Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist and Chief Technology Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Sr. Vice President
General Counsel
Erik Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Artilux, responsible for strategic initiatives, corporate growth, technology-market fit and business development across the globe since its establishment in 2014. He has led Artilux to become the renowned world leader of GeSi photonic technology by growing a team with top talents worldwide to empower continuously technology advancement for multiple growing market segments and successfully landing numerous well-known MNCs as strategic partners and customers.
Prior to co-founding Artilux, Erik was a researcher at Stanford University in the US from 2007 and then joined Intel Labs as a senior research scientist in 2010. He is passionate on exploring novel semiconductor devices including advanced logic, memory and integrated photonic system to identify and demonstrate a comprehensive and compelling technology solution for problems requiring multidiscipline perspectives.
Erik earned both Ph.D. and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. He holds more than 100 granted and pending patents worldwide and also has authored and co-authored several publications in premier technical journals and conferences, covering heterogeneous integration on CMOS platform, 3D-IC, silicon photonics, GeSi sensing, imaging and more.
Neil Na is the Co-Founder, Chief Scientist and CTO of Artilux, leading both Artilux Research Lab and Device R&D Team to drive technological innovations and to deliver best-in-class solutions to our customers. He has 20+ years of professional experience, specializing in optoelectronic neural network, SWIR 3D sensing and imaging, integrated Si photonics, and quantum optical information processing.
Prior to co-founding Artilux, Neil was an assistant professor at National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan and an affiliate scientist at the National Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan. During the interim, his group conducted both fundamental and applied researches in semiconductor-based quantum photonic devices. Prior to working in academia, he was a senior research scientist at Intel Labs in the USA, developing integrated silicon photonic components for high-speed optical interconnects used in data centers.
Neil received his bachelor’s degree from National Tsing-Hua University, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and Optica (formerly Optical Society of America), and a member of APS (American Physical Society). He has published 70+ journal and conference papers, and holds 350+ issued and pending patents.
Grace Chen is CFO of Artilux since 2015, leading a team of professionals covering Finance, Accounting, HR and Administration. Grace manages the Company’s general operations, drives fund raising activities, and participates in formulation of corporate strategies to support Artilux’s growth. She has spent over 15 years in various financial roles with extensive experiences in investment banking, private equity, and startup fundraising.
Prior to joining Artilux, Grace served as Vice President of Investment Banking Division at Citigroup Global Markets, Senior Associate of Asia Buyout at The Carlyle Group and Senior Analyst of Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley.
Grace received a B.B.A degree from National Taiwan University, graduating summa cum laude in Finance in 2004.
Jeff Liang serves as Sr. VP of Engineering at Artilux since 2015, leading both the analog and digital circuit design groups to deliver competitive ICs with Artilux exclusive and distinguished sensor technology. He has nearly 20 years of professional experience in semiconductor industry, specializing in analog and mixed-signal circuits design, focusing on phase-locked loops, data converts, image sensor and high-speed CMOS data-communication circuits for multiple gigabit applications.
Prior to joining Artilux, Jeff worked as a technical manager at MediaTek for 8 years, responsible for advanced circuits design for TV and mobile SoCs. He also joined Media Tek Wireless, Woburn, MA, where he worked with the advanced ADC design team for 3 years. Besides, he was a member of the Technical Program Committee for Asia Solid-State Circuits Conference during 2013 and 2014 to provide technical review service for wireline and mixed-signal related papers.
Jeff holds a B.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University. He was the winner of First TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award and the silver award of 7th Macronix Golden Silicon Awards. Dr. Liang currently has issued more than 20 IEEE journals and conference papers, including 7 published papers in International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
Andrew Shieh serves as General Counsel at Artilux, leading an experienced team to manage legal compliance and corporate governance, with an emphasis on establishing Artilux’s leadership in intellectual property, mitigating legal risks, unblocking obstacles to business opportunities and more. He has 17+ years of professional experience in both legal advisory & strategy and engineering research & development.
Prior to joining Artilux, Andrew was Senior IP Counsel at Uber Technologies in San Francisco, providing legal guidance to support Uber’s rapid growth in the development of self-driving technology. Before Uber, Andrew worked at Fish & Richardson P.C., a leading global IP law firm, where his practice focused on patent protection and dispute resolution for blue-chip companies as well as start-ups in various technology sectors. Before his legal career, Andrew had extensive experience in engineering development and innovations on photonic integrated devices systems and semiconductor processing. In 2010, he was a member of Intel Lab’s research team that demonstrated the world’s first end-to-end integrated link using silicon photonics. Prior to Intel, he had served at Columbia University and Cisco Systems on photonics circuits research and network solutions respectively.
Andrew obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown Law Center in the US. He also holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, a Master of Engineering Management from Duke University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University.
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