02.21 Speaker Section: (Zoom Link) 022121
Speakers
Yiu-Chang Lin
(02/20 09:30~10:30)
Topic: How to get a right job for a student who just graduated?
Yiu-Chang Lin, a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, has five years of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (NLP/ML/DL) experience in academia and industry. He is strong with both machine learning algorithms and end-to-end NLP pipeline implementation, as well as academic publications. As a full-stack ML researcher and engineer from proof of concept to production, he has significant knowledge and solid hands-on skills in various topics, including query understanding, item product linking, taxonomy classification, product search re-ranking, multilingual entity discovery & linking.
Charles Lu
(02/20 10:35 ~ 11:35 EST)
Topic: Win Recognition from Large Enterprise
Charles Lu, a Certified Career Strategic Planner, has nearly 20 years of human resources experience and over ten years of career consultant experience. He has conducted more than 400 career search seminars and accumulated over 700 individual cases, specializing in developing training plans and cultivating potential talent.
He founded the "HR Weekend HR_Friday" community in July 2009, which has grown into the largest HR professional community in Taiwan (with more than 10,000 partners and more than 8,000 companies) and accumulated over 1,800 training events and over 50,000 participants in the past 11 years.
In June 2017, he founded the "New Venture HR Studio," held 30 "New Venture HR" seminars, and counseled more than 20 new ventures. He hoped to help Taiwan's new venture entrepreneurs to overcome various HR management challenges encountered in the "early stage of the new venture."
Tao Lin
(02/20 11:40~12:40 EST)
Topic: H1B / OPT
Tao Lin, graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, is a Lawyer of TLA LAW, Attorneys at Law, PLLC. Before receiving his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, he worked at Lewis D'Amato's in Taiwan and Hong Kong. After getting his master's degree from Johns Hopkins University, he became a Ph.D. candidate in International Affairs, a recommended lawyer by the New York City Bar Association, and a legal advisor to the Federation of Taiwanese Student Association in New York (FTSANY). (tlin@tlalaw.nyc)
Michael Wu
(02/21 09:30~10:30 EST)
Topic: How to maintain a high quality career path (work life balance, high job performance, positive attitude, and etc.)?
Michael Wu has more than 30 years of experience in the bakery business since his homecoming from the U.S and dives into the family-run enterprise in 1988. As the CEO of Sung Chen Bakery Taiwan, he has successfully made Sung Chen Bakery Taiwan a well-known brand in Taiwan and even set up the company in Yangzhou, China, named Sunnysmile Bakery, the very first branch in 2016.
He is actively involved in non-governmental organizations and related associations. For the past couple of decades, he also served as President of the International Rotary Club and Convener of Board Supervisors of Taipei Bakery Association. This year, he is honorable elected as the Vice Chairman and International Communication Chairperson of the Association of Chain and Franchise Association (ACFPT).
Alex Chang
(02/21 10:35~11:35 EST)
Topic: 名校畢業好棒棒！So What?
Alex Chang, the speaker of the "Harvard is Hard" TEDx talk with 6.1 million views, will share his experiences with getting his first job (which he hated), founding a startup, Ivy-Way Academy (which was unrelated to his major), and figuring out his life (which he absolutely loves). You don't have to go to Harvard to relate to his story of studying in the US, finding his life's calling, and making the most out of his education experience!
Janet Tung
(02/21 11:40~12:40 EST)
Topic: Job Search & Interview Strategy
Janet Tung, a Senior Technical Recruiter of Athenahealth, an American cloud computing company providing healthcare solutions, has been recruiting top-notch IT polyglots in the greater Boston area since 2017. As a former consultant of PeopleSearch Taiwan, the top recruiting firm located in Taipei 101, she was awarded as top recruiter among 1,000+ recruiters in HRNet Group (PeopleSearch & HRNetOne) across Singapore, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Japan. She also helped world-renowned clients build up digital and E-commerce teams from scratch, such as Unilever, L'oreal Paris, Estee Lauder, Levis, Uniqlo, 3M, McDonald, etc.