Jason Chang (; born 18 May 1944) is a Taiwanese/Singaporean

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, currently the chairman of Taiwan-based Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). On the ''

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'' 2020 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #836 with a net worth of

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2.5 billion. In September 2015, Chang received a

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SEMI Award, which recognized his "significant achievements in the development and commercialization of copper wire in the IC assembly process".

Personal life

Jason Chang's hometown is

Wenzhou Wenzhou (pronounced ; Wenzhounese: Yuziou �y33–11 tɕiɤu33–32 ), historically known as Wenchow is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China. Wenzhou is located at the extreme south east o ...

. Chang has three children: Danielle, Rutherford, and Madeline. They followed a creative path as their mother, Ching Ping Chang, was an interior designer and artistic.Chang, Bee-Shyuan, "Rallying Around a Bowl of Rice", ''The New York Times'', April 16, 2013

Recognition

In December 2013, Chang publicly apologized for water pollution caused by untreated wastewater issuing from an ASE plant in southern Taiwan, following a TW$600,000 (US$20,300) fine earlier that month from

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. In November 2018, Chang was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering from

National Sun Yat-sen University National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU; ) is a public research-intensive university renowned as an official think tank scholars' community, located in Sizihwan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. NSYSU is listed as one of six national research universities, ...

(NSYSU).其他教務資料 - 國立中山大學教務處
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References

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