project Tyra (Taiwanese Young Researcher Association)

Yen-Yung Chang^1*, Feng-Hsun Chang², Chien-Yuan Chang³, Yen-Ping Chang⁴, Chih-Chien Chou⁵, Jason Horng⁶, Yu-Chen Hsu⁷, Jhong-Ren Huang⁸, Po-Hsuan Lin⁹, Yi-Rung Lin¹⁰, Yu-Wei Lin¹¹, Tse-Hsien Ou¹², Chi-Ting Peng¹³, Chun-Shu Wei¹⁴, Chia-Ying Yang¹⁵

¹Division of Physics, Mathematics, & Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, California, USA
²School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA
³Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
⁴Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
⁵Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Taxes, USA
⁶Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA
⁷Network Engineering and Platform Group, Zenlayer, California, USA
⁸Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University, Tohokudai, Japan
⁹Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Taiwan
¹⁰Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS), National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Taiwan
¹¹Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
¹²Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, California, USA
¹³Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA
¹⁴Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, California, USA
¹⁵Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

* Presenter:Yen-Yung Chang, email:yychang@caltech.edu

project Tyra (Taiwanese Young Researcher Association) is a web-based, nonprofit organization aiming to promote rapid, interdisciplinary, barrier-less academic communication among Taiwanese young researchers. We envision a self-managed platform for Taiwanese graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and young faculties around the world to stay connected. We host weekly web seminars for members to exchange on their research progress, ideas, and academic information. Since funded in 2015 at Caltech, California, we have had 60⁺ talks, ranging from galaxy observation to Daighi (臺語) education researches. We have grown from an online discussion group into an international organization, with members in north America, east Asia, Europe, and have 2000⁺ public daily browses. In this talk, I will share our experience in founding project Tyra and future prospects.

Keywords: Taiwanese, web conference, nonprofit organization