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Recently
published a
book, or made a
presentation on
your area of
expertise, but
no one else in
CUNY knows about
it? Here’s your
chance to meet
other members of
CUNY who share
in the same
dilemma. Come to
the reception
that is for you,
the new CUNY
Asian faculty
and staff, and
let yourself be
known beyond
your corner
office cubicle.
Besides the
delicious food,
and performances,
this reception
will introduce
the new CUNY
Asian faculty
and staff to the
Asian American /
Asian Research
Institute; our
mission as a
university-wide
scholarly
research and
resource center
that focuses on
policies and
issues that
affect Asians
and Asian
Americans; and
the programs
that are
available for
them. Attendees
will have the
prime
opportunity to
create new
relationships
and network with
colleagues like
themselves, from
different fields
across the
twenty-three
CUNY colleges.
Vice Chancellor
Brenda Malone
from the CUNY
Office of
Faculty
& Staff Relations,
and Trustee
Wellington Z.
Chen, will
be on hand to
bring greetings
at the
reception. It is
vital that new
members of each
college become
involved with
and integrate
into the CUNY
family, as it
continues to
become the
leading urban
public
university.
CUNY Asian
Faculty & Staff
Biographies
Clarence Chan
PT, DPT is a
licensed
physical
therapist,
certified
personal
trainer, and a
martial arts
instructor. He
is an assistant
professor in the
Natural and
Applied Sciences
Department at
LaGuardia
Community
College, CUNY.
He has been in
clinical
practice since
1989 in
hospital,
pediatric, long
term care, home
health care, and
private practice
settings. He
received his
Doctor of
Physical Therapy
from Creighton
University in
Omaha, NE.
Having been in
practice for
over 16 years,
he has extensive
experience in
acutherapy,
electrotherapy,
pain management,
functional/performance
retraining, and
movement
science. Dr.
Chan is an
active member of
the American
Physical Therapy
Association (APTA)
and a committee
member of the
Minority Affairs
Committee of
NYPTA. He also
held a current
position as the
District
Treasurer for
the New York
Chapter. This
position enables
him to serve as
the delegate to
the New York
Chapter and the
National House
of Delegate.
Dr. Chan is also
actively
teaching the
various concepts
of martial arts
training in the
YMCA-Beacon
Center in NYC
Chinatown.
Chen-Ho Chao,
is a faculty
member in the
Marketing and
International
Business
department at
Baruch College,
CUNY. Originally
from Taiwan. Dr.
Chao received
his MBA and
Ph.D. education
in Missouri. His
research
interest focuses
on international
marketing
issues. The
location of
Baruch College
provides Dr. Chao with
tremendous
opportunities to
do his research.
Vincent (Tzu-Wen)
Cheng, is a
full-time
instructor in
the Department
of Speech,
Communications
and Theatre Arts
at BMCC, which
he joined in
spring 2005. He
also teaches in
the Department
of Culture and
Communication at
NYU, first as a
teaching fellow
since 1999 and
as an adjunct
instructor since
2002. Among the
courses Mr.
Cheng has taught
are Speech
Communication,
Cross-Cultural
Communication,
Conflict
Management,
Fundamentals of
Speech, and
Introduction to
Human
Communication
and Culture.
Currently a
Ph.D. candidate
in
International
Education
program at NYU,
Mr. Cheng
received two
masters degrees
from New York
University - one
from the School
of Law in 1997
and the other
from Steinhardt
School of
Education’s
Speech and
Interpersonal
Communication
program in 1999.
Gautam Chinta
holds a PhD in
Mathematics from
Columbia
University. He
comes to City
College after
postdoctoral
positions at the
Max-Planck-Institute
for Mathematics
in Bonn and
Brown
University. He
was on leave
during the
2005-6 academic
year as a
Humboldt Fellow
at Goettingen
University.
Prof Chinta's
research is in
the field of
number theory.
More
specifically his
research is
focused on the
theory of
automorphic
forms and
L-functions,
with
applications to
problems in the
distribution of
prime numbers
and
representations
of integers as
sums of squares.
Jin Ma is
a
Catalog/Metadata
Librarian at the
Newman Library,
Baruch College
of the City
University of
New York. He is
responsible for
metadata
creation and
management for
the Digital
Media Library
and any digital
initiatives at
Baruch. He has
worked as a
Metadata
Librarian at the
Pennsylvania
State University
Libraries from
January 2003 to
May 2006.
Isabelita
Perez has
over 25 years of
diversified
experience in
industries and
functional areas
of financial
management and
investment,
banking,
accounting,
e-commerce,
international
business
development,
business
consultancy, and
marketing.
