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正體中文 The College of Electrical and Communication Engineering at Yuan Ze University once again showcased its strength on the international AI stage. Following last year’s championship in a Google global competition, this year a research team led by Distinguished Professor Tun-Yu Chen, Dean of the College of Electrical and Communication Engineering, together with faculty members Yong-Che Lu and Sheng-Kai Ku from the Department of Electrical Engineering, achieved outstanding results at the globally recognized machine learning challenge “NeurIPS – Open Polymer Prediction 2025,” winning a gold medal.
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The 30th SEMICON Taiwan 2025 was grandly held in September, featuring for the first time the “Silicon Startups Zone,” which brought together 17 startup teams from around the world. Among them, Professor Kuo-Bin Chung from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yuan Ze University stood out as the only invited representative from academia, delivering a keynote presentation that drew significant attention.
Taoyuan’s stories were brought to the public through sound. The Department of Chinese Linguistics and Literature at Yuan Ze University collaborated with Good News Radio to produce the “Reading Taoyuan” series, which has been broadcast since September in the program segment “Love on the Journey.”
In August 2025, Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with ASIA SDG ACTION EDUCATION, hosted the “Visiting Expert Programme: IFRS, TNFD, and Carbon Finance.” The nine-day program focused on major issues such as sustainable finance, energy transition, carbon markets, and ecological conservation.
Yuan Ze University continued to promote its University Social Responsibility (USR) initiative by bringing campus knowledge into the community. Wei-Ren Chen, faculty member of the College of General Studies, hosted two sessions of the program “Reading Youth: The Books I Love” at the Taoyuan Public Library Main Branch on August 17 and September 6.