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Transdisciplinary-Transnational-Transcultural

ASIA UNIVERSITY

TAICHUNG, TAIWANJune 8-13, 2014

HONORINGDr. BASARAB NICOLESCU


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SPONSORED BY Asia Univers ity, Taichung, Taiwan The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced

Studies (TheATLAS)

CO-SPONSORED BY Academy of Transdisciplinary Studies (ATS) and Mechani-

cal Engineering Department, Texas Tech University

Ministry of Education, Taiwan

International Center for Transdisciplinary Research &

Studies (CIRET), France

ASIA UNIVERSITY

TAICHUNG, TAIWAN

June 8- 13, 2014

2014 TheATLAS T3 International Conference will be held atAsia University (AU).Asia University is a newly eshtablishedand well regarded private university located in TaichungCounty, Taiwan. It is recognized in Taiwan for its renownedresearch and teaching excellence in Health Care, computerscience, and management. Asia University was founded atthe beginning of the 21st century. Due to its carefully-planneddevelopment, incessant progress, and innovative break-throughs, the young university has become well-recognizedin numerous aspects in Taiwan and the other parts of the

world.

FOCUS OF ANNUAL MEETINGThe T3 International Conference program will consist ofinvited and selected papers emphasizing transdisciplinary,transnational and transcultural global problems. Plenarysessions and keynote panels will be presented by prominentspeakers.

Educational programs face many difculties because of therapid change of technology in todays environment. During thelast decade, the number of complex problems facing engineers

has exploded, and the technical knowledge and understandingin science and engineering required to address and mitigatethese problems is rapidly evolving. The world is becomingincreasingly interconnected as new opportunities and highlycomplex problems connect the world in ways we are onlybeginning to understand. When we do not solve these problemscorrectly and in a timely manner, they rapidly become crises.Problems, such as energy shortages, pollution, transportation,the environment, natural disasters, safety, health, hunger andthe global water crisis, threaten the very existence of the worldas we know it today. None of these complex problems can beunderstood from the sole perspective of a traditional discipline.

During this conference, multicultural researchers, practitioners,and educators will share their experiences and thoughtsconcerning the impact diverse cultural backgrounds have oneducation. More specically:

global higher education revolution --- how world universitysystems can collaborate more efciently,

transnationalization through information technology andexportation of education as a commodity,

the potential for educational programs based on thetransdisciplinary methodology and methods.

transdisciplinary research approaches for complex globalissues.

How to teach students innovation and collaboration

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Honorary Conference Chairman

Conference Chairman

Program Chairman

Program Vice-Chairmen

James SmithTexas Tech UniversityLubbock, Texas, USA

Atila ErtasTexas Tech University

Texas, USA

Derrick TateXian Jiaotong

Liverpool University

Suzhou, China

Anthony Y. H. LiaoAsia UniversityTaichung, Taiwan

David C.L. LiuAcademia Sinica, Taiwan

skills, educating them broadly and preparing them for anincreasingly transdisciplinary, collaborative, and globaljob market.

Transdisciplinary education and preparation for the lengthof our life.

new methodology in engineering education that isfocused on teaching students transdisciplinary skillsthereby allowing them to become creative and innovativeengineers.

Chalenges to shift from disciplinary thinking to

transdisciplinary thinking.

The Science,

Applications, and

Transdisciplinary Education


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on advisory boards at schools throughout the country, spoketo student groups, worked for curricular innovation, spon-sored leadership conferences, and supported innovative fac-

ulty research through the familys RGK Foundation.

Dr. Kozmetsky was a co-founder and former Executive VicePresident of Teledyne, Inc.the rst major technology con-glomerate in the US with more than 100 companies. At TheUniversity of Texas at Austin, where Dr. Kozmetsky was deanfor sixteen years, he pioneered in educational technologyand education about technology, revolutionizing the curricu-lum and the manner in which it was taught. His vision, hisenergized drive, his ability to call on the resources of majorcorporations throughout America, his concept of educatingstudents by incorporating computers and technology in theclassroom, and his far-reaching motivational leadership en-

abled him to lift the College and Graduate School of Businessinto the top rank in the nation. More than twenty thousandstudents graduated under his deanship. He also participatedin the founding of the Graduate School of Industrial Admin -

istration at Carnegie Mellon University, and was a foundingboard member of the ATLAS.

In 1977, Dr. George Kozmetsky (1917-2003) founded theIC Institute at The University of Texas at Austin and beganhis long march of helping to make Austin the 4th technopolisin the US (the other three being Boston, Silicon Valley, andNorth Carolinas research triangle) in half the time, i.e. about15 years.

With his special capability to connect the dots, he was the

key architect to facilitate a coordinated state, city, and aca-

demia drive in achieving this dream which was realized inthe early 1990s. Along the way, he created the Austin Tech-nology Incubator at The University of Texas at Austin, whichcombines economic development and business education;and the Texas Capital Network, which promotes innovativenancing for new ventures. His contributions have resultedin employment for tens of thousands of Americans and bil -lions of dollars of exports. He has been intimately involvedin facilitating technology transfer from the public, federal,and university sector, into private enterprise. Dr. Kozmetskyhas counseled, nurtured, and developed more than a hun-dred companies; he has helped to launch them, served on

their boards, assisted in identifying key personnel and nichemarkets, and on occasion helped nance them. His accom-plishments helped to bolster our nation's competitive positionin world markets. Dr. Kozmetsky was awarded the NationalMedal of Technology in 1993 as an acknowledgement of hisexceptional contributions in technology and education.

Mrs. Ronya Kozmetsky spent her life as a champion of chil -dren, women's issues and opportunities. She was instrumen-tal in the establishment and success of several organizations both non-prot and for prot including SafePlace women'sshelter and the First Women's Bank of California, a pioneer-ing institution to provide women banking services includingaccess to credit to enable them to start their own business.Additionally, she is a Co-Founder of Leadership Texas, Lead-ership California, and Leadership America a network of ac-complished women, dedicated to advancing the leadershiprole women play in impacting business, social issues andpublic policy. Ronya was also involved in many organizationsincluding: the Center for Child Protection, The Austin Proj -ect, Covenant House, the Austin Symphony and SymphonySquare, and the CEDEN Family Resource Center. She wasa Visiting Committee Member at the School of Social Work atthe University of Washington, Advisory Committee Memberof the Women's Resource Center in Waco, Member of theGovernor's Task Force for Equal Opportunity in Employment

for Women and Minorities, and on the Board of Directors ofthe Texas Foundation for Higher Education. She also servedon the City of Austin Child Care Council and the Texas StateTreasurer's Asset Management Advisory Committee.

GEORGE AND RONYA KOZMETSKY

MEMORIAL MEDAL AWARD

In 2011, The George & Ronya Kozmetsky (G&R K) Memo-rial lectures at The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learningand Advanced Studies (TheATLAS) have been establishedto honor the memory of their shared passion for innovation,service, and global prosperity.

The George and Ronya Kozmetsky Memorial Medal Awardwas established in 2011 as a special honor to the distin -

guished lecturer of the G&R KMemorial lecture.

George & Ronya Kozmetskywere partners in life, whoshared a passion for serviceto society through innova-tion and inspiring young

men and women to face thefuture with condence andto embrace leadership posi-tions in business and soci-ety. As an example of theirpartnership, they co-au-thored a popular book Mak-ing It Together: A SurvivalManual for the ExecutiveFamily. They also served

GEORGE AND RONYA KOZMETSKY

MEMORIAL LECTURES

His written works number more than 1,000 items, some ofwhich have appeared in English. In 1976 Mei-Ya Publish-ing Company in Taipei came out with the rst edition of hiscollected papers under the title The Experience of DynamicEconomic Growth on Taiwan (1959-1975) by Mei-Ya Publish-ers. A second publication of collected papers The EconomicTransformation of Taiwan (1976-1988), has published byShepheard-Walwyn Ltd. of the United Kingdom later in Oc-tober 1988. After retirement in 1990, he received the FirstCynthia and George Mitchell International Award in Biotech-nology in Houston, Texas, USA. Li holds distinguished Honor-ary Citizen of the State of Arizona, USA (1987) and Distin-guished Honorary Citizen of the State of Texas, USA (1990).He is an honorary member of the ATLAS and the recipient ofthe The ATLAS-Academy Gold Medal of Honor award.

In 2012, The Kwoh-Ting Li (KTL) Memorial lectures at TheAcademy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Stud-ies (TheATLAS) have been established to honor the memoryof Kwoh-Ting Li .

KWOH-TING LI

MEMORIAL LECTURES

K.T, Li was a Chinese economist andpolitician best known as the "Father ofTaiwan's Economic Miracle" for his workin transforming Taiwan's economy froman agrarian-based system into one of theworld's leading producers of informationand telecommunications technology. Hehad founded Hsinchu Science Park. In

recognition of Lis contributions to theindustrialization ofhis country, he was awarded the RamonMagsaysay Award by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Founda-tion of the Philippines in August 1968 for government service.The Award was generally considered an Asian equivalentof the Nobel Prize. In July 1969, Li was offered the post ofMinister of Finance in a cabinet reshufe, which he acceptedwith some reluctance because of his greater interest in in -dustrial development. Nonetheless, Li carried out his dutiesas Finance Minister with remarkable success and dedication.Upon assuming his new post, Li immediately organized asmall team with legal advisors and started to search for waysto modernize the scal system. He developed several innova-

tions which improved the nations scal system tremendously.

