NECINA Semiconductor SIG Seminar

Enabling Technologies and Opportunities for

Internet of Things (物联网)

• Time:6: 30 pm - 9:00 pm, Mar 10, 2011, Thursday
• Venue:IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02454
• Cost:Free for NECINA members, guests and students, $15 for general public
• Seats are limited, please RSVP at: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=216721

"Internet of things (IOT)", referring to internet network of everyday objects, is hot, especially in China. Internet unlocks the potential of billions of computers, and IOT will unlock the power hidden among trillions of objects. In 2010, the total IOT revenue in China is $30 Billion. It is expected to grow up to $100 Billion in 2015.

IOT is more than RFID, sensors and cloud computing. What would be the enabling technologies there? What opportunities can you grab? We are fortunate to have Sohail Khan, CEO of SiGe Semiconductor (RF silicon- germanium leader, M2M and smart energy RF front end provider and one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies based in North America), and Robert LeFort, CEO of Ember Corporation (Wireless mesh networking technology leader, Zigbee SOC provider, an initiator of Zigbee Standard) to talk about what is going on and what trend they see.

Please come to share your thoughts and spark new ideas in our discussion.

Agenda:

6:30-7:00 Pizza and networking

7:00-7:30 "Wireless Connectivity Trends" 
                 Sohail Khan, CEO of SiGe Semiconductor
7:30-7:45 Q&A for Sohail Khan

7:45-8:15 "Enabling the IOT with ZigBee Wireless Mesh Networking"
                 Robert Lefort, CEO of Ember Corporation
8:15-8:30 Q&A for Robert Lefort

8:30-9:00 Networking

Event Contact: Yang Li (Please e-mail edwardliyang@yahoo.comor call 617-953-8654), Jian Xu (jian.xu@necina.org)

About Speakers:

Sohail Khan
President and Chief Executive Officer, SiGe Semiconductor

Sohail has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director since 2007. Prior to joining SiGe, he served as an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, from 2006 to 2007 where he assisted in the evaluation of new investment opportunities and provided support to portfolio companies. From 2001 to 2005, Sohail held various senior management positions with Agere Systems, Inc. (acquired by LSI Logic Corporation), which was a publicly traded global leader in semiconductors and software solutions for storage, mobility, and networking markets, including executive vice president of infrastructure systems and executive vice president of strategy and development. He held senior management positions at Lucent Technologies, Inc. from 1996 to 2001, AT&T Inc. from 1990 to 1996, NEC Electronics Corporation (now Renesas Electronics Corporation) from 1984 to 1989, and Intel from 1982 to 1984. Sohail serves on the board of directors of LightPath Technologies, Inc. and GainSpan Corporation. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering in Lahore, Pakistan.

Robert LeFort
Chief Executive Officer, Ember Corporation

Robert LeFort was appointed as CEO of Ember in April 2006. Most recently, he was the President of Infineon Technologies North America Corp. in June 2002, with responsibility for all headquarters business activity and key customers. Earlier, he was Vice President Infineon's Automotive & Industrial business, managing business development and relationships with companies using Infineon chips for dynamic vehicle management, engine control, automotive safety systems and related applications. Before joining Infineon in 2000, LeFort was Customer Manager at Delphi Corporation, a Tier One automotive electronics supplier, and held positions at Cherry Semiconductor (now part of ON Semiconductor), Unitrode Corporation and Analog Devices. He holds an MBA from Boston University and a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

NECINA Conference on MultiMedia Convergence

April 2, 2011 9:00am – 12:00pm

Radisson Hotel, 10 Independence Drive,

Chelmsford, MA 01824   (978) 256-0800

Reservation at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=217444

Theme:

We are living in a Converged Media world. Text, image, audio and video information, displayed on all screens (big and small), delivered via all digital technologies (wired and wireless), are beaming into our conscience all the time. Media convergence has profoundly impacted consumers' way of receiving and interacting with information and entertainment. It also changes the business' way of creating and disseminating information for their targeted consumers.  

NECINA's Multimedia Convergence Conference invites distinguished speakers from the industry, academia and the VC community to will examine rapidly changing landscape of Media. What are the enabling technologies behind the media convergence and how can we adapt and find opportunities in the age of Converged Media?

Agenda:

        9:00 – 9:45 --- Conrad Clemson, CEO, BNI Video

        9:45 – 10:15 --- Jim Dolce, CEO, Verivue

        10:15 – 10:30 --- Break and Networking

        10:30 – 11:00 ---  A General Partner from Genovention Capital on trends for converged media from a VC's perspective    

        11:00 – 11:30 ---  (Tentative) A media researcher from a industry or a major research university

        11:30 – 12:00 --- Panel Discussion

        12:00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch and Discussion for registered participants.

Speaker bios:

Conrad Clemson is the founder and CEO of BNI video, a video platform provider for cable, telecommunications and wireless industries. Conrad is responsible for the management and strategic vision of BNI. Earlier in his career, Conrad served as a senior director of engineering at Motorola, which he joined in the fall of 2006 through the acquisition of Broadbus Technologies. Conrad was senior vice president for technical operations at Broadbus from 2002-2006, and before that was vice president of engineering at Gotham Networks, and a vice president of engineering at Lucent Technologies.

As Chief Executive Officer, Jim Dolce is responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of Verivue. Previously, he was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Juniper Networks, where he led the company's global sales, marketing, customer service and partner management. He joined Juniper in July 2002 through the acquisition of Unisphere Networks, where as President and CEO he guided the growth and eventual sale of the company. Before Unisphere, he served as founder and President of Redstone Communications, which he sold to Siemens in 1999. Before Redstone he was Vice President and General Manager of the remote access business unit of Cascade Communications, now Lucent. He joined Cascade in 1996 through the acquisition of Arris Networks, another Massachusetts-based company he founded in 1995. He also founded Promptus Communications in 1989, a manufacturer of digital network access products. He received his BS in electronic computer engineering from the University of Rhode Island.

Genovation Capital was created with a vision to fill a void in the market…we saw the need to launch a venture capital firm that truly focused on building innovative companies through a teamwork approach. We call it collaborative investing. An approach where our partnership works together to launch category leading ideas supported by the best and brightest talent in the industry yielding the highest returns for our investors.

Genovation invests in innovators that are addressing significant opportunities. Ideas that will change the way that we communicate, collaborate and entertain ourselves. Genovation's investment team and its extended network of industry leaders bring a unique blend of industry experience that provides the foundation to yield real franchise technology companies.

NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Networking with delegation from Qingdao

NECINA Optics Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar

NECINA Career Development Center Seminar

The Global Financial Crisis' Impact on China Employment Market 

& How to Successfully Identify and Pursue Opportunities in the Mainland China from the U.S.

NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Suzhou Industrial Park Introduction 

2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop 2

Funding Your Venture

NECINA Career Development Center Seminar

Financial Planning in an Uncertain Economy

Shinning Through the Dark Clouds

Interactive Mobile Web: from chasm to mainstream

2009 NECINA Mobile Internet Conference

In Memory of NECINA Chairman Ed Soong

(01/09/09 NECINA Speech at Funeral)

NECINA Optics Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar
Optical Imaging

Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday, April 11, 2009
Location: Finisar Corporation, 36 Jonspin Road, Wilmington, MA 01887

Agenda:

2:00pm-2:30pm Networking Time
2:30pm-2:45pm Introduction
2:45pm-3:45pm Computational Photography: From Epsilon to Coded Photography - Professor Ramesh Raskar, Media Lab,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:45pm-4:00pm Break
4:00pm-5:00pm aNIRS: towards ambulatory monitoring of cerebral vascular diseases-Prof. Quan Zhang, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Organizers: Xifeng Qian, Hongzhi Zhao, Qingwu Wang, Yong Qiao, Xueyan Zheng, Frank Fan, and Yi Qian

Abstract: Computational Photography is an emerging multi-disciplinary field that is at the intersection of optics, signal processing, computer graphics+vision, electronics, art, and online sharing in social networks. The field is evolving through three phases. The first phase was about building a super-camera that has enhanced performance in terms of the traditional parameters, such as dynamic range, field of view or depth of field. I call this Epsilon Photography. Due to limited capabilities of a camera, the scene is sampled via multiple photos, each captured by epsilon variation of the camera parameters. It corresponds to the low-level vision: estimating pixels and pixel features. The second phase is building tools that go beyond capabilities of this super-camera. I call this Coded Photography. The goal here is to reversibly encode information about the scene in a single photograph (or
a very few photographs) so that the corresponding decoding allows
powerful decomposition of the image into light fields, motion deblurred images, global/direct illumination components or distinction between geometric versus material discontinuities. This corresponds to the mid-level vision: segmentation, organization, inferring shapes, materials and edges. The third phase will be about going beyond the radiometric quantities and challenging the notion that a camera should mimic a single-chambered human eye. Instead of recovering physical parameters, the goal will be to capture the visual essence of the scene and analyze the perceptually critical components. I call this Essence
Photography and it may loosely resemble depiction of the world after high level vision processing. It will spawn new forms of visual artistic expression and communication. In this talk, I will focus on Coded Photography. 'Less is more' in Coded Photography. By blocking light over time or space, we can preserve more details about the scene in the recorded single photograph. I will show several applications and describe emerging techniques to recover scene parameters from coded photographs.

Prof. Ramesh Raskar joined the MIT Media Lab in spring 2008 as head of the Camera Culture research group. The group focuses on developing tools to help us better capture and share the visual experience. This research involves developing novel cameras with unusual optical elements, programmable illumination, digital wavelength control, and femtosecond analysis of light transport, as well as tools to decompose pixels into perceptually meaningful components. Prof. Raskar's research also involves creating a universal platform for the sharing and consumption of visual media. Prof. Raskar received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he introduced "Shader Lamps," a
novel method for seamlessly merging synthetic elements into the real world using projector-camera based spatial augmented eality. In 2004, he received the TR100 Award from Technology Review, which recognizes top young innovators under the age of 35, and in 2003, the Global Indus Technovator Award, instituted at MIT to recognize the top 20 Indian technology innovators worldwide. He holds 35 US patents and has received four Mitsubishi Electric Invention Awards. He is currently co-authoring a book on computational photography. http://raskar.info

Abstract: Near-infrared spectroscopy and diffuse optical imaging
(NIRS-DOI) is a new technology. Because of its noninvasive nature, it arouses more and more scientists' interest to see if NIRS-DOI can be used to diagnose cerebral vascular diseases and women's breast cancer.
More and more papers has been published in this area.

Dr. Zhang has been engaged in scientific research of NIRS-DOI since 1998 and published more than 20 papers in this topic. Today, his talk will focus on the following issues:
1. Basic principle of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Diffuse Optical Imaging (DOI);
2. aNIRS: ambulatory Near Infrared Spectroscopy; Current related projects and results; Towards ambulatory monitoring of cerebral vascular diseases; Dr. Quan Zhang joined Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School as an assistant professor in 2007. Since 2004, he has been the director of two laboratories, i.e. Biomedical Optics Laboratory, the Center for Engineering in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Neural System Group. He has also been the consultant in photon migration modeling in Intelligent Medical Devices,
LLC, Cambridge, MA, and the consultant in Near-infrared (NIR)
spectroscopy and imaging the director Advanced Research Technologies
Inc, Montreal, Canada. Currently, his group focuses on two areas:
1) Non-invasive fast optical imaging of visual and motor processing, which aims to non-invasively monitor neural activity using methods that may be suitable for functional brain imaging in populations with developmental disorders;
(2) Diffusion optical tomography (DOT) and fMRI studies of visual
perception and imagery, which conducts a systematic validation of the true potential and limitations of DOT as a cognitive neuroscience tool in adults by recording simultaneously DOT and fMRI data during established visual stimulation paradigms

Prof. Zhang received his PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1998. He holds at least 5 US patents.
http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/people/showPerson.php?people_id=193
 

NECINA SemiTech Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar

Time: 6:30pm to 9:00pm, Thursday, April 16, 2009
Venue: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA

Topics:            
o Technologies for Analog, Mixed Signal, RF and mmWave ICs

Analog and RF ICs are key enablers for advanced communications which have dramatically changed our daily life in many ways. This talk will first review the semiconductor IC market and the evolving applications.It will then cover different technology options and technology roadmap from leading foundry for analog/RF/mmWave IC designs. Device menus for advanced RFCMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, and high performance RF passives will be
presented. It will provide insightful guidance in choosing proper technologies for appropriate applications with considerations of device performance scaling impact, system requirement, and cost.

o CMOSSilicon on Insulator:  Enabling changes in RF designs  

Silicon on insulator (SOI) refers to the use of an insulator substrate instead of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing to reduce device parasitic and improve performance. After a journey of more than 20 years and leveraging with low currents consumption and high speed, SOI triumphantly shows off its successes in digital and mixed signal IC, from processors to game consoles. Benefiting from low cost and high integration, it is also quietly reaching into high performance RF/MW field which traditionally is dominated by III-V compound. The purpose of this talk is to give an overview of SOI from RF circuit designers?perspective, and to share with you what SOI has substituted, and what kind of innovations may be enabled in multi-mode multi-band front end module as well as in millimeter wave fields.

Agenda            

6:30pm-7:00pmNetworking (Pizza will be served)
7:00pm-7:40pmRF/Analog Technology (Dawn Wang)
7:40pm-7:55pmQuestions and Answers
7:55pm-8:15pmRF CMOS SOI (Dr. Yang Li )
8:15pm-8:30pmQuestions and Answers

Speakers            

Dawn Wang isa senior foundry application engineer in IBM Microelectronics. She had also held various senior technical positions in Texas Instruments and TriQuint Semiconductors in technology and product development for RF, Analog/Mixed Signal (AMS) integrated circuits. Dawn has published technical papers and holds US patents in RF/AMS designs. She is a member in wireless working group of International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductor (ITRS).

Dawn Wang received her BSEE and MSEE from Tsinghua University in China. She also received her M. S. in Solid State Physics from Arizona State University.

Dr. Yang Liis a principal engineer in Skyworks developing 3G/LTE power amplifier and front-end module. Before joining Skyworks, he was with Peregrine Semiconductor working on RF front-end designs on SOI. He also co-founded XEL focusing on short-range wireless communication technologies.

Yang Li received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 2001, respectively.

Organizers:

Bo Zhang bzhg2000@gmail.com
Dawn Wang dawn_wang@verizon.net
Yang Li edwardliyang@yahoo.com
 

2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan ContestWorkshop IV
Pitch your business idea& Team building

2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest has received 25 full business plans to compete for the final prize. Before semifinalist announcement, we would like to create an opportunity for Business plan teams to pitch their business idea and demonstrate their business idea or product prototype to you.

