American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation

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 2018.

Xiaodan Wang is the President of W&T Financial Associates, and she is a licensed and certified financial professional consultant who specializes in wealth management.

She served as the Treasurer of the North American Zhejiang University Alumni Association, and the President of both Boston and Denver Zhejiang University Alumni Associations.

Xiaodan has been a board member of the AZKEF since 2012. She previously served as Executive Vice President, CFO, and Chair of the Financial Committee of the AZKEF.

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

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 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.

Dr. Jia (Peter) Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Auburn University, focusing on artificial intelligence in 3D printing. He joins AZKEF in 2024 and serves as the committee chair of scholarship selection.

Dong Yu is an ACM/IEEE/ISCA Fellow. He currently serves as a distinguished scientist and vice general manager at Tencent AI Lab.

Dr. Yang Yang is an optical scientist at Meta Platforms Inc.. He joins AZKEF in 2024 and serves as the online education committee chair.