KWOH-TING LI

MEMORIAL MEDAL AWARD

The Kwoh-Ting Li Memorial Medal Award was established in2012 as a special honor to the distinguished lecturer of the

Kwoh-Ting LiMemorial lecture.


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WELCOME RECEPTION

5:30-7:30 pm, Sunday, June 8, 2014

Splendor Hotel

Participants and their partners are invited to attend the wel-

come reception which will take place in the Splendor Hotel onSunday, 8 June from 5:30 - 7:00 pm. Participants and theirpartners should book in advance in order to allow for properorganisation of this event (see registration form).

CONFERENCE

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dr. Basarab Nicolescu

8:00 am- 8:30 am, Monday, June 9

Room: A101

KWOH-TING LI

MEMORIAL LECTURE

Dr. Jin-Fu Chang8:30am - 9:00 am, Monday, June 9

Room:A101

Dr. Jin-Fu Chang

President

Yuan Ze University,

Board Chairman, Institute forInformation Industry

Jin-Fu Chang was born in 1948 in Taiwan. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan Univer-sity (1970) and Ph. D. in E lectrical Engineering and ComputerSciences from the University of California at Berkeley (1977).

In his past, he had held teaching and research positions atthe National Taiwan University, National Central University,and National Chi Nan University in Taiwan and the NavalPostgraduate School at Monterey, California, USA.

He also has held a number of administrative posts in Taiwanincluding Department Head of Electrical Engineering, Nation-al Taiwan University; Director of the Ofce of Science andTechnology Advisory Ofce, Ministry of Education; Dean ofAcademic Affairs, National Central University; Deputy Minis-ter of the National Science Council; President of the NationalChi Nan University; Minister of the Executive Yuan (Cabinet)of the Government of Taiwan, Board Chairman of IndustrialTechnology Research Institute (ITRI), and Governor of Tai -wan Province.

He is presently President of Yuan-Ze University and BoardChairman of Institute for Information Industry (III).

His recent research interest is wireless communications,particularly wireless mobile communications under very highmobility.

Dr. Basarab NicolescuMember of the

Romanian Academy,

President, International

Center for Transdisciplinary

Research and Studies (CIRET)

France

Transdisciplinary Bridges between

Science, Culture, Spirituality, and Society

Theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la RechercheScientique (CNRS), Paris, France. Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Member of theRomanian Academy. Professor Extraordinary at the Schoolof Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.Founding member of ISSR. President-Founder of the Interna-tional Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CI-RET), a non-prot organization (165 members from 26 coun-tries), which has a web site at : http://ciret-transdisciplinarity.org/index.php. Founder and Director of the TransdisciplinaritySeries, Rocher Editions, Monaco, of the Romanians in ParisSeries, Oxus Editions, Paris and of the Science and Reli-

gion Series, Curtea Veche, Bucharest (in collaboration withMagda Stavinschi). A specialist in the theory of elementaryparticles, Basarab Nicolescu is the author of 130 articles inleading international scientic journals, has made numerouscontributions to science anthologies and participated in sev-eral dozen French radio and foreign multimedia documenta -ries on science. Basarab Nicolescu is a major advocate ofthe transdisciplinary reconciliation between Science and theHumanities. He published many articles on the role of sci -ence in the contemporary culture in journals in USA, France,Romania, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina and Japan.His books include : From Modernity to Cosmodernity - Sci-ence, Culture, and Spirituality, State University of New York

(SUNY) Press, New York, 2014, Manifesto of Transdiscipli-narity, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York,2002; Nous, la particule et le monde, Rocher, Monaco, 2002(2nd edition) ; Science, Meaning and Evolution - The Cos-

mology of Jacob Boehme, Parabola Books, New York, 1991.He recently edited Transdisciplinarity -Theory and Practice,Hampton Press, Cresskill, New Jersey, 2008. A complete bio-bibliography of Dr. Basarab Nicolescu can be found on thepage: http://basarab-nicolescu.fr/.


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Dr. John K. C. LiuPresident and

Executive Director of

Building & Planning Research

FoundationNational Taiwan University, NTU

Taiwan

PLENARY TALK-3

Dr. John K. C. Liu11:30 am - 12:00 pm, Monday, June 9

Room: A101

Cluster. She was also the Principal Investigator and Direc -tor of the universitys NIH-funded Center for InterdisciplinaryHealth Disparities Research. She directed the universitysMaternal and Child Health training Program from 1992-1998and was Principal Investigator on an NIMH-funded communi-ty-based study of rural and urban womens health and mentalhealth from 1997-2001. She was Co-Principal Investigatorand Core Leader of the Health Disparities and Communi-ties Core of the CDC-funded Chicago Center of Excellencein Health Promotion Economic from 2004-2007. Dr. Gehlertspublications focus on social inuences on health, especiallythe health of vulnerable populations. She currently is workingon the inuences of neighborhood and community violenceand unsafe housing on psychosocial functioning among Af-rican-American women newly diagnosed with breast cancer,with an eye toward how these factors get under the skin toaffect gene expression and tumorigenesis. She has a specialinterest in the biology of womens behavior.

Dr. Gehlert Is a member of the Board of Scientic Counselorsof the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH,which is a federal appointment. She is Co-Chair of the Popu-lation Health Advisory Committee of the Ofce of Behavioraland Social Science Research at NIH. She is a chartered

member of NIHs Community-Level Health Promotion Scien-tic Review Panel and a member of the scientic review pan-el for Oncology Social Work at the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Gehlert is a Fellow in the American Association of SocialWork and Social Welfare. She is Past President of the Soci-ety for Social Work and Research and serves on the editorialboards of Health & Social Work, Social Work Research, So-cial Service Review, Research in Social Work Practice, andOxford Bibiliographies Online (Social Work).

was founding editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowl -edge and Data Engineering and served as editor in chief ofIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He holds twoundergraduate degrees in Physics from India. He obtained twograduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Universityof California at Berkeley, and two graduate degrees in AppliedMathematics and Computer Sciences from Harvard.

PLENARY TALK-2

Dr. Sarah Gehlert11:00 am- 11:30 am, Monday, June 9

Room: A101Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D.

E. Desmond Lee Professor of

Racial and Ethnic Diversity

The George Warren Brown

School of Social Work &

Department of Surgery, School ofMedicine, Washington University

Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D. is the E. Desmond Lee Professor ofRacial and Ethnic Diversity at the Brown School and in theDepartment of Surgery of the School of Medicine. She is ascholar in Washington Universitys Institute of Public Healthand serves on its Faculty Advisory Committee. Dr. Gehlert isthe Co-Program Leader of the Prevention and Control Pro-gram of the Alvin J. Site man Cancer Center, Co-Directorof the Transdisciplinary Center on Energetics and Cancer(TREC), and Training Program Director of the Program forthe Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD). Dr. Gehlertserves on the Executive Committee of the universitys Insti-tute for Clinical and Translational Science (a CTSA) and theCo-Chair of the Center for Community-Engaged Research.

Dr. Gehlert joined the Brown School in 2009 from the Univer-sity of Chicago where she was the Helen Ross Professor inthe School of Social Service Administration (SSA), the Insti-tute for Mind and Biology, and the Department of ComparativeHuman development. While at the School of Social Service

Administration, Dr. Gehlert served as the Deputy Dean forResearch. She was the Associate Director of the Universityof Chicagos NIH-funded Institute for Translational Medicine(a CTSA) and co-chaired its Community Translation Science

Measuring Progress in Establishing

Transdisciplinary Ties to Foster the Flow of

Scientic Discovery

PLENARY TALK-1Dr. C. V. Ramamoorthy

10:30 am- 11:00 am, Monday, June 9

Room: A101

Professor C.V. Ramamoorthy

University of CaliforniaBerkeley, CA

Dr. Ramamoorthys distinguished career tracks back to the1960s. In 1961, while working as a scientist for Honeywell,Ramamoorthy developed the entire microcode to handlenstruction sequencing and control for the H290, Honeywellsrst transistorized system. The H290 was a general-purpose,stored-program digital computer designed for process moni-toring and control. In the late 1960s, Ramamoorthy joinedthe University of Texas, Austin, as a professor of electricalengineering and computer science, later becoming chair ofthe computer science department. At UC Berkeley, where hejoined the faculty in 1972, Ramamoorthy is an emeritus pro-fessor of Electrical Engineering and computer science. Mostrecently, his research investigations have focused on serviceindustries, functions, features, and control and the relation-ships between software and service engineering. IEEE Societyhas honored Ramamoorthys achievements with the Taylor L.Booth Education Award in 1989, the Richard E. Merwin Dis-tinguished Service Award in 1993, Golden Core recognition in1966, and Tsutomu Kanai Award in 2000. He also received theIEEE Centennial Medal and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.He has been an IEEE Fellow since 1978 and is a Fellow ofthe Society for Design and Process Science, from which hereceived the R.T. Yeh Distinguished Achievement Award in1997. A longtime Computer Society volunteer, Ramamoorthy

Virtual Transdisciplinary Space

PLENARY SESSION - I

The Essence of

Transdisciplinarity

10:30 am- 12:00 pm, Monday, June 9

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Dr. John K.C. Liu is the President and Executive Director ofBuilding and planning research Foundation at National Tai-wan University. Dr. Liu attended the Rhode Island School ofDesign from 1963-1965, and received a BS from the CooperUnion in New York in 1968. he received M.S. in architecture,from University of Washington, Seattle, 1969; and Ph.D. inarchitecture from Architecture Institute, University of Califor-nia, Berkeley, 1980.

