Lee-Feng Chien

Dr. Lee-Feng Chien has served as Outside Director and a member of the Audit and Supervisory Committee of Appier Group, Inc. since February 2019. Dr. Chien is a veteran of the technology industry and world-renowned for his expertise in AI, information retrieval and natural language processing. He started his career at Academia Sinica Institute of Information Science, where he was a researcher and deputy director. He concurrently served as a contract professor at National Taiwan University (NTU) and consulted for Microsoft Asia’s research institute. Dr. Chien has published more than 100 papers in data search and processing and is a founder of the Asian Language Information Retrieval Conference. Dr. Chien was most recently at the helm of Google Taiwan, where he supervised growth and operations as Managing Director for 14 years, leading Google Taiwan to grow into the largest R&D center in Asia with more than 3,000 employees. Dr. Chien earned his Ph.D. in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University.