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About

Mission Statement

Being a hidden champion of ingenuity vision solutions innovator, focusing on work-life balance with can-do spirit, and relentless pursing innovation and enjoyment.

The Vision

The driving engine (小 miniature、合 integrated、智 intelligent) of future vision innovation.

Our Team

iSSATek is team up by >15 years veterans in the field of camera optics, image processing ASIC and computer vision system experience.

丘祺緯 博士 / Ethan Chiu Ph.D.

丘祺緯 博士 / Ethan Chiu Ph.D.

CEO and Co-founder

許倫華 / Sharon Hsu

許倫華 / Sharon Hsu

COO and Co-founder

丘祺台 / Richard Chiu

丘祺台 / Richard Chiu

VP of Manufacturing

高永原 博士 / Nick Kao Ph. D.

高永原 博士 / Nick Kao Ph. D.

VP of Product Engineering

涂宗憲 / Darren Tu

涂宗憲 / Darren Tu

Head of Image and FW

馮自立 / Cloud Feng

馮自立 / Cloud Feng

Head of Opto-Mechanical

潘彥男 / Nan Pan

潘彥男 / Nan Pan

Eletrical Engineering

褚金寬 / Tony Chu

褚金寬 / Tony Chu

Head of Quality

丘祺緯 博士 / Ethan Chiu Ph.D.

丘祺緯 博士 / Ethan Chiu Ph.D.

CEO and Co-founder

Education

  • Ph. D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering, NCTU, Taiwan.
  • Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering, CYCU, Taiwan.
  • MS in Michigan Technological University, Michigan, USA.

Experiences

  • Managing Director, Actuator Solution Taiwan & Head of Telecom BU, Actuator Solution GmbH.
  • Associate Manager, Foxconn.
Dr. Ethan Chiu has 20 years of experience in camera, actuator and vision system design, marketing and manufacturing. Back to 2007, he was with Foxconn camera module business, leading the team developing stereo 3D camera, Liquid Crystal lens, Piezoelectric, SMA and OIS actuators for tired one mobile phone customers. On 2012, He joined Actuator Solution GmbH (ASG) as Head of Telecom BU as well as the Managing Director at Actuator Solution Taiwan. During the period, he successfully brings the cutting edge technology of SMA into mass volume production for world leading drone customer.

Dr. Ethan Chiu obtains his MS in Michigan Tech. University, USA and Ph.D. in Chung Yuan Christian University, Tawian both in Mechanical Engineering, He was Ph. D. candidate (and then a dropout) of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Tawian. He has more than 50 patents in US, China and Taiwan and is the leading authors of 43 SCI Journal and conference papers in the fields of optics, mechatronics, Genetic Algorithm and Neural Network algorithm.

Ethan is also a father of two mokeys who make him more exhausted after work.
許倫華 / Sharon Hsu

許倫華 / Sharon Hsu

COO and Co-founder

Education

  • B.A., English Language and Literature, Soochow University (SCU), Taiwan

Experiences

  • Cost controller, Supply Chian Management, Quanta Computer Inc.
  • Sales representative and assistant to GM, Actuator Solutions GmbH.
Sharon spent her past 10 years in managing operations, which covering sales, procurement, finance and business controller in the consumer and industrial Industry. At beginning of her career, she focusses on business development and marketing of SMA actuator technology for mobile and consumer electronics industrial. Prior to join iSSA, she dedicates herself on the cost analysis and control of commercial cloud sever system with the tier-one customer of world-wide SaaS companies.
丘祺台 / Richard Chiu

丘祺台 / Richard Chiu

VP of Manufacturing

Education

  • BS in Industrial Engineering, CYCU, Taiwan
  • BS in Mechanical Engineering, Taipei Institute of Technology, Taiwan

Experiences

  • Manager, Site-Tech-Management, Apple
  • Director, KunShan plant, FoxLink
  • VP, Camera Module Factory, Primax
  • Director, ZhongShan plant, Yale Security
  • Director, component Mfg, Johnson Motor
Richard has 40+ years in manufacturing field, including SMT, plastic injection, stamping, vacuum plating, tooling fabrication and assembly, around 30 years in China for MNC companies. Prior to join iSSA, he spent ten years with Apple, where he supervise all the manufacture engineering and process for mobile phones at contract manufacturing site (mainly in Foxconn, China). Over the years, he experences through the most advanced automation and manufacturing system among the industry. In the earlier years, he was in charge of precision molding factory in Foxlink and also built up the camera module manufacturing site in Dongguan for Primax.
高永原 博士 / Nick Kao Ph. D.

高永原 博士 / Nick Kao Ph. D.

VP of Product Engineering

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Experiences

  • CEO & Co-founder, Inventiv Technologies, Taipei, Taiwan
  • CTO, TSE Vision, Singapore
  • Research Fellow, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Product & Fabrication Manager, DynaOptics, Singapore
  • Visiting Research Scholar, UC Davis, CA, US
With executive experience in engineering and manufacturing, Nick has spent 10 years immersed in various stages of technologies commercialization, including the smart sensor and the free-form lens, from defining user needs, developing prototypes, strategy development, etc. He has started a company and provided a service of sensor intelligentization in different industrial areas. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
涂宗憲 / Darren Tu

涂宗憲 / Darren Tu

Head of Image and FW

Education

  • MS, Electronics Engineering, NCTU, Taiwan
  • BS, Eletrical Engineering, NTHU, Taiwan

Experiences

  • ADAS System Manager, TTE
  • Webcam System Manager, SONiX
Darren has 20 years of IC design, firmware development & FAE experience in the semiconductor, image industries. His past focus are on the tehcnology of image signal processing algorithm design and verification, IQ tuning in webcam/streaming video products, as well as the product-line management responsibility in SONiX video department.
馮自立 / Cloud Feng

馮自立 / Cloud Feng

Head of Opto-Mechanical

Education

  • Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, NCKU, Taiwan

Experiences

  • Manager of FAE, Actuator Solution GmbH.
  • Director of R&D, Seasons Tech.
  • Principle Engineer of R&D Project Leader Team, Liteon.
  • Engineer of NPD (Flip Chip), SPIL.
  • Engineer of R&D Packaging Team, Foxconn
Cloud has more than 20 years’ experience of IC and image sensor packaging. During the past years, he devoted himself into flip-chip package, Active Alignment process, lens optical-mechanical integration, and image quality and testing methodology in the camera module industries.
潘彥男 / Nan Pan

潘彥男 / Nan Pan

Eletrical Engineering

Education

  • MS, Space Science and Engineering, NCU, TW.
  • BS, Eletrical Engineering, TKU, Taiwan

Experiences

  • Engineer, PESI
Nan has more than 10 years of electrical engineering experience from TV setup box to mix-mode signal for stallite communication system.
褚金寬 / Tony Chu

褚金寬 / Tony Chu

Head of Quality

Education

  • BS, Aeronautical Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taiwan.

Experiences

  • Director of Quality, PCB division of Global Brands Manufacture Ltd.
  • Vice Director of Quality, FPC BU, Ichia Technology.
  • Manager of Quality, KEE group.
  • Account Manager of Quality, monitor division, Qisda corp.

Certification

  • Certificated Six Sigma Black Belt
  • ISO9001:2015 leader auditor of IRCA.
  • VDA 6.3 process auditor-Certificated of Qualification, by QMC.
Tony has more than 20 years of experience for design quality, manufacturing quality, failure analysis in the monitor system, PCBA, FPC, IMD injection and touch panel industries, including new product introduction and build up TV production line in Europe OEM.