The Team
Wu Wei Ciao, M.D.
Attending thoracic surgeon at Shuang-Ho Hospital and Ph.D. candidate at Taipei Medical University. Presented at ERS 2023 (European Respiratory Society). Published in Gastroenterology and IJMS on lung cancer immunotherapy and the tumor microenvironment. Leads the lab's clinical research and grounds its medical simulations in real practice.
Arsene Liao
Physicist-turned-AI architect with 10+ years spanning semiconductor processes at Qualcomm, NASA James Webb Telescope GaAs wafer development, industrial computer vision, and a clinically deployed chromosome recognition AI system. Member of the team that placed 3rd at the UC Berkeley RDI AgentX–AgentBeats Challenge. Contributes to the lab's open-source multi-agent simulation work.
Kang-Lin Hsieh, Ph.D.
Research Fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from UTHealth, specializing in secure AI for healthcare and drug repurposing via deep learning. Two-time National Champion at the MITRE Healthcare Fraud Detection Competition (2018 & 2019). 15+ peer-reviewed publications in Scientific Reports, iSCIENCE, and Briefings in Bioinformatics.
Chi-Sheng (Michael) Chen
Research Assistant at Harvard Medical School & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Former RLHF contractor for OpenAI. EEG-based depression prediction model clinically deployed at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. 15+ publications, 270+ citations, and recipient of Taiwan's 20th National Innovation Award (2023).
Guillaume Karpowicz
BFA graduate of SKH University of the Arts, Stockholm, with design work spanning healthcare and other fields. Designs MadGAA-LAB's website and project interfaces.
Hsuan Chang
Program lead with clinical training in Occupational Therapy (NTU & NYU) and 8+ years coordinating cross-functional AI projects. Co-presented 3D surgical modeling AI at NVIDIA GTC 2025.
Shu Chi Wu, Ph.D.
Stanford postdoctoral scholar, now researching automated electrochemical AI at NIMS Japan. Presented AI-driven molecular compound generation (built on NVIDIA BioNemo) at NVIDIA GTC 2025. 28 publications, including in Advanced Materials, 900+ citations, and 4 patents.
Wei-An Hou
AI Research Engineer at ITRI. Built and deployed clinical AI dialogue systems in collaboration with practicing physicians. Presented AI clinical reporting systems at NVIDIA GTC 2025 and HIMSS Europe 2025. 6+ years spanning TTS, virtual humans, medical NLP, and RAG pipelines.
Ren-Di Wu
M.S. researcher at NYCU. Member of the team that placed 3rd at the UC Berkeley RDI AgentX–AgentBeats Challenge (Healthcare Agent Evaluation Track, 2026). Published in Springer (2024) and arXiv (2025), with open-source contributions including CodeBRT, an LLM-powered VS Code assistant; Twinkle-Eval Leaderboard, the open-source leaderboard for Taiwan LLM evaluation.
Ya-Pei Chien
Background in communication and digital campaigns at Project Mars and Bank Sinopac. M.A. in Industrial Economics from National Central University. Leads the lab's community, events, and outreach.