People執行長與成員
Members are all Department of Sociology faculty who personally teach the AI course series and together sustain the Center’s teaching and research.
Fang-Yi Huang
Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Soochow University; Executive Director, RCAIS ・ Fang-Yi Huang, Ph.D.
Her research spans medical sociology, social policy, gender studies, and old-age economic security, with a long-standing focus on how institutions leave marks across a lifetime — in health, work, and after retirement. In recent years she has brought AI into sociological teaching and research, offering "AI in Criminology" and "AI for Social Good," leading students from crime prediction and risk assessment to welfare technology, and reflecting on fairness and justice in the age of algorithms.
In practice, she uses microsimulation to analyze gender gaps in the pension systems of Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, translating her findings into the public-facing Taiwan–Japan–Korea Pension Calculator and the ten-minute documentary animation "Ten-Minute Countdown: Whose Old Age Does the System Remember?" — a concrete example of turning research into public communication. She also supervises several NSTC undergraduate research projects, including cross-national work on AI and gender.
→ Director’s personal site: voyage213.github.io (About ・ Research ・ Publications ・ Teaching)
Members
Members中心成員
All members are Department of Sociology faculty, spanning science-and-technology studies, sociological theory, gender studies, social policy, criminology, and social design. They personally teach the Center’s AI course series and together sustain its teaching and research.
1st Director, 2020–2021
Chung-Yang Yeh
Professor of Sociology
Specializes in social policy, welfare-state theory, pension systems, and comparative East Asian welfare regimes, focusing on how social-security systems respond to new risk structures amid digital transformation and population aging — a key research force for the Center’s "AI and social policy" agenda, and co-convener of the cross-departmental "Frontiers of AI and Welfare in East Asia" faculty community.
→ Personal site: chungyang1017.github.io
2nd Director, 2022–2024
Yu-Cheng Liu
Professor of Sociology
2nd Executive Director (2022–2024). Ph.D. in Sociology from NCCU; specializes in AI and society, ethnomethodology, systems theory, STS, and social/design thinking. He teaches "AI and Sociology" and focuses on "AI as a social phenomenon" and the social study of autonomous driving — among the first sociologists in Taiwan to study AI systematically. In 2026, leading an NSTC "chip-driven humanities" sub-project, his cross-disciplinary work After the Age of 80 (with Pao-Jui Kung of Shih Chien University and curator Hsiang-Wen Chen) won a Core77 Design Award in Speculative Design — the only Taiwanese team honored in the category this year.
3rd Director, 2025– DIRECTOR
Fang-Yi Huang
Associate Professor of Sociology; Executive Director, RCAIS
Current Executive Director. Teaches "AI in Criminology" and the cross-college course "AI for Social Good," and coordinates the Center’s lecture series, high-school AI summer camp, and international research. See the director profile above.
Member
Chun-Mei Chang
Professor of Sociology
Specializes in sociological theory, STS, gender studies, and posthumanist thought, with long-standing work on the theory and translation of cyborg feminism. She teaches "AI and Cyborg Feminism" and "Ecological Wisdom and AI," leading students to think about human–machine relations, the body, and boundaries at the intersection of gender, ecology, and technology.
Member
Wei-Gong Liu
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Trier (Germany); former Commissioner of the Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs, and concurrently Associate Professor at Shih Chien University’s Graduate Institute of Industrial Product Design. His expertise spans trend research, innovation studies, cultural and consumption sociology, and social design — he is one of Taiwan’s leading advocates of social design, arguing that design should solve social problems, not merely create beauty and economic value. In recent years he has carried this innovation-and-design thinking into AI, exploring how generative AI rewrites creative work and design practice, and teaches in the Center’s high-school AI camp, where his session "Generative-AI works high schoolers can make" walks students from concept to hands-on creation — extending AI creativity education to the high-school generation.
Member
Yi-Chun Chou
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. in Sociology from Heidelberg University (Germany); board member of the Taiwan Society for Disability Studies. Her expertise spans comparative social policy, social insurance, EU social policy, and disability welfare policy, with long-standing work examining Taiwan’s disability employment, community day care, and welfare institutions through the lens of the CRPD. In recent years she has turned to the meeting of AI and disability studies — as eligibility assessment, job matching, and care services adopt algorithms and smart technology, she asks how AI reshapes disabled people’s rights and access to services: technology can be an enabling aid, or it can reproduce new exclusions. How institutional design in the age of AI can "leave no one behind" is the key question she brings to the Center.
Member
Chien-Liang Chi
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Teaches "AI-Assisted Social Design: How AI Changes Society," combining social-design methods with AI collaboration tools to help students understand AI’s impact on labor, education, and daily life, and to build design proposals that respond to real social problems.