Yi-Chang Chen (YC)陳宜昌

YC is the CEO and Founder of Noopher AI, where he bridges cutting-edge AI research and real-world applications. He previously served as a Senior Technology Manager at MediaTek Research and has over eight years of experience in machine learning research and development, along with five years of experience leading R&D teams. His work spans language, vision, and speech AI.

He has led teams in developing Breeze, Taiwan’s first open-source large language model, as well as BreezeASR-Taigi, Taiwan’s first open-source Taiwanese speech recognition model. He has also published multiple papers at leading international AI conferences, including ICLR, ACL, and INTERSPEECH.