Jane W. S. Liu
Chair of the Board
Jane Liu works with BiDaE’s senior team in pursue of the company’s vision and shaping its business strategies. She also contributes to product design, bringing to the table insight and know-how she got from years of research on technologies for building user-centric automation and assistive devices and applications and safety critical systems.
Jane was on the faculty of Computer Science Department at University of Illinois Urbana-Champagin for 25 years. She was a software architect of Microsoft Corporation from 2000 to 2004 before joining Taiwan Academia Sinica. While at Illinois, her research focused on technologies for building mission-critical real-time systems. The contributions of her research lab include a system of building blocks and tools that supports the design, evaluation and validation of real-time systems and a kernel-level resource reservation mechanism that protects time-critical components on open platforms such as Windows and Linux from adverse effects of resource contention. At Academia Sinica, she led projects aiming to advance technologies for building user-centric automation and assistive devices designed to enhance the quality of life and self-reliance of elderly individuals and functional limited persons and tools designed for use by individuals at home and by care providing institutions to reduce medication dispatching and administration errors. The project that produced publications and patents underpinning early versions of BiDaE indoor positioning system was concerned with strengthening disaster resiliency of our living environment through use of smart things capable of processing disaster warnings from authorized senders and taking appropriate response actions, including broadcasting fine-grain location specific instructions to people indoors. Indeed, the early prototype of BiDaE indoor positioning system is based on the IoT fog of smart things for active emergency response.
Jane received her BSEE degree from Cleveland State University and MS and Sc.D. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusett Institute of Technology. She was awarded in 2005 the Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award of IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems and the Information Science Honorary Medal from Taiwan Institute of Information and Computing Machinery in 2008. She is a Life Fellow of IEEE.
Chun-Yu (Jimmy) Lai
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Jimmy Lai has years’ of experiences in all aspects of launch and maintenance of software products. As its CTO since its launch, Jimmy has built for BiDaE a strong development team. He became BiDaE’s CEO in 2024. Under his leadership, BiDaE is ready to provide profitably an increasingly wider range of end-to-end solutions needed by diverse customers.
Jimmy received both his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Prior to joining BiDaE team in 2018, Jimmy was a staff engineer and a technical manager at Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader. During his years at Trend Micro, Jimmy made significant contributions to several very large enterprise (VLE) products, including Trend Micro Scan mail for Exchange and Trend Micro Control Manager. He also led multiple development teams to deliver cloud-based security products such as Trend Micro Smart Protection Server. Jimmy’s teams were known to delivered invariably on time products of excellent quality. Through these work, Jimmy acquired not only the hard skills of a first-rate developer but also the invaluable soft skills of a leader and an outstanding mentor for young engineers.
Jimmy was invited to join the BiDaE team when they were at Taiwan Academia Sinica. Their work was supported by a project aiming at turning research prototypes into ready-for-market products. Under Jimmy’s leadership, the project completed the backbones and key components of BiDaE’s product lines and thus giving BiDaE Technology a running start when it was launched in 2020. As its CTO since its launch, Jimmy has built for BiDaE a strong development team capable of delivering high quality, easy to configure and maintain indoor positioning products needed by BiDaE’s customers.
Jimmy became BiDaE’s CEO in 2024 while continue to be its CTO. Under his leadership, BiDaE has significantly strengthened its marketing and sales strategies and capabilities to complement the company’s strong design, development and maintenance capabilities. He is also leading efforts within BiDaE and with its suppliers on product quality and pricing structure with the goal of providing its customers with the best prices while maintaining BiDaE’s profitability.
Shien-Fong (Marc) Lin
Chief Commerce Officer
Marc Lin has years of experience in business promotion of medical instruments and had a first rate academic career. His ability to bridge the gap between engineering and medicine, combined with his extensive experience in system development and academic research, makes him an invaluable asset to the BiDaE team. Under his leadership as its Chief Commerce Officer, BiDaE has significantly strengthened its marketing strategy and business expansion in order to provide its customers with products and applications and the best quality services to meet their diverse needs.
