National Taiwan University - Status and Alumni

Status and Alumni

See also: List of National Taiwan University people

National Taiwan University has produced many notable alumni. Ma Ying-jeou, the current President of the Republic of China as of 2012, as well as former presidents Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, are graduates from NTU. Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Yuan T. Lee received his BSc from the university. Over 40 NTU alumni were elected as members of US National Academy of Engineering or US National Academy of Science.

Other alumni include:

• Wen Chi Chen (陳文琦): President and CEO of VIA Technologies
• Chang Yi Wang: Chairperson and CEO of the United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) Group of companies.
• Vivian E. Shih, M.D.: Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• Felice Chen: Former Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking for UBS Investment Bank in Taipei
• Chen, Sisy (陳文茜): famous talk show host in Taiwan
• Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌): Premier of R.O.C., 2006–2007
• YAO, Andrew (姚期智): Turing Award 2000; Professor, Princeton University; Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing (2004 - )
• Robert Chiu: Managing Director, Head of Telecommunications, Media and Technology investment banking at Nomura
• John Chou (周鴻成): Chief Actuary and Senior Vice President of Liberty National Life Insurance Co., the founding division of Torchmark Corporation
• Simon Min Sze (施敏): pioneer in MOSFET; IEEE J J Ebers Award, 1991
• Yu-Chong Tai (戴聿昌): pioneer in microelectromechanical system (MEMS); Professor of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫): Former Chairman of the Koos Group of companies
• General Chen Chao-ming, M.B.A. (陳肇敏): Commander-in-Chief, R.O.C. Air Force, 1998–2002; Deputy Defense Minister, R.O.C., 2002-
• Chen-Yuan Lee, M.D. (李鎮源): co-discoverer of bungarotoxin; Redi Award, 1976; Former President, International Society on Toxinology
• Benjamin Hsiao (BS, Chemical Engineering 1980) : Chief Research Officer and Vice-President for Research at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• T.J. Huang (黃宗仁): Founder and Managing Partner of AsiaVest Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in the Far East
• Steven Hung: Chairman of Waterland Financial Holding Co., Ltd.
• Kwang-chih Chang (張光直): Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
• Min H. Kao (高民環): Co-founder of Garmin Corporation, the GPS manufacturer
• Barry Lam: (林百里): Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide
• Fred Pai: Chairman of Central Insurance Co. and brother of Wayne Pai, founder and former chairman of Polaris Financial Group
• Yuan-Tsong Chen, M.D. (陳垣崇): inventor of Myozyme, the first EMEA- and U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment for Pompe disease (approved in 2006); Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica; former Chief and Professor, the Pediatrics Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University Medical Center
• John Shen: Executive of Globalization Services, IBM China Development Laboratory
• Tun-Hou Lee (李惇厚): Professor of Virology, Harvard School of Public Health
• Lee Teng-hui (李登輝): President of R.O.C., 1988–2000
• Li Ao (李敖): A writer, social commentator, historian, independent scholar and politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
• Lien Chan (連戰): Vice President of R.O.C., 1996–2000
• Rick Tsai (蔡力行): President and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
• Peter Chen (陳品山): originator of the Entity-Relationship Model
• Alec Su (蘇有朋): actor and singer
• Wakin Chau (周華健): singer
• William Wei (韋禮安): singer