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2010 Board of Directors Lisa Xiaohong
Cheng (程晓红)
CAST-UT
2010 President. Lisa Cheng is
originally from China. She received her international business degree in Xiaoming Sheng (盛晓明)
CAST-UT 2008 and 2009 President, CAST-USA 2010 Vice President–Administrative Affairs. Dr. Xiaoming Sheng received his Bachelor and Master's degrees of Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China, and Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Alberta. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Biostatistician at University of Utah. He is co-director of the Study Design and Biostatistics Center at the University of Utah Health Science Center, and a member of the University Statistics Committee. He is a lifetime member of CAST-USA and its Utah Chapter. Wei Peng (彭伟)
CAST-UT
2010 President-Elect. Dr. Wei Peng was a physician in China. He currently is a medical
director of ICU and Respiratory Care in the Salt Lake Regional Medical
Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and
Critical Care Medicine. He also received an award from American Association
for Bronchology Interventional Pulmonology
in 2005. He has involved multiple levels of business and scientific
connection between USA and China. Zhe Leng (冷哲)
CAST-UT Secretary General. 2007年毕业于西北工业大学，获得硕士学位。现为犹他大学机械工程系博士研究生，研究方向为机器人（自动驾驶车辆）。 Geping Cheng (程戈平)
CAST-UT Chief Financial Officer. Dr. Cheng has
been actively involved in some local community activities for the past two
years. He was awarded an Honor
CAST-UT Member in 2003. Dr. Cheng
obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in University Of Utah in
1996. He currently is a Senior
Software Consultant at iCentris, Inc. in Salt Lake
City. Prior to coming to the
U.S., he was an air-conditioning engineer and vice-director, Department of
Construction and Engineering in Hangzhou International Building (Hangzhou,
Zhejiang) for 5 years. He is
willing to contribute more to our Chinese community and like to see our
Chinese have a stronger vocalization in the community. Yuanzong
Fu (傅元宗)
CAST-UT Vice President–Science/Technology. Yuanzong Fu is one of the founder members of CAST-UT. Since
1991, Mr. Fu has been working at the University of Utah and various companies
in Utah. He has over 26 academic publications and presentations nationally
and internationally and holds two patents. Mr. Fu is one of the finalists of
the 3rd "Spring Cup" Creative Venture Competition held in China in
August, 2008. Yuanzong is very active in community
services. Gary Pan (潘东)
CAST-UT Vice President–Business/Trade. Mr. Pan is a financial advisor with UBS
financial Service, Inc. Mr. Pan
had extensive experience in investment consulting, business consulting, and
international business development.
While studying at the Utah State University, he served as the
president of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association. After graduating from an MBA program
at Utah State University, he worked as an international manager and helped
numerous Utah based companies explored business opportunities in Asia Pacific
region. Mr. Pan traveled to Asia
frequently and had hands on experience conducting international business and market
research, negotiating Sino-American joint venture, and establishing
international distribution network. Mr. Pan served as principal consultant at
PanAsia International, an international business
consulting firm in Utah. Mr. Pan
also holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the College of
veterinary medicine at Beijing Agricultural University. He is interested in helping the
Chinese communities in any way he can. Gangqiang Wang (汪刚强)
CAST-UT Vice
President–Membership. Dr. Gangqiang (Victor) Wang earned his Ph.D. in
Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University,
China, in 1996 and served the university as an associate professor till 2000.
He worked as a research associate and assistant professor at the University of Arkansas on electronic materials and
electronic packaging from 2001 to 2006. He is currently the Director of
Device Processing at EmiSense Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah, a technology leader in the
field of
emission sensors and emission control systems for
truck and automobile engines as well as stationary power systems. Dr. Wang
has been a peer reviewer for several journals and the associate editor of
Journal of Microelectronics and Electronic Packaging. He is a senior member
of IEEE and a member of IMAPS. Dr. Wang is an active CAST-UTAH member
contributing to various events and activities organized by the association
and the local Chinese communities. Ge Wu (吴戈)
CAST-UT Vice President–Community Event. Ge graduated
from Peking University Law School in 1989 and came to Salt Lake City in 1990
with her husband and lives here ever since. In 1998, Ge graduated from
U of U with MBA degree and worked as a financial analyst in large
corporations for 7 years. Ge is currently working as a real estate
professional/investor. Have two boys age 8 and 10. Enjoy skiing,
snowboarding, hiking, biking, working out, traveling, reading, and
self-improvement training for continued growth. Currently Ge also
serves as the president of United Chinese Association of Utah (UCAU), a local
Chinese organization founded in 1995. Wayne Xia (夏卫东)
CAST-UT Vice President–Education Seminar. Wayne was born in Hunan Province, China. He obtained his B.S. in Geology from Chengdu
Institute of Technology, Chengdu, China in 1982 and his M.S. in Civil
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, CA in 1985. He has worked with several engineering
consulting firms in California, New Jersey, and New York. He has also worked for the New York
State Government and the Federal Government. He currently works as a civil engineer
and Manager of Technical Services Division with the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wayne has been a CAST-UT member since 2002 and has served as CAST-UT
