Defang Chen
R&D Manager at TSMC
Taiwan
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Top SchoolDefang Chen is an R&D manager at TSMC with over 16 years of hands-on experience in advanced semiconductor process integration, specializing in deposition, lithography and etch patterning. He has led teams delivering leading-edge etch process development, shepherding multiple FEOL generations and pioneering double patterning (LELE, SADP) into production. His work spans failure analysis, device performance boosting, and transferring complex processes and hardware into high-volume fabs. While based in Taiwan, he has international experience from an overseas assignment in the Bay Area managing joint development and live demo projects with suppliers. He also applies data-driven methods—wafer-level data mining and machine learning—to optimize process and equipment integration for manufacturability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Chemical Engineering, Master's degree, Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
text-to-image9
survey8
taxonomy7
model-compression7
generative-adversarial-network7
generative-model6
deep-learning6
diffusion-models6
machine-learning6
pytorch5
stable-diffusion4
pruning4
paper4
nlp4
compression4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DefangChen/OKDDip
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
[AAAI-2020] Official implementation for "Online Knowledge Distillation with Diverse Peers".
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
pytorchdiversedistillationknowledge-distillationknowledge
DefangChen/Knowledge-Distillation-Paper
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 37 pushes, 4 comments in 2 years 4 months
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