Chris Horng - Dar Lin

Dr. Chris Lin is Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Corporate Information Technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC). His responsibility spans across TSMC information technology, including intelligent manufacturing, high performance computing, digital supply chain, eCommerce, team collaboration, modernized workplace, and infrastructure re-engineering. Since joining the Company in 2021 as the CIO, Dr. Chris has been leading the IT team to accelerate TSMC digital transformation for the optimization of business process and fab production by adopting new technology such as AI and ML.

Dr. Lin has 30 years of diverse experience in the IT area, prior to joining TSMC, Dr. Lin was Vice President in Information Technology at Mozilla since 2018. He designed strategy and technology roadmap for transformation, and actively engaged in architecture design review, drove business infrastructure scalability with microservices and cloud native design. He became Director of Enterprise Platform Infrastructure at Facebook between 2016 and 2018, responsible for engineering and software-centric operations for computing platform, runtime, network, security, applications operations, data operations, and device operations for Facebook business.

Dr. Lin received Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award in 2015 and led his teams winning multiple Innovation Awards in IT industry through his career.

Dr. Lin received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley.