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Rui Li is a PhD candidate at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. His research interests are in computer vision and artificial intelligence. In March 2011, he initiated the first MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (MIT-CHIEF), and has served as the Co-President since then. He was also a Co-President of the MIT Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA) in 2011-2012.

Christine Ortiz is the Dean for Graduate Education and a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has received over 30 national and international honors, including the Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer Award, the MIT Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award, a recognition award for “Outstanding Alumni” by the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, and the National Science Foundation Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which was presented to her by President George W. Bush at the White House. She is a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow, a member of the Defense Science Study Group, and was a Lady Davis Fellow and visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, where she received the Hadassah Appreciation Medal.

Dr. Ortiz currently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Science, Advanced Biomaterials, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Applied Mechanics Reviews, Scientifica, and The Open Nanomedicine Journal. She has served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Defense. Dr. Ortiz is the founding and current faculty director of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) Israel Program.

Professor Ortiz obtained her B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, all in the field of materials science and engineering.

Weijie Yun is currently a Senior Advisor at Northern Light Venture Capital. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CEO of Telegent Systems, Inc. where he led the company to create the mobile TV market around the world. Prior to Telegent, he led marketing and product management at Berkana Wireless, Inc., which was acquired by Qualcomm. He also served as the founding president & CEO of AIP Networks and was a founder and director of SiTek, Inc., a spin-off from BEI Technologies.

Weijie was awarded 2008 Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Charles Fan is a Senior Vice President at VMware in strategic R&D. Charles and his team are looking into the fundamental shifts happening in technologies and customer needs, and how these disruptive changes will impact the data management methodologies in the cloud. Prior to this role, Charles was the founder and leader of both the VMware China R&D Center, and the EMC China Center of Excellence. Today, Over 1500 engineers work in those R&D Centers, and both centers are among the most respected R&D groups in China. Prior to the China roles, Charles was a co-founder and CTO of Rainfinity, which was acquired by EMC in 2005. He led the creation of Rainfinity's industry leading file virtualization and high availability products. Charles has also held positions at Intel Corporation, Goldman Sachs, and Cheyenne Software. He is an expert in distributed systems and network storage technologies, and received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union.

Yasheng Huang is the International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and a Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Huang founded and runs the China Lab and the India Lab, which aim to help entrepreneurs in those countries improve their management skills. He is an expert source on international business, political economy, and international management. In collaboration with other scholars, Huang is conducting research on human capital formation in China and India, entrepreneurship, and ethnic and labor-intensive foreign direct investment (FDI). Prior to MIT Sloan, he held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. Huang also served as a consultant to the World Bank.

His research has been profiled in many publications, including TheWall Street Journal,The Economist, Businessworld, Le Monde, the Economic Times, as well as in numerous Chinese publications. He also has contributed to the Financial Times, The New York Times, and Foreign Policy. Huang’s published books include Inflation and Investment Controls in China (1996), FDI in China (1998), Selling China (2003), and Financial Reform in China (2005, co-edited with Tony Saich and Edward Steinfeld). His most recent book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (2008), is based on detailed archival and quantitative evidence spanning three decades of reforms. Huang shows that private entrepreneurship, facilitated by financial liberalization and microeconomic flexibility, played a central role in China’s economic miracle.

Huang has held or received prestigious fellowships, such as the National Fellowship at Stanford University and the Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. He is a member of the Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, a Fellow at the Center for Chinese Economic Research and the Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University, a Fellow at the William Davidson Institute at Michigan Business School, and a World Economic Forum Fellow.

Huang holds a BA in government from Harvard College and a PhD in government from Harvard University.

Kai Li is a Paul M. Wythes '55, P'86 and Marcia R. Wythes P'86 Professor at Princeton University, where he worked as a faculty member since 1986. Before joining Princeton University, he received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University, M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and B.S. degree from Jilin University.

His research expertise is in operating systems, parallel and distributed systems, de-duplication storage systems, large display systems, and data analysis and search of large feature-rich data. He pioneered Shared Virtual Memory or Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) that allow users to program using shared-memory programming model on clusters of computers, which opened a new research area in parallel distributed systems. His work on efficient user-level communication on a cluster of computers contributed to the industry communication standards now widely used in cluster computing and large-scale supercomputers.

In 2001, he co-founded Data Domain, Inc whose mission was to replace tape automation with disk-based eco-systems at data centers. He was the principal founder and led the innovations of key technologies to build the first and subsequent disk-based commercial deduplication storage systems. Such storage systems can store an order-of-magnitude more backup and archival data than traditional approaches and can transfer them efficiently over wide area network to remote sites for disaster recovery. These products have revolutionized how storage systems are built and how backups are stored at data centers. Data Domain went public in 2007 and acquired by EMC in 2009. In 2011, its product line has achieved $1.56B revenue with 78% gross margin. He served in Data Domain in roles as the initial CEO, CTO and Chief Scientist. He serves on the technical advisory board of EMC since 2009.

Dr. Li is a member of National Academy of Engineering, an ACM fellow and an IEEE fellow. He recently received ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame award for his early work on distributed shared memory.

Kevin is the Chief Operating Officer of the World Economic Forum USA, the North American affiliate of the World Economic Forum, for which he oversees operations and serves as Corporate Secretary.

Since 1992, either internally or as an external advisor, Kevin has held a number of global roles for the World Economic Forum, including heading its Centre for Global Industries, overseeing its Membership and Partnership department, leading its Financial Institutions sector, and guiding its Institutional Strategy function. He has also launched several World Economic Forum initiatives including its Risk Response Network, its Private Investors industry, worldwide industry summits, and its Global Leaders for Tomorrow community. In 2005 he founded its North American affiliate, the World Economic Forum USA, and has overseen its growth to over 100 staff.

Previously, Kevin spent ten years with McKinsey & Company as part of its North American Wholesale and Investment Banking practice as well as its Corporate Finance and Strategy group in Switzerland. There he was primarily focused on corporate, business unit, and product strategy, serving wholesale and retail financial companies as well as non-profit institutions.

