Huang Yen-nun explained

Huang Yen-nun
Native Name Lang:zh-hant
Nationality:Taiwanese
Office1:2nd Minister of Digital Affairs
Term Start1:20 May 2024
Primeminister1:Cho Jung-tai
Predecessor1:Audrey Tang
Birth Place:Taiwan
Party:Independent
Alma Mater:National Taiwan University (BS)
University of Maryland (MS, PhD)

Huang Yen-nun (; born 11 August 1960) is a Taiwanese engineer who is the digital affairs minister of Taiwan since 2024.

Huang worked successively for AT&T Labs from 2004 to 2007, the Institute for Information Industry from 2007 to 2008, was president of VeeTIME Corporation from 2008 to 2011, and served on the Executive Yuan's Board of Science and Technology from 2011 to 2015, after which he became a distinguished research fellow with Academia Sinica's Research Center for Information Technology Innovation.[1]

Huang was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012, "for contributions to fault tolerant and failure avoidance software".[2]

On 16 April 2024, Huang was appointed Minister of Digital Affairs in premier Cho Jung-tai's incoming cabinet.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Keynote speakers Distinguished Research Fellow, Yen-Nun Huang . 16 April 2024 . IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering.
  2. Web site: 2012 elevated fellow. https://web.archive.org/web/20120215201114/http://www.ieee.org/documents/fellows_class_2012.pdf. dead. February 15, 2012. IEEE Fellows Directory.
  3. News: Chen . Christie . Economics minister, NDC chief among new Cabinet members announced . 16 April 2024 . Central News Agency . 16 April 2024. Republished as: News: Chen . Yun . Madjar . Kayleigh . New economics, digital ministers announced . Taipei Times . 16 April 2024.