Tsay Ting-kuei
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蔡丁貴 | |||||||||||||||
Tsay Ting-kuei in May 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | March 24, 1949 | ||||||||||||||
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| Education | National Cheng Kung University (BS) Cornell University (PhD) | ||||||||||||||
| Political party | Free Taiwan Party (2015–) | ||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 蔡丁貴 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 蔡丁贵 | ||||||||||||||
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Tsay Ting-kuei (Chinese: 蔡丁貴; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Teng-kùi; born 24 March 1949) is a Taiwanese civil engineering professor, political activist, and former government official. A professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei, he has conducted research in areas including coastal engineering and computational hydraulics. In politics, he served in various positions in the Chen Shui-bian administration in the mid-2000s, and rose to greater prominence for his protests in support of the Taiwan independence movement.