Kevin graduated from Stanford University with an M.B.A. and J.D., with distinction, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He graduated from Harvard University with an A.B., magna cum laude, and is currently an adjunct professor at Brandeis University's International Business School.

Kevin is a frequent speaker and author on several topics, such as moving corporate governance beyond compliance to leadership; corporate risk, resilience and preparedness; the business, economic and societal implications of globalization; and the complexity of businesses’ engagement with their stakeholders. He sits on several for profit and non-profit boards, including Claridge Inc. and the New Center for Arts & Culture.

Dick K.P. Yue is the Philip J. Solondz Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT. He serves as the Director for International Programs for the School of Engineering, and co-Chair of the Institute-wide MIT Global Council. Professor Yue is also the MIT Director for the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and the co-Director for the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He considers himself "first and foremost a researcher and educator", but his position in the MIT administration affords him numerous opportunities to make an impact Institute-wide.

Professor Yue received all his degrees (S.B., S.M. and Sc.D./Ph.D.) from MIT, and has been a faculty member in Ocean Engineering (now part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) since 1983. He is active in research and teaching in marine fluid mechanics and ocean engineering, fields of interest that are fundamental to broad classes of problems ranging from coastal and offshore development to understanding the role of oceans in global warming. He also directs the Vortical Flow Research Laboratory and co-directs the Ocean Engineering Towing Tank facility. His main research contributions are in theoretical and computational hydrodynamics. He has authored/co-authored more than two hundred papers and a two-volume textbook on wave hydrodynamics and ocean fluid mechanics. Professor Yue served as Associate Dean of Engineering from 1999-2007. He was the originator of the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) concept, which now offers materials for over 1,800 MIT courses online. He was also the Founding Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), a program that is transforming engineering education by providing sophomores with special training and industry-based work experiences.

Bill Aulet is a highly accomplished business leader with a track record of success over 25 years. He has raised over $100 million in funding for his companies and directly created hundreds of millions of dollars of market value. He started his career with eleven years at IBM, culminating in being named a prestigious MIT Sloan Fellow in 1993. Upon graduation in 1994, Bill became a serial entrepreneur running two MIT spinouts; he first served as the President and CEO of both Cambridge Decision Dynamics, and later also of SensAble Technologies. The latter earned a place in Time Magazine's list of 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies. With a presence in over twenty countries, SensAble also won over two dozen awards and has been featured in Fortune Magazine, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications for its innovative products and strong business foundation.

Mick joined OTD in 2012. Prior to joining Harvard, Mick led global business units and R&D organizations at 3M, Cabot, and Microbia, with full P&L and IP portfolio responsibilities. Most recently he was the President and CEO of Qteros, an industrial biotechnology startup. In these roles, Mick commercialized numerous products and processes and negotiated joint development agreements, strategic partnerships and acquisitions in the chemicals, energy, electronics, and materials industries. Mick holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, an MS in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and an MBA in International Management from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota.

Steve Tang became President and CEO of the Science Center in February 2008 following an extensive nationwide search. He brings to the position a wealth of professional experience in academia, professional services, and private industry. Most notably, Dr. Tang is the first president in the Science Center's history to have not only led a company through venture funding and an initial public offering, but to also serve as a senior executive with a large life sciences company as it acquired and integrated smaller start-ups.

A seasoned life science, energy technology, and management consulting executive, Steve previously served as Group Vice President and General Manager with Olympus America Inc., where he led U.S. operations for the company's $1 billion global Life Science businesses. Before joining Olympus in 2005, he was president and CEO of Millennium Cell Inc. (NASDAQ: MCEL), an energy technology firm he led through its initial public offering in 2000.
Previously, he served as Vice President and Managing Director of the global pharmaceutical and healthcare practice of A.T. Kearney Inc., and was Vice President and Co-managing Director of the global chemical and environmental practice for Gemini Consulting Inc., now known as Cap Gemini. Prior to that, he was the Assistant Director and Senior Research Engineer at the Lehigh University Center for Molecular Bioscience and Biotechnology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Tang earned a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary. A graduate of the public school system in Delaware, he has resided in the area for most of his life.

Victor Wang is the President of Hanhai Z-Park, and oversees the firm’s overall strategy and business operations. Victor is a serial entrepreneur who has managed emerging medical technology companies for over 20 years. Prior to Hanhai Z-Park, Victor founded a Health IT company based in Silicon Valley and served as President and CEO. The company had been a provider and partner for many hospitals, venture funds, and high tech companies. Victor holds a Master of Management degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor in Electronic Engineering degree from the Shenyang University of Technology.

Canice Wu joined as President of Plug and Play Tech Center, after being an Executive in Residence at Plug and Play.

He has over 20 years of experience in developing and scaling successful businesses from concept to market leader. Prior to joining Plug and Play Tech Center, Wu was CEO of Insights OnDemand, providing on demand Business Intelligence Solutions. Prior to Insights OnDemand, he was Vice President, General Manager and COO of CRM and Industry Solutions at Siebel Systems. He came to Siebel from Booz, Allen & Hamilton where he was a management consultant specializing in forming business strategies and market penetration plans for Fortune 500 companies. Canice is also on the board of AAMA.

Canice has a BS and MS in Computer Science from MIT, and an MBA from University of California at Berkeley.  

