, Apple
  • Product Launch Engineering Intern, Tesla
  • Junior Analyst, McKinsey & Company
  • A passionate basketball and handball player
  • Stanford Taiwanese Student Association, Vice President
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University
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Tiffany Wang

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

PhD candidate in applied physics at Stanford University. She has been interested in synthesizing novel complex oxide materials for micro-electromechanical devices, energy harvesting, and quantum computation hardware.

  • PhD Candidate in Applied Physics, Stanford University
  • President of Stanford Taiwanese Student Association (STSA)
  • Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Germany
  • Summa Cum Laude, Physics B.S & Computer Science B.A, Boston College
  • Member of Phi Beta Kappa Society
  • Undergraduate Research Fellow, Boston College
  • Dean’s Scholar, Boston College
  • President of Society of Physics Student, Boston College
  • Teaching Assistant, Web Development and Data Visualization, Boston College
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Bill Chung

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

  • Business Analyst MBA Intern (Apple Maps), Apple
  • MBA, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
  • B.S., Business Administration and Management, National Taiwan University
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Danny Chang

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

An aspiring bioengineer with a foundation in AI and biomedical innovation, he is passionate about translating research into real-world healthcare solutions. His strong dedication also extends to supporting NATEA in fostering the growth of the US-Taiwanese tech community.

  • Software V&V Engineer, Hologic Inc.
  • Machine Learning Research Engineer, UCSF Health
  • Founder and Machine Learning (NLP) Engineer, WackO_Ltd.
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering in Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
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Jenny Lin

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

Dr. Meng-Hsien (Jenny) Lin 林孟嫺 is an Associate Professor of Marketing and MBA Academic Director at California State University, Monterey Bay. She holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from Iowa State University, an MBA, an M.S. in Biomedical Sciences, and a B.S. in Veterinary Medicine. She is also a licensed veterinarian in Taiwan.
Dr. Lin’s research focuses on consumer decision-making and well-being, using methods like consumer neuroscience to study advertising effectiveness and the impact of social media. Recently, her work has explored sustainability, financial education, and AI in marketing.
She teaches courses such as Marketing Management, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Sustainable Global Business at undergraduate and MBA levels. Dr. Lin was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan in AY2022-2023.

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Kyle Lin

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

Kyle is a battery data analyst at an energy startup in Menlo Park CA, where he applies AI and machine learning to develop advanced battery management solutions for energy grids and EVs. 

He holds a master’s degree in materials science from Stanford University. Outside of work, Kyle enjoys reading, photography, traveling, and riding motorcycles.

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Mu-Ti Huang

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

Mu-Ti is an impact-driven product designer. He focuses on on creating intuitive and trustworthy AI-powered products that enhance social interactions. He holds a Master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s School of Information, integrating UX design with AI, information law, and policies.

  • Staff Product Designer, Primer.ai
  • Product Designer, Eightfold.ai
  • Multimedia Producer, Season Arts Children Education Institute
  • M.S., Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
  • B.S., Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design- The New School
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Ning Lu

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

Ning is a Product Strategy & Operations Manager at TikTok, where she shape the product roadmap, translate market needs into product strategy, and lead go-to-market efforts. With experience in product management, strategy, marketing, and monetization, she has worked at Microsoft, Amazon, and AI startups.

She enjoys learning from others and collaborating with people from diverse backgrounds to drive meaningful impact.

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Oscar Chen

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

Oscar is an account technologist at Applied Materials, specializing in the development of metal deposition production processes.

He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 2024, where his research focused on developing new materials for clean energy applications. Prior to that, he completed a double major in Chemistry and Materials Science, receiving his B.S. from National Taiwan University.

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Sherlock Chu

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

Sherlock is Passionate about leveraging data analytics and strategic planning to drive sustainable impact in finance and technology. Current MBA candidate at Berkeley Haas with a focus on Sustainable & Impact Finance.

  • Venture Partner, Sustainable & Impact Finance at Berkeley Haas
  • Technical Product Manager Intern, Amazon
  • Manager of Product Analytics, Alibaba Group
  • Senior Data Analyst, Xiaohongshu
  • Software Developer, Athentek Inc.
  • MBA, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
  • M.S., Optics & Photoelectronic, National Taiwan University
  • B.S., Physics, National Tsing Hua University
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Yi-Chieh Liu

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

  • Applied Scientist, Amazon Lab126
  • M.S., Computational Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University
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YiChin Lew

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

YiChin is a product management thought leader with a strong background in data science, AI, and strategy. Driven by a passion for innovation and deep, strategic thinking, she fosters business growth while keeping a loving, exploratory heart, embracing the world alongside her family.

  • Senior Manager, Product Management, Salesforce
  • Product Manager, Strategy & Analytics, Zendesk
  • MBA, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  • M.S., Information Technology Management, Tiburg University, Netherlands;
    Aix-Marseille University, France; University of Turku, Finland
  • B.S., Information Science, Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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Yvonne Yang

NATEA Silicon Valley, Board of Director (2025)

Yvonne is now a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager at NVIDIA. She has 20+ years of industry experience in development and validation of computing hardware, spanning from consumer devices to data centers. She is responsible for developing go-to-market data center hardware products and reference hardware design with NVIDIA’s latest data center silicon offering.

  • Ex-Intel, Director of Platform Hardware Engineering
  • B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University
  • B.M. (Bachelor of Music), Piano performance, University of Oregon