Dr. Joseph Yang has mentored many of Taiwan's promising biotech and medtech founders, and co-founded the Stanford-Taiwan Biomedical Fellowship Program (STB). He was Department Chair of Computer Science at Tamkang University and later the dean of academic affairs and vice president of National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology. He also served as director general of the Department of International Programs of the National Science Council (now Ministry of Science and Technology), and later as director of Science and Technology Division, TECO in San Francisco. He also sits on the board of the Taiwan Cultural and Creativity Development Foundation.