In summer 2010, Eugene co-foundered TEEC Angel Fund, a supper angel fund investing in both US and China early stage companies in Silicon Valley. Eugene was founding CEO of InnoSpring, a global cross border technology startup incubator in Silicon Valley from its inception to January 2014. Eugene founded JEDA Technologies, Inc., in December, 2002 and serves as President and CEO. JEDA specializes in next-generation SoC design methodologies and provides ESL (electronic system level ) verification automation products for leading edge SoC design companies world wide. JEDA Beijing R&D center was opened in December 2004 at Tsinghua Science Park. Eugene has been working in the networking and computer industry for thirteen years in technical and management positions. Prior to founding JEDA, he was with Juniper Networks from its start where he contributed greatly to the success of many complex ASICs for internet backbone routers. Prior to joining Juniper, Eugene was with Cisco Systems as an ASIC design verification engineer. From 1993 to 1995 while Eugene worked on the Sunfire SMP server project at SUN Microsystems, he co-invented industry’s first hardware Testbench language Vera, which is a part of today’s industry standard SystemVerilog ( IEEE 1880). Mr. Zhang received his M.S.C.E from Syracuse University, USA, and a M.S.E.E and B.S.E.E from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Mr. Chen is the Chairman and President of DIH Technologies, an emerging leader in the fast growing Sports Medicine and Pharmacy Automation markets in China. Before he founded DIH with a team of seasoned multinational executives, Mr. Chen was a Senior VP at Cardinal Health, in charge of Cardinal’s Asia businesses as head of Asia and Cardinal’s Global Supply Chain Operation as its Managing Director. Mr. Chen’s other international positions include CFO of GE Healthcare N.A. Services and GE CSI, Great China GM of GE Healthcare GSO, and BD Manager of GE BD.

Mr. Chen’s management education includes an Executive Master degree from Kellogg Business School of Northwestern University, a Master in Corporate Finance from CEIBS, and post-graduate fellowship at London Business School.

Kai Li is a Paul M. Wythes '55, P'86 and Marcia R. Wythes P'86 Professor at Princeton University, where he worked as a faculty member since 1986. Before joining Princeton University, he received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University, M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and B.S. degree from Jilin University.

His research expertise is in operating systems, parallel and distributed systems, de-duplication storage systems, large display systems, and data analysis and search of large feature-rich data. He pioneered Shared Virtual Memory or Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) that allow users to program using shared-memory programming model on clusters of computers, which opened a new research area in parallel distributed systems. His work on efficient user-level communication on a cluster of computers contributed to the industry communication standards now widely used in cluster computing and large-scale supercomputers.

In 2001, he co-founded Data Domain, Inc whose mission was to replace tape automation with disk-based eco-systems at data centers. He was the principal founder and led the innovations of key technologies to build the first and subsequent disk-based commercial deduplication storage systems. Such storage systems can store an order-of-magnitude more backup and archival data than traditional approaches and can transfer them efficiently over wide area network to remote sites for disaster recovery. These products have revolutionized how storage systems are built and how backups are stored at data centers. Data Domain went public in 2007 and acquired by EMC in 2009. In 2011, its product line has achieved $1.56B revenue with 78% gross margin. He served in Data Domain in roles as the initial CEO, CTO and Chief Scientist. He serves on the technical advisory board of EMC since 2009.

Dr. Li is a member of National Academy of Engineering, an ACM fellow and an IEEE fellow. He recently received ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame award for his early work on distributed shared memory.

Terence Russell is an experienced entrepreneur and scientist. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Zensei Analytics, LLC, a Boston-based new venture creation and consulting company. He also serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Makoto Life Sciences, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the identification of novel pharmaceutical targets in oncology, urology, and allergic inflammation. Previously, Dr. Russell co-founded Critical Biologics Corporation, a critical care pharmaceuticals company targeting the treatment of severe inflammatory conditions. Dr. Russell also co-founded Vevionics, LLC, an engineering research and design company that develops innovative technologies for industrial process control and measurement. In addition, he was the founder of LifeBeam Technologies, Inc., a high-speed genomics technology company where he was the inventor of LifeBeam’s patented core DNA sequencing technology.

In addition to his entrepreneurial efforts, Dr. Russell has conducted research at Harvard University and Boston University on a wide range of topics; from detectors for biological warfare agents to genetically engineered proteins used in anti-counterfeiting applications. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Boston University.

Dr. Sun is now an independent investor and focuses on early stage investments in the healthcare field, including medical services, intelligent medical devices, and hospital information Systems.

Dr. Sun was the Party Committee Secretary and General Manager of SPH Keyuan Xinhai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. formerly known as CITIC Pharma. Dr. Sun co-founded CITIC Pharma in 1993 and was responsible for business development and management. He served as Chairman and General Manager of CITIC Pharma's largest subsidiary, Beijing Keyuan Xinhai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., where he led the establishment and reform of organizational structure and the operational system. He also managed market exploration and business operations for different stages of the business, and contributed to the reform and restructuring of KYXH-invested companies.

SPH Keyuan Xinhai supplies pharmaceutical products, vaccines, and medical devices to hospitals, cross-sectional distribution partners, CDCs, retail buyers, and patients. The company also provides bonded import service, IT solutions, third-party logistics, and many other services. Since leaving his post at SPH Keyuan Xinhai,

Dr. Sun holds a PhD. in Business Administration from the Beijing Institute of Technology.

Mr. Edward Yang is the Chairman and President of iSoftStone North America  Business Group. iSoftStone is a leading IT service provider, serving both Greater China and Global clients with ITO, consulting and BPO. Mr. Yang helped build iSoftStone's Unted States operations business through organic growth and acquisition.
 
Before joining iSoftStone, Edward Yang was formerly the Chairman of the Cross Shore Acquisition Corporation, raising $112 million from Wall Street, after which the company went public on London AIMS in 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Yang was Operating Partner at ING Baring Private Equity Partners Asia (BPEP Asia) in Hong Kong. From 1992 to 2000, Mr. Yang served as the Corporate Senior Vice President and President of Asia Pacific Region for EDS Corporation, based in Plano, TX. with $1 billion revenue over 11 countries in year 2000.  
 
In 1980, as the Corporate Senior VP of Wang Lab, Mr. Yang negotiated the company’s first joint venture in China. He served as Head of Asia Pacific Region and SAP for Wang Lab Inc. Boston Mass until 1992.
 
