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Prof  Yung-Cheng Hsieh

Prof Yung-Cheng Hsieh

Former President of Taiwan University of the Arts

Teaching Programme PgDip in Culture and Creativity Management
Stream Postgraduate Diploma Programmes for Senior Executives

Professor Hsieh is the Academic Advisor at National Taiwan University in Taipei. He is involved in digital curation processes and standardization at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, as well as at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is also an expert committee member of the National Cultural Association's Cultural and Creative Industries Roundtable Forum.

During his tenure as President of National Taiwan University of Arts, Professor Hsieh established Taiwan's only cultural and creative industry park with a focus on interdisciplinary cultural arts and technology. He transformed the university into a global hub for arts and humanities education and research, fostering international academic exchanges and enhancing its global competitiveness.

Professor Hsieh specializes in cultural and creative industries, digital creative industries, cultural tourism planning and practice, cultural heritage preservation, inheritance and innovation, digital curation and learning in cultural institutions, smart museums, local revitalization, rural development and characteristic towns, graphic information dissemination and technology, among others.

Additionally, Professor Hsieh actively participates in international academic organizations and holds key positions. He has served on the Steering Committee for Arts, Cultural and Creative Industries at the Emerging Information & Technology Conference (2010-2013), and as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Image Arts and Sciences (since 2010). He is also the Executive Director of the Technical Association of Graphic Art in the United States (the first in Asia), a member of the Paper Review Committee for the Journal of Graphic Technology (since 2006), and the Far East Representative for the International Graphic Arts Education Association (since 2005). In 2002, he was honored with the Outstanding Professor Award by the Association of Technology Management and Applied Engineering in the United States (ATMAE).