Chairman, Gran Systems LLC
Kuang-Han has experience in the industry, government, research institute, academia, and global industry associations in large-scale system conceptual design. He has founded 6 companies, scouted from a hundred companies annually for a 10 year period, mentored more than 17 companies, and has served on the board of directors for 8 companies.
He is the Founder & Chairman of Gran Systems where they engage in system integration design, think-tanks, and manufacturing in new space, and semiconductor industries. Gran Systems supports 50 customer space missions in small or larger contributions, and its products have recently been included in the 2024 & 2023 NASA Small Satellite State-of-the-Art Report. The resulting R&D from the cubesat mission became Gran Systems’ hundreds of cubesat subsystem production lines. Gran Systems has been the co-organizer of the Taiwan Round of the 1st-3rd Annual ISS KIBO Robot Programming Challenge. The 2nd annual event had the final competition at Gran Systems with direct video link connection with JAXA and Commander Astronaut on the ISS during the competition.
In New Space, he launches cubesats and experiments in space, develops a full set of cubesat lab with end-to-end space environment testing equipment, and serves as the International Space Station Gateway Company in East Asia. His cubesat system integration experience includes both launching cubesat from the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and also through the International Space Station. His company was also contracted for a lunar lander payload mission to go on top of a commercially available lunar lander.
In the semiconductor industry, he has over 30 years of experience encompassing a mix of industry and teaching, including systems system architecting of four successful generations of plasma etch chambers for Applied Materials, leading to an installed base of nearly 10,000 chambers making US$3.5 Billion revenue for the company in its 10 year product life cycle. At SEMI, he oversaw industry technology, standards, and market statistics in Taiwan. He taught semiconductor equipment design courses at Yuan-Zi University for 9 years. At Techcet, he was the Global Sr. Technology Analyst, covering semiconductor equipment component sector: quartz, ceramic and silicon component materials for global major semiconductor fab member companies.
In medical equipment, he founded 3 medical equipment companies, and has improved the non-invasive operation of woman’s health and product development of a MR-PET equipment and dental CT equipment.
He was senior manager for the semiconductor equipment industry and the precision machinery industry in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and also served as the expert supervisory committee member of the Taiwan “Productivity 4.0” National Initiative, Taiwan’s version of the Industry 4.0 national initiatives for Advanced Manufacturing. He designed and planned industrial development for the semiconductor process equipment spare parts industry in Taiwan, after the Asian Economic Crisis in 1997/98. His other contribution includes the subject matter expert speaker and mentor on the subject of Asia Pacific Space Development, in the Asia Pacific Space Generation Online Workshop, organized by the Space Generation Advisory Council, in preparation for a report for the United Nations Programme.
Kuang-Han holds an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and more than 10 patents. During his past tenure, he was part of the US Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and then the Taiwan National Quality Award corporate members.