He also has a younger brother named Daniel Hsieh, a graduate of UCLA (Bachelor’s, Electrical Engineering) and Santa Clara University School of Law (J.D.

[1] After graduating from Torrey Pines High School in 2001,[2] Tau was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

[4][5] From 2008 to 2014, Tau pursued graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a Master of Science in Engineering in electrical engineering in 2010, along with a certificate in fiction from the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, and certificates in screenwriting as well as television writing from the Professional Programs at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

[12][13] Award-winning novelist Porochista Khakpour, one of the judges, called the story a "psychological thriller successfully pulled off in second person -- alone a feat worthy of mention -- and [a] cautionary tale about what happens when you entirely live for and therefore ultimately lose everything but your art.

At surface glance, it can make one think 'Chinese thespian Black Swan,' but the wild, brainy, dark and dazzling prose is in a league of its own."

[15] Tau's short story "Land of Origin" is a love-crime and neo-noir story about a Taiwanese American professional/ex-pat named Dante Wu who lives an empty and jaded life in Los Angeles, and who goes back to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to get mixed up with betel nut girls (falling in love with one in the process) and a gang known as "The Heavenly Alliance."

The story tracks his descent, like the Dante of The Divine Comedy and The Inferno, into the sprawling neon-lit criminal underworld of urban Taiwan.

[16][17][18] It also won Second Place in the inaugural 2015 ScreenCraft Short Story Contest, which was judged by Academy Award winning screenwriter Diana Ossana.

[24] Tau has also written a play entitled "Yellow Shakespeare" and developed it as part of the David Henry Hwang Writer's Institute (DHHWI) at East West Players.

A staged reading of an early version of the play was held at the DHHWI New Works Festival at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Los Angeles.

[30][31] In 2013, Tau also held a reading of another play entitled Bros/Hos/Foes at the DHHWI New Works Festival about two Asian American actors from different backgrounds trapped in a timeless space.

In 2014, Tau was named as one of "6 Young Asian American Filmmakers Who Are Shattering America's Film Bias" by Mic Magazine.

In 2011, Tau directed a music video for YouTube Sensation and singer-Songwriter-Actress Megan Lee for her second original single, "Destiny.

"[86][87] The music video also stars Kelvin Han Yee, Megan Lee, Jessika Van, Yul Spencer and Ina-Alice Kopp.

[88] In 2013, Tau directed the Los Angeles segment of a music video for a track from Dumbfoundead and Paul Kim entitled "No Turning Back," the song being produced and composed by CHOPS aka Scott "Chops" Jung (formerly of The Mountain Brothers) for his EP project, "Strength in Numbers," which compiles tracks from a number of leading Asian American hip hop, rap and R&B artists.