Hou Chih-sheng

A 2013 Business Today profile gives Hou Chih-sheng’s year of birth as 1982. A gifted student, he earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in three years, at 24.⁠[1]

After returning to Taiwan he joined the Industrial Technology Research Institute as a manager at its optoelectronics laboratories, where he helped develop a flexible electronic pressure sensor only 0.1 cm thick.⁠[1]

After his father, Hou Bo-yi, took control of Universal Cement in 2008, Hou Chih-sheng joined the company to oversee management and the electronics business. In 2010 the company licensed from the Industrial Technology Research Institute the sensing technology he had helped develop and set up an electronics division, later spun off as the subsidiary Uneo; as Uneo’s president, he explained that its Chinese name takes characters from the names of his great-grandfather Hou Yu-liHou Yu-liHou Yu-li was a Taiwanese entrepreneur and a founding figure of the Tainan Gang. Born in Beimen, Tainan, he started as a cloth-shop apprentice, founded the Hsin Fu Hsing cloth business and went on to help found Tainan Spinning and Universal Cement, backing figures such as Wu Hsiu-chi and Kao Ching-yuan; Tainan Gang companies include Uni-President and Prince Housing. He was paired with Wang Yung-ching as “Wang in the north, Hou in the south.”Open the full entry and grandfather Hou Yung-tu.⁠[1]

His LinkedIn profile lists him as chief executive of Universal Cement since January 2009 and president of Uneo Inc. since January 2011.⁠[2]

His LinkedIn headline reads “UCCTW & Tekscan CEO,” and the profile lists him as chief executive officer of the pressure-sensing company Tekscan since November 2025.⁠[2]

Company registration records list Hou Chih-sheng as vice chairman of Universal Cement, representing Bozhi Investment Co.⁠[3]

In June 2023 the Liberty Times summarized a family chart of Jensen HuangJensen HuangJensen Huang is a co-founder of NVIDIA who served as its president, chief executive officer, and a director from the company’s founding in 1993 until he resigned from those positions in November 2026. He has a background in electrical engineering education and the semiconductor industry, and under his leadership NVIDIA’s business expanded from graphics chips to GPU general-purpose computing, artificial intelligence, and data center computing platforms.Open the full entry compiled by veteran journalist Wu Chia-chin: Huang’s mother, Lo Tsai-hsiu, and Lisa SuLisa SuLisa Su is a semiconductor engineer and business executive who serves as Chair and CEO of AMD. She earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale. After joining AMD in 2012, she became CEO in 2014, led the company’s growth in high-performance computing, data centers, and artificial intelligence, and also became Chair in 2022.Open the full entry’s maternal grandfather, Lo Po-mu, are siblings; Su Chin-chien, the daughter of Huang’s third maternal aunt, Lo Sui-liu, married Hou Bo-yi, the eldest grandson of Hou Yu-li and chairman of Universal Cement, which makes the Hou family’s fourth generation, Hou Chih-sheng and Hou Chih-yuanHou Chih-yuanHou Chih-yuan (Jack Chih-Yuan Hou) is a Taiwanese businessman and the president of Universal Cement Corporation, a fourth-generation member of the Tainan Gang’s Hou family and the younger son of Hou Bo-yi. A week after finishing a master’s degree in East Asian studies at Harvard University in 2008, he joined Universal Cement at 24 as a vice president in charge of sales, later becoming chief operating officer and then president.Open the full entry, Huang’s first cousins once removed.⁠[4]

Universal Cement Corporation: Official website: http://www.ucctw.com/ (opens in a new window) (as listed in its company registration).⁠[3]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnson-hou-ab21072b/ (opens in a new window).⁠[2]