蔡 靖
Gene Tsai (BS 2006) received a 2019 Early Career
Award. In 2010, Mr. Tsai envisioned and co-created Flipboard version 1.0
as its first software developer. Flipboard was included in Time Magazines
top 50 inventions of the year and was named App of the year by Apple,
Inc. Flipboard is currently valued at $1 billion and has been installed
on almost one billion mobile devices.
Gene Cambridge Tsai
Gene Cambridge Tsai
(BS 2006) received a 2019 Early Career Award.
Within five years of
graduating from Purdue and moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to pursue a
career in software, Tsai's skills and entrepreneurial spirit led him to the
pinnacles of success in the industry.
Tsai was a founding
employee at Flipboard, where he envisioned and created the foundations of the
personalized social news app. He was able to pitch the idea to Apple Inc.
co-founder Steve Jobs in 2010 and, in the following months, the app was added
to all new Apple products. That same year Flipboard was named one of Time
magazine's top 50 inventions of the year and was named App of the Year by
Apple. It has been installed on nearly 1 billion mobile devices and has more
than 145 million regular users.
Tsai, who was born in
Boston and grew up in Taiwan, also was a "zoo musicologist" for
Aardvark and worked on a team that built the Aardvark Mobile iPhone App in
2009. The app became the No. 1 featured app within one week and ranked fifth on
the list of top social networking apps in the Apple App Store. Tsai also was a
part of YourVersion, a personalized web news aggregator, which won the People's
Choice Award at the TechCrunch
50 conference.
He currently is
founder of SircambridgeWorks, which develops iPhone apps for an Asian audience
and has achieved more than 1.4 million downloads. He also is involved in
hackathons at middle schools in underprivileged local communities and is a fan
and true believer in the future of e-sports.
While a student at
Purdue, Tsai was founder and president of the Chinese Calligraphy Club, and a
photographer and photo editor for The Exponent.
蔡靖是普度大學2006年物理系畢業.榮獲學校頒贈2019年青年事業成就獎。他在普度大學畢業五年內，以及加州舊金山灣區，開始他軟體設計事業。蔡先生的專業技術以及企業家精神。導致他在產業的巔峰成功。
蔡靖是Flipboard公司的創始成員，在那裡他發餉及創造社群新聞的個人化應用程式。
2010年將他創新的想法推廣至蘋果電腦公司的史蒂夫賈伯斯，在未來的數個月，中將此軟體應用加入蘋果的所有電子產品。同年度Flipboard就被時代雜誌點名為年度最佳50發明之一。也同時獲頒為蘋果電腦當年度的年度應用程式。當時此程式為安裝與超過十億支手持式電子裝置，使用者超過1.45億人。
蔡靖出生於美國波士頓，成長於台灣。他是食蟻獸公司的Zoo musicologist並為食蟻獸美國蘋果iPhone應用軟體成員之一。該產品在蘋果電腦應用程式商店上市，一週內就成為第一名銷售產品， 列名為其第五名之社群應用程式。
蔡先生並且也參與YourVisions，推動網路新聞或TechCrunch 50 層峰大會的People’s Choice Award 最佳人氣獎。他目前是SirCambridgeWorks
的創辦人，為蘋果電腦設計亞州層峰會議應用程式，獲得1,400,000次的下載。他也參與在地社群中高中學生的弱勢團體的駭客馬拉松競藝活動。他也是e-sport的粉絲與積極推動者。
在普度大學時期，蔡靖也是中文書法社的創始人與社長。他是Exponent的攝影專家及修圖專家。