Huang Yen-nun

Huang Yen-nun
黃彥男
Official portrait, 2024
2nd Minister of Digital Affairs
Assumed office
20 May 2024
Prime MinisterCho Jung-tai
Preceded byAudrey Tang
Personal details
Born11 August 1960 (1960-08-11) (age 64)
Taiwan
Political partyIndependent
EducationNational Taiwan University (BS)
University of Maryland (MS, PhD)

Huang Yen-nun (Chinese: 黃彥男; 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]

References

  1. ^ "Keynote speakers Distinguished Research Fellow, Yen-Nun Huang" (PDF). IEEE Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. ^ "2012 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 15, 2012.
  3. ^ Chen, Christie (16 April 2024). "Economics minister, NDC chief among new Cabinet members announced". Central News Agency. Retrieved 16 April 2024. Republished as: Chen, Yun; Madjar, Kayleigh (16 April 2024). "New economics, digital ministers announced". Taipei Times.