*Please include your name, School/Class, # of tickets, payment (send in check or on site), and contacting info/e-mail/phone (In case we need to contact you directly).
Payment:
Pay by check. The payment should be made payable to 'THAA-NC' and mailed to:
Shawnee Sun c/o THAA-NC 1069 Regency Knoll Drive San Jose , CA 95129
Make check payable to THAA-NC. Please also put down your name and contact information. Deadline: 4/21/2006.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Eric Yang (President, 408-668-5483), Keming Mu (VP, 510-304-1063), or visit THAA-NC web site at www.tsinghua-nc.org.
Dr. KaiFu Lee
President Google China
Kai-Fu Lee is a Vice President of Engineering at Google, Inc. and President of Google China. He joined Google in 2005 to start Google's operations in China.
Prior to joining Google, Lee was a Corporate Vice President responsible for advanced natural language and user interface technologies. He joined Microsoft in 1998 and was the founder of Microsoft Research Asia, which has since become one of the best research centers in the world. MIT Technology Review called it "the hottest computer science research lab in the world."
From 1996 to 1998, Lee was the President of Cosmo Software, a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). At SGI, Lee was responsible for several product lines and the company's Web strategy. Before joining SGI, Lee spent six years at Apple, most recently as vice president of the company's interactive media group, which developed QuickTime, QuickDraw 3D, QuickTime VR and PlainTalk speech technologies.
From 1988 to 1990, he was an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he developed the world's first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system. This system was selected as the "Most Important Innovation of 1988" by Business Week. While at Carnegie Mellon, Lee also developed the world-champion computer program that plays the game "Othello" and that defeated the human world champion in 1988.
Lee holds a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's in computer science with highest honors from Columbia University. Lee is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is an honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xian Jiaotung University.
Mr. Jack Hong
VP of Information Technology, Sina.com
Jack Hong is VP of Information Technologies at SINA Corporation (NASDAQ:SINA), which operates Chinese-language web sites and mobile services in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the US. He has lead SINA's enterprise IS infrastructure development from Beijing since 2002 and was previously CTO of SINANET.com before it merged with Beijing SRS International to become SINA. Jack co-founded SINANET.com with fellow Stanford students in 1995 while a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering Design. He holds dual degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston, University Park, an MS in Product Design Engineering from Stanford University and is currently on leave of absence from SINA as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
About Tsinghua Alumni Association of Northern California
The Tsing Hua Alumni Association of Northern California (THAA-NC) was established in 1982 by late Mr. Chia Lin Yuan ('36 ECON). It is a non-profit organization with no ties to any political or religious causes. The goal of the THAA-NC is set to bridge between the Alma Mater and its alumni. As for the areas of focus, they consist of
1) promoting communications between Tsinghua alumni, 2) hosting various events catering to the alumni in the Bay Area, including but not limited to the annual reunion (around April 29th, to celebrate the school's anniversary), seminars and Bay Area Chinese Athletic Games, and 3) collaborating efforts with the Beijing and Hsinchu campus administrations. The membership of THAA-NC is open to all Tsinghua graduates, faculty, staff, their spouse and children. Since 1982, the THAA-NC organization has steadily grown to over 1000 alumni in the database with hundreds of paid members. For the Open Policy China implemented in 1983, it is noteworthy that a growing number of Tsinghua graduates of Beijing elected to come to the United States for advanced studies, and settling in the Bay Area. In fact, Ms. Yaohua Zhang('61 MECH ENG Beijing) became the first post 1949 era Beijing alumna to hold presidency of THAA-NC. From then on, the practice has been established for Beijing and Hsinchu Tsinghua fellows to rotate leadership of presidency every other year. On a different note, it is an interesting observation that THAA-NC is seemingly a microcosm of the Asian market and its future. There is little doubt that a great number of Tsinghua fellows have played a key role in the research, development, and incubation of China's and Taiwan's high-tech industry. On the other hand, many of Hsinchu Tsinghua graduates have chosen to either relocate back to Taiwan's Science Park or pursue other endeavors in Asia. Combined with the committed support from both Beijing and Hsinchu Tsinghua campus administrations and an increasingly -growing Alumni network, we look forward to an even brighter future for the THAA-NC.
