Smart MFG · AI Platform Engineer

I build AI applications across the full stack. Model accuracy is just the start — what matters is running reliably in production.

At AUO, I bring computer vision and LLM applications into manufacturing, handling everything from models, backend services, and data to deployment and ongoing operations.

These are the projects I build after hours, following the same principle and solving problems I care about.

Edwin Chien
Experience

What I've done

  1. 01 Smart Manufacturing Engineer 2021.06 — present
  2. 02 Cross-functional Team Lead, AI Vision Alongside the role above
  3. 03 Instructor, AUO University 2022 — present
  4. 04 Research Assistant 2018.06 — 2020.07 · part-time

Smart Manufacturing Engineer

AUO · L8B Houli Fab

2021.06 — present

AI vision platform
Led the design and build of a no-code AI platform covering data governance, labelling, training and validation, versioning and remote deployment. Used RabbitMQ for asynchronous tasks and NGINX for load balancing to support concurrent workloads and multi-user collaboration.
Deploying AI in manufacturing
Defect localisation and severity grading, electrical signal analysis, virtual metrology, SPC, automated repair and R2R control. Perspective transform, homography and image stitching for correction and automated measurement, plus real-time RTSP inference across multiple cameras.
Enterprise AI agent
Integrated vector databases, RAG, an LLM gateway, MCP and Azure Databricks, with responsibility for long-conversation context management, session-memory compaction and automatic summarisation. Built a natural-language search assistant using Elasticsearch and RAG to retrieve platform and project information.
Fab-wide management and operations
Built the metrics for the AI transformation programme, plus project tracking and server-health monitoring — scheduling, database redundancy and automatic alerting. Consolidated the web services and APIs from every department behind one reverse proxy.
  • Computer Vision
  • FastAPI
  • Python
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ
  • NGINX
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Azure Databricks

Cross-functional Team Lead, AI Vision

AUO

Alongside the role above

Aligning technology across fabs
Led technical integration and functional alignment across fabs and departments, bringing state-of-the-art methods into manufacturing operations.
Shared tooling and SOPs
Supported colleagues building vision projects, wrote the SOPs and built shared tooling so no project had to reinvent the wheel.
  • Technical leadership
  • Cross-team collaboration
  • SOP

Instructor, AUO University

AUO

2022 — present

Teaching
Delivered two rounds of AI vision training for 21 departments and supported technology deployment across 16 sites. Served as a mentor in the AUO A+ internship programme for three consecutive years.
Speaking and hosting
Guided tours at the smart manufacturing exhibition and hosted technical visits from the WEF, Ford and BHTC. Spoke at the AUO smart manufacturing forum on getting AI into production and keeping fabs aligned.
  • Training
  • Mentor
  • Technical outreach

Research Assistant

Feng Chia University · Intelligent Transportation & Logistics Innovation Center

2018.06 — 2020.07 · part-time

The full cycle of commissioned research
One project for the Institute of Transportation, two for the Ministry of Science and Technology. Each had a client and a deliverable, so it ran the whole loop — agreeing model choice, data collection and schema with the vendor, then validating against field data, writing it up, and proposing what the next phase should fix.
Where the computer vision started
Traffic-incident detection: the logic and the pipeline, tuning lane occupancy, turning volume and speed. For mixed food products, object detection tagged the items, then the model was transfer-learned into a triplet network to extract features — a fine-grained comparison between the listing photo and the physical product that flags the ones that do not match. Both became journal papers.
Unstructured data analysis
Vulnerability and resilience in perishable food supply chains: turned papers, news and industry reports into structured data, mined association rules with SAS, and used k-fold cross-validation to narrow it down to the factors that mattered.
  • Object Detection
  • Transfer Learning
  • Triplet Network
  • SAS
  • Association Rules
Credentials

Achievements & Education

Achievements at AUO

AUO · 2021.06 — present

Publicly verifiable

  • Patent

    Inspection system and inspection method

    • Taiwan TWI845420B · granted
    • US US12586160B2 · granted
    • China CN118015400A · application published
  • Competition

    AI CUP STAS Pathology Image Segmentation II

    • 2022 · team won the Program Office Award

Contents withheld

  • Trade secret

    Defect vision inspection and control

    • Real-time inspection driving a PLC cycle-stop
  • Trade secret

    Live equipment-condition vision control

    • Defect detection driving RPA-based machine repair

The trade secrets stay closed under company policy — listed here by subject only.

