Board of Directors (Order of Last Name)
Chairman Jiin Chen
Directors
George Chang Michael Chang
Eric Chen Jiin Chen
Angelina Huang Peter Huang
H. F. Lee Shiang Yu Lee
Wen Lee Gina Li
Ta-win Lin Roberto Lu
Ian Tien Kai Wang
Philip Yu
Brief Bios:
Ta-Win Lin, Ph.D.
Board Chairperson (’08-’09); Director (’07-’09) Senior Economist at Washington State Office of Financial Management; past president of CIE Seattle
Ian Tien
President (’08-’09); Director (‘07-’09) Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Corporation; past vice president of CIE Seattle; past board member of Canada-America Society
Kai Wang, Ph.D.
Vice President (’08-’09); Director (‘07-’09) Chief Technology Officer of Taiwan Genome Sciences; cofounder of PhenoGenomics; former senior scientist at Celltech Inc., with over 40 original research papers and patent filings.
Robert Wang, Ph.D.
Treasurer (’08-’10); Director (‘07-’09) Senior Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corporation; former principal engineer, Boeing Corporation; former chief engineer, HomeMeeting
Michael Chang
Secretary (’08-’09), Director (’08-’10) Senior Lead and International Project Manager, Microsoft Corporation; past president CIE Seattle; former design engineer at Novell, WordPerfect Corporation, 3M
James Shih-Jong Lee, Ph.D.
National Council Communications Chair (‘08-’10), Director (‘07-’09) President of SVision LLC; former CTO of NeoPath, Inc., author of 80+ publications; inventor on 66 issues & 20 pending US patents; former Washington Technology Center board member
Hsiung-Fei Lee
Professional Development Chair (’08-’10); Director (’08-’10) Former president, VP operations of AeroVision Avionics; former Sales Director, Engineering Manager at Boeing Commercial Airplane Co.; past president of CIE Seattle
Jiin Chen, Ph.D.
Education Chair (’08-’10); Director (‘08-’10) Former Executive Chair of Asian American Engineering of the Year Awards; past president of Boeing Asian American Professionals Association; past CIE/USA National Council Advisor
David Wei
Membership & Communications Chair (’08-’10); Director (’07-’09) Past CIE Seattle Vice President; former IT Manager at Triple B Corporation; alumnus of Santa Clara University, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana & National Taiwan University
Shiang-Yu Lee, Ph.D.
Director (’07-’09) Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); retired Information Systems Architecture, Boeing Corporation; board member of National Taiwan University Alumni Association –Northwest Chapter, Society of Chinese American Aerospace Engineers Seattle Chapter and Seattle Zhen-He Society
Jack Peng
Advisory Board Chair (‘08-’10) Former Boeing Engineer in Network Performance; alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University; member of CMG (Computer Measurement Group), principal co-founder of OCA (Organization of Chinese American) GS (Greater Seattle) chapter; Executive VP of CAF (Chinese American Forum).
Eric Chen
Director (’08-’10) Manager, FKC Land LLC; past CIE Seattle Treasurer; former Application Software and System Engineer at Northwestern University
George Chang
Director (’08-’10) Project Manager, Foxconn; past CIE Seattle Officer; alumnus of University of Texas at Austin and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan
Roberto Lu, Ph.D.
Director ('08-'10) Associate Technical Fellow in the Boeing Commercial Airplane Material and Process Technology. Licensed Professional Engineer, member of SAE, American Society Of Mechanical Engineers, senior member of Institute of Industrial Engineers.
Philip Yu
Director ('07-'09) Senior System Engineer, Enterprise Computing in Department of Information Technology, City of Seattle.
Peter Huang, Ph.D.
Director ('08-'10) Information Technology Manager, Washington Mutual.