Welcome to join the workshop and find out the most innovate business ideas. Business Plan teams would like to listen to your feedbacks and comments to better position themselves. Meanwhile, it is also a great opportunity for you to be part of their ventures and build a success business in the near future.

Time: 9am to 12pm, Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Venue:Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Fee: Free for NECINA members, BPC teams and Babson ABF members. $10 for general public. (Refreshment will be served.)

Agenda:
9:00 - 9:30am Registration & Networking (booth setup)
9:30 - 9:40am Welcome Speech by NECINA
9:40 - 11:00am Presentation by BPC teams.
  o 5 minutes presentation without Q&A for each team
  o We will provide a feedback sheet for every audience and collectit at the end of workshop for teams?reference. (The feedback will be anonymous)
11:00am - 12:00pm Demonstration productservice & Networking
 

2009 NECINA Entrepreneurship Case Study Seminar

Date and Time:Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:30 pm ?8:50 pm
Venue:IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451-1280
Sponsor:IBM INNOVATION CENTER

Greetings everyone! NECINA continues its series of dynamic events with a seminar featuring case studies of two start-ups ?Solar Engineering Solutions (SES) and WebNotes.In this session, these two entrepreneurial teams will discuss their ideas and products, share their experience in dealing with challenges of building their companies, and raise questions and solicit input from panelists and the general audience.There is a twist of the seminar format in that we encourage all audience to play a more active role in offering their perspective of how they would handle the challenges themselves.

The seminar will also feature an esteemed group of experienced, well-qualified panelists including John Manning of Deloitte & Touche, Jo Tango of Kepha Partners, who will provide feedback on these two  presentations.Following the moderator抯 questions, the panelists will use the studies as a springboard to a more general discussion over best practices that will hopefully be helpful to all aspiring, current and
future entrepreneurs.In short, the seminar will provide an opportunity for all audience members to learn the basic principles of being a successful entrepreneur.

Agenda

6:30-7:00 pm: Networking
7:00-7:05 pm: Introduction of NECINA, Excubator Program, Venture Club
7:05-7:10 pm: Introduction of IBM Innovation Centers
7:10-7:30 pm: Presentation by Solar Engineering (including 5 minute Q & A)
7:30-7:50 pm: Presentation by Webnotes (including 5 minute Q & A)
7:50-8:30 pm: Panel discussion with panelists led by a moderator
8:30-8:40 pm: Q &A session
8:40-8:50 pm: Closing Remarks & Survey

Descriptions of Teams

Solar Engineering Solutions (SES)
SES offers a solar solution for cooling and heating needs in large commercial buildings. It harnesses clean solar thermal energy and delivers to buildings at a greater energy savings than any other solutions. This solution also enables peak-time electricity demand shaving.

Their Solar Air Conditioning System (SACS) utilizes solar energy to heat up water to both drive the air-conditioning system and satisfy hot water demands for large buildings. Customers will benefit from energy savings of up to 80%, with a payback period of 3-5 years; this payback period can be further reduced to 1-2 years with tax incentives and rebates from government.

SES has been awarded laboratory space on an MIT building for demonstration purposes. They have discussed with potential customers who have shown keen interest in their technology and products.

Webnotes

PR firms spend hundreds of hours every week performing online research to track client coverage, competition, and industry news, tediously copying and pasting information from the web into Word documents which are formatted and emailed to clients.By making it easy to capture and
organize content from web pages and PDFs and automatically generate
professional reports, /_WebNotes _/(www.webnotes.net) allows firms to
save up to 50% of their time at half the cost of competing products.

Ryan Damico, WebNotes' co-founder & CEO, graduated from MIT in 2005 with
a degree in Computer Science.Prior to founding WebNotes, Ryan was a
Program Manager at Avid Technology.

 


_Panelists_


John Manning:

John F. Manning is Partner, Assurance & Advisory Services at Deloitte &
Touche.John has 22 years of public accounting experience, specializing
in multi-national complex businesses, in the media, technology and life
sciences industries.He serves a number of our office抯 largest,
fastest growing clients and has extensive experience in mergers and
acquisitions work, public company reporting issues, and multi-national
companies.John is one of the Boston office抯 professional practice
directors, having served as a deputy in that position for 8 years.In
addition, he is a frequent speaker at industry events on topics such as
software revenue recognition and business combinations.John has served
or represented more than two-dozen large companies in New England. He is
member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountant and
Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.


Jo Tango:


Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners. He has invested in the
e-commerce, search engine, Internet ad network, wireless,
supply chain software, storage, database, security, on-line
payments and data center virtualization spaces.


He has been a founding or first institutional investor in
AutoVirt, Azuki Systems, Bit9, ByLedge, ExaGrid, StreamBase
Systems, Vertica Systems, and Virtual Iron, getting involved
nearly always at the company inception phase. Other
investments include Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ), Digital Market
(acquired by Agile Software), and NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD).


Jo previously was at Highland Capital Partners for nearly 9
years, where he was a General Partner. He also spent five
years with Bain & Company, where he was based in Singapore,
Hong Kong and Boston, and focused on technology and start-up
projects.


Jo attended Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude and Phi
Beta Kappa) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker
Scholar). He serves on the board of NECINA (New England
Chinese Information and Network Association) and is very
active with the MIT Deshpande Center.

 

Fee:

Member: $5.00

Non-member: $20.00

 

Contacts:Harry Gao (harry@gnwLaser.com <mailto:harry@gnwLaser.com>),
Haifei Zhang (hfazhang@gmail.com <mailto:hfazhang@gmail.com>)

 

You are welcome to join NECINA at http://www.necina.org/member.htm.

About NECINA

The New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA),
a non-profit and non-political organization, was founded in March 1996
by a group of Chinese professionals from network computing industries.
It serves local community and members with a mission to advance
technology, entrepreneurship, and global reach. Today NECINA spans
across a diversity of industries including software, telecommunications,
networking, semiconductor, bio-tech, medical devices, clean
technologies, venture capital, finance and law. For more information,
visit http://www.necina.org <http://www.necina.org/>.
 

NECINA Venture Club/Excubator Conference
Move Dream Forward? ?You can do it, too!
& Funding Trends from East to West?Venture Capital Opportunities in Tianjin, China and Boston, MA

Time: 9:00am to 2:00pm, Sunday, May 3, 2009
Venue and Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
Free to NECINA members and general public

Are you considering start a business but hesitating to take the plunge? How to move your dream forward after you have a business plan? Is it possible to raise money in the downturn economy? How to bootstrap a business in difficult times? Please come and join us to listen to entrepreneurs who have done it before. You can do it, too!

NECINA Venture Club and Excubator at the Entrepreneurship Center are proud to present Jimmy Chen, founder and chairman of GotoBus.com (NECINA sponsor) and Coach Wei, founder and chairman of Nexaweb to share their views and experiences.

Also welcome Tianjin Venture Capital Association invited by our event sponsor Foley Hoag. Please join us for a unique opportunity to meet our special guests from Tianjin, China, learn how to raise money and prevail in a slow economy and discuss venture opportunities in China.

Following the event, please sign up your team with Venture Club and Excubator for future event and services, and network one-on-one with guest venture capitalists and Excubator service providers.

Agenda

9:00 - 9:30am Registration & Networking Light refreshments will be served.
9:30 - 9:50am Open Remarks by NECINA Organizer & Sponsor
9:50 - 10:20am Keynote: 揜aise Money in Difficult Times? Coach Wei, Founder & Chairman, Nexaweb
10:20 - 10:50am Keynote: 揃ootstrap to Prevail? Jimmy Chen, Founder, Chairman & CEO, GotoBus.com
10:50 - 11:00am Break
11:00 - 11:30am Keynote: 揤enture Opportunities in Tianjin? Tianjin Venture Capital Association
11:30am - 12:00pm Q & A
12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch & Networking
1:00 - 2:00pm One-on-one Meetings with Venture Capitalists

About the Speakers
Jimmy Chen, CEO and Chairman, GotoBus.com
Jimmy (Xiangping) Chen founded IvyMedia Corporation aka GotoBus.com in the Summer of 2000 with the mission of providing affordable and easy-to-use solutions for e-commerce and content management. Since then GotoBus.com has become the leading online bus ticketing service provider and was named Best of the Web by Washington Post in February 2007. Before founding IvyMedia Corporation/GotoBus.com, Jimmy held various software development and management positions at PTC and SolidWorks. He is also active in computer science research and his publications (eg. CAD Vol 27.9, ISBN:0-89791-672-7, CAD Vol 27.12 and CAD Vol 28.1) were
well received in the Computer Aided Design research community. Jimmy has a Ph.D. from Computer Science at Purdue University; a Master's and a Bachelor's from Zhejiang University.

Coach Wei, CEO, Yottaa Inc. and Chairman, Nexaweb Technologies, Inc.
Coach is CEO of Yottaa Inc. He is also Chairman of Nexaweb technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company he founded in 2000.  He served a variety of roles at Nexaweb including CEO, VP Engineering, CTO and marketing from 2000 to 2008.  Before Nexaweb, Coach designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation.  He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has many publications on various technical journals. Coach obtained his master抯 degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains a blog on startups, web 2.0 technologies and entrepreneurship at http://www.coachwei.com.

About Tianjin Venture Capital Association

Tianjin Venture Capital Association (TJVCA) is one of the earliest specialized venture capital organizations in China. TJVCA, an industrial, non-profit non-governmental organization, is voluntarily organized by institutions and agencies in venture capital, relevant guarantee, consulting, and services, venture capital enterprises and professionals in venture capital.. The association is under the guidance of Tianjin Municipal Science & Technology Association and the
supervision and administration of Tianjin Administration Bureau of Corporation. After renaming and reorganization in 2002, according to the principle of "serving members, strengthening self-discipline of field, promoting standardized and healthy development of Tianjin venture capital undertaking, contributing to support high-tech industry and social economy development", the association has made remarkable achievements in improving new venture capital system with Tianjin characteristics; implementing venture capital practitioners management, training of talents; carrying out the communication and cooperation with the fraternity at home and abroad; conducting field survey and investigation; participating in formulation of the relevant local preferential policy, which enabled the association to win the honorable title of "Tianjin Advanced Mass Organization" for consecutive two years in 2003 and 2004. At present, the association has 45 members with investment of nearly RMB 4 billion. The investment scope covers information technology, biology technology, new energy, new material, software development, telecommunication, medicine and many other fields.

About NECINA Venture Club

NECINA Venture Club is an exclusive entrepreneurial community for members to share experience, network and best practice across global economy. NECINA Venture Club organizes advanced workshops and discussion forums specific to challenging issues faced by the executives. Club membership is limited to advisors, corporate executives, established entrepreneurs with mature business operation and selective early stage entrepreneurs with concrete business plan. The Venture Club is the
premier networking club in New England focusing on entrepreneurship and bridging the gap between business in the US and Asia.

About NECINA Exubator Program

NECINA Excubator Program is a service oriented pilot program as an extension to global venture incubators helping business teams in the bootstrapping stage from business plan inception to successful seed funding. As a platform aligning NECINA resources in areas such as engineering, marketing, sales, legal, finance, venture capital, human resource, it provides continuous services to NECINA business teams and all stage entrepreneurs.
 

NECINA Career Development Center Seminar
Emotional Intelligence at Work and at Home

Time: 6: 00 pm ?9:00 pm, Friday, April 24th, 2009
Venue: Deloitte, 1000 Winter Street, North Entrance, Suite 2000,Waltham, MA 02451
Cost: Free for NECINA members and $15.00 for general public

Emotional Intelligence affects every aspect of our lives, and it is more viewed as the differentiation and competitive advantage in the job market today.  The bar has been raised, and employers are looking for high Emotional Quality (i.e. EQ) employees.  It is a learned skill set involving managing the emotions of ourselves and others. Emotional competency is important at work and at home.

The work place is a unique community. The way we work with employers, colleagues, clients, and subordinates is an art of emotional intelligence. How do we be assertive at work? How do we ask for a raise?

Home is the foundation of our society. Maintaining a strong and healthy relationship at home is vital to our well beings. How do we have difficult conversation with family members? How do we handle emotions that arise at home?

Brown University professor, Jin Li, will provide practical solutions on successful strategies at work places, help us understand every stage of human development, and help parents raise emotional healthy children.  Dr. Jin Li is also an expert in Asian American child development. She devoted her knowledge and time studying the leaning beliefs of American Chinese under the impact of two cultures. Dr. Jin Li will share many solutions including how to take care of pre-school children and how to communicate with teenage young adults. Be ready and bring all your questions.

Agenda:
6:00pm ?7:00 pm         Pizza and Networking
7:00pm ?7:05pm          Opening Remarks
7:05pm ?8:30pm          Speech: 揈motional Competency at Work and at Home?
8:30pm ?9:00pm           More Networking

Speakers Bio:

Jin Li, Professor of Brown University

Dr. Jin Li is an associate professor of education and human development at Brown University. She originally came from China. She received her undergraduate degree in German from the Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages in 1982 and taught German language and literature there. After immigrating to the United States in 1985, she studied first at the University of Vermont, and then earned her Master's degree in foreign language education from the University of Pittsburgh, 1988. She received her second Master's degree in administrative planning and social policy in 1991 and her PhD degree in human development and psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1997. Dr. Li participated in education reform in the United States at Harvard Project Zero under the leadership of Howard Gardner. She teaches courses in human development. Her research focuses on children's beliefs in learning, motivation, self-concepts, and self-conscious emotions across cultures and ethnic groups in the United States.

Contact information:

Please contact Miss Kitty Huang by e-mail  Kitty.Huang@NECINA.org <mailto:Kitty.Huang@NECINA.org> or call 617-983-0209.

 
 

Global Search for Technology Leaders?
Wuxi Binhu District Investment Conference

Do you have innovative ideas but find it is hard to make the dreams coming true in the current economic downturn? Would you be interested in how China is prepared with a view from the corner of a local governments stimulus package? Are you the top talent they are searching for to contribute to the fast development in China?

A delegation from Wuxi municipal government and Wuxi K-Park will visit US to promote their newly developed initiative "530 Plan"(Please see http://www.wuxi530.org/go530detail.aspx?id=64 for more details in Chinese). During their trip, we are honored to have this opportunity to invite them to stop by Boston and bring this event to the local community by NECINA Global Exchange Center and NECINA Sponsor iSoftStone.

