ChingYao Huang
Chairman
Asia-Pacific Accelerator Network(AAN)
Before joining NCTU in 2002, Dr. Huang was with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies where he was a project leader of 3.5G cellular system development. Dr. Huang was the recipient of "Bell Labs Team Award" in 2003, "Best Paper Award" from IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in 2004, and "Outstanding Achievement Award" from National Chiao Tung University in the years of 2007-2015. Besides Dr. Huang's academic achievement, Dr. Huang and his team were awarded the "Best Industry Contribution" from the Minister of Economic Affairs in 2013 due to the contribution in IPR management and innovation ecosystem. In 2013, Dr. Huang further established the first University Business Accelerator in Taiwan, called "Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy". With more than 50 universities participated, the center carries two national missions in both business acceleration for startups and IPR alliance. The center is UBI index (Sweden) ranked 7 global Incubator/accelerator in 2014 and 2015.