Education

  1. 2024.09 —

    National Chung Hsing University

    Part-time master’s program in Computer Science

    • Certification

      Microsoft Azure

      • AZ-900 · AI-900 · DP-900
  2. 2018 — 2020

    Feng Chia University

    GPA 4.0

    Master’s degree in Transportation and Logistics

    • Paper

      AI-based quality risk management in omnichannel operations: A potential solution to O2O food dissimilarity

      • International Journal of Logistics Management
    • Paper

      An object-detection logic for traffic incidents, with empirical validation

      • Journal of the Chinese Institute of Transportation
    • Competition

      CIIE Master’s Thesis Competition

      • 2020 · Award of Excellence, Service Systems & Technology Management
    • Certification

      SOLE — Demonstrated Logistician

    • Honour

      Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society · member

  3. 2014 — 2018

    Feng Chia University

    GPA 3.8

    Bachelor’s degree in Transportation and Logistics

Capabilities

What I can do

Given a problem I weigh the whole thing — where the data comes from, what the model can do, the API, the architecture, the interface, where it runs and who keeps it running — rather than fixing on one model or one framework.

Across every layer

These capabilities span every layer. They shape how the layers work together and whether the system remains reliable.

AI Solution Architecture

Evaluating technologies and architecture based on requirements, then developing prototypes into systems that teams can deploy, operate and maintain.

  • Computer Vision
  • LLM
  • RAG
  • AI Agent
  • Embedding
  • Search
  • Workflow Automation

Architecture Optimization

Refactoring and optimising existing systems for performance, scalability, availability and maintainability.

  • Service Routing
  • Cache Strategy
  • Reverse Proxy
  • DB Optimization
  • Asynchronous Processing

Cross-Team Project Leadership

Aligning technical requirements across fabs and departments, establishing SOPs and delivering training to help other teams adopt the technology.

  • Technical Alignment
  • SOP
  • Shared Tooling
  • Training
  • Mentor

01

Application layer

Frontend & Application

Turning a model into something a person can use, not just an API endpoint.

  • Web Application
  • Responsive UI
  • PWA
  • Cross-Device Apps

02

Service layer

Backend & API

Integrating enterprise systems and services.

  • RESTful API
  • Microservice
  • Authentication
  • Async Processing

Distributed & Async

Designing services to handle concurrent workloads and process time-consuming tasks asynchronously.

  • Message Queue
  • Background Task
  • Concurrency
  • Task Scheduling

03

Model layer

Computer Vision & Industrial AI

Designing inference around what the process actually needs, not around a number on a held-out set.

  • Classification
  • Object Detection
  • Instance Segmentation
  • Anomaly Detection
  • OCR
  • DIP

Generative AI & Retrieval

Retrieval and generation over a company’s own knowledge.

  • Hybrid Retrieval
  • Reranking
  • Vector Search
  • Local LLM
  • LLM Gateway
  • Multi-Model

AI Agent & Automation

Taking an LLM past answering questions into operating real systems and workflows.

  • Tool Calling
  • MCP
  • Workflow Automation
  • Multi-Agent

04

Data layer

Data & Search

Large-scale data storage, caching and retrieval.

  • Relational / NoSQL
  • Cache
  • Full-Text Search
  • Vector Search
  • Embedding Retrieval
Side Projects

Services I run myself

One sign-in and permission model across all of them. Some need approval first — the card takes you to the request form.

  • ET

    ETAK Tactical Map

    Invite only

    A live shared tactical map for airsoft — everyone marks the same board, with rooms to keep games apart.

    No public requests — I send the invite.

  • DW

    Dart Win

    Approval required

    Multiplayer darts scoring. Open it on a phone and play — no account needed.

    Scan the QR code at the board and play. Ask for access only if you want the history kept.

  • AI

    AI Image

    Invite only

    An AI imaging platform — data and training in the cloud, all the way out to the phone.

    No public requests — I send the invite.

  • GO

    Gopheru Trip Planner

    Approval required

    Itineraries and a travel handbook my partner and I keep in one place, together.

  • UN

    Edwin Room Pro

    Approval required

    A perspective-correction tool — straightens a photo shot from the wrong angle.

Static Pages

Small projects for everyday use

Quick references for everyday use.Sign in and the links show up here.

  • BEYBLADE X rankings Eight tops compared on stamina, defence and attack. Sign in for the link
  • Networking final revision 39 questions and the notes that matter, built to drill on a phone. Sign in for the link
  • Airsoft GBB pistol comparison Twelve gas pistols, reliability and accuracy set against price. Sign in for the link

The badge in each card's top corner

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Photography

Photography

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