Throughout the event, you will have the chance to hear what they have planned to implement the Wuxi 530 Initiative, how you can approach to them to present your ideas and business plans so that you can get their support and enjoy the great benefits of this program. In the delegation,there will be officials who are directly in charge of this program and they will be able to answer your questions and initiate your contact.

Please join us along with innovators, entrepreneurs, and business people from China and US for a great networking event.

Time:5pm to 7pm, Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Venue: Double Tree Hotel, Waltham, MA

Fee: Free if register by April 15^th ; Afterwards $10 for members and
$15 for general public.

Conference Agenda:
5:00 - 5:20pm Registration & Networking
5:20 - 5:30pm Welcome Speech by NECINA
5:30 - 5:50pm Keynote: Innovation, Across Borders? TW Liu, CEO of iSoftStone
5:50 - 6:10pm Keynote:  Global Search: Wuxi 530 Initiative? Wuxi Municipal Government Official
6:10 - 6:30pm Keynote:  WuxiK-Park and You? Head of Wuxi K-Park
6:30 - 7:00am Q&A Discussion

About Speakers:

Tianwen(TW) Liu, Chairman & CEO, iSoftStone

Mr.Tianwen(TW) Liu is the founder, Chairman and CEO of iSoftStone Information Service Corporation, one of the fastest growing IT outsourcing companies in China. He has over 20 years of experience in IT services sector. Before starting iSoftStone, Mr. Liu co-founded AsiaEC.com in 1999, and led the effort to build the company from ground up and grow it to become China's largest on-line office supply and services provider. AsiaEC has been acquired by Office Depot, the largest office supply provider in USA. Prior to AsiaEC.com, Mr. Liu served as the GM of Siemens Business Services and Siemens Nixdorf Information Technologies in 1996-1999, responsible for IT consulting, system integration, and outsourcing businesses in China. During that period, He has successfully conducted and led many large-scale enterprise consulting and information system projects.  Before that, Mr. Liu worked for several consulting and IT companies in US, including BECHTEL and DEC. Mr. Liu is a Sloan Fellow and holds MBA degree of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the Masters degree of Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts.
 

ShiJiaZhuang - Your Hi-Tech Partner
Introduction of Shijiazhuang National High-Tech Industry Development Zone

Are you looking to invest in China but unsure where to go beyond Beijing and Shanghai? Are you looking to expand your business in booming China market but don抰 know where to start? Are you excited about China perspectives but lack of information on how to take advantage of the best policy? If so, don't miss this rare opportunity to learn about Shijiazhuang National High-Tech Industry Development Zoneright here in Boston.

Shijiazhuang (???) is a prefecture-level city and the capital of Hebei province, China. It is about 200-milessouth of Beijing.

The Shijiazhuang High-tech Industrial Development Zone <http://www.shidz.com/> (Shijiazhuang HIDZ) was established by the State Council in 1991, and has a planned area of 18 km2.  It consists of three zones, including the eastern zone, the western zone and the Liangcun Park.  More than 2000 enterprises have set up in the HIDZ, the annual technical, industrial and sales revenue was 82.2 billion RMB ($12.2 Billion) in 2008.

Shijiazhuang is the home of the North China Pharmaceutical Group, Shijiazhuang Pharmaceutical Group and Yiling Pharmaceutical and many others.  Numerous foreignenterprises such as Fujitsu, NEC, Sumitomo, Hoechst AG, Monsanto, Hughes, TMD, National Grid, Lion Group have built their facilities in Shijiazhuang HIDZ to take advantage of its business-friendly environment.  In addition to local government investment funds having capital available for entrepreneurs to tap into,
there are 18 institutions of higher learning in Shijiazhuang with technical training, industrial liaison and commercialization programs.

To find out more about the Shijiazhuang HIDZ please attend an informational event and briefing co-hosted by the Massachusetts Office of International Trade &Investment, the Investment Promotion Agency of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and the New England Chinese Information & Networking Association and sponsored by IBM.   The event will be held on December 7, 2009 at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Organizers:
?The Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment(MOITI <http://www.moiti.state.ma.us/>)
?Investment Promotion Agency of Ministry of Commerce, P.R.C.(CIPA <http://tzswj.mofcom.gov.cn/>)
?New England Chinese Information & Networking Association(NECINA <http://www.necina.org/>)

Sponsor:
?International Business Machines Corp. (IBM <http://www.ibm.com/>)

Date & Time:  December 7, 2009, 6:00 pm ?8:30 pm
Venue:    IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451-1280

Agenda:

   6:00 pm - 6:30 pm Registration and Networking
   6:30 pm - 6:40 pm Welcome remarks by Ted Carr, the Executive Director of Massachusetts of International Office of Trade and Investment
   6:40 pm - 6:44 pm Speech by Joseph Perry, Regional IBM Innovation Centers Manager, Eastern Region, ISV & Developer Relations, IBM Corporation
   6:45 pm - 6:50 pm Speech by representative from NECINA
   6:50 pm - 7:00 pm Introduction of CIPA by Yu Hua <http://www.ship.gov.cn/index.asp?bianhao=13685>, Deputy Director-General of CIPA
   7:00 pm - 7:30 pm Introduction of Shijiazhuang HIDZ by Gao Jinguang, Director General of Shijiazhuang HDIZ
   7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Dinner Buffet & Networking

 

2009 - 2010 NECINA Legal Seminars

Legal Seminars #1: Starting a business
Dates and Times: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Venue: Brown Rudnick LLP, One Finance Center, Boston, MA, 02111
Sponsor: Brown Rudnick LLP
Fee: NECINA member: free, Non-member: $20.00
Contacts: Letao Qin (letao.qin@necina.org

So you've decided to take the plunge and start your own business. What do you do first? Should I incorporate, and if so where? Do I form an LLC? Do I form a Limited Partnership?

The decisions you make in forming your new venture will have long lasting legal, tax and other implications and you may only have one chance to make these decisions correctly.

Presenting the first seminar in 2009-2010 NECINA Legal Seminar Series will be two experienced partners from the international law firm Brown Rudnick LLP, Mr. Ed Pease and Ms. Jessica Collins. In this seminar, Mr. Pease and Ms. Collins will explore the possible entities an entrepreneur may choose within which to start a new venture and demystify the process of setting up a new entity. After attending this seminar, the entrepreneur will have the tools needed to reach informed decisions about the launch of his or her new venture.

Agenda:

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Networking
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Introduction
6:45 pm - 8:15 pm: Presentation
8:15 pm - 8:45 pm: Q & A
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm: Concluding remarks and Survey

Speaker Biographies:

Mr. Ed Pease is a member of Brown Rudnick's Corporate Department, and the co-chair of the Emerging Technologies practice. He practices in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities laws, venture capital financing, licensing and strategic partnerships. In addition to his transactional experience, Mr. Pease has significant experience counseling early-stage, growth-oriented companies operating in emerging high technology industries and has frequently represented the venture capital investors investing in these enterprises. Mr. Pease has considerable experience representing public company clients in a broad range of matters ranging from compliance with ongoing reporting
requirements and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, to analyzing and implementing anti-takeover measures as well as a number of other matters affecting public companies and their officers and directors.

Ms. Jessica Collins is a member of Brown Rudnick's Corporate Department. She represents publicly traded corporations and domestic and international emerging growth companies, primarily in the medical device, high technology and semi conductor industries. Ms. Collins counsels clients on public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, securities law compliance matters, corporate governance issues and general corporate matters. She also has significant
experience representing venture capital firms in private placement transactions.
 

NECINA Entrepreneurship SIG Workshop

 "How to Acquire New Customers?"

– A case study by presenting a new business model

Venue: Delloitte, 1000 Winter Street, North Entrance, Suite 2000, Waltham, MA

Time:  6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Cost:Free to NECINA members, and VIP guests, $15 non-members

Online Registration required: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=222111

Every entrepreneur likes to acquire more customers. How do you achieve that goal? NECINA Entrepreneur SIG has the honor of having Dr. Wei Gao, a successful founder and entrepreneur to present the business model of his latest venture: USGroupDiscount.com.

Groupon created an exciting new business model, which leads them to build up a billion dollar company in less than 3 years.  It broke the record in American history. Google offered them $6B to buy out and got refused. They are ready to go IPO at a value of $30B.

USGroupDiscount.com uses this successful model from Groupon to apply it in the Asian community. Groupon didn't create loyal customers, they don't have repeated business. But USGroupDiscount.com, on the other side, counts on the loyalty. In the past a few months, USGroupDiscount.comhad several merchants coming back to do deal again. USGroupDiscount.comcustomers are repeated customers. There are a few other areas that can be penetrated deeper into the market under this model.

In the talk, Dr. Gao will present their business model, their plan, and ideas to do a better and sustainable business.

After the talk, we will have a round table discussion on the topic of acquiring more customers, with everyone's participation, especially from our member owners of small business and entrepreneurs.

For questions or suggestions on NECINA Entrepreneur SIG, please send your e-mail to    harry.gao@necina.org

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30pm      Registration and networking, pizza will be served

6:30 - 7:30pm     " Exciting New Business Model "  Dr. Wei Gao, Founder,  US Group Discount and Axcel Photonics

7:30 - 8:30pm      Round Table Discussion on how to acquire new customers

8:30 - 9:00 pm     Networking

About the Speaker

Dr. Wei Gaohas been in US for over 20 years. In 2000, he started his first venture back company, Axcel Photonics to make high performance semiconductor lasers. As founder, CTO, President, and CEO, he built up the company from inception with extreme capital efficiency, developed the technology and products second to none. More important, he managed investor's expectation properly and built up great rapport from board members and investors. In 2005, the company was sold to private investors and he was asked to stay on as President to run the company. In 2010, he left Axcel to start the new venture, US Group Discount. Other working experiences include: Former faculty at Beijing University in Physics Department; Engineer at Lasertron (later Corning Lasertron), founding employee at Multiplex and sales/marketing role at Nortel Networks in Optoelectronics division.

Mentorof MIT Venture Mentor Service; Senior Member of IEEE, LEOS; Member of Optical Society of America; Member of OCEAN (Overseas Chinese-American Entrepreneurs Association); Member of NECINA (New England Chinese Information and Networking Association).

Event Organizer:

NECINA (New England Chinese Information and Networking Association) is a premier hi-tech professional association founded in 1996 by some of New England's most successful IT industry entrepreneurs such as founders of Cascade Communications, Sycamore Networks, and ArrowPoint Communications.  Its mission is to provide a platform to foster entrepreneurship and leadership by combining the leading edge technologies with best business practices.  In the past 15 years, NECINA has delivered high quality conference programs and networking events to its increasingly diversified members in an effort to maximize their awareness and involvement in new technologies and emerging business opportunities.

NECINA thanks IBM for providing event venue and facility.

NECINA Wireless SIG Seminar

Time: March 26, Wednesday,  6:30pmto 8:30pm
Location: BurlingtonPublic Library, Meeting Room Fogelberg A, 22 Sears Street, Burlington, MA  01803

Topic: Widgets and Open Platforms for MobileWeb Applications

6:30pm-7:00pm Networking (Pizza will be served
7:00pm-7:30pm "Widgets and Open Platforms for Mobile Web Applications", YongjunZhang, Nokia. Yongjun is a key developer of Nokia Web Run-time which enables Widgets on Nokia S60 phones.
7:30pm-8:00pm Question and Answers
8:00pm-8:30pm Round table discussion: Google Android API.Dr. Baoqing Ye at Verizon Technology Organization will give a brief introduction before the discussion.
 

NECINA Semiconductor SIG Seminar

Time: Thu. Apr 17, 6:30pm ?8:30pm
Location: MemsicInc. 1 Tech Dr, Suite 325, AndoverMA01810

Topic:     Overview: MEMS Technology and Industrial Trend

Speaker: Gary O'Brien, VP of Engineering, MemsIC Gary O'Brien has served as our Vice President of Engineering since July 2007. Mr. O'Brien has 14 years of experience in the design and development of multiple accelerometer and pressure sensors. Mr. O'Brien joined Motorola's Sensor Products Division in Tempe, Arizona, as a mixed signal circuit design engineer in 1993. From 1993 through 2005, he designed and developed multiple pressure, acceleration and angular rate (gyroscope) sensor systems for Motorola and its recent spin-off company, Freescale Semiconductor. From 2005 until 2007, Mr. O'Brien was an assistant professor at Arizona State University. He currently holds nine issued patents in the MEMS area, in addition to having previously generated multiple automotive accelerometer and pressure sensor/ASIC designs. Mr. O'Brien received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering with honors from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL,
in 1988. He received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta in 1993, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2004.

About MEMSIC (NASDAQ: MEMS)
Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, MEMSIC, Inc. provides advanced semiconductor sensor and system solutions based on integrated micro electromechanical systems, or MEMS, technology and mixed signal circuit design. Its accelerometer products are used to measure tilt, shock, vibration and acceleration, and have a wide range of applications such as mobile phones, automotive safety systems and video projectors. MEMSIC combines proprietary thermal-based MEMS technology and advanced analog mixed signal processing circuitry design into a single chip using a standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, process.

After successful IPO in 2007, Memsic is well positioned to expand its business beyond thermal accelerometer. We are aggressively seeking technologies, IPs, innovative individuals and acquisition targets for further growth. Memsic will be interested in collaboration with Chinese semiconductor professionals on any good proposals/business ideas. "Bring in your ideas, and we can help!"

Contact:  Yunchu.li@necina.org <mailto:Yunchu.li@necina.org>,
Max.Ma@necina.org <mailto:Max.Ma@necina.org>
 

NECINA Venture Club
Entrepreneurial Decision Making

Roundtable Discussion led by Michael Gordon

Time: 6:30pm ?9:00pm, March 13th, 2008
Venue: Deloitte, 1000 Winter St, Waltham, MA
Cost: Free (Invitation Only) to NECINA Venture Club member
& NECINA Business Plan Contest participant

Entrepreneurs face different challenges everyday when starting and growing their business. Making choices is an act of practicing entrepreneurship. Decision making ability is one of the most critical skills differentiating success or failure.

How do you improve decision making skill and make speedy and accurate judgment for complex business matters everyday? How does the business decisions you make impact your partners, employees, investors and families? How do you ensure choices you made could be followed by proper executions?

