Yeh Shin-cheng

Yeh Shin-cheng is a Taiwanese environmental engineer. He served as Minister without Portfolio of the Executive Yuan from 2014 to 2016. He was Deputy Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration from 2012 to 2014.

Early life and education

Yeh was born in Keelung in 1965. He was raised in Keelung and Zhongli, Taoyuan. After graduating from Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School in 1983, he attended National Taiwan University, where he became the president of the university's students' union and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering in 1987. He then completed military service in the Republic of China Army as a second lieutenant in the Republic of China Military Police, and afterwards returned to NTU and earned a Master of Science in environmental engineering in 1992.
After receiving his master's degree, Yeh pursued doctoral studies in the United States, earning his Ph.D. in hydraulic engineering and environmental engineering from Cornell University in 1996. His doctoral dissertation, completed under professor Daniel P. Loucks, was titled, "Grey programming and its applications to water resources management".

Early career

Yeh served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering of NTU in 1996-1997 and adjunct assistant professor in the same department in 1997–1998. Afterwards, he became an assistant professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at National Chi Nan University. In 2001–2006, he was an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education of National Kaohsiung Normal University, and was promoted to professor and director in 2006–2009. In 2009–2012, he was a professor of the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education of National Taiwan Normal University, where he was also promoted to be director in 2010.