Dr. Tsai-Yen Li, the current president of National Chengchi University (NCCU), received a BS in 1986 from National Taiwan University and an MS and Ph.D. in 1992 and 1995, respectively, from Stanford University. He is a professor in the Computer Science Department of NCCU.
He has been serving as the Chairperson of the Foundation for International Cooperation in Higher Education of Taiwan (FICHET) since July 2025.
He served for two years (2014–2016) as the director of the Department of Information and Technology Education in Taiwan's Ministry of Education (MOE). He aims to transform NCCU into a digital, diverse, inclusive, resilient, and poetic university featuring humanity and social sciences. He is also helping the MOE reform university IT education and general education in Taiwan. His main research interests include Robotics, Computer Animation, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Interactive Narrative.