Chaokang Liao Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan

• Leading RD team with 20 members including divisions of Image Quality/ Depth Quality/Computer vision/ AI Engineering.
• Strategical department rearrangement improved the team efficiency about 30%.
• Representative as technical leader of 1.3MUSD international clean robot projects.
• Solved 2 key technical problems in the first month.
• Coordinated 4 standard camera programs including NPI projects and MP productscovering 3D camera, AI vision system, and standalone AI software applications.
• Established the role and responsibility among RD, quality, production, and programmanagement.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Co-founder and CEO of smart health startup.
• Startup a company to introduce technology to the long-term caring market.
• Planned and produced smart health devices for long-term care facilities to help improvethe caring quality of the elderly.
• Successfully achieved >1,500 pcs sales in Taiwan.
• Engaged 4 distributors (2 in Taiwan, 2 in Japan).
• Won the first prize of MOEA IDB from > 50 teams by solving

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Managed RD team with 60 members covering optics/ electronics/ mechanics/ algorithm/SoC/ application programs. Head of PM team to accomplish more than 10 programsincluding 3D camera system, AI vision system, and.
• Successfully engaged and coordinated 3+ international projects starting from scratchwith the SoW based on the intensive customer communications.
• Designed 3 hardware products for 3D camera and AI cameras as the system architect byconsidering the best performance and cost efficiency.
• Accomplished 10+ prototypes by coordinating RD core competencies, the introduction tothe trial run production line, and the mass production with ODM/OEM vendors.
• Discussed and built the role and responsibility among MKT, RD, QA, MP, and PM.
• Strategic plan with marketing for technical roadmap on 3D camera/ AI system byconsidering the customer need and the RD capability.

Taiwan

• Led and coordinated three teams with 20+ RD team members covering manufacturing,compliance, system architect/design (firmware, software, hardware) for the“design-on-demand” and the “manufacturing” projects.
• Won >6M Euro business from worldwide clients as the major technical representative.
• 2 years strategic planning for RD roadmap on imaging, IoT, and conformal structure.
• 10+ international projects with strong ability in customer interaction.
• Coordinated new technology research/development to manufacture.

Taiwan

• 8 patents and 4 accepted paper publications.
• Strategic planning for new generation product and team development direction.
• Led and completed four core technology projects with international team members fromprototyping (pre-EVT) to delivery (MP) with customer satisfaction.
• Wearable device system/component design/fabrication by managing of Asian andEuropean OEM/ODM companies for a world first tier cell phone supplier. (www.bbc.com)
• Technical representative for project discussion with companies in 5 European countries,and 4 Asian countries.
• Built the first algorithm for the lens free imaging (lens-free-microscopy)

Taiwan

• 2 successful cases of leading two teams with 7 members with professions includingsoftware, GUI, hardware, microprocessor, and FPGA for customer system prototyping.
• Designed the computer vision algorithm and IP (TSMC 65nm) and successfully licensedto worldwide customers.
• Designed optical lens, and system architecture for an international 5M Euro project.
• Imaging process algorithm development and implementation of the stereo vision and thelens free imaging.
• Cost/performance tradeoff for various applications/customer cases.
• RD representative as the customer contact window with excellent communication skills.

Taoyuan County, Taiwan

 Developed the MEMS testing/bonding machine for the new product. Achieved the determination of the best component design for product. Achieved the first mile stone of the component bonding process. Leaded a team to plan and to achieve the testing project for key components. Worked with a Germany vendor to establish a mass production bonding machine.

Taipei City, Taiwan

 Optimized the balance between power consumption to the sensitivity of infrared heart rate measurement device inside this wireless mouse. Studied and implemented the algorithm of pressure evaluation and emotion detection.  Worked with another engineer and produced the prototype of the first heart rate measuring mouse in the world.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

 11 international and 9 national papers in optical and biomedical fields.  Built up two laboratories (laser optics and ultrasound) .

Master'S Degree, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering