Yen-Chu Tu Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Formulated a comprehensive strategy and future roadmap for a >$180B market cap semiconductor company, addressing supply chain resistance, technology innovation, operational efficiency, and enterprise sustainability goals
• Composed growth strategy playbook for a >$30B market cap chemicals company, identifying near-term and adjacent revenue growth opportunities through market analysis, expert interviews, and technical product analysis
• Proposed 70+ strategic initiatives for a major semiconductor company, ranked by potential impact on business outcomes
• Constructed complex market model for >$2B dollar biopharmaceutical industry, including considerations for clinical trial vintage, trends in technology development, and changes in manufacturing and process efficiencies

New York, NY, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Constructed complex marketing model for >$2B dollar biopharmaceutical industry, including considerations for clinical trial vintage, trends in technology development, and changes in manufacturing and process efficiencies
• Projected industry landscape for the cell and gene therapy market through interviewing 10+ experts in biotechnology manufacturing and compiled insights to present to an international private equity client
• Created comprehensive database leveraging industry research, market reports, and financial reports for a prospective $350M+ private equity acquisition of an international biotechnology company
• Evaluated >8,000 companies through quantitative and qualitative analyses to create a target list of 10 potential acquisition targets for private equity firm to optimize synergies, future-proofness, innovation, and.
• Analyzed organizational structure norms for a business development proposal report for a top-5 biopharmaceutical company

Hsinchu, Taiwan, TW

• TSMC is the largest semiconductor foundry in the world, fabricating more than 50% of the world’s integrated circuits and chips. The New Technology Management department designs, pilots, and tests advanced chip.
• Managed interdepartmental cooperation between engineering teams to design, manufacture, and pass reliability testing for 4 AI chip products at 99.9% yield rate through >1500 thermal cycles for production and presented.
• Designed new structures integrating nanoscopic logic and memory devices to increase chip performance while decreasing costs
• Mentored 3 junior colleagues in electrical testing methodology and circuit design techniques to improve departmental testing reliability by 25% and circuit design efficiency by 20%
• Invented and filed patent for product architectures based on insights and trends in computational chip industry

Hsinchu, Taiwan, TW

• Engineer at the New Technology Management Department in Advanced Packaging and Testing Services working on novel packaging technology for 2.5D/3D heterogeneous integrated packaging.Specific responsibilities include.
• Pioneered novel process for fine pitch probing pin tip manufacturing, leveraging industry research to convince and manage cooperation between design, integration, and testing engineers to reduce testing probe pin pitch.
• Designed machine learning analysis tool and electrical testing procedure for early-stage diagnosis of product reliability conditions to reduce testing time by 50%, increase efficiency by 90%, and reduce testing cost by.

Hsinchu, Taiwan, TW

• Process Engineer at the Chemical Vapor Deposition Module in the Research-Development Fabrication department working on optimization and yield improvement of cutting-edge semiconductor technology (N16/N10/N7 processes)..
• Monitored process optimization and maintenance for six different chemical deposition process teams to increase tool availability to 95% from 90% for advanced chip manufacturing while maintaining quality of wafer.
• Launched a new data-optimized UV process to decrease process contamination by 87.5% and increase stability by 75%
• Optimized and qualified four new chemical vapor deposition tools to improve total production capacity by over 400 wafers per hour, equivalent to a >$2.4M per hour increase in value production capacity for the RD.

• Open House Education Foundation is an education platform in China and a collaborating partner with Stanford’s Pre-Collegiate Studies and International Institutes. Their aim is to build innovative education programs in.
• Initiated the design of a long-term strategy roadmap to increase customer lifetime for more than 200 elementary school students with international education experts from China, US, and Israel and presented strategy to.
• Led the development of an online English writing course partnered with a writing instructor from Stanford University and designed targeted information sessions to increase conversion rate from 5% to 15%

• Fang Fund Partners LLP is a private equity fund management company in China with $150M under management. Fang Fund Partners focuses on investments in early growth and growth companies in the big data, technology.
• Conducted technical due diligence to evaluate feasibility and KPI of 4 key technology products in potential investment
• Presented critical findings to senior partners, avoiding a $4.5M investment loss in a technology product that ultimately failed

• SpeakSense is a startup company dedicated to developing a product for communication between the deaf and hard of hearing and the hearing. SpeakSense is part of the Columbia Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubator.
• Founded technology startup developing a wearable communication device for the deaf & hard of hearing, selected to participate in Columbia University’s startup incubator from over 100 startup competitors
• Led market research and management through direct interaction with user group and expert to develop product that was a finalist at Columbia University’s Engineering Your Style Wearable Electronics Competition with over.
• Oversaw product development plan from conceptualization through launch with financially viable business strategy planning
• Invited to compete in the Lemelson-MIT Student Invention Prize by the Lemelson-MIT Program

Hsinchu, Taiwan, TW

• Summer modular operations internship at TSMC working in cooperation with Research & Development as well as Fabrications focusing on epitaxial growth of logic devices.
• Organized technical information to create an overview regarding epitaxial growth recipes.
• Designed optimization process using process such as 8D, fishbone diagrams, and 5 whys.
• Optimized epitaxial growth recipe using recipe overview to increase growth uniformity, decreasing center-to-edge thickness discrepancy by 66%.
• Eliminated ineffective recipe parameters by systematic split condition studies to determine effect trend of parameters on growth thickness.
• Analyzed recipe and hardware to propose novel methods based on published papers to further optimize the growth process and growth uniformity.

Champaign, IL, US

• Undergraduate Research working with Professor John Rogers on the purification of carbon nanotube arrays.
• Designed and tested process for mass purification of CNT for transistor fabrication.
• Optimized fabrication process to achieve purely semiconducting CNT arrays consistently.
• Supervised and mentored undergraduate students to conduct experiments and analyze data.
• Proposed novel research direction for experimentation after graduation from the University.
• Presented findings at the Undergraduate Research Symposium (University of Illinois, 2014).

Hsinchu, Taiwan, TW

• Summer Research Intern working on Chitosan based nanogel materials as drug delivery systems.
• Synthesized chitosan-based hydrogels for controlled drug delivery applications
• Examined the safety of materials used for drug delivery applications to bio-compatibility
• Proposed interdisciplinary research field to integrate electronic materials and biological materials

• Studied and analyzed market potentials for start-up companies to determine the value of possible investments with a focus in the Beverage Market in China.
• Advised on multimillion RMB valued startup for recreational tea beverage brand through market analysis and client engagement
• Engaged clients to identify client competitive advantages as well as evaluate product alignment with consumer demands
• Identify rising players in the China beverage market to advise on current market trends and future market opportunities
• Conducted due diligence and surveyed market growth and conditions for medical equipment market in China

• Analysis and Research at Matrix Partners China for investment opportunities with a focus on the emerging OLED Market in China.
• Engaged clients to gather technology details to ensure product feasibility and to compare with academic literature
• Evaluated risk related to immature technologies and analyzed market for OLED technology in China
• Analyzed and delivered summaries on scientific journals and technical knowledge as a reference with current market trends
• Advised with multimillion dollar investing opportunities on emerging OLED technology ventures as well as Biotech ventures

Champaign, IL, US

• Teaching Assistant for the Introduction to Engineering Course at the University of Illinois.
• Facilitated student thinking through motivation and enhancing group collaboration
• Conducted office/lab hours to guide students through different stages of projects
• Organized students through introduction to project management tools such as GANTT Charts

Champaign, IL, US

• Selected by Dean Umberto Ravaioli as a Summer Honor Research Intern to work on various research projects.
• Designed and Modeled a tire mounting frame for John Deere using Autodesk Inventor.
• Formulated algorithms for microscope super resolution imaging using Matlab.
• Assisted in reviewing and updating Nanohub, a hub of tools for nanotechnology research
• Participated in the 2011 Nanobiophotonics Summer School at the University of Illinois

Stanford, CA, US

• Worked with Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth Summer Institute and spoke with different International Schools in the Beijing Area on opportunities offered by EPGY.
• Organized presentations for international school in the Beijing Area on summer programs offered by EPGY.
• Presented programs offered by EPGY to students at the school with the director of the EPGY Summer Institute.

• Constructed and Repaired Computers, as well as worked as sales in retailing Computers and Electronic Parts.
• Interacted with the public directly by acting as a salesperson to attract customers and clients
• Constructed customized personal computers for customers
• Debugged and repaired computers for customers

Master Of Business Administration With Dean’S Honors (Mba)

Innovation & Entrepreneurship At Columbia Business School Program

Master Of Science (M.S.), Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science With Honors (B.S.), Material Science & Engineering

International Baccalaureate Diploma, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Psychology, English, Chinese