Returning to the lab Although he is Startek's CEO, Hsu was once deputy director of the Opto-Electronics and Systems Laboratories at the Industrial Technology Research Institute, and he is still a member of the Institute of Information Science at the Academia Sinica and professor of electrical engineering at Tsing Hua University.
走出工廠，回歸實驗室！雖然擔任企業總經理，但長期在學術界服務、曾擔任工研院光電所副所長，目前仍兼清大電機工程所教授及中研院資訊所研究員的許文星，本質上是位道地的「學術人」。