Dr. Lius current research interests are in the sustainable de-velopment and environment planning, ecological design andplanning, participative design method and theory, communitydesign and planning, historical space renovation architecturedesign.

Dr. Liu had teaching and research positions at the NationalTaiwan University, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Uni-versity of California, Berkeley, Chung Yuan Christian Univer-sity, Taiwan, and Pennsylvania State University.

Dr.Lius contributions to sustainable development and envi-ronment planning have been recognized by numerous hon-

ors and awards. The honors and awards include: 16th TaipeiCulture Award; Taiwan Architects Association Annual Awards,First Prize, I-lan County Performing Arts Center; CaliforniaAsian American Association of Engineers award for designexcellence; State of California Affordable Housing Award;U.S. National Science Foundation Public Service ScienceResidency award; Progressive Architecture Awards Citationin Applied Research.

Participatory Design Thinking :A TD perspective

Dr. Ted ChangVice President and

Chief Technology Ofcier

Quanta Computer Inc.

CONFERENCE LUNCHEON

SPEAKER

Dr. Ted Chang

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, Monday, June 9

Room: L011

Education as Service

Dr. Ted Chang is Vice President and Chief Technology Ofcer(CTO) of Quanta Computer Inc. He oversees corporate tech-nology strategy, advanced product development and globalpartnership. Along with his role as CTO, he also serves as thepresident of Quanta Research Institute (QRI) for advancedresearch, innovation and new business incubation.

Starting in 2004, Dr. Chang has initated and served as theQuanta program director of the T-Party Project, a 10-year re-search project for future computing and communication be-tween Quanta and MITs Computer Science and Articial Lab(CSAIL).

Dr. Chang is a board director of Epoch Foundation, QuantaResearch Cambridge, Inc. and Digimax, Inc., the best 3Danimation lm winner of both the 2008 Tokyo Anime and the2010 LA Movie Festival.Dr. Chang had been the executive assistant to the CEO andChairman of Quanta on his strategic planning effort for tenyears. During the same period of time, he also led the plan -ning ofce and the corporate IP team, as well as incubatedseveral new business units, new spin-offs and research labsin Quanta.

Over the past ten years, Dr. Chang and the QRI team havereceived recognition globally, including the best technologymanagement award from CSMOT in 2006, a regional win -ner award from European Satellite Navigation Competition in2008 and the best innovation enterprise award from MOEAin both 2003 and 2010, among others. Dr. Chang's past proj-ects, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and the QRI researchmodel, were published as business cases by Harvard Busi-ness School.

Dr. Chang holds B.S. (88), M.S. (92) and Ph.D. (96) degrees,all from the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, NationalCheng-Kung University. Dr. Changs research now focuses

on innovation management, user experience design and ser-vice engineering over cloud computing.

KEYNOTE PANEL - I

Leadership in the 21st Century

1:30 am - 3:00 pm, Monday, June 9

Room: A101

KEYNOTE PANEL - IDISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

He became the M. Russell Wehr Chair Professor of Physicsof Drexel University. During his tenure at Drexel University, healso held appointments as Director of Theoretical Physics ofthe United States National Science Foundation, visiting pro-fessor of Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagenand United Kingdom Daresbury Laboratory. Feng was a con-sultant for three National Laboratories in the United States,Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Brookhaven and UKs DaresburyLaboratory.

From 1995-1998, Feng assumed the position as technicaladvisor to the Vice Chairperson of the United States Con-gressional Armed Services Committee, the honorable CurtWeldon. He was responsible for affairs in central Europe andAsia. From 1998-2000, he became the Vice President of Sci-ence Applications International Corporation (SAIC.) His port-folio included affairs in the four States in northeast UnitedStates: New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.SAIC is a Fortune 500 international corporation. Fengs otheractivities include: Special advisor to Korean American Sci-ence and Technology Network, a member of the ComputerScience/Engineering Evaluation Task Force of the Universityof South Carolina, a member of the US Department of Educa-tion Field Initiated Studies Technology Panel, and a memberof the National Defense Industrial Association Science andEngineering Technology Executive Committee.

From 2001-2007, Feng assumed the position as Vice Presi-dent for Research and Economic Development of the Uni-versity of Texas at Dallas (UTD.) During his tenure at UTD,research expenditure increased three-fold, from $14 million in2001 to nearly $50 million in 2006. Likewise, the intellectualstrengths of UTD also signicantly enhanced. He personallyrecruited two Nobel laureates (the late-Alan G. MacDiarmid,chemistry laureate in 2000 and Russell Hulse, physics laure-ate in 1993), the former European Space Agency director andthe entire nanotechnology team from Honeywell R&D divisionin Morristown, New Jersey. He also secured a $1 Million en -dowed James Von Ehr chair of science and technology whichwas held by the late-Alan MacDiarmid.

He also initiated a consortium of seven universities in Texasknown as the Strategic Partnership for Research in Nano-technology (SPRING) and followed through with a $41.5

Dr. Da Hsuan Feng

Senior Vice President of

Global Strategy, Development,

and Evaluation

National Tsing Hua University

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million earmark funded, located $1.5 million and $1 millionearmark funds respectively for Sickle Cell and Texas borderdisease tracking studies, funded a nano-at-the-border pro-gram to accelerate the research infrastructures of two Texasborder universities. He also cultivated industrial collaborativerelations, such as the Oracle Spatial Data Center.

In 2007, Feng was one of the founding members of the pow-erful Advisory Board of the Britton Chance Center for Bio-medical Photonics of Chinas Huazhong University of Sci -ence and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei Province. In 2009, in

recognition of his contribution to the development of scienceand technology of the province of Hubei, Feng was awardedthe Chime-Bell Award.

In 1996, for (his) outstanding contributions to the understand-ing of nuclear structure physics, particularly for the applica -tions of the coherent states to physics and nuclear physics,Feng received the accolade Fellow of the American Physi-cal Society. Feng has published over 180 refereed papers innuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, quantum optics andmathematical physics. He was the editor of twenty books onconference proceedings, and presented numerous invitedtalks in International Conferences. Feng has directed six doc-

toral students, six postdoctoral fellows and numerous under-

graduate students. He had also organized more than thirtyinternational conferences.

Dr. Raymond T. Yeh

TheATLAS

Honorary Board member

Raymond Yeh taught at several universities for more than20 years and helped two Computer Science departments totop ten national rankings as chairman of department. He wasalso the CDC distinguished chair Professor at the Universityof Minnesota. He holds honorary professorship at ve univer-sities. Dr. Yeh is the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transac-tions on Software Engineering and was on the editorial boardof various journals. He also founded the Technical Commit-tee on Software Engineering and International Conferenceon Software Engineering (ICSE) within the IEEE ComputerSociety.

Dr. Yeh co-founded two successful software companies andtwo professional societies. He has been a consultant to manynations including United Nations, United States, China, Ja-pan, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, and works with execu -

Block is a Founder and a Managing Partner of LiTricity, a

shareholder and Board member of USCL and the Co-Chair ofthe Advanced Technology Policy Committee of the NationalEnergy Marketers Association. Mr. Block has extensive expe-rience in the computer software, communication, energy andentertainment industries including pioneering roles in com-mercial and pay television and cellular telephone operatingcompanies. He has also contributed signicantly to the cre -ation and development of entertainment and communicationtechnologies used worldwide.

Block is widely known for his pioneering work in communica-tions, information and management technologies. He is theinventor and patent owner of more than 150 issued US andInternational patents, including patents relating to: EnterpriseManagement Systems, Information Labeling, Signal Control,Terrestrial and Satellite Distribution Systems, Real-Time Sub-scriber Billing Systems, Pay-Per-View, Parental Control andEnglish Language Education. Block has multiple patent appli-cations pending, including patents relating to interoperabilityof non-compatible radios, power metering and solar energysystems. Blocks inventions are licensed to most of the majorconsumer electronics manufacturers and have inuenced en-tertainment, sports, and information and education servicesworldwide.

Bob Block

Founder and the First Chairman

of the United States Sports

Academy and

Founder and Managing

Partner of LiTricity

KEYNOTE PANEL - IIDISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE PANEL - II

Wellbeing Technologies ofTaiwan: A TD Perspective

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Monday June 9

Room: A101

Dr. James, Jhing-fa Wang

President

Tajen University, Pingtung, Tawan

Chair Professor, National ChengKung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Prof. Jhing-Fa Wang is currently the President in Tajen Uni-versity, Chair & Distinguished Professor in the Departmentof Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University(NCKU). He got his bachelor and master degree from NCKUin Taiwan and Ph. D. from Stevens Institute of TechnologyUSA in 1973, 1979 and 1983 respectively. He is the formalchair of IEEE Tainan Section in 2005-2009, the Coordinatorof Section/Chapter, IEEE Region 10 in 2011-2012 & the In -dustry Liaison-Coordinater of IEEE Region 10 in 2009-2011.He was elected as IEEE Fellow in 1999 for his contributionon:Hardware and Software Co-design on Speech SignalProcessing, He was also the general Chair of ISCAS 2009.

He received Outstanding Research Awards and OutstandingResearcher Award from National Science Council in 1990,1995, 1997, and 2006 respectively. He also received Out-standing Industrial Awards from ACER and Institute of Infor-mation Industry and the Outstanding Professor Award fromChinese Engineer Association, Taiwan in 1991 and 1996 re-spectively. He also received the culture service award fromMinistry of Education, Taiwan in 2008, Distinguished ScholarAward of KT Li from NCKU in 2009 & IEEE Tainan SectionBest Service Award in 2011.

