Management
Yung-Peng Chang
Chairman of the Board, Director and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Chang serves as the Chairman and Co-CEO of the Company since February 2024. Dr. Chang is the co-founder of Taiwan Color Optics, Inc. (“TCO”) and has served as the President of TCO since 2009. At TCO, Dr. Chang leads TCO’s efforts in developing LiDAR solution, intelligent headlight, optical design, and 3D-sensing R&D projects. For such efforts, under Dr. Chang’s leadership, TCO received the 1st prize of the Asia Science Park Association in October of 2015. From 2001 to 2008, Dr. Chang was Section Manager in charge of optical research department of Everest Display Inc. (which merged into K Laser Group on June 30, 2020) (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2461), a pioneer in optical hologram origination, hologram embossing and the material deposition process, where Dr. Chang successfully developed the microstructure of LCD backlight modules for LCD TVs, the optical engine of 3-panel LCD projector, and optical interactive whiteboards. Dr. Chang holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Chung Hsing University of Taiwan. Dr. Chang is primary author or co-author of numerous scientific papers on LiDAR solution, intelligent headlight, optical design, and 3D-sensing in leading academic and industry journals such as Optics Express and journals of SPIE.
Alan Chih-Feng Wang
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Wang serves as the Co-CEO of the Company since February 2024. Mr. Wang is a co-founder and director of TCO. At TCO, Mr. Wang specializes in development of optical thin-film and LiDAR infrared coating technology. Before founding TCO, Mr. Wang headed the R&D department of Kinko Optical (Taipei Exchange: 6209) from 2001 to 2008, where he was in charge of the development of DWDM for optical communications and UVIR optical filter for projectors. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Wang served as a technical consultant to Calin Technology (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 4976), a provider of optical lenses, on optical thin-film coating technology. Mr. Wang holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Executive MBA from Feng Chai University of Taiwan.
Chun-Nien Liu
Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Liu serves as the Chief Technology Officer of the Company since February 2024. Dr. Liu has more than 10 years’ experience in optoelectronic components, chips and system integration technology and design. Dr. Liu’s primary research areas encompass fiber lasers and amplifiers, as well as design and integration of photoelectric systems, including silicon photonics, optical phased arrays, biomedical microscopes, LiDAR, and ADB smart headlights. Throughout the years, Dr. Liu has been honored with multiple prestigious awards, including the Postdoctoral Researcher Academic Publication Award in 2019, the Entrepreneurial Potential Award of the FITI Program in 2020, and three Future Tech Awards in 2020 and 2021. Furthermore, he was the recipient of the Young Scholar Innovative Research Award in 2021. Dr. Liu holds a Ph.D. in Optoelectronics from National Sun Yat-sen University of Taiwan. Dr. Liu also served as visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California San Diego from September to November of 2019. Dr. Liu is the co-author with the Company’s president Dr. Chang of numerous scientific papers on LiDAR solution, intelligent headlight, optical design, and 3D-sensing in leading academic and industry journals such as Optics Express and journals of SPIE.
Tina Hsiu-Chen Hsu
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Hsu serves as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company since February 2024. She has served as TCO’s Accounting Manager since joining TCO in 2009. Ms. Hsu has more than 20 years of experience in accounting and finance, having served as a manager in the Accounting and Financial Department in Cyntec Electronics, a leading provider of magnetic components, passive components, power modules, RF and optical modules and a subsidiary of Delta Electronics Group (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2308) from 1998 to 2009, where she helped to accomplish an initial public offering. Ms. Hsu holds a B.S. degree in Accountancy from National Kaohsiung University of Applied Science in Taiwan.