Wen-I (Spring) Liang, PhD
Materials scientist and founder
Taipei, Taiwan · Open to relocating
Materials scientist and founder with 15 years across experimental research, product building, and industry.
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering. Spent four years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working on liquid-cell TEM and microfabricated liquid cells.
Co-founded Elos, raised over US$450K through crowdfunding, and built its international operations.
Since 2022, worked with Taiwanese manufacturers on commercial strategy and operations. Built and tested an AI marketing-content product, and currently developing an internal sales-operations system for a manufacturing client.
Brander — Founder
DayOne Solutions — Partner & Lead Consultant
- Led strategy, go-to-market, and digital communication for seven Taiwanese manufacturers and brands, totaling about US$280K in contracts over more than three years.
- Most clients renewed at least twice and stayed for more than two years.
- Repositioned ORA Engineering from a price-driven contract manufacturer to a named engineering brand.
- Wrote the script and storyboard for ORA’s brand film and worked on the shoot. The film won a Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design in 2025.
- Currently designing and building ORA’s internal sales-operations system, with AI-assisted extraction, research, prioritization, and English reply drafting.
- Repositioned SolidFocus as an engineering- and medical-grade development partner, ran its marketing for about a year, and trained an internal hire to take over.
Elos Skateboards — Co-founder
- Raised over US$450K through crowdfunding in the US, Taiwan, and Japan.
- Built e-commerce and fulfillment across Amazon US, Japan, and EU; three online stores; and warehouses in the US, Taiwan, and Japan.
- Led a team of about 10 as CEO.
- Reduced SKUs and automated order flows during COVID supply-chain disruptions. The team went from about 10 to three by 2022; two people run the brand today.
- Led licensed collaborations with Disney Japan for Star Wars and Studio Khara for Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Expanded into protective gear, lights, and reflectors; several became Amazon best sellers.
- Continue to oversee monthly performance and develop Amazon operations tools.
Marketing Monster — Founder
- Built and released an AI marketing-content product to approximately 100 beta users.
- Used company websites, social channels, and brand context to inform content generation through a chat interface.
- Designed a grounding and guardrail layer using structured brand facts, tone-of-voice rules, and negative prompts.
- Tracked usage in Mixpanel for two months and interviewed 12 users.
- Decided not to continue the product based on beta data, interviews, and the business economics.
- Built with Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI APIs.
Voltset — Project staff, part-time
- Handled logistics for Maker Faire Bay Area and the Kickstarter launch.
- The campaign raised US$113,548 from 851 backers.
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering
National Chiao Tung University, now part of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Advisor: Ying-Hao Chu · Co-advisor: Haimei Zheng
Thesis: The Growth Kinetics Study of Functional Nanostructures using In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy in Solution.
Visiting Scholar
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Haimei Zheng’s group
Liquid-cell TEM, nanocrystal growth, electrochemical reactions, and microfabricated liquid cells.
29 journal papers, including four first-author papers.
Google Scholar, October 2026:
2,044 citations · h-index 22 · i10-index 25
First author
- In situ study of Fe₃Pt–Fe₂O₃ core–shell nanoparticle formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015.
- In situ study of spinel ferrite nanocrystal growth using liquid cell TEM. Chemistry of Materials, 2015.
- Epitaxial integration of a nanoscale BiFeO₃ phase boundary with silicon. Nanoscale, 2016.
- Design of magnetoelectric coupling in a self-assembled epitaxial nanocomposite via chemical interaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2014.
Selected co-authored papers
- Electrically controllable spontaneous magnetism in nanoscale mixed phase multiferroics. Nature Communications, 2011.
- A nanoscale shape memory oxide. Nature Communications, 2013.
- Visualization of electrode–electrolyte interfaces in LiPF6/EC/DEC electrolyte for lithium ion batteries via in situ TEM. Nano Letters, 2014.
- Dynamics of nanoscale dendrite formation in solution growth revealed through in situ liquid cell electron microscopy. Nano Letters, 2018.
- In situ TEM study of the Li–Au reaction in an electrochemical liquid cell. Faraday Discussions, 2015.