Prof. Wang was also invited to give the Keynote Speechesin PACLIC 12 in Singapore, 1998, UWN 2005 in Taipei, Wir-lessCom 2005 in Hawaii, IIH-MSP2006 in Pasadena, USA,ISM2007 in Taichung, PCM 2008 in Tainan, 2011 ICAST in

tives of many leading edge global companies as well as withfounders of start-up companies. He has published 10 techni-cal books and coauthored two business books.

Dr. Yeh is an IEEE Centennial Medal laureate, and a recipientof the Pioneer in Information Technology Award from the gov-ernment of Taiwan, among others. He is a fellow of Instituteof Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Society forDesign and Process Science (SDPS), and a senior researchfellow at IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

CONFERENCE LUNCH

Every day, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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Dr. Daih-Huang Kuo

Vice President

Tajen University, Pingtung,

Tawan

Dalian, China, 2011 ICSPCC in Xian, China & Keer2012 inPenghu, Taiwan respectively. He also served as an associ -ate editor on IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and IEEETransactions on VLSI System and Editor in Chief on Inter-national Journal of Chinese Engineering from 1995 to 2000.

Prof. Wangs research area is mainly on multimedia signalprocessing including speech signal processing, image pro-cessing, and VLSI system design. Concerning about the pub-lication, he has published about one hundred & forty journalpapers on IEEE, SIAM, IEICE, IEE and about three hundreds

international conference papers since 1983.

Prof. Wang recently has explored the research on OrangeTechnology. Orange Technology refers to a newly evolvedinterdisciplinary research area for integration and innovationof health, happiness, and care technologies. The objective ofOrange Technology is to bring more health, happiness andwarming care to the society.

Prof. Daih-huang Kuo is currently the Vice President in TajenUniversity, Professor in the Department of Pharmacy. He ob-tained his bachelor, master and Ph.D.degree from ChineseMedical University in Taiwan in 1986, 1988 and 1996. He re-ceived Outstanding Research Awards from Tajen Universityin 2011 and 2012 respectively. He also received OutstandingAwards from Ministry of Education R.O.C. in 2012 and 2013 .

Prof. Kuos research area was mainly on cadiovasculareldespecially in coronary artery. His current research is fo-cused on functional food, pharmacology of traditional Chinesemedicine, biological activity screening and safety assess-ment. Recently he developed the functional food in protectionof artry and anti-oxidant for anti-aging. Concerning about thepublication, he has published over thirty journal papers in 5years and about eighty conference papers since 1996.

He held various works over twenty years, and led the schoolto perform quite a number of important programs, especial-ly in teaching and research collaboration. He was a project

leader or co-moderator in various research projects includingThe Research and Development of Tropical Plants EssentialOil Related Products. It was a technology project from theMinistry of Economic Affairs in 2008-2011 (NT$ 21 million).

The continous Project is Development of Industrial Technol-ogy on Functional Food and Relative Products of EssentialOil from Tropical Plants in 2012-2015 (NT$15 million).

Dr. Shyhnan Liou

Institute for Creative Industries

DesignNational Cheng Kung University,

Tainan, Taiwan

Dr. Shyhnan Liou is currently an associate professor in theInstitute of Creative Industries Design, National Cheng KungUniversity (NCKU). He got his bachelor, master degree andPh. D. from department of Psychology in National TaiwanUniversity in 1987, 1989 and 1999 respectively. He is alsothe consultant of the Center of Service System Technologyin Industry Technology Research Institute (ITRI). He was avisiting scholar at Institute of Social Research and Depart-

ment of Psychology at University of Michigan. He also wasthe CEO of the Reserch Center of Creativity, Innovation, andEntreneurship at NCKU. He have served as consultant formany rsearch & development institutes include: Biomedi-cal Technology Research & Development Institute in ITRI(2011), Metal Industries Research & Development Cen-ter(2007, 2011), Information Center for Industry Economicsat ITRI(2003-2007), and Development Center of Biotechnol-ogy(208, 2010). He was conference program chair of interna-tional conference of culture & creativity in 2010, 2011, 2013.He received Outstanding Phd dessertation award from NTUin 1989. Research Awards from National Chung Cheng Uni -versity (CCU) in 2005. Excellent Teacher Award from CCU in

2009. After he joined NCKU in 1999, he received New Re -seacher scholarship from NCKU in 2010, and Best Englishteaching materials from NCKU in 2011.

Dr. Lious research area is mainly on culture effect on creativ-ity processing and team innovation, organizational innovationin R&D institutes, and transdisciplinary collaboration in inte-grative research. He have published two books on creativ-ity and decision maling, and about fty journal papers, bookchapters and international conference papers since 1999. Dr.Liou recently has join a international project on culture andlife style with Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore.He also join the research project on the smart living tech-

nology ( 1999-2011) as well as Orange Technology (2010- ).Orange Technology refers to a newly emerging interdisciplin-ary research on the integration and innovation of health, hap-piness, and care technologies, which led by the chair prof.

Wang Jhing-fa at NCKU. The objective of Orange Technologyis to bring more health, happiness and warming care to thesociety.

Dr. Chun-Chia Kung

National Cheng Kung University,

Tainan, Taiwan

Prof. Kung graduated from the department of cognitive, in -guistic, and psychological sciences at Brown University. Afterbeing a postdoctorial ressearh associate in the department ofpsychology and the Princeton neuroscience institute, Princ-eton University, he joined the NCKU psychology departmentsince 2008 fall. Dr. Kungs research interests include faceand object recognition, functional neuroimaging (aka. fMRI)methodology, and issues on fundamental vision. Recently,along with the collaboration with faculties in other depart -

ments, Dr. Kung has also embarked on topics in neuroeco-nomics, neuropolitics, and neuroscience of happiness andsubjective well-being.

Dr. Stephen J. H. Yang

DirectorDepartment of Information and

Technology Education,

Ministry of EducationTaiwan

Dr. Stephen J.H. Yang is the Director of Department of In -formation and Technology Education, Ministry of Education,Taiwan; he is also the Distinguished Professor of Computer

CONFERENCE DINNER

Dr. Stephen J. H. Yang6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Monday, June 9

Room:Splendor II, 13F

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COFFEE BREAKS

Monday 9:30 am-10:00 am

Other days

10:00 am-10:30 am; 3:00 pm- 3:30 pm

KEYNOTE PANEL - III

The Importance ofTD Education in Higher Education

8:30 am- 10:00 am, Tuesday, June 10

Room: A101

KEYNOTE PANEL - III

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Dr. Jeffrey J. P. Tsai

President

Asia University

Taichung, Taiwan

Jeffrey J.P. Tsai received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sci-ence from the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Heis the President of Asia University, Taiwan. He was a Profes-sor of Computer Science and the Director of the DistributedReal-Time Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University ofIllinois, Chicago, an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University, aVisiting Professor at Stanford University, a Senior Research

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Fellow of IC2 at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Visit-ing Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.

His current research interests include bioinformatics, ubiq-uitous computing, services computing, intrusion detection,knowledge-based software engineering, formal modelingand verication, distributed real-time systems, and intelli-gent agents. His research has been supported by NSF, NSC,DARPA, USAF Rome Laboratory, Department of Defense,Army Research Laboratory, Motorola, Fujitsu, and Gtech.Tsai authored Knowledge-Based Software Development for

Real-Time Distributed Systems (World Scientic, 1993), Dis-tributed Real-Time Systems (Wiley, 1996), CompositionalVerication of Concurrent and Real-Time Systems (Springer,2002), Security Modeling and Analysis of Mobile Agent Sys-tems (Imperial College Press, 2006), Intrusion Detection: AMachine Learning Approach (Imperial College Press, 2010),and coedited Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Real-Time Systems (IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995), Ma -chine Learning Applications in Software Engineering (WSP,2005), Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (Springer,2006), Machine Learning in Cyber Trust: Security, Privavcy,Reliability (Springer, 2009) . From 2000 to 2003, he chairedthe IEEE/CS Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing

and served on the steering committee of the IEEE Trans-actions on Multimedia. From 1994 to 1999, he was an As -sociate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge andData Engineering and he is currently an Associate Editor ofthe IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Tsai servedas the Conference Co-Chair of the 16th IEEE InternationalSymposium on Software Reliability Engineering, the 9th IEEEInternational Symposium on Multimedia, the 1st IEEE Inter-national Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, andTrustworthy Computing, and the 3rd IFIP International Con -ference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing.

He is currently the CoEditor-in-Chief of the International Jour-nal on Articial Intelligence Tools and Book Series on HealthInformatics. Tsai has served on the IEEE DistinguishedSpeaker program, DARPA ISAT working group, and on thereview panels for NSF and NIH. He received an Engineer-ing Foundation Research Award from the IEEE and the En-gineering Foundation Society, a University Scholar Awardfrom the University of Illinois Foundation, an IEEE TechnicalAchievement Award and an IEEE Meritorious Service Awardfrom the IEEE Computer Society. He is a Fellow of the AAAS,the IEEE , and the SDPS.

Dr. Wen-Tsuen Chen

Distinguished Research Fellow,

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program Director, National

Program for Intelligent Electronics

Dr. Wen-Tsuen Chen received his M.Sc. degree (1973) andPh.D. degree (1976) in electrical engineering and computersciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has joinedthe National Tsing Hua University since 1976. He has servedas Department Chairman and founding Dean of College ofElectrical Engineering & Computer Science. Dr. Chen has alsoserved as Director of the Science & Technology Advisory Ofce,Ministry of Education, Taiwan. From 2006 to 2010, he was thePresident of National Tsing Hua University. Since March 2012,he has joined Academia Sinica as a Distinguished Research

Fellow of the Institute of Information Science.

