Dr. Cheng-Lun (Alan) Chiu is an associate researcher at the the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA). He had worked in a balloon-borne instrument project to construct a next-generation gamma-ray telescope (i.e. COSI) at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley for about seven and half years; in that period, he attended four balloon campaigns to launch their astrophysical payload in the US (2009), Australia (2010), Antarctica (2014), and New Zealand (2016). After returning Taiwan, he served as a postdoc at the Institute of Astronomy at National Tsing-Hua University (NTHU) to conduct a feasibility study of astrophysical payload onboard CubeSats for one year. Since 2018, he has worked on attitude-determination relevant jobs at TASA to date.   

In 1991, the "National Space Program Preparatory Office" (the predecessor of the Taiwan Space Agency), establishing space infrastructure, and training space manpower. 

The Space Development Law was passed by the Legislative Yuan on May 31, 2021 and officially implemented on January 20, 2022. In the meantime, the government also initiated the legislative work on the establishment of an administrative corporation for National Space Organization. On April 19, 2022, the "Act for the Establishment of the Taiwan Space Agency" was passed by the Legislative Yuan for the third reading, and came into effect on January 1, 2023. It was originally affiliated to the National Space Organization of the National Applied Research Laboratories and now was officially restructured into the Taiwan Space Agency of the administrative corporation. The agency has become a newly established legal entity under the National Science and Technology Council. After the restructuring, the English name is changed from National Space Organization (NSPO) to Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) for improving the readability of the abbreviation, adding the name "Taiwan" to enhance the international recognition.

Taiwan Space Agency, which has been legalized as an administrative corporation, will focus on enhancing the Taiwan space technology research and development capabilities, implementing the national space policies and plans, and promoting Taiwan space activities and the development of the space industry.