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Speaker: Dr. Ted Chang

CTO, VP&GM, Quanta Computer

Biography

Dr. Ted Chang is Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Vice President and General Manager of Quanta Computer, known as the world's biggest computer ODM and laptop computer maker. Along with his role as CTO, he oversees corporate technology strategy and global research partnership. Dr. Chang takes lead of Quanta Research Institute (QRI) for advanced technology research and BU12, a business unit dedicated to AIoT solutions for e-Heath, Smart Medicine and Smart Agriculture.
Appointed by the President of Taiwan (ROC), Dr. Chang has served as the representative to APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) since 2019. He serves as Co-Chair of Digital Working Group in ABAC 2022 and as Co-Convenor of Supporting Emergent Technology Taskforce with focus on AI and digital health for ABAC 2021.
Academic wise, Dr. Chang holds various guest professorships in EECS colleges of National Taiwan University (NTU), National Cheng-Kung University (NCKU), Asia University (AU) and AI college of National YangMing Chao-Tung University (NYCU).
Dr. Chang serves as member of the board for Epoch Foundation, Spring Foundation, Quanta Culture and Education Foundation (QCEF), Chines Medical Advancement Foundation and Ming Dao Culture and Education Foundation. He is member of many advisory and project committees of Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA), Ministry of Science and Technology(MoST), Ministry of Health and Welfare (MoHW) as well as major universities in Taiwan on innovation, entrepreneurship and advanced technology.

Among many awards and honors, Dr. Chang recently received Japan Good Design Best 100 award in 2022, five REDDOT Design Awards on Smart Medicine (two in 2021 and three in 2022), together with IF Design Award on Smart Agriculture in 2021. He received distinguished alumni awards from both National Cheng-Kung University and National Chia-Yi High School in 2021. In 2020, He led Quanta-NCTU Joint AI Center to win CES Innovation Award and WITSA (World Innovation, Technology, Service Alliance)-PPP Silver Award. He was invited as the chief advisor to Taiwan Pavilion “Swingphony” at London Design Biennale 2020.
Dr. Chang has over 220 patents granted globally by 10/2022. One of his most important inventions is “A Network Object Delivery System for Personal Computing Device”, in which the “Application Module Store” was introduced and well defined. The invention was filed back in 2001 with US patent granted in 2010, several years ahead of the modern smartphone, Apple App Store and Google Play were introduced to the market.
Dr. Chang joined Quanta in 2000, promoted as VP in 2009 and further promoted as the first CTO in Quanta history in 2010. Starting in 2004, Dr. Chang has initiated and served as the program director of the T-Party Project, a 10-year 45Mil. strategic research collaboration project with Computer Science and Artificial Lab (CSAIL) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on future computing and communication, (https://www.csail.mit.edu/Quanta.html). In 2019, Quanta kicked off another 5 years collaboration with MIT CSAIL with focus on computational health and AI Medicine. Dr. Chang has been a visiting scientist for MIT CSAIL for over ten years. Dr. Chang's past projects, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and the QRI research model, were published as business cases by Harvard Business School.
Dr. Chang holds B.S. (88), M.S. (92) and Ph.D. (96) degrees, all from the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng-Kung University. Dr. Chang’s research interests now focuses on human centric innovation for smarter lifestyle through AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) that integrate IoT, cloud computing, big data analytics and machine learning. He is dedicated to create a sustainable model so that greatideas in research lab can turn into great social impacts through product and business innovation.

Title: Metaverse that Matters

Abstract

Our world is facing different kinds of challenges from radical climate change, energy, food, water shortage to the rapid growth of elderly population. Moreover, COVID pandemics mare the situation even more complicated. The whole society has urgent needs for new digital innovation to accelerate the smart transformation against all these instant threats in the new zero contact economics. In this talk, we, as world’s largest computer maker, shall share our approach to architect an end-to-end cloud platform, by integrating AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, IoT, Edge Computing, 5G as well as FinTech, to enable Digital Twins and Metaverse as new tools for real world human-centric computing problems that really matters.

Title: AI-assisted Coding Changes Software Development Profoundly

Abstract

For many decades now, the software industry has attempted to bridge the productivity gap, develop higher quality code and manage the ever growing complexity of software-intensive systems. The results have been mixed, and as a result, a great majority of today's software is still written manually by human developers. This is about to change rapidly as recent developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence show promising results. While artists and designers have been taken by surprise by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2’s capabilities in designing unique art, ChatGPT has astonished the rest of the world with its capability of understanding human interaction. AI-assisted coding solutions such as Github’s Copilot and Replit’s Ghostwriter, among many others, are rapidly developing in a direction where AI generates new code that runs fast with high quality. Little is known about the true capabilities of AI programmers and their impact on the software development industry, education, and research. This talk sheds light on the current state of AI-assisted coding, highlights the research gaps, and proposes a way forward.