Join NECINA Venture Club Roundtable Discussion on Entrepreneur
Decision Making led by Mr. Michael Gordon, author of Entrepreneurship 101:  How to Turn Your Idea into a Money Machine
<http://www.amazon.com/Trump-University-Entrepreneurship-101-Machine/dp/0470047127>

Agenda
6:30 - 7:00Registration & Networking
7:00- 7:15Remark by the Organizer& Sponsors
7:15 ?8:15 Case study introduction by Mr. Michael Gordon
8:15 ?8:30 Roundtable discussion
8:30-9:00Networking & Book Signing

RSVP: This is an invitation only event exclusive to NECINA Venture Club Members and NECINA Brown Rudnick Biz-plan Contest participants. For other people who are interested, please fill up the application form (link <NECINA_VClub_Application.doc>) and send email to vclub@necina.org

About Michael Gordon:

Dr. Gordon has had extensive experience in diverse areas of entrepreneurship, education, public speaking and science. He holds a PhD in Organic, Organo-metallic and Polymer Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After twelve years in research, development and management at Polaroid Corporation and Celanese Plastics Company, he pursued a career in entrepreneurship.

Dr. Gordon founded four companies: a plastics injection molding company; a company which made products for the control of static electricity (Plastic Systems, Inc); a network for entrepreneurs and investors (the Venture-Preneurs Network); and a private investment and consulting firm (Quantum Ventures). One of his companies, Plastic Systems, Inc., was sold to a public British company. He is currently building an internet venture, AngelDeals.com <http://angeldeals.com/>, a virtual global network which brings capital resources to emerging ventures.

He holds several patents and publications, and during his career in chemistry, he discovered a unique chemical reaction. He has developed a unique framework for essential entrepreneurial thriving forces and a value chain for competitive advantage for multi-divisional corporations. Dr. Gordon has had extensive teaching/speaking engagements, nationally as well as internationally - Southeast Asia, Latin Americaand Europe.

About NECINA Venture Club:

NECINA Venture Club is exclusive entrepreneurial community for members to share experience, network and best practice across global economy. NECINA Venture Club organizes advanced workshops and discussion forums specific to challenging issues faced by the executives. Club membership is limited to advisors, established entrepreneurs with mature business operation and selective early stage entrepreneurs with concrete business plan. NECINA Venture Club is the premier business club in New Englandfocus on promoting entrepreneurship and bridging the gap between business in the USand Asia.
 

NECINA Optics Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar

Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm,Saturday, March 8, 2008
Location:         Finisar Corporation (formerly Azna LLC), 36 Jonspin Road, Wilmington, MA 01887
Topic: Nanomaterials and Biosensors

2:00pm-2:30pmNetworking Time
2:30pm-2:45pmIntroduction
2:45pm-3:45pmLabel-free Optical Biosensors

Dr. Xingwei Wang, Universityof MassachusettsLowell

Abstract:A biosensor is a device for detection of the presence of an analyte. Biosensor design research, as an interdisciplinary topic, links biology with engineering closely. Problems associated with the established technique include the bulky size, high equipment costs, and time-consuming algorithms. Therefore, such systems are limited to research laboratories and cannot be applied for in-vivo situations.

In this talk, I will focus on two kinds of label-free optical
biosensors. One design is aimed at development of a sensor probe for direct detection of DNA sequences. Experimental results demonstrate sequence specificity and sensitivity to nanogram quantities of target DNA sequences with short (~5 min) hybridization time. The second design is a high throughput biosensing platform, which can be used for multiple
analyte simultaneous detection.

Dr. Xingwei Wangjoined the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at UMass Lowell as an Assistant Professor in 2006. She got her Ph.D. and M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity(Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA.She also got her certificate for future professoriate from Virginia Tech. Dr. Wang has authored or co-authored more than 20 journal and conference papers, and eight patent disclosures. Her current research interests include optical sensors for medical, chemical and
industrial applications; assistive technology program; nanoprobe design and fabrication; self-assembled nanostructures; optical biosensing and biomedical devices; optical imaging; MEMS technology and electromagnetic wave propagation. Her other research experience includes temperature, pressure, acoustic, strain, and chemical sensors. Dr. Wang won Paul E. Torgerson research excellence award for the 2005-2006 academic year at
Virginia Tech. Dr. Wang is a member of IEEE, OSA and SPIE. Also, she served as a reviewer of Applied Physics Letters.

3:45pm-4:00pmBreak
4:00pm-5:00pmSynthesis, Fabrication and Self-assembly of Multifunctional Nanowires for Emerging Applications
Dr. Zhiyong Gu, Universityof MassachusettsLowell
Research and potential applications of nanomaterials and nanotechnology have been experiencing dramatic growth in the past decade. At the nanometer scale, many material properties may alter, for example, optical, mechanical, electrical, and magnetic properties. In order to enable nanotechnology to fully manipulate and utilize nanomaterials to make nanodevices, nanoelectronics, or nano-products in general, new assembly and integration strategies have to be developed or created since the conventional microfabrication process is approaching its limit in terms of size and cost-effective mass production. In this talk, I will present our recent effort in fabricating and assembling one of the most promising nano-building blocks ?nanowires (nanorods), and the assembly and integration of nanowires into ordered structures that may find various applications in emerging fields such as electronics and medicine. Electrodeposition in nanoporous templates has been used to synthesize multi-functional nanowires in the diameter range of 15-200 nm and length up 20 µm. Metallic, polymeric, and hybrid nanowires have been fabricated in very large quantity (10^9 -10^10 wires/cm^2 ) in this way. Several techniques will be described on how to assemble and integrate nanowires into ordered 1-dimensional (1D), 2D and 3D structures. In the end, examples will be shown how the strategies proposed above can be used for various applications.

Dr. Zhiyong Gucompleted his undergraduate studies at Qingdao Institute of Chemical Technology, China, in 1996. He received his M.S. from University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffaloin 2001 and 2004, respectively, all in Chemical Engineering. In April 2004, he moved to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the JohnsHopkinsUniversity, working as a Postdoctoral Fellow until August 2006.

In September 2006, Zhiyong joined the Department of Chemical Engineerin at Universityof Massachusetts Lowellas an Assistant Professor. He is affiliated with the CHN/NCOE Nanomanufacturing Center at UML. His current research interests include synthesis of nanoparticles and nanowires, self-assembly and directed assembly, amphiphilic block copolymers, nanocomposite materials, and nanoscale integration for electronics, sensors and biomedical applications. Zhiyong has published 4 book chapters and over 20 refereed papers, and has about 50 presentations in national and international conferences and meetings.

Contact: Yong Qiao (978) 201-1980, Frank Fan (978) 204-4980, Jin Li
(978) 996-8058
Organizers: Jin Li, Yong Qiao, Qingwu Wang, XueyanZheng, Frank Fan, and
Yi Qian
 

NECINA Optics Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar
Topic:New Energies

Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday, January 12, 2008
Location: Finisar Corporation (formerly Azna LLC), 36 Jonspin Road, Wilmington, MA 01887

2:00pm-2:30pm  Networking Time
2:30pm-2:45pm  Introduction
2:45pm-3:45pm Advanced Support the Globe with Tiny Things: Sustainable Energy from Nanomaterials
Dr. Dunwei Wang, BostonCollege

Abstract:Continuous population increase and high living standards
demand ever more energy.  While it still remains a lively debate how long fossil fuels, the major energy source we currently rely on, will last, people have already come to conclusions that the negative environment effect caused by burning fossil fuels is unacceptable.  It thus becomes urgent to develop new technologies that can produce energy comparable to that based on fossil fuels, not only in magnitude but also in price.  For long-term prosperity, renewable energy is apparently desired.  Solar energy, therefore, stands out for obvious reasons.  The development of solar energy conversion devices such as photovoltaic cells, however, is rather slow, albeit an old technology, mainly because of the combined high cost and low efficiency.  Notwithstanding detailed difference, most energy related processes including charge separation, transport and recombination, are of characteristic distance of nanometer
scale.  So, emerging nanomaterials with relevant length hold great promises in meeting the daunting energy challenge.  I'll summarize recent development of energy related research using nanomaterials and present our efforts within this context.  I'll share with you our
thoughts on how semiconductor nanowires may offer advantages in both
high efficiency and low cost.  Our recent results will be discussed as
well.

Dr. Dunwei Wangis originally from Jiangsu Province, China.  He moved
to Californiain 2000 to pursue his doctoral degree at StanfordUniversity.  After working as a postdoctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology for two years, he recently joined BostonCollegechemistry department as an assistant professor.  Wang's part research concerned Ge nanowires, a fast electronic material, and highly order arrays of Si nanowires as building blocks for logic gates. His present interest centers on nanomaterial-based energy processes and applications.  Wang is the recipient of the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemist in 2006.

3:45pm-4:00pm  Break
4:00pm-5:00pm  Introduction to Fuel Cells

Dr. John Zhou, Lilliputian Systems

The ever-rising oil and gas prices and the demand for environmental friendly forms of power generation have led to a surge in the efforts in exploring and developing clean alternative energies. While solar, wind,and hydroelectric powers are among perhaps the most well known clean alternatives, fuel-cell technology is uniquely positioned to provide clean power for non-stationary applications such as motor vehicles. The recent advances in micro fuel cell technologies have offered the promise to eventually cut the cord off such devices as mobile phones and laptop computers. This talk is an introduction to fuel cells. The focus will be on micro fuel cells and technologies.

Dr. John Zhouhas over 15 year experience in design, process development, and fabrication of optoelectronic and MEMS devices. He graduated from the Department of Physics, Universityof Scienceand Technology of China, and received his MS from the Instituteof Semiconductors, ChineseAcademyof Sciences, and Ph.D in physical chemistry from University of Cambridge, UK. He is currently a senior process engineer at Lilliputian Systems, developing Si MEMS-based solid oxide micro fuel cells.

Contact: Yong Qiao (978) 201-1980, Frank Fan (978) 204-4980, Jin Li
(978) 996-8058

Organizers: Jin Li, Yong Qiao, Qingwu Wang, Xueyan Zheng, Frank Fan, and
Yi Qian

For more information, please visit the following sites
 

NCTI Seminar
Clean-Tech@China: Business & IP Strategy

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm, Thursday, January 22^st , 2008
Venue: Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center Bay Colony Corporate Center 1000 Winter Street Suite 4000, North Entrance Waltham, Massachusetts 02451-1436

After its successful kick-off conference on October 18, 2008, NECINA Clean Technology Initiative (NCTI) is proud to present Clean-Tech@China seminar. We are honored to have two prestigious speakers from China for in-depth discussion of business and intellectual property strategy in clean technology industry in China.

Agenda:
6:00pm - 7:00pm Registration, Networking and Dinner
7:00pm - 7:15pm Introduction
7:15pm - 7:50pm Using Intellectual Property as Leverage to Start-up CleanTech in China Dr. Dong Liu Senior Partner, Boss & Young Patent & Trademark Law, Beijing, China
7:50pm - 8:25pm Battery Business in China and Business Strategy for A Start-up in the Field Dr. Jay Shi Founder & CEO, SoBright Technology Co. Ltd., Zhejiang, China
8:25am - 9:00pm Q&A and Discussion

About the Speakers

Dr. Dong Liuis a Senior Partner at Boss & Young Patent and Trademark Law Office in Beijing, China, where he leads the firm<92>s Intellectual Property (IP) practice in bio, pharma and high-tech areas. Dr. Liu's career stems from his dedication to the biomedical and pharmaceutical
sectors working closely developing and implementing the innovation process, invention harvesting, claim drafting, prosecution, litigation, and licensing in a global environment.  Dr. Liu influences in the industry by bringing forward expertise focused on IP from Canada, Denmark, United States and China.

Dr. Liu's past experience includes serving as Group Leader at PsychoGenics, Inc., a bio-tech start-up in preclinical neurobiology and provision of drug discovery, based in New York.  Dr. Liu initiated patent applications for innovations that supported a strong strategic management of IP assets that extended to support partners and clients. With the breath of expertise in the IP sector Dr. Liu was appointed Patent Counsel and IP manager at Novo Nordisk A/S, a Danish multinational corporation.  Dr. Liu led Novo's IP operation within its Intellectual Property & Partnering Organization with a notable success at establishing Novo's first IP operation in China. Dr. Liu later joined Dow Chemical Company as their Intellectual Capital Manager and Director
for Dow's Intellectual Capital Management and External Technology for
Asia-Pacific region.  Dr. Liu once again was instrumental at successfully building a Dow Chemical China based local IP capacities that served Dow's Asia-Pacific business and operation in China.

In parallel to his current position, Dr. Liu joined the newly established World Innovation Institute (WII), in a Deputy Director capacity of a think-tank organization to advise the Chinese government on innovation related issues. Comprising of more than 100 members of mostly former senior officials of the central government and industry leaders, WII is posed to play a pivotal role in making critical connections in China to facilitate the advancement of innovation and hi-tech economy.

A native of Shenyang, Liaoning province, Dr. Liu studied medicine at China Medical University and Neurology & Neurosurgery (PhD) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Over the years he has received a number of scholarship and fellowship awards as well as first-authorship of both Science and Nature publications.

Dr. Jay Shiis founder and CEO of SoBright Technology Co. Ltd.Dr. Shi has more than 15 years of experience in rechargeable lithium batteries and Li-ion battery business and technology and has worked as senior managers in Arthur D. Little and TIAX LLC for more than 10 years. He obtained Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry (electrochemistry) from University of St. Andrews.

SoBright Technology Co. Ltd is a Cayman Island registered company. Its operation center and wholly own subsidiary, SoBright Technology (Jiaxing) Co. Ltd., is located in Haining City, Zhejiang Province, China. The main business is development and manufacturing of advanced energy storage materials and systems. The SoBright proprietary technology provides cathode materials for Li-ion batteries with higher energy density, lower cost and longer cycle life than current materials in use, which will enable the use of Li-ion batteries in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs).

