Plenary Lectures and Keynote Speeches

Keynote Speech, “Modeling and Analysis to Empower Digital Decisions for Smart Semiconductor Manufacturing,” International Conference on Production Research, Cluj, România, July 24, 2023.

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 and Blue Lake Strategy,” ISMI2023, Guilin, China, July 2, 2023.

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 and Sustainable Manufacturing,” MSIE2023, Chiang Mai, Thailand, April 28, 2023. (online)

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 and Sustainable Manufacturing,” ICIEA2023, Phuket Island, Thailand, April 5, 2023. (online)

Keynote Speech, “Blue Lakes Strategy and Smart Sustainable Manufacturing,” MSIE2022, April 29, 2022. (online)

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 as Hybrid Strategy empowered by AI & Big Data Analytics for Smart Manufacturing,” MSIE2022, April 2, 2021. (online)

Keynote Speech, “Taiwan’s Efforts for Transformation via Industry 3.5 as Hybrid Strategy empowered by AI & Big Data Analytics for Smart Manufacturing,” Management Science and Industrial Engineering, April 3, 2021.(online)

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 as Hybrid Strategy empowered by AI & Big Data Analytics and Collaborative Research with Micron Taiwan for Smart Manufacturing,” Winter Simulation Conference, USA, December 16, 2020. (online)

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 to Empower Smart Semiconductor Manufacturing and Transformation of Other Industries in Taiwan,” Dagstuhl Seminar, Germany, November 2, 2020. (online) 

APO Top Talk, “Industry 3.5 to Productivity 6.0: Forging ahead with Smart Manufacturing,” Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, Japan, August 17, 2020. (online)

Keynote Speech, “Humanizing Industrial Revolution via Industry 3.5 as a Hybrid Strategy to Optimize Human Capital as Force for Good in Business in Emergent Countries,” 2019 The Department of Science and Technology – National Research Council of the Philippines Annual Scientific Conference, Philippines, March 11, 2019.

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 as Hybrid Strategy to empower Disruptive Innovations for Smart Production for Emergent Countries,” IEOM2017, Bangkok, Thailand, March 5-7, 2019.

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 as Hybrid Strategy and Disruptive Innovation for Smart Production in Emerging Countries,” Taiwan-Indonesia Higher Education Forum, Nov. 1, 2018.

Keynote Speech, “Industry 3.5 Disruptive Innovations via Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics to Empower Intelligent Manufacturing,” 2018 IEEE CIS Summer School on Computational Intelligence for Human and Machine Co-Learning, Kaohsiung, Aug. 21, 2018.

Keynote Speech, “ Industry 3.5” as Disruptive Innovations via Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence to Empower Intelligent Manufacturing,” 2018 International Conference on intelligent Transportation and Logistics with Big Data, Shandong, China, July 13-15, 2018.

Keynote Speech, “Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence to Empower “Industry 3.5” as Disruptive Innovations for Smart Production,” IEEM2018, Hunan, China, May 18-21, 2018.

Keynote Speech, “Manufacturing big data analytics for smart production,” FAIM2017, Modena, Italy, June 27-30, 2017.

Keynote Speech, “A Conceptual Framework for “Industry 3.5” and Empirical Studies,” IEEM2016, Wuhan, China, Sep. 16-18, 2016.

Keynote Speech, “Big Data Analytics to Empower Manufacturing Intelligence and Smart Production for “Industry 3.5”,” APIEMS 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, December 08-11, 2015.

Keynote Speech, “Big Data Analytics for Digital Decision and Smart Production to Empower “Industry 3.5”,” the 45th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Metz, France, October 28-30, 2015. 

Keynote Speech, “Big Data Analytics and Decision Analysis for Manufacturing Intelligence to Empower Industry 3.5,” the 2015 International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing Intelligence (ISMI 2015), KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, Oct. 16-18, 2015.

Keynote Speech, “Big Data Analytics and Internet of Things to Empower Digital Manufacturing: Semiconductor Case Studies,” ICLS2015, Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 1-4, 2015.

Keynote Speech, “Big Data Informatics and Manufacturing Intelligence to Empower Digital Manufacturing,” IEEM2014, Zhuhai, China, Nov. 1-2, 2014. 

Keynote Speech, “Big Data Analytics and Manufacturing Intelligence to Empower SMART Manufacturing,” IEEM2014, Zhuhai, China, Nov. 1-3, 2014.

Keynote Speech, “Manufacturing Intelligence and Data Mining: From Yield Enhancement, Production Management, to Manufacturing Strategy in Semiconductor Manufacturing,” the KES International Symposium on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES/IDT&IIMSS2012), Gifu, Japan, 23-25 May 2012.

Keynote Speech, “Modeling the Decisions Involved in High-Tech Manufacturing and Opportunities for Decision Sciences,” the 2011 International Conference in Management Sciences and Decision Making, Taipei, May 21, 2011.