Dr. Chen has served as consultant and advisor in various levelsof Taiwan government and industrial research organizationsincluding Ministry of Economic Affairs, Institute for InformationIndustry, and Industrial Technology Research Institute. FromJuly 2006 for 4 years, he was a science & technology advisorto Premier, Executive Yuan of Taiwan. Starting in January2011, he is the Program Director of the National Program forIntelligent Electronics of the National Science Council, aimingat developing advanced and innovative industrial technologiesfor bio-medical, green, automotive, and ICT electronics andtheir applications.

Dr. Chens early research work was on software engineering.He pioneered the design of computer networks and parallelsystems in early 1980s. His current research interests includeintelligent sensing and applications, mobile computing, andsocial networks. He has received numerous awards for hisachievements in software engineering, computer network-ing and parallel processing, including Outstanding ResearchAwards of the National Science Council, Academic Awardand National Chair of the Ministry of Education, and Techni-cal Achievement Award and Taylor L. Booth Education Awardof the IEEE Computer Society. He is an IEEE Fellow and aFellow of the Chinese Society for Management of Technology.

Intelligent Sensing for Better Life andBetter Environment

Science & Information Engineering, National Central Univer-sity, Taiwan. Dr. Yang received his PhD degree in ElectricalEngineering & Computer Science from the University of Il -linois at Chicago in 1995. Dr. Yang has published over 80journal papers, and received the 2010 outstanding researchaward from National Science Council, Taiwan. His researchinterests include creative learning, 3D virtual worlds, App soft-ware, and cloud services. Dr. Yang is very active in academicservices. He is currently the Editors-in-Chief of the Interna -tional Journal of Knowledge Management & E-Learning, andthe Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systemsand Service-Oriented Engineering. Dr. Yang also served asthe Program Co-Chair of APTEL 2011, ICCE 2010, TELearn2009, ICCE 2009, IEEE SUTC2008, ICCE 2008, IEEEISM2008, SDPS 2008, IEEE W2ME2007, IEEE CAUL2006,and IEEE MSE2003.


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Dr. Juan M. Sanchez

Vice President for Research

The University of

Texas at Austin, TX

Dr. Yunus A. engel

DeanFaculty of Engineering

Adnan Menderes University (ADU)

Aydin, Turkey

Crisis in Higher Ed: What TD EducationNeeds to Fix

Yunus engel is the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering atAdnan Menderes University ADU in Aydin, Turkey, and Pro-fessor Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Hereceived his Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 fromNorth Carolina State University in USA. Before joining ADU in2012, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical En-gineering at Yildiz Technical University YTU and as Advisor to

President at Scientic and Technological Research CouncilTUBITAK. Prior to returning Turkey, he served as a facultymember at the University of Nevada, Reno UNR for 18 yearsand as the director of the Industrial Assessment Center atUNR for several years. He also served as the advisor to theMinistry of Energy and Natural Resources and the Ministryof National Education in Turkey on energy efciency, energypolicies, and education reform.

Professor engel is the author or coauthor of the widely ad-opted textbooks Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach,Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences, Heat and MassTransfer: Fundamentals and Applications, Fluid Mechanics:Fundamentals and Applications, Introduction to Thermody-namics and Heat Transfer, and Differential Equations for Sci-entists and Engineers all published by McGraw-Hill. Some ofhis textbooks have been translated into Chinese, Japanese,

Recent Trends in Engineering Education:Inter-TD Perspective

Korean, Thai, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, Greek,and French.

He is the recipient of several outstanding teacher awards,and he has received the ASEE Meriam/Wiley DistinguishedAuthor Award twice. He is a registered Professional Engineerin the State of Nevada.

KEYNOTE PANEL - IV

Society-Humanity-Science (SHS)Program : TD Education in Taiwan

10:30 am- 12:00 pm, Tuesday, June 10

Room: A101

KEYNOTE PANEL - IV


Dr. Jwu-Ting Chen

Professor

Department of Chemistry,

National Taiwan University,

Taipei,Taiwan

Dr. Jwu-Ting Chen is the full Professor of Department ofChemistry, NTU since 1991. He is also the founder and theDirector of the Center for the Advancement of Science Edu-cation (CASE) since 2008. He is the chief PI for the Trans-

Disciplinary Education on Society-Humanity-Science Cul-tivating Cross-Boundary and Communication Competence inUniversities/Colleges, also abbreviated as SHS Program.

He had his B.S. from Department of Chemistry, NTU in 1973.He went to USA in 1975 to have his graduate study in chem-istry in U. Cincinnati, OH. He nished his M.S. and movedto ISU, IA in 1977, and earned his Ph.D. there in 1982. In1982-1986, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow atPenn State U., PA. In 1986, he joined the Department ofChemistry, NTU as an associate professor, and was promot-ed to the full professor in 1991. He had been on visiting inLouis Pasteur U., Strasbourg, France in 1995; and NationalDong-Hwa U., Taiwan in 1998; ICR Kyoto U, Japan in 2013.He served as the Director of Chemistry Research PromotionCenter, NSC in 1999-2002. For the international service, hehas been on the advisory board of J. Organometallic Chem.

in 1999-2003. He was the Chairman of the XXIV Interna-tional Conference on Organometallic Chemistry in 2010.

He has been awarded twice by the National Science Councilfor the distinguished research achievement in chemistry in1994 and 1996, and the winner of the copper medal of Dr.Li K.-T. Award for popular science writing in 1997. He wastwice awarded for outstanding teaching in NTU in 1999 and2008. He was awarded for distinguished service for ChineseChemical Society in 2013.

Dr. Chia-Liang Cheng

Vice President

Professor

Department of physics,

National Dong Hwa University,

Hualien, Taiwan

Chia-Liang Cheng is a professor in the Physics Depart-ment, and Vice President of National Dong Hwa University

(NDHU), Hualien Taiwan. He received his Ph. D. degree fromthe Physics Department of the University of Oregon, USA in1993. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he was a post-docwith Prof Y.T. Lee (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1986) at theChemistry Department in the University of California, Berke-ley and Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, AcademiaSinica, Taipei from 1994-1997. He was an assistant professorat Physics Department of the National Taiwan Normal Uni-versity for one year, and then he joined NDHU in 1998. In2005, he was promoted full professor. He is specialized inspectroscopy, and optical imaging. Currently, he is the VicePresident of NDHU.

His research interests are in Bio/medical applications ofnanodiamond; Spectroscopic studies on nanomaterial;visible-light-activated TiO2 nanoparticles; Infrared, Ramanspectroscopy, etc. His interests go beyond the boundary ofphysics, chemistry, biology and medicine. His group is one ofthe pioneering groups in the world to successfully use nano-diamond as a biological marker to observe bio molecules in-teraction with cells or bacteria. They have recently deliveredanticancer drug using nanodiamond as a delivery vehicle intolung cancer tumors in the animal model. He has been givinginvited lectures in almost all the important diamond researchconferences.

He has been the Director of General Education (2002-2005);Chairman of the Physics Department (2005-2008); Dean ofthe Committee for General Education (2008-2012). He hasalso served in various professional Program Committees,


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Dr. Chung-l LinPresident of

Taiwan Philosophical Association

andDean of College of Humanities

and Social Sciences ofTaipei Medical University

Chung-I Lin was born in 1964 in Taiwan. He received his BAin Social Work from Fu Jen Catholic University (1987), MA

in Philosophy from National Chengchi University (1993) andPh.D. in Philosophy from the University of Iowa (1999).

He has held teaching and research positions at the nationalChengchi University (NCCU) and Taipei Medical University(TMU). He also has held a number of administrative postsin Taiwan including CEO of the Ofce of Chengchi College(NCCU), Director of Center of General Education, NCCU,Director of Project of National General Education ResourcePlatform, Ministry of Education (MOE), Director of the Cen-ter of Teaching and Learning Development, NCCU, Chief Di-rector of the Project of National General Education Reform,MOE, Chief Director of the General Education Accreditation

and Evaluation Project Ofce, MOE, and Head of the Gradu-ate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, TMU.

He is presently President of Taiwan Philosophical Associationand Dean of College of Humanities and Social Sciences ofTMU. His recent research interests are Philosophy of Mind,Philosophy of Language and Chinese Philosophy.

KEYNOTE PANEL - V

Experiences of TD Educationin Other Part of the World

1:30 pm- 3:00 pm, Tuesday, June 10

Room: A101

KEYNOTE PANEL - V


TD Education in Europe and South Africa

TD Education in Japan

Dr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Professor

Research & Development

Initiative

Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi received his B.S. degree in Instrumen-tation Engineering from Keio University and the Dr. Eng. de-gree in information Security from Chuo University in Japan.He originally joined NEC Corporation in 1963, in the Com-puter Software Development Department and has served asthe vice president in NEC Soft. LTD. He was a Director ofthe basic operating systems of a super computer, large scalecomputer and personal computer. He also pioneered the In-formation Security Research Institute and the collaborationwith the Universities in the USA. He worked as a head ofthe research and development team on the next generationelectronic voting system funded by the Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan. He was serving as aVisiting Professor in the Bioinformatics Research Institute,Waseda University, Japan since 2004. Currently he is serv-ing as a Full Professor in the Research and Development Ini-tiative, Chuo University, Japan. He served as a President ofSoftware Engineering Society (The SES), and currently serv-ing the research fellow of the Society of Development andProcess Science (The SDPS) and a Vice President of Acad-emy of TransdisciplinaryLearning & Study Studies (The AT-LAS). He is currently engaged in the research project fundedby the National Institute of Information and Communication

Technology (NICT). He is currently working as a subdirectorof the Melt-up Forum participated from Japanese Govern-ment, major IT venders in Japan. His research interests focusupon the cryptographic theory, modern logic cryptology andcognitive science. He received the best paper award on infor-mation sharing on DOD 14th ICCRTS, 2009. He has been akeynote at several international conferences, such as IEEE-ICTAI, HASE, IEEE-BIBE, SDPS, and IEEE-ISM.

