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Dr. Jheng Yan (嚴正博士)

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Dr. Jheng Yan (嚴正博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Jheng Yan
  • Chinese: 嚴正博士
  • Era: 1960
  • Geography: Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Participate in the driving plans of NASA “Spirit”, “Opportunity” and “Curiosity” (參與NASA「精神號」「機會號」及「好奇號」的駕駛計畫)

Education

  • National Tsing Hua Univ. (清華大學) — B.S., Mathematics
  • Univ. of Iowa — Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Machinery

Employment

  • Computer Aid Design & Simulation — Senior Software Engineer — University of Minnesota — Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science — JPL of NASA — Senior Engineer

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Role in the Community

His own TAH encyclopedia entry is held in the vault at 2317. Dr. Jheng Yan 嚴正博士 (TAH Who’s Who, 2021-02-22), documenting his participation in the driving plans of NASA’s Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity rover missions — a standout JPL record in the Taiwanese American scientific cohort. The corpus also holds his own first-person account: 2021) — his telling of the JPL work, filed in the My Stories memoir series. The other corpus hits are false positives: the「中正」Jhong Jheng Sports Center in Summer language camps in Taiwan, and the phrase 嚴正聲明/嚴正的抗議 (adjective “solemn”) in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys317|Our Journeys #317]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys205|Our Journeys #205]] — not this person.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-21 (slice 09201500-17): hit set unchanged — own TAH #2317 record, own My Stories #786 memoir, plus「中正」/嚴正聲明 false positives already annotated above; no new memoir material absorbable. SKIP: page saturated.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09211400-29): hit set unchanged — own #2317 record, own My Stories #786, plus「中正」/嚴正聲明 false positives (ourjourneys317/205) already annotated; no new absorbable material. SKIP: page saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09220900-22): hit set unchanged (my-stories-786, whos-who-2317, ourjourneys317/205, works index, plus 嚴正聲明 prose in taiwanjustice-net articles) — all absorbed/annotated. SKIP: page saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230400-19): hit set unchanged (my-stories-786, whos-who-2317, ourjourneys317/205, works index, taiwanjustice-net prose) — all absorbed/annotated. SKIP: verified-saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240400-7): fresh grep (嚴正博士 / Jheng Yan) hit set = own whos-who-2317 record + works index only (bare 嚴正 matches are adjective prose, already annotated) — all absorbed. SKIP: verified-saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250700-31): fresh grep (嚴正博士 / Jheng Yan) hit set unchanged — own whos-who-2317 + my-stories-786 + works index only; 嚴正 prose matches are adjective false positives already annotated. SKIP: verified-saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260500-11): fresh grep (嚴正博士 / Jheng Yan) hit set = own whos-who-2317 + works index only; my-stories-786 still linked, 嚴正 prose matches already annotated. SKIP: verified-saturated.

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