James Lin

James Lin has been the Deputy Division Director of Smart Manufacturing in UMC for 4 years, where he focuses on Industrial AI new technology adoption, Smart Manufacturing applications development, and cross-site cloud-native platforms and solutions deployment and operation.

He is also the co-chair of Smart Manufacturing Committee in SEMI Taiwan, and vice-chair of SEMI Smart Manufacturing Global Executive Committee, proposing Smart Manufacturing maturity model and roadmap for AI-driven autonomous factory of the future.

Prior to joining UMC SMG in 2017, James was the department manager of Manufacturing Technology Division in UMC, focused on Machine Learning, Big Data Engineering Analytics, Text Mining, FDC, R2R APC, VM, WTW (Wait Time Waste), PHM (Prognostic Health Management), and computer vision.

Before joining UMC MTD, he served in IT CIM department and held process control committee in UMC, where he focused on MES, RTD, FDC, R2R APC, and equipment automation system development and operation.