Mr. Yang is a frequent speaker for corporations and universities on culture and key success factors when anyone leaves one’s home country to try to excel. He currently serves on the Board of Regents of Pepperdine University; Board  of  Visitors  of  School  of  Public  Policy  of  Pepperdine  University; Advisory board of  Asian Pacific American Legal Center ( APALC) and Chairman of the Board of Yunnan Project Hope, building schools in the Yunnan-Tibet region for minority children. Over the past 17 years, the project had built over 35 elementary schools in the minority regions of Yunnan Province.

Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, with a joint appointment in the MIT Engineering Systems Division. He specializes in strategy, product development, and entrepreneurship in the computer software industry, as well as automobiles and consumer electronics. He teaches courses on The Software Business and Digital Platforms as well as Advanced Strategic Management.

Professor Cusumano received a B.A. degree from Princeton in 1976 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1984. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Production and Operations Management at the Harvard Business School during 1984-86. He is fluent in Japanese and has lived and worked in Japan for seven years, and received two Fulbright Fellowships and a Japan Foundation Fellowship for studying at Tokyo University. He has been a visiting professor at Imperial College, Tokyo University, Hitotsubashi University, the University of St. Gallen, and Ludwig Maximilians University. He has consulted for some 90 companies around the world, including Alcatel, Amadeus, AOL, AT&T, BMC Software, Business Objects/SAP, Cisco, Ericsson, Fiat, Ford, Fujitsu, GE, Fidelity, Verizon, Hitachi, Huawei, i2 Technologies, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Motorola, NASA, NEC, Nokia, NTT Data, Philips, Robert Bosch, Schlumberger, Siemens, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. He is a former director of Patni Computer Systems (NYSE: PTI, www.patni.com, sold to iGate-Apax in 2011 for $1.2 billion) as well as several other public and private companies. He is a director of Quantum Leap Innovations (www.quantumleapinnovations.com), a pattern-based analytics software company based in Delaware, and on the advisory board of Fixstars Corp. (www.fixstars.com), a Japanese developer of high-performance computing applications relying on video-game microprocessors and blade servers. He has served as editor-in-chief and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review and writes a column on Technology Strategy and Management for Communications of the ACM. He was named one of the most influential people in technology and IT by Silicon.com in 2009.

Professor Cusumano has published 9 books and more than 70 articles. His latest book, Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy & Innovation in an Uncertain World (2010, based on the 2009 Oxford Clarendon Lectures), was named one of the top business books of 2011 by Strategy + Business magazine, with translations into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Italian. The Business of Software(2004) was named one of the best business books of the year by Steve Lohr of The New York Times and is translated into Japanese and Chinese. Microsoft Secrets (1995, with R. Selby), a landmark study of Microsoft’s strategy, organization, and approach to product development, has sold some 150,000 copies in 14 languages. Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft & Cisco Drive Industry Innovation (2002, with A. Gawer) examines the emergence of industry-wide platforms and ecosystem-based competition. Competing on Internet Time: Lessons from Netscape and its Battle with Microsoft (1998, with D. Yoffie), was named one of the top 10 business books of 1998 by Business Week and played a central role in the Microsoft anti-trust trial.Thinking Beyond Lean (1998, with K. Nobeoka) analyzes product development and platform strategies in the auto industry. He is also co-editor of Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy (2001) and author of Japan's Software Factories: a Challenge to U.S. Management (1991) and The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology & Management at Nissan & Toyota (1985).

Charles Fan is a Senior Vice President at VMware in strategic R&D. Charles and his team are looking into the fundamental shifts happening in technologies and customer needs, and how these disruptive changes will impact the data management methodologies in the cloud. Prior to this role, Charles was the founder and leader of both the VMware China R&D Center, and the EMC China Center of Excellence. Today, Over 1500 engineers work in those R&D Centers, and both centers are among the most respected R&D groups in China. Prior to the China roles, Charles was a co-founder and CTO of Rainfinity, which was acquired by EMC in 2005. He led the creation of Rainfinity's industry leading file virtualization and high availability products. Charles has also held positions at Intel Corporation, Goldman Sachs, and Cheyenne Software. He is an expert in distributed systems and network storage technologies, and received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union.

Mike Polley received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  In 1996 Mike joined Texas Instruments where he has made numerous technical contributions and led teams developing chip and system architectures spanning wireless and wired communications, image and video signal processing, and programmable DSP and embedded hardwired DSP solutions. Mike has served as chief architect of several mobile consumer oriented businesses in TI, including OMAP. Mike is currently director of the Multimedia Signal Processing R&D Labs at TI where he focuses on new embedded signal processing solutions for mobile battery powered consumer electronics products and other end equipment. Mike is a TI Fellow and holds 31 U.S. patents on a broad range of products across communications and multimedia systems.

Ivo Raznjevic is General Manager and Director of Research and Development, responsible for Emerging Technologies at Cisco Systems, based in Shanghai at the Cisco Research and Development Center (CRDC).

Ivo is a 15-year Cisco veteran, who has been with the company from the time it only had 1,000+ employees in 1994 to 63,000 employees worldwide today. Ivo has led the development of several emerging technologies such Cisco’s VoIP gateways, which have become the most widely deployed VoIP gateway in the world today.

In late 2004, Ivo co-founded the first Cisco R&D Center in China, initially responsible of setting up infrastructure and building an engineering organization of over 500 employees in Shanghai in 24 months. Ivo is also responsible for identifying acquisition opportunities and business development for Cisco in China. Most recently, Ivo played an integral role in Cisco’s WebEx acquisition for US$3.2 billion in May 2007.