TD Education in Mexico

Dr. Cristina Nez-MadrazoDirector of the Center for

EcoLiteracy and Dialogue ofKnowledges & Director of the

Doctoral Program inTransdisciplinarity StudiesUniversidad Veracruzana,Xalapa, Veracruz, Mxico

Dr. Cristina Nez is professor & director of the Doctoral Pro-gram in Transdisciplinarity Studies at the Center for EcoLit-eracy and Dialogue of Knowledges at the Universidad Vera-cruzana. She is part of the fouding team of this Center whereshe coordinated the Master in Transdisciplinarity Studiesfor Sustainability since 2008. She studied Economics at theNational University of Mexico and a Master and PhD in An -

thropologies Sciences. She has been professor in Economicand Sociology Schools at the Universidad Veracruzana formore than 15 years. She is author of some books and pa -pers in anthropology, politics and culture of peasant societiesin central Veracruz. The most representative books she haswritten: Ejido, caa y caf. Poltica y cultura campesina enel Centro de Veracruz and Migracin Internacional, crisisagrcola y transformaciones culturales en la regin centralde Veracruz. As ethnologist she has extensive experiencein narrative methods within a transdisciplinary perspective.Nez's research work has been recognized by many na -tional awards: National Award Fray Bernardino de Sahagungiven by the National Institute of Anthorpology and Historyand National Reward in Agrarian Studies. She is member ofthe International Center of Transdisciplinary Research (CI-RET), France.

such as the International Conference on Raman Spectros -copy; the International Conference on Diamond and CarbonMaterials (2009- ); Review member of the Physics panel, Na-tional Science Council in Taiwan (NSC, 2008-2010); PanelMember, Physic Research Promotion Center, Taiwan (PRPC,2007- 2010); Committer Member, Physical Society of theRepublic of China, Taiwan (PSROC, 2005-2009). He alsoserves as a reviewer for more than 30 SCI journals. He alsohas joint research project with the Moscow State University(Taiwan-Russia, Moscow State U.) and with French teams(Taiwan- France, CEA).


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Dr. Atila Ertas

Professor and Director of

Academy of Transdisciplinary

Studies.

Department of Mechanical

Engineering

Texas Tech University

TD Education in USA at

Texas Tech University

Dr. Atila Ertas, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, receivedhis masters and Ph.D. from Texas A\&M University. He had12 years of industrial experience prior to pursuing graduatestudies. Dr. Ertas has been the driving force behind the con-ception and the development of the transdisciplinary modelfor education and research. His pioneering efforts in transdis-ciplinary research and education have been recognized inter-nationally by several awards. He is a Senior Research Fellowof the ICC2 Institute at the University of Texas Austin, a Fel -low of American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), aFellow of Society of Design and Process Science (SDPS),and a Fellow and honorary member of The Academy ofTransdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies (TheATLAS).He is also an honorary member of International Center forTransdisciplinary Research (CIRET), France.

Dr. Ertas has earned both national and international reputa -tion in engineering design. Dr. Ertas is the author of a num-ber of books, among them: A. Ertas, and J. C. Jones, TheEngineering Design Process, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., rstaddition 1993 and second edition 1996; A. Ertas, Preventionthrough Design (PtD): Transdisciplinary Process, funded bythe National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,

2010; A. Ertas, Engineering Mechanics and Design Appli-cations, Transdisciplinary Engineering Fundamentals, CRCPress, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011; A. Ertas (editor), Trans-disciplinarity: Bridging Natural Science, Social Science, Hu-

manities & Engineering, TheATLAS Publications, 2011; B. Ni-colescu and A. Ertas (editors), Transdisciplinary Theory andPractice, TheATLAS Publications, 2013. He has edited morethan 35 conference proceedings.

Dr. Ertas contributions to teaching and research have beenrecognized by numerous honors and awards. The honorsand awards include: 1994 Industrial Technology NationalAward from US Department of Energy; Presidents AcademicAchievement Award; Presidents Excellence in Teachingaward (he is a member of the Texas Tech Teaching Acad -emy); Pi Tau Sigma Best Professor Award; Pi Tau Sigma Out-standing Teaching Award; Halliburton Award in recognition of

outstanding achievement and professionalism in educationand research; College of Engineering Outstanding Research-er Award; George T. and Gladys Hanger Abell Faculty Awardfor overall excellence in teaching and research; and He alsoreceived the most prestigious SDPS George Kozmetsky Dis-tinguished Achievement Award and Excellence in Leader-ship. He received ATLAS Gold Medal of Honor in January2012. Most recently, he was recognized as one of the distin-guished former students of Texas A&M, Mechanical Enginer-ing Department. He has published over 150 scientic papers(64 journal papers) that cover many engineering technicalelds. He has been PI or Co-PI on over 40 funded researchprojects. Under his supervision 194 MS and Ph.D. graduatestudents have received degrees.

COFFEE BREAKS

Every day 10:00 am - 10:30 amand

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Professor Ji Ping Chang

Fudan University

Shanghai, China

PLENARY TALK-4

Prof. Ji Ping Chang

3:30 pm- 4:00 pm, Tuesday, June 10

Room: A101

In 2010, Ji Ping Chang was selected a hero by the BBCdocumentary series Heroes of Heritage. Where her studentexhibit was positioned as the future of the cultural heritageof a historical town called Ci Cheng dated back 1,500 years.The link to the BBC documentary is listed below:http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTk1ODA1NzA4.html

The latter half of the documentary covers a Sino-Americanjoint student exhibit, which is the results of a collaborativemulticultural design course across two universities Shang-hai Institute of Visual Arts at Fudan University in China and

San Jose State University in Californiastudents came to-gether to innovate with the underprivileged in mind. This proj-ect gave next-generation designers from the East and West achance to learn from each other and address issues of socialresponsibility.

Ji Ping Chang is an industrial design professor with over 20years of industry experience across the U.S., Europe andAsia. She has worked as a product designer/design managerfor Nike, DuPont, JC Penney, Philips, Conran Design Groupand GE-Appliance Asia. In 2003, she relocated to Shanghaiand helped found the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts at Fu-

dan University. Ji Ping has been teaching collaborative cours-es in Design Research, Visual Communication, Sustainabilityand Design for the Majority since 2008.

Dr. Winston E. LangleyProvost and

Vice Chancellor forAcademic Affairs

University of Massachusetts

Boston

PLENARY TALK-5

Dr. Winston E. Langley

4:00 pm-4:30 pm, Tuesday, June 10

Room: A101

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Winston E.

Langley is the senior administrator in charge of advancing theUniversity of Massachusetts Bostons academic mission andthe quality of its intellectual life.

A scholar with a rich, diverse academic background and aseasoned administrator, he has been instrumental in deningand developing UMass Bostons identity as a student-cen-tered, urban public research university with a teaching soul.

A professor of political science and international relationssince 1982, Dr. Langley served as director of the InternationalRelations Program, senior associate provost, associate chan-cellor, and interim provost and vice chancellor for academicaffairs before he was named to his current position in 2009.

Dr. Langleys scholarly interests include human rights, alter-native models of world order, religion, and politics. His re-search has focused on the inadequacy of the nation-state


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Dr. Ko-Chen WuProfessor

Department of BusinessAdministration, National Taiwan

University of Science andTechnology

Spirituality in Business Education

Dr. Ko-Chen Wu is a professor of the Department of BusinessAdministration, National Taiwan University of Science andTechnology. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Researchand Management Science from University of California, atBerkeley, Berkeley, California, 1991.

Dr. Wus management experiences include: Chairman, LifeCare Center, National Taiwan University of Science andTechnology (2010-2013); Chairman, Department of Busi-ness Administration, National Taiwan University of Scienceand Technology (2007-2011); Chairman, Graduate Instituteof Finance, National Taiwan University of Science and Tech-nology (2007-2009); Senior Executive Training Program ofNational Academy of Civil Service (2012); Senior ExecutiveTraining Program of Federal Executive Institute (2012).

Dr. Randolph T. Yeh

Chairman New Path foundation

Dr.Yeh is chairman of New Path Foundation. He received hisPh.D. in Computer Science from Department of the Univer-sity of Texas at Austin, 1978.

Dr.Yeh's previous management experiences include Corpo-rate Ofcer of AT&T, CEO of AT&T Taiwan Telecommuni-cations, Inc., and Chairman & CEO of Lucent Technologies(China) Inc. He turned his interests towards social servicesand cofounded New Path Foundation in 1999. Since 2000,Dr. Yeh has devoted himself to the development of long termaccompaniment services for lonely elders and disadvan-taged youth in Beijing, Delhi, and Houston.