About NECINA Clean Technology Initiative
To join, please visit: http://groups.google.com/group/NCTI_2008
Mission
* Promote exchange between US and China
* Leverage NECINA's local entrepreneur resources in the US and
China
* Bring the past success into emerging clean tech industry
 

Executive Committee

Yi Qian <http://necina.org/about.htm>, VP NECINA, Chair
Qingwu Wang <http://www.agiltron.com/>, VP Agiltron
Xiaoyun Chen <http://web.mit.edu/nanoengineering/people/faculty.shtml>,
Senior Scientist, MIT
Gang Chen <http://web.mit.edu/nanoengineering/people/faculty.shtml>,
Professor, MIT
Xinli Cui <http://www.btuventures.com/>, VP BTU Venture
Gerald Oonner
<http://www.emergingenterprisecenter.com/personnel/attorneyBio.aspx?aID=8301>,
Partner, Foley Hoag

Florian Bennhold <http://www.wilsonturbopower.com/index.html>, Director
of Regulatory Affairs, Wilson TurboPower

Activities
* Annual US-China Clean Technology Exchange Conference
* Seminars
* Delegation between the US and China
 

NCTI Seminar
Clean-Tech@China: Business & IP Strategy

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm, Thursday, January 22^st , 2008
Venue: Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center Bay Colony Corporate Center 1000 Winter Street Suite 4000, North Entrance Waltham, Massachusetts 02451-1436

After its successful kick-off conference on October 18, 2008, NECINA Clean Technology Initiative (NCTI) is proud to present Clean-Tech@China seminar. We are honored to have two prestigious speakers from China for in-depth discussion of business and intellectual property strategy in clean technology industry in China.

Agenda:
6:00pm - 7:00pm Registration, Networking and Dinner
7:00pm - 7:15pm Introduction
7:15pm - 7:50pm Using Intellectual Property as Leverage to Start-up CleanTech in China Dr. Dong Liu Senior Partner, Boss & Young Patent & Trademark Law, Beijing, China
7:50pm - 8:25pm Battery Business in China and Business Strategy for A Start-up in the Field Dr. Jay Shi Founder & CEO, SoBright Technology Co. Ltd., Zhejiang, China
8:25am - 9:00pm Q&A and Discussion

About the Speakers

Dr. Dong Liuis a Senior Partner at Boss & Young Patent and Trademark Law Office in Beijing, China, where he leads the firm<92>s Intellectual Property (IP) practice in bio, pharma and high-tech areas. Dr. Liu's career stems from his dedication to the biomedical and pharmaceutical
sectors working closely developing and implementing the innovation process, invention harvesting, claim drafting, prosecution, litigation, and licensing in a global environment.  Dr. Liu influences in the industry by bringing forward expertise focused on IP from Canada, Denmark, United States and China.

Dr. Liu's past experience includes serving as Group Leader at PsychoGenics, Inc., a bio-tech start-up in preclinical neurobiology and provision of drug discovery, based in New York.  Dr. Liu initiated patent applications for innovations that supported a strong strategic management of IP assets that extended to support partners and clients. With the breath of expertise in the IP sector Dr. Liu was appointed Patent Counsel and IP manager at Novo Nordisk A/S, a Danish multinational corporation.  Dr. Liu led Novo's IP operation within its Intellectual Property & Partnering Organization with a notable success at establishing Novo's first IP operation in China. Dr. Liu later joined Dow Chemical Company as their Intellectual Capital Manager and Director
for Dow's Intellectual Capital Management and External Technology for
Asia-Pacific region.  Dr. Liu once again was instrumental at successfully building a Dow Chemical China based local IP capacities that served Dow's Asia-Pacific business and operation in China.

In parallel to his current position, Dr. Liu joined the newly established World Innovation Institute (WII), in a Deputy Director capacity of a think-tank organization to advise the Chinese government on innovation related issues. Comprising of more than 100 members of mostly former senior officials of the central government and industry leaders, WII is posed to play a pivotal role in making critical connections in China to facilitate the advancement of innovation and hi-tech economy.

A native of Shenyang, Liaoning province, Dr. Liu studied medicine at China Medical University and Neurology & Neurosurgery (PhD) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Over the years he has received a number of scholarship and fellowship awards as well as first-authorship of both Science and Nature publications.

Dr. Jay Shiis founder and CEO of SoBright Technology Co. Ltd.Dr. Shi has more than 15 years of experience in rechargeable lithium batteries and Li-ion battery business and technology and has worked as senior managers in Arthur D. Little and TIAX LLC for more than 10 years. He obtained Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry (electrochemistry) from University of St. Andrews.

SoBright Technology Co. Ltd is a Cayman Island registered company. Its operation center and wholly own subsidiary, SoBright Technology (Jiaxing) Co. Ltd., is located in Haining City, Zhejiang Province, China. The main business is development and manufacturing of advanced energy storage materials and systems. The SoBright proprietary technology provides cathode materials for Li-ion batteries with higher energy density, lower cost and longer cycle life than current materials in use, which will enable the use of Li-ion batteries in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs).

About NECINA Clean Technology Initiative
To join, please visit: http://groups.google.com/group/NCTI_2008
Mission
* Promote exchange between US and China
* Leverage NECINA's local entrepreneur resources in the US and
China
* Bring the past success into emerging clean tech industry
Executive Committee

Yi Qian <http://necina.org/about.htm>, VP NECINA, Chair
Qingwu Wang <http://www.agiltron.com/>, VP Agiltron
Xiaoyun Chen <http://web.mit.edu/nanoengineering/people/faculty.shtml>,
Senior Scientist, MIT
Gang Chen <http://web.mit.edu/nanoengineering/people/faculty.shtml>,
Professor, MIT
Xinli Cui <http://www.btuventures.com/>, VP BTU Venture
Gerald Oonner
<http://www.emergingenterprisecenter.com/personnel/attorneyBio.aspx?aID=8301>,
Partner, Foley Hoag

Florian Bennhold <http://www.wilsonturbopower.com/index.html>, Director
of Regulatory Affairs, Wilson TurboPower

Activities
* Annual US-China Clean Technology Exchange Conference
* Seminars
* Delegation between the US and China
 

Dec. 4, NECIA-CABA-ACMA: Medical Device & Diagnostics Symposium
Nov. 11, Wireless SIG Seminar : Mobile Platform Apps & Opportunities in Z-Park Wuxi China
Nov. 6 Social Networking Tech Conference
Oct. 14, NECINA Entrepreneurship Seminar "Lies people tell about entrepreneurship"
Sept. 25, Smart Planet Tech Conference
Sept. 13, Career Development Seminar-Professional Skills for Finance Professionals
August 8 Summer Outing
June 5 2010 NECINA Annual Meeting
May 23 NECINA Global Clean Technology Conference
May 19 NECINA Legal Seminar Series #5: Doing Business in China (and Beyond)
Apr. 21 Accounting and Tax for Entrepreneurs & Early Stage Companies
Mar. 30 Hong Kong and Zhuhai: Your Partners for Success in China
Feb. 14 Chinese New Year Gala
Jan. 28 Stand above the Cloud
Jan. 19 NECINA Legal Seminar for Entrepreneurs Series

Dec. 9 NECINA Career Seminar
Dec. 7 ShiJiaZhuang - Your Hi-Tech Partner
Dec. 1 2009 - 2010 NECINA Legal Seminars
Oct. 27 NECINA Entrepreneurship Case Study Seminar
Oct. 24 Immigration Law Seminar for Professionals & Business
Oct. 9 THE QUEST for Innovation
Sept. 19 2009 Beijing Investment Promotion at Boston
Sept. 16 Conversation Over Dishes [EpochTimes
Aug. 14 Dinner Meeting with Wuxi BridgeBio
Aug. 22 NECINA Summer Outing 2009
May 3 NECINA Venture Club/Excubator Conference: "Move Dream Forward? - You can do it, too!", "Funding Trends from East to West - Venture Capital Opportunities in Tianjin, China and Boston, MA"
April 24 NECINA Career Center Seminar: Emotional Intelligence at
April 19 NECINA Global Exchange Center Conference: "Global Search for Technology Leaders" - Wuxi Binhu District Investment Conference
April 18 2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop: Pitch your business idea & Team building
April 16 NECINA SimeTech SIG Seminar: RF/Analog Technology and RF CMOS SOI
April 11 NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Optical Imaging
Mar 28 NECINA SaaS & Cloud Computing Technology Conference: Shinning Through the Dark Clouds
Mar 19 NECINA Career Center Seminar: Financial Planning in an Uncertain Economy
Feb 26 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop: Funding Your Venture
Feb 23 NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Suzhou Industrial Park Introduction
Feb 22 NECINA Youth Entrepreneurship Service Program (YES4.0) Kick Off
Feb 20 NECINA Career Center Seminar: The Global Financial Crisis - Impact on China Employment Market
Feb 8 Lantern Festival Celebration
Jan 24 NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Nanomanufacturing
Jan 22 NECINA Energy SIG Seminar: Clean-Techology@China: Business & IP Strategy
Jan 14 NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Networking with delegation from Qingdao
Jan 10 2009 NECINA Mobile Internet Conference: "Interactive Mobile Web: from chasm to mainstream"
 

Dec 16 NECINA Career Development Center Seminar: How to hire and staff in China
Dec 13 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop: How to Write a Business Plan
Dec 10 NECINA SemiTech SIG Seminar: Solid State Lighting
Nov 6 NECINA WEB SIG Seminar: Collaborative Innovation Networks
Oct 28 NECINA Venture Club Seminar: Convergence of Alternative Investment Industry
Oct 25 NECINA Career Development Center Kick-Off Conference: Negotiation and Strategic Career Planning
Oct 20 NECINA BIO SIG Seminar: Global Souring and Outsourcing in Biotech
Oct 18 NECINA Technology Conference: 2008 US-China Clean Technology Exchange
Sept 23 NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar: Back to China - Opportunities and Challenges
Sept 20NECINA Entrepreneur Center Golf Outing
Sept 13 2009 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Grand Kick Off Conference: Catering for More Dreams and Teams
Aug 16NECINA Annual Summer Outing
Aug 12 NECINA Entrepreneurship Center Workshop: Ideas for Business
Jul 31 NECINA Career Development Seminar & Officer Training: How to be strategic in your career development
Jul 23 NECINA Wireless and Web SIG Seminar: Wireless Security and Mobile Advertising
Jun 26 NECINA Wireless SIG Seminar: Wireless Sensor Network and Mobile Ecosystem
Jun 25 NECINA SemiTech SIG Seminar: Updates on MMIC/RFIC Industry and Research at China
Jun 7 NECINA Officer Career Development Workshop: How to Work with Recruiters and Headhunters
Jun 7 NECINA Venture Club Workshop: Small to Medium Size Enterprise Banking Solutions
May 31 NECINA Sichuan Earthquake Relief Walk
May 17 Chinese rally for Sichuan earthquake
May 17 Fundraising for China Earthquake Disaster Victims
May 17 NECINA Optics SIG seminar: Biomedical Imaging
May 10 2008 Annual Meeting
April 17 NECINA 2008 China Outsourcing Forum
April 17 NECINA & MassTLC joint Conference: – " CHINA, INDIA,RUSSIA- OUR PARTNERS IN THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY
April 17 NECINA Semiconductor SIG Seminar: MEMS Technology and Industrial Trend
April 17Business Plan Contest : Semi-final Presentation
March 26 Wireless SIG Seminar: Widgets and Open Platiforms for Mobile Web Applications
March 13 NECINA Venture Club Workshop : Entrepreneur Decision Making
March 8 Optics SIG Seminar : Nanomaterials and Biosensors
March 8 Officer working session
Feb. 27 Business Plan Contest Workshop 3 : Founding Your Venture
Feb. 21 Wireless SIG Networking Night
Feb 9 Annual Yuanxiao Party
Jan. 10 Optics SIG Seminar : New Energies

Global Souring and Outsourcing in Biotech
NECINA BioPharm SIG and CABA Seminar

Time: 6:30 pm– 9:30pm, Monday October20, 2008
Venue: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000,Waltham, MA

You are invited to a special seminar titled "Global Sourcing and Outsourcing in BiotechPharmatheutical Industry", presented by New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA) BioPharm Special Interest Group and Chinese American BioMedical Association (CABA). The seminar featurestwo top experts on global outsourcing: Thomas Tong from Pfizer Global Manufacturing Services and Dr. Roger Xie from Sirtris, a GSK company. Please see below for their
bios and abstracts of their talks.

Agenda:
6:30pm - 7:00pm     Registration, networking and light dinner
7:00pm - 8:00pm     Thomas Tong, "Opportunities and challenges: Pharmaceutical contract manufacturing businesses in Asia
8:00pm - 9:00pm     Dr. Roger Xie, "Utilizing CROs in China to Create an Integrated Outsourcing Platform
9:00pm - 9:30pm     Summary and Networking

Thomas Tongis the Senior Manager of Pfizer Global Contract Manufacturing Asian Region based in Singapore. He is accountable for leading and integrating cross-functional and cross-organizational project teams to implement sourcing and outsourcing strategies for APIs in Asian countries. Since Sep 2007, he is on developmental assignment in Pfizer Headquarters (NYC) implementing global Plant Network Strategy and Capture Global Advantage through product sourcing and outsourcing. Thomas joined Pfizer in 2001 as a Production Manager setting up systems to start up Pfizer's US$ 400 million multi-purpose API manufacturing facilities in Singapore. Before Pfizer, he had worked in GSK Singapore plant for about 3 years. Thomas received B. Eng. in chemical engineering from Tianjin University and M. Eng. in chemical engineering from the National University of Singapore.  

Abstract:

"Opportunities and challenges: Pharmaceutical contract manufacturing businesses in Asia." With stricter regulatory norms, spiraling costs and increasing generic competition, more pharmaceutical companies are opting to contract manufacturing in order to achieve cost savings and productivity improvement. India and China are the two key countries in Asian region for pharmaceutical contract manufacturing businesses. This presentation will discuss the elements to determine vendor selection, the key phases to implement an outsourcing project and the key success factors in contract manufacturing business in Asia.  

Dr. Roger Xie is the Associate Directorat Sirtris, a GSK company. Roger joined Sirtris in 2005 and currently oversees the Chemical Operations focusing onoutsourcing activities. Prior to Sirtris, Dr. Xie held various discovery and Medchem research and program management positions at Daiamed, UCB research and Sepracor Inc.  Dr. Xie received his B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and his Ph.D. degree from Boston College.  Dr. Xie has over 25 patents and publications in the areas of organic syntheses, medicinal chemistry and drug discovery.

Abstract:

Utilizing CROs in China to Create an Integrated Outsourcing Platform."The costs for drug research and development are high.  As the demand for contained R&D costs continues to grow, the necessity of outsourcing and off-shoring is becoming of increasing importance.  Besides reducing the cost of research, outsourcing in the pharmaceutical sector is a result of Pharma and Biotech companies rationing the internal existing facilities and capabilities. At Sirtris, we are exploring a variety of ways utilizing contract research organizations in China and other global territories to create an integrated outsourcing platform that lowers the cost, internal critical mass and time required to discover and develop new therapeutics.

