Keynote Speakers
Name: Chien Chenfu
Title: professor
Unit: Taiwan Tsing Hua University
Topic: Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence to Empower “Industry 3.5” as Disruptive Innovations for Smart Production
Abstract:
The leading nations including Germany and USA have proposed national competitive strategies such as Industry 4.0 and AMP to win back advanced manufacturing from emergent countries. The increasing adoption of the multimode sensors, Internet of Things (IOT), big data analytics, and intelligent equipment and robotics have empowered manufacturing intelligence and thus change the paradigm of production and global manufacturing networks. Various companies of existing horizontal layers of global supply chains are battling for dominant positions in this newly created arena via providing novel value-proposition solutions and/or employing new technologies to enhance smart production. This talk aims to propose a manufacturing strategy called Industry 3.5 as a hybrid strategy between the best practice of existing manufacturing for Industry 3.0 and to-be Industry 4.0 based on our empirical studies with various industries. Indeed, big data analytics and artificial intelligence methodologies can be developed to empower Industry 3.5 for disruptive innovations of smart manufacturing. This talk will conclude with discussions of the implications of evolutionary digital manufacturing technologies by addressing the revolutionary “industry as a whole” and the shifting paradigms for intelligent manufacturing. 
Introduction:

Dr. Chen-Fu Chien is Tsinghua Chair Professor, in the Department of Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan. Professor Chien is the Convener for Industrial Engineering and Management Program, Ministry of Science & Technology, Taiwan; Director of the Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (AIMS) Research Center, Principal Investigator for the Semiconductor Technologies Empowerment Partners (STEP) Consortium and the Director for the NTHU-TSMC Center for Manufacturing Excellence. He received B.S. with double majors in Industrial Engineering and Electrical Engineering with the Phi Tao Phi Honor from NTHU in 1990. He received M.S. and Ph.D. of Decision Sciences and Operations Research with two minors in Statistics and Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley, from 2002 to 2003. He also received the Executive Training of PCMPCL from Harvard Business School in 2007. He was a Visiting Professor in Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University (sponsored by Royal Society, UK), Visiting Professor in Beijing Tsinghua University (sponsored by Chinese Development Foundation), Tianjin University, and Zhejiang University; Visiting Professor in Waseda University (sponsored by Japan Interchange Association Young Scholar Fellowship).

 

His research mainly concerns the development of decision, big data analytics, and optimization solutions for various multi-objective decision problems in real settings. Dr. Chien and his Decision Analysis Lab Associates have conducted many university-industry collaborative research projects with domain experts. From 2005 to 2008, he had been on-leave to serve as the Deputy Director of Industrial Engineering Division in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Dr. Chien has 12 invention patents for semiconductor manufacturing and published more than 150 journal papers. Dr. Chien has received many awards including the Executive Yuan Award for Outstanding Science & Technology Contribution (2016), the National Quality Award from the Executive Yuan (2012), Distinguished Research Awards (2007, 2011, 2016), Tier-One Principal Investigator (2005-2008), and Best Research Awards from the Ministry of Science & Technology, University Industrial Contribution Award from Ministry of Economic Affairs for Individual Contribution (2009), Distinguished University-Industry Collaborative Research Award from the Ministry of Education (2001), Distinguished Young Faculty Research Award (2001) and Distinguished University-Industry Collaborative Research Award (2007) by NTHU, Best Paper Award (2001), Distinguished Young Industrial Engineer Award (2001), IE Medal (2010) from Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers, Best Engineering Paper Award (2002) and Distinguished Engineering Professor (2010) by Chinese Institute of Engineers, TSMC-NTHU Faculty Semiconductor Research Grant (2004), and the Lu, Feng-Chang Award from Chinese Management Association (2007). He received the 2011 IEEE Trans. on Automation Sciences and Engineering Best Paper Award and the 2015 IEEE Trans. on Semiconductor Manufacturing Best Paper Award. He is Area Editor for Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and Journal Intelligent Manufacturing. He is on the Advisory Board of OR Spectrum and editorial board for Computers and Industrial Engineering.