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Wen-Yih Sun (商文義)

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Wen-Yih Sun (商文義)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Wen-Yih Sun
  • Chinese: 商文義
  • Era: -
  • Geography: 台灣
  • Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台灣大學 — 1968 — B.S. Atmospheric Sciences
  • The University of Chicago — 1972 — M.S. Geophysical Sciences
  • The University of Chicago — 1975 — Ph.D. Geophysical Sciences

Employment

  • Purdue University — professor
  • 台灣高速電腦中心 — 首席科學家
  • 台灣颱風洪水籌備中心 — 主任

Role in the Community

  • Founding participant of NATPA (北美台灣人教授協會) — one of the sixteen professors at the first preparatory meeting, 1980-02-16, at the University of Chicago international dorm. The memoir’s full roster: 張錦哲、張旭成、陳炳杞、黃員成、黃金來、賴義雄、林靜竹、孫錦德、商文義、陳黃義敏、蔡嘉寅、吳得民、伍焜玉、楊勝亮、嚴文亮, plus the narrator (臨時會長). The meeting adopted draft bylaws and resolved that the association should hold meetings in Taiwan and give research back to Taiwan and the countrymen: Our Journeys 69 (EN) / Our Journeys 69.

  • NATPA President, 14th term (1994) — led the association’s 14th annual conference held in Taiwan, one of only two NATPA annuals held on the island (the 20th, 2000, under 吳和甫, coincided with President Chen Shui-bian’s inauguration). Cited as the model for overseas Taiwanese associations returning to Taiwan for annual meetings: Our Journeys 47.

  • Own TAH encyclopedia entry — 1579. Wen-Yih Sun 商文義 (2017/03): [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/1579-wen-yih-sun-e5-95-86-e6-96-87-e7-be-a9-201703|TAH #1579]].

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22: hit set unchanged (1579, ourjourneys69, ourjourneys69-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index) — all already linked above; verified-saturated, no new absorbable facts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (slice 09221000-16): hit set unchanged (1579, ourjourneys69, ourjourneys69-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index); ourjourneys47 14th-term (1994, 商文義會長) fact already absorbed above. SKIP: page saturated.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230500-30): hit set unchanged (1579, ourjourneys69, ourjourneys69-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index); NATPA founding roster + 14th-term president facts already absorbed above. SKIP: verified-saturated.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240500-22): hit set unchanged (1579, ourjourneys69, ourjourneys69-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index); NATPA founding roster + 14th-term (1994) president facts already absorbed above. SKIP: verified-saturated.

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-08 (deepen-x slice 10062334-3): fresh ZH+EN grep (商文義 / Wen-Yih Sun) across works/ articles/ sources/ events/ topics/ returned the identical hit set (1579 bio, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys47, sources index); the lone extra hit (台積電法說會 article) is a false positive on 商文曄, a different person. Verified saturated, SKIP-with-reason, no new absorbable facts, no conflicts.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-09 (deepen-x slice 10080500-9): fresh ZH+EN grep (商文義 / Wen-Yih Sun) across works/ articles/ sources/ events/ topics/ returned the identical hit set (1579 bio record, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index, sources hub). The 1579 work file is bibliographic-record-only (full text stays in vault); ourjourneys69 NATPA founding roster (16 professors, 1980-02-16, Chicago) and ourjourneys47 14th-term presidency (1994, 商文義會長) facts both already absorbed above. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason, no new absorbable facts, no conflicts.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (deepen-x slice 10090900-9): fresh ZH+EN grep (商文義 / Wen-Yih Sun) across works/ articles/ sources/ events/ topics/ returned the identical hit set (1579 bio, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index, sources hub). ourjourneys69 founding-roster passage and ourjourneys47 14th-term (1994) passage re-read — both facts already absorbed in Role in the Community above. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason, no new absorbable facts, no conflicts.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-11 (deepen-x slice 10101200-3): fresh ZH+EN grep (商文義 / Wen-Yih Sun) across works/ articles/ sources/ events/ topics/ returned the identical hit set (1579 bio record, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index, sources hub). ourjourneys69 NATPA founding-roster passage (16 professors, 1980-02-16, Chicago) and ourjourneys47 14th-term presidency (1994, 商文義會長) re-read — both already absorbed in Role in the Community above. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason, no new absorbable facts, no conflicts.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (deepen-x slice 10110805-1): fresh ZH+EN+surname grep (商文義 / Wen-Yih Sun / 文義) across works/ articles/ sources/ events/ topics/ returned the identical substantive hit set (1579 bio, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index). The surname-only extra hits (ourjourneys237, ourjourneys238, publications77, taiwanjustice article) are false positives on 林文義 / 劉文義, different persons. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason, no new absorbable facts, no conflicts.

Corpus re-grep 2026-10-13 (deepen-x slice 10121000-18): fresh ZH+EN+surname grep (商文義 / Wen-Yih Sun / 商文) across works/ articles/ sources/ events/ topics/ returned the identical substantive hit set (1579 bio, ourjourneys69/-eng, ourjourneys47, works/index, sources hub). Surname-only extras are false positives (商文曄 in TJJ TSMC articles, 重商文化 prose). Cross-checks in people/ (kim-lai-huang, prof-chin-teh-sun, prof-kenneth-k-wu) only repeat the 1980-02-16 NATPA founding-roster name already absorbed above. Verified-saturated, SKIP-with-reason, no new absorbable facts, no conflicts.

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