Event contact:  William Wang, yongzhong@gmail.com
Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLP,   http:www.foleyhoag.com
 

NECINA Global Exchange Center Seminar
Back to China: Opportunities and Challenges

Time: 6: 00 pm - 9:00pm, Sept 23th, 2008
Venue: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
Cost: Free to public and NECINA members

Last month during the Beijing Olympics 2008, with the state of art sport infrastructures, spectacular performance opening and closing ceremony, highly efficient organization and leading number of gold medals, China represented her unrivaled energy and unlimited development future to the whole world.  When you think about that China made these happen in just seven years, you understand why during NECINA 2009 Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Kick Off meeting, one of the keynote speaker quote a venture capital firm that if you think about start up a business, you have to think about China and India.  On the other hand, you don't have to start your own business, with the right connection and strategies, you can help American companies to take the opportunities in China and grow their business over there.

But where do you start?  Where are the right opportunities and where are the pitfalls?  How to face the different challenges in China?  You'll find your questions answered in NECINA Global Exchange Center seminar: Back to China: Opportunities and Challenges.

In this seminar, we invite successful serial entrepreneur Dr. Yun Fei Zhang and international business executive Dr. John Ding.  Dr. Zhang will share his experience with us of starting new venture and building successful company in China. Dr. Ding will share his experience of growing business in China.

This event is Free to public and NECINA members. Please register through http:www.acteva.combooking.cfm?bevaid=166952.

Agenda:

5:30 - 6:00pm Pizza and networking
6:01 - 7:00pm Back to China: Opportunities and Challenges? Dr. Yun Fei Zhang,co-founder of AsiaInfo
7:01 - 8:00pm Growing Your Business in China ?One Company's Experience"  - Dr. John Ding, President, Asia Pacific Bedding Division, Leggett & Platt, Inc.
8:01 -- 9:00pm Q&A and Networking

Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLP

About the Speakers:

Dr. Yun Fei Zhang is a co-founder of AsiaInfo and served as VP of Engineering, VP of Software and CTO for over five years at AsiaInfo (NASDAQ: ASIA). During his tenure, he built up the teams at AsiaInfo's Engineering Division, Software Development Division and System R&D Division. He led engineering efforts to construct the three largest national Internet backbone networks in China, namely ChinaNET (owned by China Telecom), UniNET (owned by China Unicom) and CNCNET (owned by China Netcom), which are collectively supporting 75% of Internet population in China.

Prior to AsiaInfo, Dr. Zhang spent three years at Harvard University as system analyst for a NASA space exploration project, responsible for its distributed data network subsystem. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and a Bachelor from University of Science and Technology of China. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Zhang also served as a member of the Advisory Board to "Telecommunications Technology", a magazine published by the Post & Telecommunication Publishing House of China. Dr. Zhang co-authored the Internet IETF RFC 1842 and was a recipient of numerous awards by NASA, Smithsonian Institutes, and Chinese Academy of Science for his outstanding achievements and contributions.

Dr. John Ding is President of the Asia Pacific Bedding Division of Leggett & Platt, a Fortune 500 manufacturer of furniture components.  In this capacity, Dr. Ding is responsible for growing the company抯 presence in Asia Pacific, including strategic planning, operations management, sales & marketing. Prior to his current position, Dr. Ding headed up Leggett & Platt China Operations of Leggett & Platt and started a number of facilities in the region, including manufacturing centers in China, warehousing and distribution centers in Australia and Singapore through a combination of green-field start-ups and acquisitions.
 

NECINA Entrepreneurship Center Bi-Monthly Seminar
Ideas for Business

Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, August 12, 2008
Venue: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
 

Many people think about starting a business of their own. Many people discussed it with friends and family members. Unfortunately some of the good ideas never got explored further and put into a plan for execution nor have the opportunities to grow into real business. Some of the great ideas simply passed the market window opportunity. The bi-monthly seminar is a platform for you to bring up your ideas to experienced entrepreneurs who can help you. We can help you to catch up the breath, put your ideas into a real business plan. We'll help you to analyze it and filter out the real business opportunity.
• Provide a platform for discussion business ideas
    o Test your idea
    o Get advice from people who have done that and been there
    o Find your potential team member
• A social opportunity for people to know each other and bounce business ideas
• Pipeline for Business Plan Contest
The Entrepreneurship Center Seminar series will build the foundation for members who are interested to start their own business and participate our annual business plan contest.

Agenda

6:00-6:30PM Registration and Social Networking (Pizza and drinks will be provided)
6:30-7:00PM Case Study
7:00-7:45PM Roundtable Discussion
7:45-8:30PM Social Networking

Dr. Wei Gao, Director, Entrepreneurship Center, NECINA

Dr. Wei Gao is the founder of Axcel Photonics, which produce high power diode lasers for telecom, solid-state laser pumping, medical, imaging, and spectroscopy applications. He has been working on semiconductor lasers for over 20 years. In 2000, he started the venture backed Axcel Photonics with $10M funding. As founder, CTO, President, and CEO, He builds up the company from inception with extreme capital efficiency, developed a unique technology to produce world class products. In 2005, the company sold to private investor and he was requested to stay on as President to run the company. Other working experiences include: Former faculty at Beijing University in Physics Department, engineer at Lasertron (later Corning Lasertron), founding employee at Multiplex, a high tech start up company in New Jersey, and sales/marketing role at Nortel Networks in Optoelectronics Division.

He is experienced at building up success oriented company culture, venture funding, execution to achieve business goals, lean and high efficiency operation, debt finance from private investors, and merger/acquisition.

He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1995 from University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Master in Applied Physics in 1989 from Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Northern Chiao Tung University, Beijing, P. R. China.
He is the inventor of three US patents and published over 40 technical papers.
He is Senior Member of IEEE, LEOS, Member of Optical Society of America.
He has been helping Chinese community organizations, such as OCEAN (Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Association), NECINA, 128Cute, NACSA (North America Chinese Semiconductor Association), and PSC (The Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans).

Event contact: Wei Gao, Wei.Gao@necina.org,
Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLP, http://www.foleyhoag.com/
 

NECINA Career Development Seminar & Officer Training
How to be strategic in your career
 

Time: 6: 00 pm– 9:00pm, July 31th, 2008
Venue: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
Cost: Free (Invitation Only) to NECINA Officers

Do you, like many successful professionals, feel that you may have reached a plateau in your professional life, yet you feel that you have the desire and potential to do more …much, much more?  Do you have some exciting opportunities that you want to make the most of?  Do you simply want to better align what you do professionally with who you are as a person? Are you at any tipping point to get to your next career move?

If your answer is YES to any of the questions above, you could not afford to miss this NECINA career development seminar!

At this session, you would learn 4 important dimensions to explore, so that you can be more effective in shaping your future, succeeding on your term, and ultimately you will be able to take care what you really care about professionally.

Survey your landscape: defining a more objective and realistic view of your current world
Taking an humanistic approach: anchoring your development efforts, enhancing inner capacity
Opportunity & Support: uncovering hidden opportunity and generating innovative solutions
Adaptive Development Process: taking small steps

This event is Free for NECINA officers and $15 for any members that the officers bring in to help on the tasks in our coming events.  Join NECINA officer team is a great starting point for your personal development process, and let us make the most out of it and have some fun!

Agenda:

5:30 - 6:00pm Pizza and networking
6:01 - 7:30pm Dr. Jiahong Juda, Founder, BurnBright Partners,  "How to be strategic in your career!
7:31 - 9:00pm Q&A and Networking

RSVP: This is an invitation only event exclusive to NECINA officers and volunteers. If you know any other people who are interested in becoming a NECINA officer and volunteer.   Please fill up the application form and send email to Ru.zheng@necina.org <mailto:Ru.zheng@necina.org>

Event Sponsor:  Foley Hoag LLP

About Speaker:

Dr. Jiahong Juda is a business executive with rigorous scientific training in astrophysics and a passion for unlocking the hidden potential in the world around her. Acting on her passion, she founded BurnBright Partners, a company that works with traditionally successful executives. She helps them eliminate professional and personal roadblocks, while simultaneously unlocking their long-term potential.  By combining leading academic studies, traditional and contemporary wisdom, and her direct and indirect life experiences, Jiahong has developed a practical and customizable strategic framework for successful professional and personal growth.

Dr. Juda has an atypical background. Born in China in the late 50s, she worked as a farmer during the Cultural Revolution, and later taught physics in a junior high school. In 1983 Dr. Juda came to the US, and received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Upon graduating she worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as an astrophysicist.

Interested in working on projects closer to Earth, she joined STAR (Speech Technology and Applied Research), a start-up company, in 1997. While working at STAR, she identified her entrepreneurial aspiration. She believes that an entrepreneurial mindset is a powerful tool for professional and personal development, even for those who do not wish to start their own companies. In 2000, Dr. Juda co-founded WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology), a non-profit organization committed to helping women become innovative leaders and to enhancing their professional growth.

Dr. Juda has more than 20 years of professional experience in a wide range of business environments, including start-ups, research institutions, and non-profits. She has been a member of the Board of Directors at STAR, since 2001 and is a member of WEST, the Organizational Development Learning Group and Boston Facilitators Roundtable.
 

NECINA Wireless and Web SIG Seminar:
Wireless Security and Mobile Advertising

Time: 6:30-9:30pm, Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Location: Verizon Lab, Auditorium B. 117 West Street, Waltham, MA

Topics:
1. Mitigating Risks in the Mobile World
2. Femtocell vs. Wi-Fi: Security and Beyond
3. An Overview of Mobile Advertising
 

Agenda:
6:30-7:00pm Networking (Refreshment will be served)
7:00-7:50pm Mitigating Risks in the mobile World, Dr. Yong Qiao, Director of Engineering, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
7:50-8:10pm Femtocell vs. WiFi- Security and beyond, Dr. Baoqing Ye, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon Network & Technology
8:10-8:15pm Break
8:15-9:20pm An Overview of Mobile Advertising, Dr. Changfeng Wang, President and CTO, Predictive Data Corporation
9:20-9:30pm Q&A

Seminar and Speaker Information:
7:00-7:50pm: Mitigating Risks in the Mobile World
Dr. Yong Qiao, Director of Engineering, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
Abstract:Mobile security has become a growing concern as organizations try to gain competitive advantages through the use of a mobile workforce. As mobile devices continue to proliferate, new security challenges arise. In today's IT environment, these devices represent a new endpoint that must be secured not only to protect sensitive data on the devices, but also to protect corporate information asset that could be accessed remotely by these devices. This talk will provide an overview of the security threats facing the mobile world, and discuss new solutions for protection against such threats.

Dr. Yong Qiao is Director of Engineering, Identity & Access Assurance Group at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. In this role, he is responsible for engineering management and product development of RSA's industry-leading SecurID hardware and software authentication products. He joined EMC following EMC's acquisition of RSA Security Inc., where he was Director of Engineering in the Enterprise Security Business Unit. Previously, he held senior engineering development and management positions at Sycamore Networks, Holoplex, and ILC Technology. Dr. Qiao received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from California Institute of Technology. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, with both B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.S. in Computer Science. He holds seven US patents and has published over forty technical papers.

7:50-8:10pm: Femtocell vs. WiFi: Security and Beyond
Dr. Baoqing Ye, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon Network & Technology
Abstract: As an emerging technology, Femtocell is gradually maturing and has the potential to penetrate into mass consumer market competing against another existing wireless technology- WiFi. This short talk gives a high level overview to compare these two wireless technologies: Femtocell vs. Wi-Fi, from aspects including security, QoS, and beyond.

Baoqing Ye currently is a DMTS in Verizon Network & Technology Organization, and has worked in several divisions within Verizon's CTO organization including Network Security, Network Architecture, Network Design & Integration, Innovation & Integration. Baoqing holds multiple patents and publications; she received her MS and PhD in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

8:15-9:20pm: An Overview of Mobile Advertising
Dr. Changfeng Wang, President and CTO, Predictive Data Corporation
Abstract:Mobile advertising is a tiny but fast growing market.  But many believe it is the next big thing and will supplant not only Internet advertising but other pillars of traditional advertising media also. We will cut through the hype and take a look into the market and business landscape, how the technology works, the challenges, and opportunities.  

The presentation is indented for diverse audience:  People who are novice to the area and want to take a glimpse to a new area,   people who are already in the field and want to gain another perspective, who are considering advertising as part of their mobile business strategy
 
Changfeng Wangis a currently the President and CTO at Predictive Data Corporation, a strategic consulting company in the area of online and mobile advertising technology and data analytics. Previously, Changfeng served as Chief Scientist at Enpocket (now Nokia Interactive), where he was instrumental in conceptualization and developing the company's personalization and Intelligent Mobile Marketing platform.  He served as Director of Web Mining and Chief Scientist at Engage Technologies/CMGI, a pioneer of behavioral advertising company, and consultant and chief scientist at Harte-hanks. He was a core member of the data mining group at Thinking Machines Corporation (now part of Oracle), and senior technology position with the CTO's office at Ascential Software (now part of IBM). Changfeng received his Ph. D. in the area of Computation Learning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Organizers: Baoqing Ye (baoqingyemail@gmail.com), Yejing Yang (yejing_yang@yahoo.com), Anhua Song (asong@enders.tch.harvard.edu), Yongjun Zhang (yongjun.zhang@nokia.com), and Hui Huang (hui_huang@yahoo.com)
 
For more information, please visit the following sites:

NECINA Wireless SIG: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NECINA_SIG_WIRELESS/
NECINA Web SIG: http://groups.google.com/group/necina_web/
NECINA: http://www.necina.org/

Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLC http://www.foleyhoag.com.
 

NECINA Wireless Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar
Wireless Sensor Network: Promises and Challenges; Navigating Mobile Ecosystem

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm,Thursday, June 26, 2008
Location: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
 

6:30pm-7:00pm Networking (Pizza will be served)
7:00pm-7:40pm Wireless Sensor Network: Promises and Challenges
7:40pm-7:55pm Questions and Answers
7:55pm-8:15pm Navigating Mobile Eco-System
8:15pm-8:30pm Questions and Answers

About the Speakers:

Professor Yannis Paschalidis, Co-Director, Center for Information and System Engineering, Boston University

Professor Paschalidis received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece (1991), and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1993 and 1996, respectively.

During the summer of 1996 he was a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, and since September 1996 he has been with Boston University (BU) where he currently is Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineering. He is a member of the BU operations research and manufacturing systems group and is the Co-Director of the BU Center for Information and System Engineering (CISE). His current research interests include the analysis and control of stochastic systems, large deviations theory, queueing theory, optimization, pricing, and revenue management. The main application areas he is targeting include communication networks and systems, manufacturing systems, network control systems, supply chains, and distribution systems.

