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Dr. Dan-Kai Liu (劉登凱博士)

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Dr. Dan-Kai Liu (劉登凱博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Dan-Kai Liu
  • Chinese: 劉登凱博士
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Awarded “Immigrants Building America” by AIT (榮獲中華民國僑務委員會與美國在台協會(AIT)「華裔移民對美國貢獻特展」)

Education

  • Tatung Univ. (大同大學) — B.S., Electrical Engineering
  • Texas Tech Univ. — Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

Employment

  • JPL of NASA (美國國家航空暨太空總署噴射推進實驗室) — Deputy Chief Engineer of Flight Systems — (1997-) — Community — CESASC (南加州中華科工學會) — President

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

Dr. Liu is a leader in the Southern California Taiwanese technical community, serving as president of CESASC (南加州中華科工學會) while at JPL, where he was Deputy Chief Engineer of Flight Systems from 1997. The community record features him in the TAH Foundation’s February 2021 “My Stories” series as part of a cluster profiling Taiwanese American NASA scientists — 「火星有多遠 NASA工程師劉登凱：傳訊要花14分鐘」 alongside 嚴正博士 (Dr. Jheng Yan, #786/2317) and 謝伯芳博士 (Dr. Po-Fang Philip Hsieh, #2318) — explaining to the community how long signals take to travel to Mars. His “Immigrants Building America” recognition by AIT and the ROC Overseas Community Affairs Council (華裔移民對美國貢獻特展) is recorded in the TAH encyclopedia profile 2316.

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Timeline

  • 1997– — Deputy Chief Engineer of Flight Systems, JPL/NASA; president, CESASC (南加州中華科工學會)
  • 2021-02-22 — featured in the TAH “My Stories” series (785. 火星有多遠) alongside fellow Taiwanese American NASA scientists

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
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