Born in July 1963, Mr. Xie is the Director of the Digitalchina Institute of Engineering. He is also experienced in R&D manangement, enterprise manangement and M&A in the fields of defense electronics, comsuner electronics and industry application software and holds numerous other positions including Deputy Director of Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of Lenovo Research, CTO of Digitalchina, Chairman of the Board of Directors, and CEO of DGT Information Technolgy Co. He is the recipient of the second award of National Technology Advances and has authored two books: My Working Experience of Ten Years and Growing-up--Farewell To Your Student's Life.

Elizabeth was President and Co-Founder of Mazza and Riley, Inc., an internationally recognized executive search firm focused on recruiting general partners for venture capital and buyout funds, senior management for emerging growth companies in datacom, telecom, computer software and hardware. In addition she recruited top management for media and communications companies including paging, cellular, digital mobile, wireless data, satellite, multimedia, magazine and book publishing and broadcasting (including broadcast, cable TV, and radio).

Her company grew a strong client base with recurring revenue based on providing superior value-added service in specific vertical markets to Boards of Directors and CEO's-including recruiting, money raising, mergers, and strategic planning. It developed and sustained long-term productive relationships with a core group of venture capitalists with significant telecom portfolios from early-stage to post-IPO companies.

Dr. Song has rich experiences in both investment and entrepreneurship. He has in-depth knowledge in a broad range of technologies, and his main investment interests are early middle stage high-tech companies. He joined SBCVC in January 2000. His key role has been deal sourcing, execution, and portfolio management. He serves on the board of directors for over ten high-tech companies.

Before SBCVC, he held key positions in various high-tech companies. In 1995, he joined UStarcom's founding team as the Director of Information Technology. In addition, he was the CTO of MDC Telecom, and also a founder and director of GDS. From 1991 to 1995, he was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut. From 1988 to 1991, he was a post doctorate researcher at the University of Connecticut where he conducted research in the field of computer networks and information systems.

Dr. Song holds B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. from School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University. He serves as the special advisor for China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, and many other organizations.

Weijie Yun is currently a Senior Advisor at Northern Light Venture Capital. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CEO of Telegent Systems, Inc. where he led the company to create the mobile TV market around the world. Prior to Telegent, he led marketing and product management at Berkana Wireless, Inc., which was acquired by Qualcomm. He also served as the founding president & CEO of AIP Networks and was a founder and director of SiTek, Inc., a spin-off from BEI Technologies.

Weijie was awarded 2008 Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Yung joins ADI with an impressive resume in technology and emerging market development. Most recently, he served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Tessera Technologies and of PMC Sierra. He previously served as a lead architect of Sun Microsystems’ UltraSPARC microprocessor program as well as the company’s CTO in Asia. Mr. Yung also worked for Intel as its CTO in China as well as CTO of the Intel Communication Group and Intel Enterprise Processor Group. He was a founder and partner of GSR Ventures, which specializes in providing equity funding of early stage technology in semiconductors, wireless, and Internet services. Mr. Yung received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Yung was named to the National Committee of U.S.-China Relations as a Fellow during the inaugural Young Leader Forum in 2002. In 2000, he was named to the World Economic Forum's “Top 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow,” in Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Yung’s strong technical background, semiconductor experience, global network, and leadership skills make him well-suited for this new role.

In summer 2010, Eugene co-foundered TEEC Angel Fund, a supper angel fund investing in both US and China early stage companies in Silicon Valley. Eugene was founding CEO of InnoSpring, a global cross border technology startup incubator in Silicon Valley from its inception to January 2014. Eugene founded JEDA Technologies, Inc., in December, 2002 and serves as President and CEO. JEDA specializes in next-generation SoC design methodologies and provides ESL (electronic system level ) verification automation products for leading edge SoC design companies world wide. JEDA Beijing R&D center was opened in December 2004 at Tsinghua Science Park. Eugene has been working in the networking and computer industry for thirteen years in technical and management positions. Prior to founding JEDA, he was with Juniper Networks from its start where he contributed greatly to the success of many complex ASICs for internet backbone routers. Prior to joining Juniper, Eugene was with Cisco Systems as an ASIC design verification engineer. From 1993 to 1995 while Eugene worked on the Sunfire SMP server project at SUN Microsystems, he co-invented industry’s first hardware Testbench language Vera, which is a part of today’s industry standard SystemVerilog ( IEEE 1880). Mr. Zhang received his M.S.C.E from Syracuse University, USA, and a M.S.E.E and B.S.E.E from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Pei Qi is the Co-President of MIT-CHIEF 2013. He provides his leadership for organization's partnership development, business plan contest program and marketing. He led the first ever China Trip in MIT-CHIEF's history to bring 12 start-up teams selected from over 200 candidates to China this summer: Five Days and Five Cities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shaoxing, Wuxi and Hangzhou) to meet with local investors, government agents and corporate partners.

Pei Qi was the Vice-President of MIT-CHIEF 2012 responsible for speakers, panels and sponsorships. He was Co-Director of MIT-CHIEF 2011 for sponsorship.

Beside his volunteering work with MIT-CHIEF, Pei Qi is the China Business Development Manager with EPM, Inc, a leading technology consulting firm for Nuclear industry providing engineering consulting, software solution and probabilistic risk assessment consulting to industries in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. In the past, he interned at the Bloomberg R&D department, and worked in China Customs. He holds an MBA and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

As a Senior Industrial Liaison Officer, Dr. Rong promotes and manages the interactions and relationships between companies worldwide and the research faculty of MIT to help companies stay abreast of the latest developments in technology and business practices.

Dr. Rong is the founder and, previously president of IKA, LLC. He has led corporate development and product innovation, and has provided strategic advices to many companies in corporate strategy, IT leadership, web applications and customer relationship management. He has held senior roles with Vignette Corporation and Harte-Hanks. He held an EU research fellowship in the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he started global collaborative research.

Dr Rong served on the board of MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston from 2009 to 2012, and he was the chair of MIT Sloan CIO Symposium from 2009-2011. Dr. Rong holds an M.B.A. in global and innovation leadership from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and Ph.D. in numerical computing from University of Guelph in Canada.