Treasurer or on the Board of Directors for several years. Bo Lu (吕波)
CAST-UT 2006 President. Bill Jiang (蒋为民)
CAST-UT 2007 President and CAST-USA 2010 Vice President–Public
Relations (US), received his MS/BS from Chongqing University
and MS from University of Utah. He has been an active life time member of
CAST-USA and served as Vice President of CAST-USA in 2009, President of CAST
Utah Chapter in 2007. He has been actively involved with CAST-UT and
CAST-USA, helped and led several CAST teams to work on various collaboration
projects both in US and China in the past years. He is founder and President
of US New Century Group, Inc., and founder and Vice President of CQU Alumni,
USA. Now, he works as a diamond club member broker at Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage in Utah. He has published 1 book, 7 papers and awarded
3 prizes in mining and environmental engineering. Hao Zhu (朱昊)
CAST-UT 2002–2004
President. As a board member, Hao would like to serve the Utah Chinese
community and to see the continued growth of CAST-UT that provides
positive impact to the community. Hao served as the president of
CAST-UT in years of 2002-2004, and chaired the Utah Chinese New Year Cultural
Celebration Committee. He currently serves as a co-chair of the
Governor's Asian Advisory Council. Born and raised in China where he
received MS and BS degrees in engineering, Mr. Zhu continued his graduate
studies in the U.S. and received a second Master degree from the University
of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has resided in Utah since 1993. He
is a licensed professional engineer and a project manager at the State of
Utah. Weili
Cheng (程惟丽)
Dr. Weili Cheng is Of Counsel with the firm of Clayton Howarth & Cannon and also VP, legal of LSK Biopartners. She holds Bachelor of Science
(Biological Sciences) and Master of Science (Virology) degrees
from Wuhan University, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology degree
and J.D. from the University
of Utah. She has 15 years of experience in biotechnology
research and teaching and has published scientific papers in the fields of
virology, molecular genetics,
enzymology, microbiology, and molecular evolution.
Dr. Cheng's practice focuses on U.S. and international patenting of
inventions in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, and
biomedical products. She
is admitted in Utah; United
States Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit; and is registered
to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She is also a
member of American Intellectual Property Law Association;
Utah Bar Intellectual Property Section.
She is life time member of CAST-UT since 2000. Nam Chau (周南)
Mr. Chau received an equivalent master science degree from Xiaoming Dong (董校铭)Mr. Dong is a
Sr. Software (Network) Engineer at LANDesk Software Inc., a recent spin-off
from Intel Inc. He works on the
development of server management software suite for Local Area Network (LAN). Prior to LANDesk, he spent several
years as Tech Lead, Project Manager, Sr. Software Engineer and Firmware
Engineer at SCO Group Inc., Intel Inc., and Enterasys Networks Inc. Mr. Dong's R&D areas include Web
Service, XML parser, Operating System, routing protocols (protocol stack) and
network security. He helped
successfully build and push two products to market. Prior to coming to the U.S., he served
as a Department Manager at Global (Guangdong) Ltd Co., Guangzhou and System
Engineer at Strong Co. (Institute of System Engineering), Beijing. The later once held over 70% market
share of M.I.S. system in China's Alcoholic Drink industry. Mr. Dong obtained his B.S. degree in
Applied Chemistry and his M.S. degree in Polymer from Peking University,
China, as well as another M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Ohio
University, Ohio. Mr. Dong has
helped maintaining the CAST WEB site for over two years. Lian Feng (冯莲)
Co-Chair–Community Event. Lian Feng has a master’s degree of Educational
Management from Southwest University and a bachelor’s degree of English from
Chongqing Normal University. In 2002, she was named City-level Head Teacher
(one of the highest honors for high school teachers). Lian is in charge of
Educational Scientific Research department as well as an English teacher in
China and a Chinese guest teacher at Skyline High School and Churchill Jr.
High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. Lian also won a number of prizes in
China in English teaching contests, thesis, research, etc. Li Sun (孙黎)Li Sun is a PhD
student at The University of Utah. She served as the president of the Chinese
Association of Students and Scholars at The University of Utah in 2008-2009. Rujie Sun (孙儒杰)
犹他大学中国学生学者联谊会主席。中国科技大学材料科学与工程系2003级本科，现在犹他大学材料科学与工程系就读博士学位，研究方向为新能源（太阳能电池）、生物器件以及微电子器件。 Qiang Tian (田强)
Co-Chair–Education Seminar. Le Wan (万乐)
Dr. Le Wan is a Research
Scientist at the Consortium for Electromagnetic Modeling and Inversion, Dept.
of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah. He is currently principle of the Oriental Chinese School. Mike Wan (万卫东)
Mike Wan, Associate Director of the
Confucius Institute at the University of Utah. He has extensive experience in
international business, education and media. He has an M.B.A. and was a consultant
for major American corporations doing business with China. Jaimee
Yang (杨晓梅)
Co-Chair–Science/Technology. Jaimee
Yang, USTAR scientist, U of U., PhD from Tsinghua
University; previously postdoctoral fellow at U of Texas at Austin, Research
Scientist at Southern Illinois University. Her research interests are
nanotechnology and nanomaterials and the broad
applications in renewable energies and optoelectronic sensors. Shuhua Zhang (张淑华)Co-Chair–Membership. Shuhua Zhang has been working at the University of Utah
since 1988. She served as a witness as well as a volunteer to the CAST-UT
since it was founded as a non-profit organization in 1996. She has enjoyed
participating in all kinds of the activities organized through CAST-UT. |