Bridging the Divide with Accompaniment

KEYNOTE PANEL - VII


KEYNOTE PANEL-VII

Cyber-Security in a Cloudy Sky

A TDPerspective

10:30 am- 12:00 pm, Wednesday, June 11

Room: A101

Dr. I-En Liao received his Ph.D. degree in Computer andInformation Science from Ohio State University, Columbus,Ohio. He is currently a Professor and the Chair of Departmentof Computer Science and Engineering at National Chung Hs -ing University, Taichung, Taiwan. Dr. Liaos research interestsinclude data mining, recommender systems, XML technolo -gies, and big data analytics. He published about 30 journalpapers and 60 conference papers, and received three bestpaper awards. He also led student teams to won severalsoftware design competitions including the championship of

2013 XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Soft-ware Design Competition hosted by Taiwan Stock ExchangeCorporation.

In addition to academic activities, Dr. Liao also involved inmany social movements in Taiwan. He came back to Taiwanin 1990 and pushed for the creation of Taiwan Associationof University Professors (TAUP) at the end of that year. Heserved as the Secretary General of TAUP from 1990-1991and led social movements advocating the abolishment ofcriminal laws that were used to oppress people against theruling party. His efforts together with those of many Taiwanesepeople resulted in the abolishment of criminal laws that vio -late human rights. In 1992, political prisoners were releasedfrom jail, and the black lists for those spoke out against thegovernment were lifted. After that, Taiwan transformed into ademocratic society in an unprecedented pace.

Dr. I-En Liao

Professor and Chair,

Department of Computer

Science and Engineering ,

National Chung Hsing University,Taichung, Taiwan

Dr. Chu-Sing Yang

Department of Electrical

Engineering

National Cheng Kung University

Tainan, Taiwan

Chu-Sing Yang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in theInstitute of Computer and Communication Engineering at Na-tional Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. He receivedthe B.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from National ChengKung University in 1976 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees inElectrical Engineering from National Cheng Kung Universityin 1984 and 1987, respectively. He joined the faculty of theDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-senUniversity, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, as an Associate Professor in1988. Since 1993, he has been a Professor in the Departmentof Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-senUniversity. He was the chair of the Department of Computer

Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen Universityfrom August 1995 to July 1999, and the director of the Com-puter Center, National Sun Yat-sen University from August1998 to October 2002. He was the Program Chair of ICS-96and Program Co-Chair of ICPP-2003 and MTPP-2010. Hejoined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering,National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, as a Profes-sor in 2006. He participated in the design and deploymentof Taiwan Advanced Research and Education Network andserved as the deputy director of National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan from January 2007 to De -cember 2008. His research interests include network security,network virtualization, cloud computing, multi-core embedded

system, smart grid, digital home, and intelligent computing.

Dr. Yuh-Jye Lee

Department of Computer Science

and Information Engineering

National Taiwan University of

Science and Technology

Taiwan

Dr. Yuh-Jye Lee received the PhD degree in Computer Sci -ence from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. He isan Associate Professor of Department of Computer Scienceand Information Engineering at National Taiwan University of


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Science and Technology. He also serves as a principal in-vestigator at the Intel-NTU Connected Context ComputingCenter. His research is primarily rooted in optimization theoryand spans a range of areas including network and informa-tion security, machine learning, data mining, big data, nu-merical optimization and operations research. During the lastdecade, Dr. Lee has developed many learning algorithms insupervised learning, semi-supervised learning and unsuper-vised learning as well as linear/nonlinear dimension reduc-tion. His recent major research is applying machine learningto information security problems such as network intrusion

detection, anomaly detection, malicious URLs detection andlegitimate user identication. Currently, he focuses on onlinelearning algorithms for dealing with large scale datasets,stream data mining and behavior based anomaly detectionfor the needs of big data and machine to machine communi-cation security problems.

Jay Xiong, a US citizen, is the President of NSE software,LLC, USA (reorganized from International Software Automa-tion, Inc., USA) and the President of ISA Shanghai, Ltd. Heis the inventor of nonlinear software engineering paradigm(NSE) based on complexity science (http://www.springer.com/physics/complexity/book/978-1-4419-7325-2).

Dr. Jay Xiong

President

NSE software, LLC

USA

Nonlinear Software Engineering Paradigm

PLENARY TALK- 4

Dr. Jay Xiong

1:30 pm- 2:00 pm, Wednesday, June 11

Room: A101

PLENARY SESSION - II

Innovation via TD Means


Room: A101

PLENARY TALK- 5

Dr. Yunus Cengel


Room: A101

Dr. Yunus A. engel

DeanFaculty of Engineering

Adnan Menderes University (ADU)

Aydin, Turkey

2nd Law as the 2nd Dimensions ofExistence: TD Perspective

PLENARY TALK- 6Dr. Pamela heckel


Room: A101

Dr. Pamela Heckel

Former Project OfcerNational Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health

Pamela Heckel, Ph.D., P.E. is the former Project Ofcer forthe Prevention through Design Initiative at the National In -stitute for Occupational Safety and Health. She earned thedoctorate in environmental engineering in 2007 from the Uni-versity of Cincinnati. Her doctoral research used a terrestrialinsect as a surrogate for human, occupational exposure to

ambient mercury. She developed a novel, complex air pollut-ant dispersion model to predict ambient concentrations alongroadsides. She conducted epidemiological research studiesand modeled occupational exposures to mercury during apost-doctoral fellowship in the College of Medicine. In addi-tion to the doctorate in engineering, she has undergraduateengineering degrees from Vanderbilt and Purdue, a Mastersin Architecture and is a registered engineer in Ohio.

Prior to NIOSH, Dr. Heckels work experience includes de-sign and manufacturing of nuclear reactors and constructionof nuclear containment facilities. She designed a laminardrill platform used to manufacture the stainless steel internalstructure of a nuclear reactor. She worked as a eld engi-neer on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline where she managed thesteel yard and supervised a union crew of Boilermakers,Teamsters and Operators. She was a pioneer in developingcomputerized inventory-control systems at Boeing and laterworked on the Customer Engineering Sales Support team forthe 737. At General Electric, she performed life cycle analy -sis on the CFM56 engines that power the 737 aircraft andwrote the LM1600 engine test manual. She supervised thecontract employees from Essig Research. This year, shejoined the Board of the international Air & Waste Manage-ment Association. Dr. Heckel applied for patents on two TypeII medical devices: an ergonomic grip and a device to treat

hammertoes. In addition to journal publications and confer-

ence presentations, she has published a play (Uncle Doc),two textbooks (Putting People First the Theory of UniversalDesign and Environmental Mercury Exposure of TerrestrialLife Forms), and musical scores for Psalms 1 & 2. She is thePresident and CEO of the Five Minute Church, Inc. a web-based ministry. Dr. Heckel and her husband Walter recentlycelebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary. They have fouradult children.

Protecting Human Capital through theIntersection of Architecture, Engineering and

Worker Safety

Trained at Zhong Shan University and in integrated circuit de-sign at the Chinese Academy of Science, Jay Xiong inventedthe Shortest Path Routing Algorithm Using Wave Diffractionat the Hitachi Research Center in Japan. This major techni-cal achievement brought him to the University of California,Berkeley as the foremost Chinese scientist in the ComputerAided Integrated Ci rcuit Layout Project jointly sponsored byThe National Science Foundation of the United States andthe Chinese Academy of Science. He turned his research tosoftware engineering automation and established AdvancedSoftware Automation, Inc. (ASA) in 1989 and International

Software Automation, Inc. (ISA) in 1992 in Silicon Valley. Heis the designer of ASAs Hindsight and ISAs Panorama prod-ucts.


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KEYNOTE PANEL - VIII

Education forTrans-cultural Design


Room: A101

KEYNOTE PANEL - VIIIDISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Professor XI Youmin was appointed Executive President ofXian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Pro-Vice-Chancellor ofUniversity of Liverpool in August 2008. As a visiting professor,he has conducted joint research projects and discourses inuniversities in Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.His research and teaching areas cover strategic managementand policy analysis, decision-making and decision supportsystem, leadership and organization behaviour, etc. He putforwarded a theory: Harmony Theory in 1987 and extended itto HeXie Management Theory. Professor Xi has successfullysupervised over 100 Master and PhD students and gainedmany important research funds from the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China (NSFC) and central and local gov-ernments as well as industrial sector. As author or co-author,he has published more than 300 academic papers and 20books. He has received over ten prizes at provincial or minis-terial or national levels and was awarded National Young andMiddle Age Experts with Distinguished Contributions, Prize ofScience and Technology for Chinese Youth as well as Prizefor Chinese Young Scientists. Professor Xi completed an MEin system engineering in 1984 and in 1987 he was the rstawarded PhD degree in the eld of management engineeringin mainland China. Currently, he is the PI of two key NSFCresearch projects, indigenous leadership study and Chineseindigenous management theory study and also leads a teamto study students and learning centred education supportedby The Ford Foundation.

Dr. XI YouminExecutive President

Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Xian Jiaotong

Liverpool UniversitySuzhou, China

Dr. Thomas FisherDirector

Design Research Institute

Xian JiaotongLiverpool University

Suzhou, China

Thomas Fischer is the Director of the newly-established De-sign Research Institute at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool Universityin Suzhou, China, where he works as an Associate Professor,teaching Architecture as well as Industrial Design. Thomas isa Fellow of the Design Research Society and received theAmerican Society for Cybernetics Warren McCulloch Awardin 2011. Thomas holds a PhD in Education from the Univer-sity of Kassel in Germany and one in Architecture and De -sign from RMIT University in Australia. Thomas previouslyresearched and taught at the School of Design at The HongKong Polytechnic University as an Assistant Professor andas the Discipline Leader of Product and Industrial Design. Hewas a Visiting Associate Professor at the College of Plan-

ning and Design at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwanfrom early 2010 to mid-2011. Thomas research is focused oncomputer-aided architectural design, on cybernetics as wellas on design education in China and in Sino-foreign contexts.His expertise and contributions in these areas are concernedwith the relationships between Chinese and Western philo-sophical traditions as well as with the relationships betweenformal and informal approaches to design.