Mr. Edward Yang is the Chairman and President of iSoftStone North America  Business Group. iSoftStone is a leading IT service provider, serving both Greater China and Global clients with ITO, consulting and BPO. Mr. Yang helped build iSoftStone's Unted States operations business through organic growth and acquisition.
 
Before joining iSoftStone, Edward Yang was formerly the Chairman of the Cross Shore Acquisition Corporation, raising $112 million from Wall Street, after which the company went public on London AIMS in 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Yang was Operating Partner at ING Baring Private Equity Partners Asia (BPEP Asia) in Hong Kong. From 1992 to 2000, Mr. Yang served as the Corporate Senior Vice President and President of Asia Pacific Region for EDS Corporation, based in Plano, TX. with $1 billion revenue over 11 countries in year 2000.  
 
In 1980, as the Corporate Senior VP of Wang Lab, Mr. Yang negotiated the company’s first joint venture in China. He served as Head of Asia Pacific Region and SAP for Wang Lab Inc. Boston Mass until 1992.
 
Mr. Yang is a frequent speaker for corporations and universities on culture and key success factors when anyone leaves one’s home country to try to excel. He currently serves on the Board of Regents of Pepperdine University; Board  of  Visitors  of  School  of  Public  Policy  of  Pepperdine  University; Advisory board of  Asian Pacific American Legal Center ( APALC) and Chairman of the Board of Yunnan Project Hope, building schools in the Yunnan-Tibet region for minority children. Over the past 17 years, the project had built over 35 elementary schools in the minority regions of Yunnan Province.

Gang Chen is currently Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his bachelor and master degree from the Power Engineering Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley in 1993 working under then Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien. He was a faculty member at Duke University (1993-1997), University of California at Los Angeles (1997-2001), before joining MIT in 2001. He is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the R&D100 Award, and the MIT McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Guggenheim Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, an APS Fellow, and an ASME Fellow. He has published extensively in the area of nanoscale energy transport and conversion and nanoscale heat transfer. He is the director of Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center funded by the US DOE’s Energy Frontier Research Centers program.

Edward Cunningham is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University’s Department of Earth and Environment and the Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative. He is also a research affiliate of the MIT Industrial Performance Center and serves as a consultant to private and publicly listed companies, with a particular focus on the energy and financial sectors. His clients range from startups in energy storage, energy efficiency, solar, and wind power to established majors in coal gasification and unconventional oil and gas exploration. Prof. Cunningham received a B.S. from Georgetown University, an A.M. from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. from MIT. He was selected as a Fulbright Fellow to China, during which time he conducted his doctoral fieldwork as a visiting fellow at Tsinghua University. He is fluent in Mandarin and Italian, and focuses his academic work on energy markets, energy policy, and the political economy of development. His work has appeared in major media such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Economist.

Paul Jacob joined Free Flow Power in March of 2011 to lead the company's marketing and trading. Mr. Jacob focuses on enhancing the value of Free Flow Power’s developments based on opportunities in the power and ancillary markets. He brings 20 years of energy market experience to the company with a track record of driving growth in asset management, sales, marketing, and proprietary trading. Mr. Jacob was most recently President of Edison Mission Marketing and Trading and was responsible for maximizing revenue from 10,000 MW of wind and thermal generation. He established one of the first independent electricity marketing and trading organizations in the United States and was a senior manager of Citizens Lehman Power. Mr. Jacob holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Dr. Bart Riley brings more than 15 years of experience in technology development and commercialization in the advanced materials, portable power and superconductor industries to his role as CTO and vice president of research & development at A123 Systems. 

Prior to co-founding A123 Systems, Dr. Riley held a number of key development and management positions over an 11-year career at American Superconductor. In his most recent role, he served as senior manager in corporate engineering where he led research for superconductor wire products. Dr. Riley holds more than 40 patents and has published more than 80 papers in the field of advanced materials. Dr. Riley has a Ph.D. and a master's degree in materials science and engineering from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree in physics and geology from Middlebury College.

Justin is Co-Founder and CEO of Hadapt. Prior to Hadapt, Justin led product development for COVECTRA, an anti-counterfeit technology firm. Before that, Justin founded an online social media company and spent the first six years of his career as a software developer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Raytheon.
Justin has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, and attended graduate school at the Yale School of Management.

Adam Fuchs is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of sqrrl. Previously at the National Security Agency, Adam was an innovator and technical director for several analysis infrastructure projects, handling some of the world’s largest and most diverse data sets. He is a co-founder of the Apache Accumulo project. Adam has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington and has completed extensive graduate-level course work at the University of Maryland. In his spare time, Adam enjoys racing sailboats, trail running, and getting lost in the woods.

Nin Lei is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer for Business Analytics in the System and Technology Group. He is responsible for driving systems growth into the business analytics segment by advancing assets into business solutions that meet worldwide customer needs. He delivers valuable technical counsel to key business analytics leaders and executives on technical strategy, direction and projects, and provides leadership across the breadth of our development community on business analytics value propositions that improve our technical content in solutions, and assists in platform positioning for specific customer workloads.
He has built solutions for customers to address complex database problems, and his work has resulted in significant revenue to IBM. He has built strong relationships with many large customers and he has worked closely with them to create operational and data warehouse systems. He is a frequent speaker at conferences presenting data warehouse topics. He has written many redbooks and technical papers on business intelligence.

Jennifer Lum is an entrepreneur and angel investor with deep operating experience in early-stage and public companies. Jennifer is a co-founder of Adelphic Mobile and Apricot Capital and she mentors startups at MIT, TechStars and 500 Startups.
Jennifer has focused on mobile marketing and advertising since 2005 and was a core team member of Quattro Wireless (acquired by Apple) and m-Qube (acquired by VeriSign). Through Apple iAd and Quattro Wireless, Jennifer worked with the world's best brands and media companies to build two industry-leading premium mobile ad networks.

