Spirox Announces New Appointment of Dr. H. T. Yang as CTO and GM of Spirox SBIP Branches.

HSINCHU, Taiwan -- Spirox Corporation announced the appointment of Dr. H. T. Yang as Chief Technologies Officer (CTO) and General Manager of Spirox Hsinchu and Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park Branches, effective as of Friday, January 28, 2005. Dr. Yang will be reporting directly to Mr. David Sheu, Chairman & CEO. His functions will include but are not limited to the management of the organization's IP commercialization and management, R&D resource integration and technological acquisitions and development.

Dr. Yang joined Spirox as a Board Director in 2002 and most recently held the position of Vice President of our R&D Department. Prior to Spirox, Dr. Yang was a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU) for seven years. Between 1989 to 1995, Dr. Yang held the positions of senior specialist and technical superintendent at the Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology, where he successfully developed an artificial intelligence based target identification system and a real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation system.

Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. degree from National Tsin-Hua University, Hsinchu in 1989. He also received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Electrical Engineer at the National Cheng-kung University in Tainan. He is a member of Phi Tau Phi, IEEE, PES and CSS. Dr. Yang has published over 100 papers in journals and conferences on system simulation and analysis and has participated in over 80 academic and industry-related research projects.