Industry Mentor, Department of Industrial Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (2024~now)
Manager of Intelligent Manufacturing Center, tsmc, (2007~2022, retired)
Publications
"Integrated Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced CMP Manufacturing Efficiency." TechRxiv. December 17, 2025.
"Deep Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning CMP Run to Run Control." International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
"Reinforcement learning chemical-mechanical polishing run-to-run controller." 2023 IEEE 5th Eurasia Conference on IOT, Communication and Engineering (ECICE). IEEE, 2023.
"Predictive control of quality in batch polymerization using hybrid ANN models." AIChE Journal 42.2 (1996): 455-465.
System and method for implementing a virtual metrology advanced process control platform, US patent: US-8437870-B2, 2013
System and method for implementing multi-resolution advanced process control, US patent: US-8394719-B2, 2013
Method and system for implementing virtual metrology in semiconductor fabrication, US patent: US-8396583-B2, 2013
Advanced process control with novel sampling policy, US patent: US-8392009-B2, 2013
Advanced process control for new tapeout product, US patent: US-8239056-B2, 2012
Method and system for tuning advanced process control parameters, US patent: US-8229588-B2, 2012
Method and apparatus for advanced process control, US patent: US-8224475-B2, 2012
System and method for implementing wafer acceptance test ("WAT") advanced process control ("APC") with routing model, US patent:US-8219341-B2, 2012
System and method for implementing a wafer acceptance test ("WAT") advanced process control ("APC") with novel sampling policy and architecture, US patent: US-8108060-B2, 2012
Method for a bin ratio forecast at new tape out stage, US patent: US-8082055-B2, 2011
Method for bin-based control, US patent: US-8041451-B2, 2011
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING VIRTUAL METROLOGY IN SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION, US patent: US-20110238198-A1, 2011
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTI-RESOLUTION ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL, US patent: US-20110213478-A1, 2011
System and method for implementing multi-resolution advanced process control, US patent: US-7951615-B2, 2011
ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL FOR NEW TAPEOUT PRODUCT, US patent: US-20110112678-A1, 2011
METHOD FOR A BIN RATIO FORECAST AT NEW TAPE OUT STAGE, US patent: US-20110010215-A1, 2011
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A VIRTUAL METROLOGY ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL PLATFORM, US patent: US-20100312374-A1, 2010
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A WAFER ACCEPTANCE TEST ("WAT") ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL ("APC") WITH NOVEL SAMPLING POLICY AND ARCHITECTURE, US patent: US-20100292824-A1, 2010
METHOD FOR BIN-BASED CONTROL, US patent: US-20100268367-A1, 2010
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTI-RESOLUTION ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL, US patent: US-20100255613-A1,2010
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING WAFER ACCEPTANCE TEST ("WAT") ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL ("APC") WITH ROUTING MODEL, US patent: US-20100250172-A1, 2010
ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL WITH NOVEL SAMPLING POLICY, US patent: US-20100249974-A1, 2010
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL, US patent: US-20100234970-A1, 2010
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TUNING ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL PARAMETERS, US patent: US-20100228370-A1, 2010