Task Design, Dataset Creation, and Evaluation: Keys to LLM Deployment and Taiwan's AI Foundry

Dr. Richard Tzong-Han Tsai is an expert in model training for the TAIDE project under Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council. He currently serves as the President of the Taiwanese Association for Digital Humanities and the Vice President of the Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is also a Research Fellow at Academia Sinica’s Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at National Central University, and an adjunct professor at National Taiwan University’s Graduate Institute of Linguistics. His areas of expertise include natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and digital humanities, with a track record of publishing several papers annually at top-tier international conferences, including ACL, EMNLP, and COLING.

Dr. Tsai holds a Bachelor's to Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National Taiwan University. He was awarded the Google Research Award in 2023 and 2024 and has led his teams to victory in the BioCreative competition organized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2021, as well as the BioASQ international biomedical question-answering competition from 2020 to 2023, hosted by multiple global research institutions. Additionally, he has been honored with the Outstanding Research Award at National Central University in 2020, 2021, and 2023.

Beyond his academic contributions, Dr. Tsai is the author of popular science books on AI for young students, including "AI Lessons for Middle Schoolers" and "AI Lessons for Elementary Students," both of which have become bestsellers and received multiple educational awards and recommendations, including the 12th Wu Ta-You Science Popularization Award for Youth Science Education, the Taipei Public Library's Monthly Book Selection, and the 2023 Hong Kong Education City's Teacher Recommendation Award. Due to his contributions to the development of generative AI (Gen AI) in Taiwan, Dr. Tsai was selected by CommonWealth Magazine as one of the AI 20 in 2024.

蔡宗翰教授是台灣國家科學技術委員會 TAIDE 專案的模型訓練組專家，現任台灣數位人文學會理事長與台灣人工智慧學會副理事長。蔡教授同時擔任中央研究院人文社會科學研究中心研究員、中央大學資訊工程系教授，以及台灣大學語言學研究所合聘教授。他的專長包括自然語言處理、人工智慧與數位人文，在這些領域中每年都有多篇頂尖國際會議論文發表，包括 ACL、EMNLP 和 COLING。

蔡教授擁有台灣大學資訊工程學士至博士學位，並於 2023 年及 2024 年連續獲得 Google Research Award。他帶領的團隊曾在 2021 年獲得由美國國立衛生研究院（NIH）主辦的 BioCreative 競賽冠軍，並於 2020 至 2023 年間連續獲得由多國科研機構主辦的 BioASQ 國際生醫問答系統競賽冠軍。此外，他在 2020、2021 及 2023 年榮獲中央大學研究傑出獎。

除了學術研究外，蔡教授還是多本科普書籍的作者，包括「寫給中學生看的 AI 課」及「寫給小學生看的 AI 課」，這些書籍不僅在博客來暢銷，還榮獲第十二屆吳大猷科學普及著作獎青少年科普特別推薦獎、臺北市立圖書館「每月一書」、2023 年香港教育城中學教師推薦好讀獎等多項教育獎項及推薦。由於蔡教授對台灣生成式人工智慧（Gen AI）發展的貢獻，他被天下雜誌選為 2024 年的 AI 20 之一。