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Prof. James C. Liao (廖俊智教授)

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Prof. James C. Liao (廖俊智教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. James C. Liao
  • Chinese: 廖俊智教授
  • Era: 1958
  • Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
  • Core roles: engineer, scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Marvin J. Johnson Award, Biochemical Technology Division, American Chemical Society, 2009

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1980 — B.S., Chemical Engineering
  • Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison — 1987 — Ph.D., Chemical Engineering

Employment

  • Eastman Kodak Company — Engineer — (1987-) — Texas A&M University — Professor — (1990-) — UCLA — Professor — (1997-) — Academia Sinica, Taiwan — President — (2016-2018)

Family

  • Wife: ­­—

Role in the Community

  • 2015 — elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for renewable-energy research, profiled in the 台美人的榮耀 (Pride of Taiwanese American) series: 05
  • 2016 — named President of Academia Sinica, recorded in TAH’s notable-events series: 2016 (matches Employment 2016–2018)
  • 2023 — received an international award and urged metabolic engineering to address global warming: 879. 廖俊智獲頒國際獎項 籲利用代謝工程因應全球暖化 (2023-06-14)
  • Held in the TAH Who’s Who records: 107 and 1081.
  • Re-grepped 2026-09-21 (deepen-x slices 09180500-4, 09191400-8): corpus hits still confined to the already-linked records (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879) plus the index — no new absorbable facts.

Sources

  • TAH #107 encyclopedia: 107. Prof. James C. Liao 廖俊智教授

  • TAH #1081 encyclopedia: 1081. Prof. James C. Liao 廖俊智教授

  • TAH Who’s Who

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09212352-19): hits still confined to the already-linked records (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879) plus the index — no new absorbable facts (SKIP-with-reason).

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221200-28): hit set identical (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879 + index). Verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts (SKIP-with-reason).

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230700-16): hit set identical (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879 + index). Verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts (SKIP-with-reason).

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240700-23): hit set identical (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879 + index; zero hits in articles/). Verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts (SKIP-with-reason).
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09251000-16): hit set identical (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879 + index). Verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts (SKIP-with-reason).
  • 2020-03-26 — as Academia Sinica president, held a video conference with Eva Zažímalová, president of the Czech Academy of Sciences, on epidemic-prevention cooperation, ahead of the Taiwan–Czech joint epidemic statement — recorded in the Taiwan Justice article 歐洲第一國！捷克和台灣簽署防疫聯合聲明.
  • 2021-04-07 — witnessed the 錢復資料捐贈典禮 at Academia Sinica (前監察院長錢復 donated ~40 years, 200+ boxes of archives to 近史所檔案館); 廖俊智 noted 錢復’s deep ties to AS (father 錢思亮 former AS president, brother 錢煦 academician) — recorded in 錢復捐贈中研院近40年檔案.
  • 2020 — as AS president, convened the cross-academia COVID-19 cooperation platform (武漢肺炎合作平台), which published synthetic remdesivir and rapid-test antibody work; AIT director 酈英傑 visited him on 2020-03-17 to discuss US–Taiwan public-health cooperation — recorded in 中研院找到抑制病毒關鍵 and 武肺引爆美中激烈對峙.
  • 2020-05-11 — AS posted a photo of 廖俊智 with Health Minister 陳時中 holding 30 red-bean cakes (紅豆餅) to mark the expected 30-day streak of zero local cases, and announced the CDCK research center would co-locate at AS — recorded in 台灣連續29天沒有本土病例.
  • 2021-05-04/05 — former HKU student-union alumni (張崑陽、周永康) published an open letter asking him to revoke HKU president 張翔’s Academia Sinica academician title over campus repression; AS replied that academician affairs must go through the academicians’ meeting — recorded in 港大收回學生會會址·學者公開信 and AS’s response in 綠委及民團要求撤銷張翔院士.
  • 2022-05-12 — as AS president, presented the first clear image of the Milky Way’s central black hole (Sagittarius A*) from the EHT; noted this black hole is ~2000× closer but 2000× smaller than M87*, and that AS is one of 13 EHT members — recorded in 中研院發布銀河系最大黑洞清晰照.
  • 2024-07-19 — named deputy convenor (副召集人) of the 國家氣候變遷對策委員會 under President Lai, alongside VP 鄭麗君 and 和碩 chairman 童子賢 — recorded in 賴總統宣布信賴新政三大委員會.
  • 2025-08 — his tenure drew public criticism over AS’s foreign name “Academia Sinica” being read as “China Academy” (台灣國家聯盟 petitioned for renaming; commentator 陳茂雄 faulted his reply) — recorded in 學術機構就可以干預政治嗎（陳茂雄）; HOLD: the naming dispute is opinion/commentary, not an established fact about Liao himself.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260500-24): works/ hit set unchanged (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879 + index); articles/ yielded two new absorbable mentions (above), now linked and absorbed.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-27 (slice 09260500-24 retry): hit set identical (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879 + two taiwanjustice articles already absorbed above). Verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts (SKIP-with-reason).
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (slice 10091400-18): articles/ yielded seven new absorbable mentions (2020 COVID platform + AIT visit, 紅豆餅 photo, HKU 張翔 academician open letter + AS response, EHT Sgr A* reveal, 國家氣候變遷對策委員會 deputy convenor, Academia Sinica naming criticism), now linked and absorbed above.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (slice 10102200-30): hit set identical (107, 1081, mystories239, important2016-22, my-stories-879 + already-absorbed taiwanjustice articles); the Prague-partnership (2021-01-27) and duplicate 錢復捐贈/HKU articles re-surface only facts already linked above. Verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts (SKIP-with-reason).

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