Marc is a seasoned biomedical engineer with a deep understanding of the multi-disciplinary nature of engineering and medicine. He has a proven track record in developing both hardware and software systems: As examples, he developed and maintained independently a biofluorescence imaging acquisition and analysis system and a neural signal analysis system, both of which have been adopted by medical centers worldwide. His ability to bridge the gap between engineering and medicine, coupled with strong collaborations with domestic and international medical institutions, has equipped him with a wealth of clinical knowledge and a robust professional network. As stated earlier, these accomplishments combined with his extensive experience in system development and academic research, makes him an invaluable asset to the BiDaE team. As its Chief Commerce Officer, he plays a pivotal role in connecting engineering and medical expertise, strengthening marketing strategies, and expanding business operations of the company.
Marc earned his BS from Taiwan Chiao-Tung university, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA focused on Healthcare Management from Vanderbilt University. He won the 2005 outstanding research award of American Heart Association. He is a senior member of the association and a co-founder of Arrhythmotech, USA.
Chi-Sheng (Daniel) Shih
Co-Founder
Daniel Shih is a professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering and the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at the National Taiwan University (NTU) . His expertise is in several areas related to technologies of importance to BiDaE. As a co-founder, he continues to provide the company with advice and guidance.
Daniel received his B.S. in Engineering Science and M.S. in Computer Science from National Cheng Kung University and his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He joined NTU upon completion of his graduate study.
Daniel’s research interests include multi-dimension real-time resource allocation, real-time scheduling, requirement assignment and determination, resource allocation, cyber-physical systems, streaming computation, and system integration. His most recent research activities are in the areas of autonomous systems and smart sensors. In collaboration with several companies, his research lab is developing technologies for providing autonomous devices with good perception, real-time communication capability and the ability to coordinate consistently with other autonomous devices. They also aim at providing infrastructure support for out-of-sight perception and distributed consensus decision-making by individual autonomous vehicles. In the area of smart sensors, Daniel’s lab is collaborating with multiple companies and universities in a worldwide effort to provide surgeons with 3D vision and hence the better perception of patient anatomy when performing microsurgery, robotic surgery and endoscopic examination.
Daniel is a member of BiDaE from the very start. As a co-founder, he continues to provide BiDaE with advises on product development and business development in different technology sectors, including precise medication, transportation infrastructure, and disaster management.
Edward T.-H. Chu
Co-Founder
Edward Chu is an associate professor of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. He is an expert in IoT, embedded systems and data science. He successfully led several inter-academic and industry-university programs, including the program with BiDaE Technology which helped partner clients win national innovation and medical-care quality awards.
Edward received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Before pursuing his doctoral degree, he worked for Acer and Wistron on BIOS kernel and owned a China patent on the kernel. As an academician, most of his research remains to be practical in nature, producing publications on methods and prototype systems for diverse purposes such as fall detection, trapped victim detection, crowdsourcing, and active and intelligent emergency response, and so on. Several of his university-industry collaboration efforts produced results that benefited both the companies and the university. As examples, a hyperspectral remote sensing IoT system has been transferred to Isuzu Optics Corp. for commercialization. A tutorial of embedded operating system has been adopted by Microsoft, Taiwan. A patented technology of identifying indoor emergency events has been transferred to Taiwan Shin Knog Security Co., LTD. Recently, Edward developed a mobile augmented reality based indoor navigation app on BiDaE indoor positioning platform and explored the use of natural language and social media tools for querying object tracking systems. They are good candidates for commercialization by BiDaE if and when needs arise.
Edward has been a member of BiDaE team from the very start. As a co-founder, he helped BiDaE connect and work with some of the early adopters of BiDaE products. In the future, he will continue to provide BiDaE with suggestions and advises as well as view points from the perspective of likely customers, competitors and collaborators.