Dr. Derrick Tate

Founding Head ofIndustrial Design Department

Xian Jiaotong

Liverpool University

Suzhou, China

Derrick Tate is an Associate Professor and Founding Headof the Department of Industrial Design at Xian Jiaotong-Liv-erpool University. He aims to impact society through bringingdesign thinking to areas of strategic importance: assessingthe innovative potential of design ideas, developing sustain-able approaches for building systems, transportation, andmanufacturing; and broadening participation in innovation.Dr. Tate has carried out his research activities at the two endsof the research spectrum where they will have the greatestimpact: fundamental research that provides a science base

for the future of entrepreneurial engineering design as wellas the application of design theories and tools to technologyinnovation. His recent projects include working with WestTexas entrepreneurs on the development of innovative andsustainable designs and a US-Tanzania Workshop: Advanc-ing the Structural Use of Earth-based Bricks, funded by NSF.He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree fromRice University. His S.M and Ph.D. degrees in MechanicalEngineering are from MIT in the areas of manufacturing anddesign, respectively.

THURSDAY

June 12, 2014

PLENARY SESSION - III

Social Transformation

through T3

8:30 am- 10:00 am, Thursday, June 12

Room: A101

PLENARY TALK- 7Dr. Marilyn Schilitz

8:30 am- 9:00 am, Thursday, June 12

Room: A101

INVITED PAPER

Dr. Sukanta Ganguly

Communications from Inanimate Objects: Internet

of Things, and Software Dened X.

5:00 pm - 5:40 pm, Wednesday June 11

Room: A101

Dr. Marilyn Mandala SchlitzAmbassador for Creative

Projects and Global Affairs,Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Senior Scientist, ResearchInstitute, California

Pacic Medical Center


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Foundation for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commissionand ArtPlace. He has received an Artadia Artist Prize, a Vis -ible Republic Artist Grant, LEF Foundation ContemporaryWork Fund and Creative Work Fund grants. He has also ledparticipatory arts- and technology-based community develop-ment projects in the US and Asia.

Mr. Liu is a Board Member of The Center for NeighborhoodTechnology, The New England Foundation for the Arts, andthe Interaction Institute for Social Change. He is also a BoardMember of the I-GO Car Sharing, recently sold to Enterprise

Rental Car. Mr. Liu is a graduate of Tufts University and holdcerticates in leadership, management and community build-ing from University of Massachusetts - Bostons College ofManagement, Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Gov-ernment, and University of Miamis School of Architecture.He was a 2009-2012 Barr Foundation Fellow and a 2006recipient of Boston Business Journals 40 Under 40 award.His projects have received funding from the MacArthur Foun-dation, Ford Foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, the SanFrancisco Foundation, the Boston Foundation, and the BarrFoundation. He chaired the successful campaigns of SamYoon, the rst Asian American to run for and win elected of-ce in the City of Boston in 2005 and 2007; he also chaired

the groundbreaking Yoon campaign for mayor in 2008. Moreabout Jeremy can be found at: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-cliu/

KEYNOTE PANEL- IX

Science, Spirituality, and Healing

10:30 am- 12:00 pm, Thursday, June 12

Room: A101

Dr. Yei-Wei Magnus Lou

Former President

Chinese Association of

Bio-Electro-Magnetic Science

KEYNOTE PANEL - IX


The Alternative Chinese Dream: IntegratedScience, Spirituality and Healings.

Aming Tu

Professor

Buddhist InformaticsBuddhist College

Dharma Drum

Dr. Marilyn Mandala SchlitzAmbassador for Creative

Projects and Global Affairs,Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Senior Scientist, ResearchInstitute, California

Pacic Medical Center.

Aming Tu is professor of Buddhist Informatics at DharmaDrum Buddhist College, who is the Excellence Award Winnerof Top Talent of National Science Council (2011-12) and theMinistry of Education (2013-15), Taiwan.

Since 1994 Aming has been involved in the constructing ofthe Buddhist Electronic database, has contributed many Bud-dhist digital resources since then. From 1998 to 2006 he isthe Executive Manager of Chinese Buddhist Electronic TextAssociation (CBETA), he is the Vice Director of CBETA now.

He is currently the project director of Awareness-CompassionTraining: Imaging of Neuroscience, ACTION (fMRI & Scale)and Building the Chinese Buddhist literature research en-vironment, BCBE (Digital Humanities) of National ScienceCouncil.

KEYNOTE PANEL - XSpirituality, Technology, and

Social Wellbeing1:30 pm- 3:00 pm, Thursday, June 12

Room: A101

KEYNOTE PANEL - X


Dr. Shu Liao

Professor

Department of Social Work

Asia University, Taiwan

Dr. Shu Liao teaches at the Department of Social Work atAsia University in Taiwan. Her research interests includecommunity service and learning as well as women empow-erment. She co-founded the Service-Learning Division ofStudent Affairs, and Center for Advanced Research of En-trepreneurship (CARE)a transdisciplinary research centerin Asia University with Dr. Raymond Yeh and others. As theLibrarian of the university, she envisions the library to be atransdisciplinary platform for the various departments at AsiaUniversity. She is a recipient of the social Justice Award in2001, and a nationa outstanding teacher award in servicelearning in 2008 among other recognitions.

Dr. Yei-Wei Magnus Lou is the former President of ChineseAssociation of Bio-ElectroMagnetic Science (2010-2014)where he organized series of monthly lectures on subjectsrelated to integrated science, spirituality and healings. Mostof them ( in Chinese ) are now uploaded to YouTube and theassociation website. His organization is unique and repre-senting a group of Chinese scientists and professionals livingin Taiwan who are both curious and rational in trying to ndcommon scientic reasonings behind alternative or integra-tive subjects.

Dr. Lou graduated from Tsing-Hwa (Hsin-Chu, 1977), Carne-gie-Mellon(1979) and M.I.T.(1984), all in the Departments ofMaterials Sci. & Engineering. He initiated a Chinese Alterna -tive Bio-Sci. & Technology Discussion Group among Chinesestudents, scholars and professionals to investigate TCM andQi-Kung phenomena in general and the Qi-Kung Fever onMainland China in particular during the period of 1984-1989.His extensive aerospace/hi-tech industrial experiences in-clude GE-Aircraft Engines, FLOW-Intl, Taiwan Aerospaceand AlliedSignal Aerospace. He currently works at HoneywellAerospace (1994 to present).

In this ATLAS meeting, he will summarize the key study sub-

jects and personalities of the contempary integration themesin Taiwan that include: the explorations of Resonance as Qi,Origins of I-Ching, New Cancer Treatment Perspectives,Common Core Values of Spirituality, etc. These couldpossibly become the new Chinese, or world-wide humanitys,cultural dreams and aspirations.


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Dr. Zizhuo ShiPostdoc Researcher Fellow

Research Institute forHumanities and Social Sciences

National Science CouncilTaiwan

Dr. Zizhuo Shi is a postdoctoral researcher who works at the

Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Na-tional Science council, Taiwan. She graduated from the De-partment of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership atuniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her educationalbackground is characterized with transdisciplinarity becauseshe has been trained in three different departments which areacross three disciplines: East Asian Language and Cultures(humanities), Education Policy, Organization and Leadership(social sciences) and Community Informatics program (re -lated to computer science). Her interest involves philosophyof education, caring theory, Buddhist epistemology, philoso-phy of mind, education of mindfulness, meditation, researchmethodology, digital humanity and community informatics.

She published one book and co-translated several books.The book is A study on the Anthology Za Ahan Jing (T101):Centered on its Linguistic Features, translation Style, Author-ship and School Afliation. Translations consists of Buddhismand Society: A great translation and its Burmese Vicissitudes,Dharma Vision and a series of books writ ten by Ven. Dharma-dasa. Her doctoral thesis is entitled Reason and Care: Con -structing an Inclusive Moral Theory for Civic Education whichapplies both Merleau-Pontys theory of intersubjectivity andNgrjunas philosophy of dependent co-arising to bridge thegap of the incompatible ontological ground of caring theoryand rational moral philosophy. Her thesis enhances the rela-tional ground of caring theory and hence forms a more inclu-

sive theoretical foundation for modern education to tackle theemerging issues derived from social, political and technologi-cal elds. Now she is co-working on a transdisciplinary proj -ect which aims to help underrepresented students who live inremote area. Also, she is working with her dharma sisters toestablish a research institute for innovation and leadership.

Dr. Hsichuan Kent Lin teaches at the Department of Leisureand Recreation Management at Asia University in Taiwan. Hemajors in several different disciplines, such as mass com -munication, politics, and urban planning. He publishes twoChinese transdisciplinary books: Aesthetics of PoliticsandSustainable Governance of Cross-board. Currently, his re -search interests focus on sustainable tourism, aesthetics ofcommunity, event management, and cultural tourism. He hasconducted several creative events in school and Wu-fengcommunities, guiding students across the campus boundaryto participate in local communities

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