Previously, Chris was CEO of Vertica Systems, where he led the company from late-stage startup to the number one ranked Big Data company in the market and its acquisition by HP in March of 2011. Before that he was an executive at four successful early-stage startups that were acquired by public companies.
Chris is an advisor to many Boston-area startups and is a mentor to many of the region’s entrepreneurs. He is currently on the Board of Hack/Reduce, a newly formed non-profit community space for developers in Cambridge; Chairman of Hadapt, a developer of Cloud-based adaptive analytical platform; and on the Board of Azuki Systems.
Chris earned his MBA from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University and his bachelor’s degree in business management from Suffolk University. He received an honorary doctor of commercial science degree from Bentley University.

Samuel Madden is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research interests include databases, distributed computing, and networking. Research projects include the C-Store column-oriented database system, the CarTel mobile sensor network system, and the Relational Cloud "database-as-a-service". Madden is a leader in the emerging field of "Big Data", heading the Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Big Data, a multi-university collaboration on developing new tools for processing massive quantities of data. He also leads BigData@CSAIL, an industry-backed initiative to unite researchers at MIT and leaders from industry to investigate the issues related to systems and algorithms for data that is high rate, massive, or very complex.

Madden received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003 where he worked on the TinyDB system for data collection from sensor networks. Madden was named one of Technology Review's Top 35 Under 35 in 2005, and is the recipient of several awards, including an NSF CAREER Award in 2004, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2007, best paper awards in VLDB 2004 and 2007, and a best paper award in MobiCom 2006.

Mr. Steve Papa is a Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Endeca Technologies, Inc since May 2006. Endeca was acquired by Oracle for $1.1B in late 2011. Mr. Papa founded Endeca Technologies in 1999 after recognizing that in this age of overwhelming information overload, the methods available for people to find what they are looking for or get answers are ineffective and inefficient. Mr. Papa is an Advisor at Data Point Capital and Data Point Capital I, L.P. He has been recognized by his peers for his ability to keep pushing forward when all other business forces have stood in the way and for the momentum he has garnered for Endeca in a relatively short time period. Prior to Endeca, he worked for Inktomi where he was the business lead in charge of creating its infrastructure caching business, which grew to make up 60 percent of Inktomi's revenues. He was also part of the original business team at Akamai. In addition, Mr. Papa was a venture capital associate with Venrock Associates, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, and was responsible for managing AT&T's $500 million high-end enterprise computing system product line. He was a Product Manager at Teradata. He served as Chairman of Endeca Technologies, Inc. He serves as Member of Board of Advisors at Alvenda, Inc. He serves as Director of Endeca Technologies, Inc. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Operations Research and Economics from Princeton University.

James Psota is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Panjiva, Inc., an international supplier search engine with offices in Boston, New York, Shanghai, and Udaipur.  Considered the premier intelligence platform for global trade professionals, Panjiva counts 40 Fortune 500 companies among its clients. James is responsible for Panjiva's technical direction and product development.  A serial entrepreneur who has founded four other startups, James is also published in the field of computer science. He conducted artificial intelligence research at Caltech and has worked for Intel Research, where he combined artificial intelligence techniques into computer architecture research. While serving as Panjiva's technology lead, James is pursuing a doctoral work in large-scale parallel computer architectures and parallel programming models in the Computer Science department at MIT. James was recently a featured speaker at the 2011 Barclays Capital conference and an Entrepreneurship conference at Microsoft. James advises other high tech companies, and sits on the Advisory Board of venture-backed Fidelis College alongside David Gergen and Clayton Christensen. James holds a B.S., summa cum laude, in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.

Min graduated from the computer science department of University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000, and started his career in Oracle New England's development team for six years. Following his passion of the challenging customer facing environment, Min made transition to Vertica, an HP company, as a pre-sales engineer and has been involved in multiple customer facing roles in the company. With his hard work and dedication, Min has become a key player in fostering Vertica's strong customer relationships and making the customers successful. Min is now Director of Corporate Pre-sales and Professional Services at Vertica. He manages a team supporting worldwide pre-sales operations and delivering proof of concepts (POC) for Vertica's major strategic accounts and is also responsible for world-wide professional services and training. Min is willing to share his experience of transiting from development to a customer facing position.

Julie is a Co-Founder of Kyruus and serves as the company's Chief Product Officer. She was previously the VP of Clinical Product Strategy at Generation Health, where she oversaw the development of the company's clinical programs and data analytics platform. Julie also led the Product Management efforts at Knome, the private arm of George Church's Personal Genome Project, where she developed and launched a bioinformatics platform for conducting individualized genomic sequence analysis. Julie's passion for data-driven businesses began as a software engineer at Endeca Technologies, where she ultimately helped to lead Endeca's efforts in the health care industry as a Sales Engineer for Strategic Accounts. Julie has an undergraduate degree in computer science from MIT, an MS in biomedical sciences from the Harvard-MIT HST Program, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Mr. Chen is the Chairman and President of DIH Technologies, an emerging leader in the fast growing Sports Medicine and Pharmacy Automation markets in China. Before he founded DIH with a team of seasoned multinational executives, Mr. Chen was a Senior VP at Cardinal Health, in charge of Cardinal’s Asia businesses as head of Asia and Cardinal’s Global Supply Chain Operation as its Managing Director. Mr. Chen’s other international positions include CFO of GE Healthcare N.A. Services and GE CSI, Great China GM of GE Healthcare GSO, and BD Manager of GE BD.

Mr. Chen’s management education includes an Executive Master degree from Kellogg Business School of Northwestern University, a Master in Corporate Finance from CEIBS, and post-graduate fellowship at London Business School.

