Current Events

Here is what Shawn summarized in end of the year 1998.

• (1) Newborns:
  • Welcome Ethan Zou, son of Kevin Zou and Jenny Yao, to this world on March 20th.
  • Welcome Jerry Fu, son of Gang Fu and Jun Zhou, to this world on September 18th.
    

• (2) Welcome to the states:
  • Lu Hongying came to the states and started work at Uni. of California at San Diego.
  • Tang WeiZhong came to the states also and is providing help for UTStarcom located on Oakland, CA.
  • Lala came to University of Michigan to start his PostDoc program.
    

• (3) Visiting the states
  • Prof. Chen Kangshen visited the states and Canada in July and August.
  • Gu Yi visited the states in September.

• (4) Finally, Liu Chang and his wife are reunited. Mrs. Liu flew to Germany in early this year after all the hurdles.

• (5) Career track: Except few, almost all the recipients on this mailing list changed their job at least once this year.

• (6) Relocation track:
  • Gang Fu moved to his new house.
  • Bi moved back from North Carolina to Houston, TX and bought a hugh house. (potential reunion location?).
  • Chen JiZhong from California to Virginia,
  • while Yang Shawn from Virginia to California.
  • Lala from Singapore to Ann Arbor, MI.
  • Lu and Tang from Hangzhou to San Diego, CA and Oakland, CA, respectively.
  • Tu from WuHan to Japan.
  • Who else?

• (7) Moment of Glory:
  • Liu Chang had a great time in Holland this summer while he attended a conference as a keynote speaker.
  • Shawn Yan rushed back to China in Thanksgiving.

• (8) Great ZheDa debuted its first day in September as the largest university in China.

• Need help from everybody to add more. Anything you like to write it down.