Keynote Speech, “Modeling and Analysis of the Decisions Involved in High-tech Manufacturing for Manufacturing Intelligence,” 2010 International Conference on Future Industrial Engineering and Application, Shenzhen, Dec. 17, 2010.

Plenary lecture, “Modeling and Analysis of the Decisions for Manufacturing Intelligence,” the 2010 APIEMS, Melaka, Malaysia, Dec. 7-10, 2010.

Keynote Speech, “Economic Implications of Semiconductor Value Chain Evolution,” IEEE PEITS 2010, Shenzhen, China, Nov 19-21, 2010.

Keynote Speech, “Conceptual Framework and Empirical Studies for Industrial Engineering to Address the Industry as a Whole,” IEEM 2010, Xiamen, China, Oct 29-31, 2010.

Plenary lecture, “A Conceptual Methodology of ‘Industrial Engineering’ for ‘the Industry as a Whole’: Semiconductor Industry as Illustration,” the 40th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Awaji, Japan, July 26, 2010.

Keynote Speech, “Corporate Intelligence Management and Decision Quality,” 2010 Digitimes DAF Forum, Taipei, July 15, 2010.

Plenary lecture, “Value Chain Evolution in Semiconductor Industry in Light of Moore's Law and Implementation,” the 2009 APIEMS, Kitakyushu, Japan, Dec. 14-16, 2009.

Keynote Speech,「先進製造業基礎之創新服務業：以半導體產業價值創新為例」, 昆山論壇,大陸昆山, Oct. 22-24, 2009.（專題演講稿被北京清華大學出版之清華管理評論全文刊登）

Keynote Speech, “Value Chain Evolution in Semiconductor Industry in Light of Moore’s Law”, the 13th Annual Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium, Sep. 25-26, 2008.

Invited Panelist, “Paradigm Shifts in High-tech Industries”, Asia Business Conference 2008, Harvard Business School, Mar. 8-9, 2008.

Keynote Speaker, “Manufacturing Strategic Decision Analysis: New Value Proposition of IE and Implications to IE Education” at the International Conference of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management 2007, Tianjin, China, Oct. 22, 2007.

Lecture, “Economic Analysis of 450mm Wafer Migration”, tsmc position lecture, International Symposium for Semiconductor Manufacturing, Santa Carla, CA, Oct. 15, 2007. 

Plenary lecture, “Digital Decision Support for High-tech Manufacturing Strategies: New Paradigm of Automation”, IEEE CASE 2007, Arizona, USA, Sep. 22-25, 2007. 

Keynote Speaker, “Shifting Paradigms of the Roles of Industrial Engineering” at the IE&EM 2006 and the 1st International Conference on Asian Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management, Weihai City, Shandong, China, Aug. 13, 2006. (Industrial Engineer that is published by IIE invited me to have a special report on my insights for their 2007 Feb. Issue)

Keynote Speaker, “Form, Context, and Strategy: The Evolution of Decision and Strategy,” in Macronix Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Workshop, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Aug. 18, 2005.

Plenary Lecture on “New Roles of Industrial Engineering and Challenges for IE Education” at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IE&EM 2005), Shenyang, China, Apr. 24, 2005.

Keynote Speaker, “Modeling and Analysis for Semiconductor Manufacturing” at 2004 TSMC Manufacturing Symposium, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sep. 9, 2004.

Keynote Speaker, “Methods and Case Studies for Semiconductor Manufacturing: Challenges and Opportunities”, International Manufacturing Symposium of Shanghai Integrated Circuits Association, Shanghai, China, Aug. 8, 2004. 

Plenary Lecture on “Modeling, Data Mining, & Decision Support for Semiconductor Manufacturing” at the International Manufacturing Symposium, Cambridge University, UK, Feb. 6, 2004.

李國鼎科技講座：「台灣半導體產業發展與挑戰」（劉兆玄校長、吳泉源教授主持），Nov. 8, 2003.

Plenary Lecture on “Engineering Data Analysis, Data Mining, and Decision Support for Semiconductor Manufacturing”, IBM Watson Research Center, New York, USA, Dec. 5, 2002.

Invited Speech, “Engineering Data Analysis and Data Mining to Enhance Yield for Semiconductor Manufacturing”, Department of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, AZ, Nov. 6, 2002.

Chair of Forum & Plenary Lecture on “Experiences and Directions for Digital Management in E-Century” at the 2002 Joint International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IE&EM’2002) and International Conference on Electronic Commerce Engineering (IceCE’2002), Beijing, P.R. China, Sep. 20, 2002.

Invited Speech, “Data, Model, and Decision Support for Semiconductor Manufacturing”, Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC-Berkeley, CA, Sep. 6, 2002.

威盛電子講座：”Data Mining and Data Value Development for Semiconductor Manufacturing”, VIA Tech. Distinguished Lectureship, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Mar. 28, 2002.

Keynote Speaker, “Modeling and Decision Analysis for High-tech Manufacturing” at 2001 International Conference on Modern Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management in New Century, Tianjin, P.R. China, Aug. 9, 2001.