Dr. Lee-Feng Chien has long been focusing on the development of software technology and innovation. From 2006 to 2020, he served as the first Managing Director of Google Taiwan and successfully transformed it into the largest R&D center in Asia. Post-retirement in 2020, Dr. Chien has been actively engaged in Taiwan's entrepreneurial  ecosystem, serving on the boards of AI startups such as Appier and iKala. Notably, Appier was successfully listed in Japan and became Taiwan’s first AI unicorn. He also co-founded an angel fund, and mentors numerous startups, as well as serving as a member of the Executive Yuan's Economic Development Committee. Dr. Chien is also deeply involved in academia. As a pioneer in Chinese natural language processing and AI, he obtained his Ph.D. from NTU CSIE in 1991 for his research on Chinese language models. Between 1993 and 2006, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, while concurrently teaching at the Department of Information Management at National Taiwan University from 2001 to 2006. 