Dr. Chaoyang Dai is the Vice President of Operations at Acebright, Inc. in Bedford, MA, a US-based member company of Shanghai Acebright Pharmaceuticals Group Co. Ltd. He is responsible in helping set up the US site and managing its R&D operations, marketing, and in-licensing activities. Prior to Acebright, Inc., Dr. Dai had 10 years of drug discovery experience at Neogenesis, Schering-Plough, and Merck, working on drug targets of oncology, inflammation, antiviral, and Alzheimer’s diseases. Dr. Dai received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Chemistry from Wuhan University and a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, after which he took a postdoctoral research position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Dai served as president (2010-2011) of the Chinese-American BioMedical Association (CABA) and is currently a board member.

Qi Li, M.D., M.B.A., is a successful healthcare innovator with extensive experience in product inception, research, and global business development. Dr. Li is the co-founder of EviPath with the mission to advance clinical education and collaboration in China. Dr. Li also holds the position of physician executive at InterSystems in charge of the global clinical product strategy. Dr. Li has held various product leadership roles at Harris Healthcare, Partners Healthcare, and several startup companies in healthcare IT. Previously, as the key person driving the Harris Healthcare global product strategy and sales effort, Dr. Li led the product positioning and market entry efforts in UK and China. At Partners HealthCare in Boston, Dr. Li led the internal development of the Longitudinal Medical Record (LMR) adopted enterprise-wide by 7,000-plus physician users at all primary care and specialty clinics. Dr. Li consults for Partners Medical International and taught in the China Initiative at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Li earned his combined M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass and a bachelor’s degree from University of Southern Maine. Dr. Li also attended Shanghai Jiaotong University before moving to US in 1991.

Dr. Sun is now an independent investor and focuses on early stage investments in the healthcare field, including medical services, intelligent medical devices, and hospital information Systems.

Dr. Sun was the Party Committee Secretary and General Manager of SPH Keyuan Xinhai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. formerly known as CITIC Pharma. Dr. Sun co-founded CITIC Pharma in 1993 and was responsible for business development and management. He served as Chairman and General Manager of CITIC Pharma's largest subsidiary, Beijing Keyuan Xinhai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., where he led the establishment and reform of organizational structure and the operational system. He also managed market exploration and business operations for different stages of the business, and contributed to the reform and restructuring of KYXH-invested companies.

SPH Keyuan Xinhai supplies pharmaceutical products, vaccines, and medical devices to hospitals, cross-sectional distribution partners, CDCs, retail buyers, and patients. The company also provides bonded import service, IT solutions, third-party logistics, and many other services. Since leaving his post at SPH Keyuan Xinhai,

Dr. Sun holds a PhD. in Business Administration from the Beijing Institute of Technology.

Yajun Xu is the Sr. Vice President of Corporate development at Shangphama Incorporation & ChemPartner Corporation US, currently located in Waltham, MA, USA.Previously, Yajun was the founder and Vice President of biology and pre-clinical business unit at Shanghai ChemPartner (one of the business units of Shangpharma) since April, 2007 to Jan. 2009 in China.

Prior to Chempartner, Yajun was the Director of Research in the Department of Inflammation, Millennium Pharmaceutical Inc., MA, US, where she worked for 6 years. Yajun managed a kinase portfolio drug discovery programs and led a small molecule inhibitor program and delivered 2 clinical development candidates with one entered into clinic.Previously, Yajun worked at BASF Bioresearch Corp. (now Abbott Bioresearch Corp.) as Sr. Scientist for 5 years. Yajun received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry training in enzymology with professor Robert H. Abeles at Brandeis University in US in 1992.She obtained three years of postdoctoral training at Harvard School of Public Health in department of Cell Biology and Molecular Toxicology. She received MS and BS degrees in Chemistry from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in China.

Dr. Peter Zhang graduated from Beijing Medical University in 1988 with a PhD degree in Medicinal Chemistry. Following his studies, he worked for the National Pharmaceutical Institute of R&D in Beijing for two years. In 1991 he was awarded Royal Fellowship and joined Prof. C. B. Reese’s group in King’s College London to study nucleic acid chemistry. For more than five years in Prof. Reese’s lab, he was involved in developing new RNA chemistry, modification of nucleosides for antisense study, and methodology study in solution and solid phase DNA/RNA synthesis. In 1996, Dr. Zhang joined Cruachem Ltd. in Scotland as Senior Nucleic Acid Chemist to develop new products, undertaking contract synthesis work. In 2002, he went back to China and co-founded Shanghai GenePharma Co. Ltd., and later co-founded Suzhou GenePharma Co. Ltd. in 2007. He presently serves as Chairman and CEO of the company.

Edward B. Roberts is the David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology and Founder/Chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Among his 170 articles and eleven books, his "Entrepreneurs in High-Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond" (Oxford University Press) won the Association of American Publishers Award for Outstanding Book. Professor Roberts chaired MIT Sloan's Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group for over 30 years, chaired the mid-career MIT Management of Technology Program for 20 years, and most recently started and directs the intensive MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship and Innovation MBA Track. Dr. Roberts’ 2009 report, "Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT", http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/impact.php, documents the history, determinants and consequences of MIT’s entrepreneurial achievements.

Beyond MIT, Edward Roberts is active as co-founder, board member and angel investor in many high-tech start-ups. His primary co-founded companies are Medical Information Technology, Inc. and Sohu.com, Inc. (Beijing), and he continues as a Director of both firms. Roberts co-founded and became a General Partner of the Zero Stage Capital Equity Funds, the first Massachusetts “seed funds”, later also co-founding CommonAngels. Current early-stage Boards include Daktari Diagnostics, DynoMedia (Beijing), and Visible Measures. He holds four MIT degrees, including the PhD in Economics.

Yuanyuan is a 6th year PhD student in Computational & Systems Biology program at MIT. During her five and half years at MIT, she has spent most of her spare time supporting the MIT Chinese community. She was the president of MIT Chinese Students & Scholars Association and has been a board member for MIT-CHIEF since it founded in 2011. She also has a strong interest in entrepreneurship and has been involved in several start-up groups.