He has received an NSF CAREER award (2000), the second prize in the 1997 George E. Nicholson paper competition by INFORMS, and was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He has served in the program committees of several conferences, including, the INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the INFOCOM. He is an associate editor of Operations Research Letters and of Automatica.

Meng Cao, Solutions Architect and Practice Manager, Lionbridge Technologies

Mr. Caocurrently Practice Manager from Lionbridge Technologies, Meng is responsible for providing thought leadership and creating service lines to serve clients mobility product initiatives.   Meng has more than 12 years software development, project management and business development experience in the Telecom, IT, and mobile application industry. Before Lionbridge, Meng led Chinasoft Internationals outsourcing engagements with US based key accounts, including Microsoft. Before Chinasoft, he held various technical positions at Siemens Mobile, ADC, and Lucent, led many projects in development, testing and deployment of wireless infrastructure and applications.  He holds an MS in Computer Science from NJIT, M.Eng from Singapore Nanyang University, and a MBA from Babson College

Organizers:Hui Huang (hui_huang@yahoo.com, Tao Wu (tao.a.wu@gmail.com), Baoqing Ye (baoqingyemail@gmail.com, Yongjun Zhang (yongjun.zhang@nokia.com), and Zhe Wang (zwang3@babson.edu)

For more information, please visit the following sites

NECINA Wireless SIG:http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NECINA_SIG_WIRELESS/

Event Sponsor:Foley Hoag LLC http://www.foleyhoag.com
 

5/13 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM NECINA Reunion Party
4/7 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Business Plan Contest: Semi-final contest presentation
4/3 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Business Plan Contest: Announce Semi-finalists
3/29 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Business Plan Contest: Workshop IV- Presentation
3/13 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Conference [3] opening (candidate topic: web 2.0)
3/3 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM NECINA 11th Yuanxiao Party
2/22 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Business Plan Contest: Social Networking Night - "Monthly Happy Hour"
2/13 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Conference [3] opening (candidate topic: web 2.0)
1/20 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Solid State Lighti
1/11 1:15 PM – 4:15 PM Business Plan Contest: Workshop III - Sales and Marketing Training
 

12/22/05  Optics SIG Seminar: Quantum Dot Based LWIR Photodetector  
12/21/05 NECINA Wireless Sig Seminar: RFID- Goes Beyond the Barcode 
12/12/05 NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Photonic crystal waveguides with shear discontinuities and tunable coupled-resonator optical waveguides  (CROWs)
12/6/05 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM December 2005 NECINA Partner Events Announcement
12/3/05 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Nanotechnology: From Optics to Energy
11/15/05  NECINA Biz Plan Contest Workshop II - Finance
11/5/05   Optics SIG Seminar: Quantum Dot Based LWIR Photodetector
10/22/05  China and India Opportunities for Growth Conference
10/10/05  NECINA Biz Plan Contest Workshop II
9/17/05  NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest -- Grand Kick Off 
9/15/05  NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Optical Communication
8/13/05  NECINA 8/13 Summer Outing at Hopkinton Park
6/18/05  NECINA 2005 Annual Meeting
5/31/05 NECINA co-hosted Shanghai W2i Digital Cities Convention - The Frontier of Broadband Wireless Applications
3/19/05 Technology Conference: Digital Convergence - The Future is Now
2/20/05 Software/IT Trends and Opportunities in China
2/19/05 Yuanxiao Party

12/7/06  Business Plan Contest: Social Networking Night - "Monthly Happy Hour"
11/18/06 NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Information Security 
11/15/06 Business Plan Contest Workshop: Finance 
11/4/06 China IT Industry Review
11/3/06   China Outsourcing Forum
10/19/06 Business Plan Contest: Social Networking Night - "Monthly Happy Hour" 
10/11/06  Business Plan Contest: Workshop I - Team Building 
9/26/06 NECINA Sino-US IT Innovation and Investment Symposium 
9/21/06 NECINA Optics SIG Seminar: Optical Communication
9/9/06   Entrepreneurship Conference & 2007 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Grand Kick-Off
8/15/06 Communication & Leadership Training Workshop #1 --- Political Savvy & Self Promotion
5/13/06 2006 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Reception and Award Ceremony
4/13/06 NECINA / SAPA-NE / MJNE Co-host Healthcare IT Conference 2006 
4/2/06  NECINA 2006 RFID Conference: Tag into the Future 
3/13/06 2006 NECINA Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop 4 -- Sales and Marketing2/21/06 NECINA 2/21/06 Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest Workshop 3 -- Financial "Is About the Money"
2/7/06  NECINA 10th Anniversary Gala 
1/5/06  NECINA 2006 Brown Rudnick Business Plan Contest
1/1/06  The WhizKids Foundation / NECINA Youth Entrepreneurship Service

2008 US-China Clean Technology Exchange Conference

Time:8:30am - 1:30pm, Saturday October 18^th , 2008
Venue: Radisson Hotel and Suites Chelmsford 10 Independence Drive, Chelmsford, MA

New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA) is proud to present its first US-China Technology Exchange Conference to launch NECINA Clean Technology Initiative (NCTI). The mission of the Initiative and the Conference is to create alliances between and provide resources and exchange platforms for China- and US-based technologists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legal professionals, and government regulators. These efforts will also help entrepreneurs and other professionals who have achieved success in other industries understand how to apply their expertise to the emerging clean technology sector both here and in China.

Agenda:

8:30am - 9:00am Registration, networking and breakfast
9:00am - 9:05am Opening remarks
9:05am - 9:15am Introduction of NECINA Clean Technology Initiative
9:15am - 9:55am Keynote - The US-China Clean Technology Opportunity Dr. Christina Lampe-Onnerud Founder and CEO, Boston-Power
9:55am - 10:35am       Keynote ?Solar Industry in China Mr. Arthur Chien <http://finance.google.com/finance?q=csiq> CFO, Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ)
10:35am - 10:50am     Break
10:50am -11:10am     Featured company ?GMZ Energy Dr. Gang Chen, Co-founder, MIT Professor
11:10am - 11:30am     Featured company ?Solasta Dr. Zhifeng Ren, Co-founder, Boston College Professor
11:30am - 11:50am     Private Equity in China抯 Energy Industry Mr. Wael Almazeedi, Founder, Chairman and CEO, BTU Venture
11:50am - 12:10pm     Energy Investment ?What We are Looking for? Dr. Jiong Ma, Principal, Braemar Energy Ventures
12:10pm - 12:40pm    Federal Implications for Clean Technology Investment in the United States Mr. Paul Stimers, Associate, Washington, DC office, K&L Gates LLP
12:40pm - 1:30pm       Networking and Lunch

About the Speakers

Dr. Lampe-Onnerudis founder and CEO of Boston-Power. A well-known authority in the battery industry, she has pioneered the use of Lithium-ion and other materials to deliver more powerful, longer lasting, safer and cost-effective batteries for laptops, PDAs, cell phones and other electronic devices. Boston-Power is the first and only provider of rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries to earn the prestigious Nordic Ecolabel certification, acknowledging a company's efforts to create environmentally sustainable products. Earlier this year, the China Environmental Certification Institution (CEC) recognized Boston-Power for high environmental sustainability standards and responsibility in its manufacturing operations.  

Prior to founding Boston-Power<http://www.boston-power.com/%5B%7E1%7E%5D>, Dr. Lampe-Onnerud was one of the youngest partners ever appointed at Arthur D. Little/TIAX, where she ran the company's globally-renowned battery labs, defined strategies for the world's top chemical and battery organizations, and directed high-profile market evaluations. Earlier in her career, she served as a director and senior scientist at Bell Communications Research. Dr. Lampe-Onnerud has been recognized among the 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation. She has also served as keynote speaker on power issues at industry and government initiatives for more than 15 years. Dr. Lampe-Onnerud earned a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Calculus from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Mr. Arthur Chien is Chief Financial Officer of Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ). Mr. Arthur Chien has served as vice president, finance since September 2007 and secretary since February 2008. He served as an independent director of the company from December 2005 until September 2007. Mr. Chien was previously managing director of Beijing Yinke Investment Consulting Co. Ltd., which provides financial consulting services and has its own investment projects as well. Prior to that, Mr. Chien was the chief financial officer of China Grand Enterprises Inc. for almost 5 years. That company is a diversified investment holding company based in Beijing, China. Mr. Chien has also worked in the finance, investment and management positions in several companies in China, Canada and Belgium including his appointment in 1995 as the assistant financial controller of the steel cord division of Bekaert Group in Belgium. In 1996, Mr. Chien took the position of chief financial officer of Bekaert China, which operated five joint ventures in China. Mr. Chien graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor of science degree in 1982. He also obtained a master's degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada in 1989.

Canadian Solar Inc. (CSI) designs, develops, manufactures and sells solar cell and module products that convert sunlight into electricity for a variety of uses. The Company conducts all of its manufacturing operations in China. The Company's products include a range of standard solar modules built to general specifications for use in a range of residential, commercial and industrial solar power generation systems. It also designs and produces specialty solar modules and products based on its customers?requirements. Specialty solar modules and products consist of customized modules that its customers incorporate into their own products, such as solar-powered bus stop lighting, and complete specialty products, such as solar-powered car battery chargers. It sells its products under its CSI brand name and to original equipment manufacturing (OEM) customers under their brand names.

Dr. Gang Chenis GMZ Energy co-founder and Warren Towneley Rohsenow Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, MIT. Dr. Chen obtained his Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley in 1993. He was an assistant professor at Duke University from 1993-1997, and associate professor at University of California at Los Angeles from 1997-2000, and moved to MIT in 2000. He is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, a Guggenheim Fellow, and an ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) fellow. He has published extensively in the area of nanoscale energy transport and conversion and nanoscale heat transfer. He serves on the editorial boards for four journals in heat transfer and nanotechnology and chairs the advisory board of ASME Nanotechnology Institute. Professor Chen has extensive experience on the thermal conductivity of nanostructures and thermoelectric transport theory and property measurements. The Chen group has generated initial experimental data demonstrating a significant reduction in the thermal conductivity of superlattices and has developed a theoretical framework that explains the experimentally observed reduction in the thermal conductivity. Based on extensive experimental and theoretical studies, he and his co-workers developed the nanocomposite strategy for enhancing ZT.

Dr. Zhifeng Renis co-founder of Solasta Inc. and a professor in the Physics Department at Boston College. Dr. Ren received his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics in 1990.  He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is the recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award of Boston College in 2006 and the R&D 100 Award Winner in 2008.  Dr. Ren's current focus is on nanomaterial synthesis, characterization, and applications including carbon nanotubes and semiconducting nanowires (ZnO, Si, Ge, etc.) and nanocrystals (Si, Ge, PbTe, PbSe, Bi_2 Te_3 ,Sb_2 Te_3 , Bi_2 Se_3 , etc).  He has published 200 peer reviewed papers and has 26 issued and pending patents.  Dr. Ren is also the co-founder of NanoLab, Inc. and GMZ Energy, Inc. He co-founded NanoLab, Inc. in 2000 to commercialize carbon nanotechnology; Solasta, LLC in 2006 to make highly efficient solar cells; and GMZ Energy, Inc. in 2007 for high performance thermoelectric materials, devices, and systems.

Mr. Wael Almazeediis the founder, Chairman and CEO of QGEN. Mr.Almazeedi has more than 25 years of experience developing and financing energy projects globally. Prior to founding QGEN, Mr. Almazeedi was founder, Chairman and CEO of BTU, engaged in project development, equity investment, and asset management, focusing on the energy and energy-related industries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Mr. Almazeedi's earlier experience includes energy privatization assignments and power project financings in developing countries with the World Bank in Washington, DC. He started his career as a refinery engineer and subsequently as an investment analyst with the Kuwait Petroleum
Corporation.

Mr. Almazeedi holds a Master of Public Administration from John F.Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (USA), a post-graduate diploma from the College of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UK) and a Bachelor抯 degree in Applied Chemistry with Control Engineering from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK). Mr. Almazeedi was awarded the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year?Award in the energy category for the USA's New England region (Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut).

Dr. Jiong Mais a principal at Bremar Energy Ventures, a venture capital firm devoted to financing companies developing new technologies for conventional and alternative energy markets. She has more than 10 years of research, operating and venture capital experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining Braemar, she was with 3i, a global private equity firm with $11B in assets. At 3i, Jiong was responsible for investment in the information technology and clean tech sectors. Prior to 3i, Jiong held several senior positions at Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs. Her responsibilities included lead roles in product portfolio strategy, new product launches for Optical and Data Networking, and research and product development, where she led projects in defining product features, system architecture, network design and operations. Jiong was also a founding team member of Onetta, a fiber networks start-up company which was backed by venture capital firms Sequoia and Matrix. Earlier, Jiong worked as a member of Nortel Networks' technical staff.

Jiong received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, and a BS in Physics from Lanzhou University, China. She is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. Jiong has published or co-authored 15 technical papers, and holds one U.S. patent.

Mr. Paul Stimers, an associate in the Washington, DC office of K&L Gates LLP, focuses his lobbying efforts on matters related to nanotechnology, information technology policy, and defense, and advises a wide range of companies and industry associations in pursuing legislation and representing their interests before Congress and Federal agencies.  Paul represents the Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization, which promotes the commercialization and global adoption of clean technologies and sustainable industry practices through a community of industry, academic, and government leaders committed to a safer, cleaner and more productive world.

