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Dr. Y. C. Simon Liu (劉耀經博士)

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Dr. Y. C. Simon Liu (劉耀經博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Y. C. Simon Liu
  • Chinese: 劉耀經博士
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Changhua, Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Dr. Y. C. (Simon) Liu 劉耀經博士 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • Chung Yuan Christian Univ. — B.S. Mathematics
  • Indiana Univ. — M.S., Computer
  • Johns Hopkins Univ. — M.S. Government Administration
  • Univ. of Maryland — M.S., Corporate Management
  • Univ. of Washington — Ph.D. Computer Science & Higher Education

Employment

  • Agriculture Research Service (ARS) — Director — (2000-) — National Agricultural Library, USDA — Director — (2010-) — NASA — Information Manager — Community — Taiwanese American Conference, East Coast — Coordinator (2007) — North American Taiwanese Professor Association, Greater Washington DC Chapter — President

Family

  • Wife: 柯淑靜

Career & Community (from vault record)

  • Federal science-administration career: Director at USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS) from 2000; Director of the National Agricultural Library (USDA) from 2010; earlier Information Manager at NASA. In 2023 USDA named him Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service, the agency’s top post — recorded in the community corpus at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-868|TAH #868 (2023-02-27)]].
  • Five degrees spanning mathematics, computing, and administration: Chung Yuan Christian Univ. (B.S. Mathematics), Indiana Univ. (M.S. Computer), Johns Hopkins Univ. (M.S. Government Administration), Univ. of Maryland (M.S. Corporate Management), Univ. of Washington (Ph.D. Computer Science & Higher Education).
  • Community: Coordinator, Taiwanese American Conference, East Coast (2007); President, Greater Washington DC Chapter, North American Taiwanese Professors’ Association.
  • His life record is held by 台美史料中心 (T.A. Archives), per the TAH encyclopedia entry cited above.

Connected in the Vault

  • His presidency of the Greater Washington DC chapter sits under the North American Taiwanese Professors’ Association; the vault’s NATPA record is its Southern California chapter page: |北美洲台灣人教授協會南加分會.
  • The Taiwanese American Conference/East Coast he coordinated in 2007 is the East Coast counterpart of the conference board held in the vault: WC).
  • The vault holds pages for Taiwanese student associations at three of his graduate campuses — |JHU, |Maryland, and |Washington — but records no personal involvement with any of them.
  • Wife 柯淑靜 is named in the TAH family record; no vault page yet.

Timeline

  • Five degrees: Chung Yuan Christian Univ. (B.S. Mathematics) → Indiana Univ. (M.S. Computer) → Johns Hopkins Univ. (M.S. Government Administration) → Univ. of Maryland (M.S. Corporate Management) → Univ. of Washington (Ph.D. Computer Science & Higher Education).
  • NASA — Information Manager (date not recorded).
  • 2000 — Appointed Director, Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA.
  • 2007 — Coordinator, Taiwanese American Conference, East Coast.
  • 2010 — Appointed Director, National Agricultural Library, USDA.
  • 2023-02-27 — Named Administrator, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), per [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-868|TAH #868]].
  • President, Greater Washington DC Chapter, |北美洲台灣人教授協會.
  • Family: wife 柯淑靜 (no vault page yet).

Sources

Vault Holdings

  • His own encyclopedia records are held in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ota-250|TAH #250: Dr. Y. C. Simon Liu 劉耀經博士]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1238-y-c-liu|TAH #1238 (Who’s Who)]] and the “Pride of Taiwanese Americans” profile [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/226-e5-8f-b0-e7-be-8e-e4-ba-ba-e7-9a-84-e6-a6-ae-e8-80-80-pride-of-taiwanese-ame|TAH #226 (2015/04)]].
  • The 2023 news of his USDA ARS Administrator appointment is held as a corpus record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-868|TAH #868: USDA Names Simon Liu as New ARS Administrator (2023-02-27)]].
  • His 2010 appointment at the National Agricultural Library falls in the Washington-area Taiwanese community documented in the vault: Greater Washington Taiwan Culture Center; his TAH profile does not record personal membership.

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