American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation

Current Directors

Board of Directors (2021 - 2024)

Wei Hu

Title/Position

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Jihong (Joan) Ni

Chair of the Fund-Raising Committee

Joan Ni is the President of Suzhou-Chem Inc., a food chemical importing & distribution company in Massachusetts, and also currently serves as the President of Boston Zhejiang University Alumni Association. She has been a part of the board of directors of AZKEF since 2017.

Xiaodan Wang, FSS, LUTCF

Executive Vice-President, CFO

Xiaodan Wang is the Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of AZKEF, and has been a part of the board since 2012.

Mrs. Wang is a certified Financial Services Specialist and holds a LUTCF designation as a financial professional consultant. She has also been the President and Founder of W&T Financial Associates for more than 10 years.

Jicheng (Kevin) Ye

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Dong Yu

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Board of Directors (2019 - 2022)

Saichang Xu

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Catherine F. Yang, Ph.D.

President

Catherine Yang is Vice President of Academic Affairs at California Northstate University (CNU) and Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Clinical Biochemistry at the CNU College of Medicine. She has been board member for the Foundation close to 20 years and formerly served as Vice President and Chair of the Scholarship Selection Committee of the Foundation.

Stephen Zhou, Ph.D.

Chair of the Budget Appropriation Committee

Stephen Zhou, Ph.D, is the Vice President of Research and Development at Carl Zeiss Meditec Production, LLC (ZEISS Group) in California. Stephen has been serving the Foundation for more than 12 years, as a Board Member, Chair for the Fund-Raising Committee, and President of the Foundation.

Cheng Zhu, Ph.D.

Chair of the Advisory Broad

Cheng Zhu is the Regents Professor and J. Erskine Love Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a board member of the Foundation since late the 1990’s and previously served as the Chair of the Scholarship Selection Committee, President, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Foundation.

Erping Zhu, Ph.D.

Secretary, Chair of Public Affairs and Communication Committee

Erping Zhu joined the University of Michigan 20 years ago and is the associate director at the U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT).

Board of Directors (2018 - 2021)

Ying Dang

Title/Position

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Geng Wang, Ph.D.

Office Manager

Geng Wang is a Research Fellow and Steering Committee Member of Counsel of Principles & Fellows in Momentive Performance Materials – A Global Silicone Manufacturing Company. He has been board member for the Foundation for 2 years and also serves as Chair of Industry Relations Committee.

Chongqing Lu

Title/Position

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Guozhen Lu

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Dr. Lu is a Professor at the University of Connecticut. He was awarded a Simons Fellowship from the Simons Foundation in 2015 and was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2017. 

Dr. Lu served as a member of Michigan Governor’s Advisory Council on Asian Pacific American Affairs (2005-2009) and was appointed by Michigan Governors for multiple terms as a Commissioner of Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission (2009-2016) until he moved to Connecticut in 2016.

Dr. Lu has served as an Election and Scholarship Selection Committees Chair and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation.

Aming Zhang

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American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.