Paul also represents the NanoBusiness Alliance, the nanotechnology industry association, in developing and advocating for policies that will expand the nation's nanotechnology infrastructure. He coordinates the Alliance's annual Policy Tour, which brings dozens of nanotechnology leaders to the capital for meetings with senior government officials. He also works with several of the world's leading nanotechnology companies to secure federal funding for research and development projects. Paul holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a M.P.A. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

About NECINA Clean Technology Initiative

Mission

• Promote exchange between US and China

• Leverage NECINA's local entrepreneur resources in the US and China

• Bring the past success into emerging clean tech industry

Executive Committee
Yi Qian, VP NECINA, Chair
Qingwu Wang , VP Agiltron
Xiaoyun Chen <http://web.mit.edu/nanoengineering/people/faculty.shtml>, Senior Scientist, MIT
Gang Chen <http://web.mit.edu/nanoengineering/people/faculty.shtml>, Professor, MIT
Xinli Cui <http://www.btuventures.com/>, VP BTU Venture
Gerald O'onner <http://www.emergingenterprisecenter.com/personnel/attorneyBio.aspx?aID=8301>,

Partner, Foley Hoag
 

2011 - 2012 Tech Conference -- Big Data

• Time: 9:00 am - 1:00pm, October 15th, 2011  
• Venue: Radisson Hotel Chelmsford, 10 Independence Drive, Chelmsford MA 01824 Tel: (978) 256-0800
• Cost: Free to NECINA members and VIP guests, $15 non-members
• Online Registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=223436

"As cloud and web services advance further, the key to providing next generation personalized real time services lies in how to process an ever-increasing amount of data for user relevance in real time." -- Cheng Wu, Chairman & Co-Founder of Azuki Systems, NECINA board member

"A great conference to address one of the major waves affecting technology today." -- Jo Tango, Leading investor in Big Data and other areas, NECINA board member

"This is a very interesting program on Big Data for students and technologists to attend." -- Mike Stonebraker, Founding father and industry luminary in relational databases

Overview

Big Data is becoming a big deal! It is like air -- You may not be aware of it, but it's permeating everywhere, impacting all aspects of your work and life.

Do you work in the following industries, and know how Big Data has been transforming them: High tech, Financial, Telecommunications, Retail, Biotech, Healthcare, Marketing, Intelligence and home land security…

Do you use the following services for quality of life, and know how Big Data has been a key technology enabler: social networking, gaming, online recommendation of shopping, movie, travel, and apps...

Do you know the following recent stats and sound bytes?

• Additional stats
  • 30 billion pieces of content shared on Facebook every month
  • Nearly all sectors in the US economy had at least an average of 200 terabytes of stored data (twice the size of US retailer Wal-Mart's data warehouse in 1999) per company with more than 1,000 employees

In this age of information explosion,  a company doesn't need to be a Fortune 500 to own and monetize from terabytes or petabytes of data; an individual doesn't need to be a Big Data professional to enjoy its benefits at work and in life.

Join us in this NECINA's first ever Big Data conference, where a group of remarkable speakers and panelists will cover:

• The exciting opportunities and new business models leveraging Big Data

• The new tools purpose built for Big Data

• The challenges and solutions in Big Data use cases

No background in Big Data is needed for you to enjoy the talks and panel discussion. You will also have the opportunity to network with the speakers, panelists and attendees, discussing how Big Data is impacting your career and life.

Agenda

October 15, 2011, 9am -- 1pm

Speakers and Panelists:

Jeff Fagnan

Jeff Fagnan is a Partner in the technology group at Atlas Venture, and focuses on very early stage projects in enterprise and Internet infrastructure. Before joining Atlas Venture, Jeff was a Partner with Seed Capital Partners.  While at Seed Capital, Jeff was the lead and founding investor in several companies including DataPower (acquired by IBM) and Polychromix (acquired by ThermoFisher).   Before venture, Jeff worked for Booz Allen & Hamilton and Nortel Networks. Since joining Atlas, Jeff has been the founding investor and a Board member for Abine, AEB, Bit9, DataXu, Keas, Songbird and Veracode.  He sits on the Boards of Grockit, Hopper and SimpleTuition and serves as a Board observer for clean tech companies MiaSole and Mascoma.  He is an investor in fundraise.com, Learnboost, LuckyLabs, Namesake, PowerInbox and Quirky.  Jeff led the firm's investment in DataPower which was acquired by IBM in 2005. Jeff is a founder of TUGG (Technology Underwriting Greater Good), a non-profit foundation harnessing "Crowd-sourced Philanthropy" to catalyze social innovation in New England.  Jeff was also a founder of Koffee for Kids, a non-profit company in Rochester, New York. Jeff received his M.B.A. with distinction from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester and a B.S. from the University of Alaska.

Shilpa Lawande

Shilpa Lawande is Vice President of Engineering at Vertica, an HP company. She has been an integral part of the Vertica engineering team since its inception, bringing over 10 years of experience in databases, data warehousing and grid computing to Vertica. Prior to Vertica, she was a key member of the Oracle Server Technologies group where she worked directly on several data warehousing and self-managing features in the Oracle 9i and 10g databases. Lawande is a co-inventor on several patents on query optimization, materialized views and automatic index tuning for databases. She has also co-authored two books on data warehousing using the Oracle database as well as a book on Enterprise Grid Computing. Lawande has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Don O'Neill

Don O'Neill is the Senior Director of Engineering, Operations and Infrastructure at TripAdvisor, overseeing the company's software, hardware and networking infrastructure and operations, and planning and executing its scalability strategy. Don has eighteen years' experience implementing and articulating software product strategy and positional tactics to drive competitive advantage. Don has a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Brandeis University.

George Radford

George has more than 20 years of experience as a technology leader in high tech start-ups as well as large organizations.  He has a wide range of structured and unstructured analytical experience in industries including retail, CPG, telecom, online commerce and marketing, manufacturing, energy, health care, eDiscovery, financial services, and government. He works with customers, partners, and EMC product groups to design and implement petabyte-scale systems that transform data into competitive differentiators.

George earned a BA at Brandeis University and an MS in Computer Science at Boston University, with a concentration in intelligent decision support systems.

Christopher Gillett

Christopher Gillett is Chief Software Architect for Visible Measures Corporation, where he has led the architecture and development of the company's parallel, distributed big data systems from the ground up. Chris has more than 20 years experience as an architect and contributing software engineer, and has expertise in scalable systems, big data solutions, data warehousing, virtual machines, compilers, and systems software. Chris was formerly a member of technical staff at Vertica Systems, a high performance column store database engine company, and prior to that was Chief Software Architect at Compete, Inc., a predictive analytics company.  Chris holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Central Michigan University.

Talk Abstract:

The Big Data Stack

Innovation and economic growth cannot take place without the management of increasing large sets of data.  Big data and the Big Data Stack present a new frontier for investors.  From the scaling of data storage and processing to big analytics and finally to intelligent services based on big data, there is innovation happening up and down the stack.  Jeff Fagnan will discuss the opportunities and challenges in early-stage investing in Big Data.

The Anatomy of a 21st century Big Data Analytics Platform

Legacy database technology falls short of storing and analyzing terabytes or petabytes of data. At Vertica, we have built a new analytics platform from scratch, dedicated for Big Data analytics. Join us as we walk through the design and implementation of our product, as well as some of the customer use cases and new business models enabled by Vertica's unique capabilities.

The Data Warehouse Platform at Trip Advisor

With over 200 million daily dynamic page views and 120 GB of compressed logs per day, TripAdvisor depends on a variety of technologies for storing, processing, and analyzing user interactions with our site. At the center of these technologies is Hadoop, Apache's framework for data-intensive distributed computing. In this talk, we will discuss how TripAdvisor uses Hadoop and associated projects like Hive, Oozie, and Sqoop in its data warehouse platform to process over 30 TB of data, expected to reach 100 TB within a year, and how we integrate with SQL Server for end-user reporting. We'll also describe some of the challenges with working with these new and bleeding-edge projects, and how we're able to do it all with a team of just three engineers.

The Evolution of Big Data Technolgy Stack

The definition of "Big Data" was fairly vague as recently as 36 months ago.  Now any serious venture into the social network or media space requires the ability to manage big data in sophisticated ways, including the capability to deliver results with ever lower latency.  Techniques that were cutting edge in 2008 are considered quaint now.  Visible Measures has been a "big data" company since its inception in 2006.    The purpose of this talk is to describe the key components of our data handling stack, and to describe how the stack has evolved to meet business demands over the past 4 years.  Our approaches to data management and warehousing will be described.  The talk will also argue that some of the most popular big data tools in common use now may not be the optimal way to move forward in a new venture.

Company Bio:

Atlas Venture

Atlas Venture is a leading early-stage international venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences businesses. Since inception in 1980, its partners have helped build over 350 companies in more than 16 different countries. Atlas Venture is investing from its eighth fund and manages over $2 billion in capital. For more information, visit www.atlasventure.com.

HP Vertica

Vertica solves challenges in the real world. Our purpose-built analytics platform enables companies to monetize their data at the speed and scale they need to thrive in today's economic climate.

Started in 2005, Vertica's goal was to revolutionize the relational database industry by developing a tool to solve today's analytical challenges. We accomplished just that by building a new system from the ground up. Our innovative solution has been available for sale since 2007 with hundreds of companies leveraging its power.

Today the revolution continues. We're proud to say that our scalability and flexibility are unmatched in the industry delivering 50x-1000x faster performance at 30% the cost of traditional solutions. Our worldwide reach includes many blue-chip companies including Verizon, Guess Inc., Zynga, Capital IQ, Mozilla and Comcast. Please visit us at http://www.vertica.com.

Trip Advisor

TripAdvisor® is the world's largest travel site, enabling travelers to plan and have the perfect trip. TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from real travelers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features (including Flights search, TripAdvisor Mobile and TripAdvisor Trip Friends) with seamless links to booking tools.

TripAdvisor® Media Group, operated by TripAdvisor LLC, attracts more than 65 million unique monthly visitors across 19 popular travel brands, including www.daodao.com and www.kuxun.cn in China. TripAdvisor-branded sites alone make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 50 million unique monthly visitors, 20 million members, and over 50 million reviews and opinions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com (http://www.daodao.com). TripAdvisor also operates TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to TripAdvisor's millions of monthly visitors. The division includes Business Listings, which allows hoteliers to connect directly to millions of researching travelers, and Vacation Rentals, which helps property managers and individual home owners list their properties and showcase hotel alternatives.

TripAdvisor and the sites comprising the TripAdvisor Media Group are operating companies of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE).

EMC Greenplum

Greenplum is driving the future of big data analytics, providing customers with greater insight and business value from their data than ever before. Greenplum offers industry-leading performance at a low cost for companies managing terabytes to petabytes of data. Data-driven businesses around the world, including NASDAQ, NYSE Euronext, Silver Spring Networks and Zions Bancorporation, have adopted Greenplum solutions to support their mission-critical business functions.

Greenplum was acquired by EMC in July 2010, becoming the foundation of the new EMC Data Computing Division. Greenplum's software and appliance products deliver an agile analytics platform, enabling actionable insight from vast and diverse datasets. As such, Greenplum has an integrated product portfolio that supports structured and unstructured data including Greenplum Database, Greenplum HD, Greenplum Data Computing Appliance, and Greenplum Chorus. This product portfolio embodies the power of open systems, cloud computing, virtualization, and collaboration, enabling organizations to gain greater insight and value from their data than ever before.

Visible Measures

Visible Measures is the analytics and advertising platform for social video. Designed from the ground up to meet the unique challenges of measuring and delivering social video advertising, the company's patented platform powers the Viewable Media choice-based video ad network. Visible Measures provides its customers and clients with unprecedented visibility into the performance of paid and Earned Media placements and engagement in social video. Visible Measures is a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB) Digital Video Committee and the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF). To learn more about Visible Measures and explore its industry-wide charts, please visit http://www.visiblemeasures.com.

Event Contact:

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时间：8月6日(10:00 am–6:00 pm)

地点：Hopkinton State Park，268 Cedar Street,  Hopkinton, MA 01748

网站：www.cpnweb.org

报名：http://www.cpnweb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170&Itemid=220

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NECINA Optics Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar
Topic:New Energies

Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday, January 12, 2008
Location: Finisar Corporation (formerly Azna LLC), 36 Jonspin Road, Wilmington, MA 01887

2:00pm-2:30pm  Networking Time
2:30pm-2:45pm  Introduction
2:45pm-3:45pm Advanced Support the Globe with Tiny Things: Sustainable Energy from Nanomaterials
Dr. Dunwei Wang, BostonCollege

Abstract:Continuous population increase and high living standards
demand ever more energy.  While it still remains a lively debate how long fossil fuels, the major energy source we currently rely on, will last, people have already come to conclusions that the negative environment effect caused by burning fossil fuels is unacceptable.  It thus becomes urgent to develop new technologies that can produce energy comparable to that based on fossil fuels, not only in magnitude but also in price.  For long-term prosperity, renewable energy is apparently desired.  Solar energy, therefore, stands out for obvious reasons.  The development of solar energy conversion devices such as photovoltaic cells, however, is rather slow, albeit an old technology, mainly because of the combined high cost and low efficiency.  Notwithstanding detailed difference, most energy related processes including charge separation, transport and recombination, are of characteristic distance of nanometer
scale.  So, emerging nanomaterials with relevant length hold great promises in meeting the daunting energy challenge.  I'll summarize recent development of energy related research using nanomaterials and present our efforts within this context.  I'll share with you our
thoughts on how semiconductor nanowires may offer advantages in both
high efficiency and low cost.  Our recent results will be discussed as
well.

Dr. Dunwei Wangis originally from Jiangsu Province, China.  He moved
to Californiain 2000 to pursue his doctoral degree at StanfordUniversity.  After working as a postdoctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology for two years, he recently joined BostonCollegechemistry department as an assistant professor.  Wang's part research concerned Ge nanowires, a fast electronic material, and highly order arrays of Si nanowires as building blocks for logic gates. His present interest centers on nanomaterial-based energy processes and applications.  Wang is the recipient of the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemist in 2006.

3:45pm-4:00pm  Break
4:00pm-5:00pm  Introduction to Fuel Cells

Dr. John Zhou, Lilliputian Systems

The ever-rising oil and gas prices and the demand for environmental friendly forms of power generation have led to a surge in the efforts in exploring and developing clean alternative energies. While solar, wind,and hydroelectric powers are among perhaps the most well known clean alternatives, fuel-cell technology is uniquely positioned to provide clean power for non-stationary applications such as motor vehicles. The recent advances in micro fuel cell technologies have offered the promise to eventually cut the cord off such devices as mobile phones and laptop computers. This talk is an introduction to fuel cells. The focus will be on micro fuel cells and technologies.

Dr. John Zhouhas over 15 year experience in design, process development, and fabrication of optoelectronic and MEMS devices. He graduated from the Department of Physics, Universityof Scienceand Technology of China, and received his MS from the Instituteof Semiconductors, ChineseAcademyof Sciences, and Ph.D in physical chemistry from University of Cambridge, UK. He is currently a senior process engineer at Lilliputian Systems, developing Si MEMS-based solid oxide micro fuel cells.

Contact: Yong Qiao (978) 201-1980, Frank Fan (978) 204-4980, Jin Li
(978) 996-8058

Organizers: Jin Li, Yong Qiao, Qingwu Wang, Xueyan Zheng, Frank Fan, and
Yi Qian

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