Prior to joining
The City
University of
New York as
Special Project
Coordinator, she
was President of
her consulting
company Perez
Business
Development
Corporation and
consulted with
Citibank and
other major
listed
corporations in
the United
States and
Europe. She is
also co-chairman
of Vizcaya
Savings and Loan
Association, a
family owned
Thrift bank in
the
Philippines.
Formerly, Ms.
Perez was a
Principal and
Senior Vice
President of
Geneva Capital
and in 1997 she
was invited by
the Department
of Commerce,
Bureau of Census
in Washington,
D.C. to serve as
one of their
financial
advisors. In her
earlier career,
Ms. Perez was a
Business Manager
at National
Broadcasting Co.
responsible for
structuring and
implementing
budgetary
projections for
NBC multimillion
dollar Staff
Division. She
also had
developed
financial
studies that
included
financial
planning,
strategic
analysis,
costing,
budgeting and
performance
report
appraisals. Ms.
Perez has a MBA
in finance and
completed
advanced studies
in Financial
Management from
Wharton School
and St. John’s
University. She
is a NASD
Registered
Securities
Principal and
Broker with
series 24, 7 and
63 licenses. She
is a member of
the Omicron
Delta Epsilon,
Honor Society in
Economics.
Andrew
VanNguyen
graduated with a
bachelor degree
double majoring
in microbiology
and immunology
and biochemistry
from University
of California,
Berkeley in
1989. After
working at a
biotechnology
company,
Professor
VanNguyen went
to the
University of
Connecticut at
Storrs and
completed his
master degree in
Department of
Pathobiology.
Professor
VanNguyen
received his
doctoral degree
in the
Department of
Developmental
and Molecular
Biology at
Albert Einstein
College of
Medicine Albert
in 2000. His
thesis was on
two cytokines,
colony-stimulating
factor and
transforming
growth
factor-beta, and
their regulation
on mammary gland
development and
tumor
metastasis. In
the past few
years,
Professor
VanNguyen
was a
Kirschstein post
doctoral fellow
from the
National Heart
and Lung
Institute
working on the
conditional
knock out mice
and applying
them to study
the pathogenesis
of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis
infection. His
interests are to
generate and
apply transgenic
mice with
regulated gene
expression
including
conditionally
gene deletion to
study mammary
gland cancer and
infectious
diseases. Professor
VanNguyen
published
several articles
on the diagnosis
and
pathogenicity of
Salmonella spp.
infection and
recently
published a
number of
articles in
mammary gland
tumor biology.
Starting in the
fall of 2006,
Professor
VanNguyen
have been an
assistant
professor at
Kingsborough
Community
College, where
he teaches
anatomy and
physiology.
Sihong Wang,
Ph.D., is an
Assistant
Professor in the
Department of
Biomedical
Engineering at
The City College
of New York. Dr.
Wang received
his Ph.D. degree
from the
University of
Texas at Austin
Biomedical
Engineering
department.
After that, he
was an NIH
postdoctoral
fellow at the
Center for
Engineering in
Medicine (CEM)
in Harvard
Medical School
and
Massachusetts
General
Hospital,
working on the
development of
microfluidic
cell chips for
real-time gene
expression
profiling using
current
technologies in
cell/molecular
engineering and
BioMEMS. At the
same time, Dr.
Wang
investigated the
dynamic effects
of heat shock
preconditioning
on apoptosis in
liver cells, and
extending my
research areas
to include
tissue
engineering
focusing on
bioartificial
liver (BAL).
Dr. Wang’s
research
interests are
applications of
Cell and
Molecular
Engineering
combined with
BioMEMS and 3D
Tissue
Engineering for
studies in
cancer therapy,
bioartificial
organs and drug
toxicity.
Victoria Ying
received her
B.S. in
Biological
Sciences from
Cornell
University in
the College of
Agriculture and
Life Sciences.
She also earned
her Ph.D. in
Pharmacology
from Cornell
Veterinary
School of
Medicine in the
Department of
Molecular
Medicine. She
specializes in
using polymers
as a delivery
vehicle for
controlled
release of drug
in cells,
tissues, and
animals to treat
cancer. During
her Ph.D.
program she
visited Johns
Hopkins for
neurosurgery
training to
enhance her
Ph.D. studies in
brain cancer
research.
Victoria also
did an exchange
program at Yale
University
Biomedical
Engineering
Department to
continue her
work with
chemists in
using
biodegradable
polymers for
interstitial
chemotherapy.
While at Yale
University, she
was the Speaker
Series
Coordinator of
the
Biotechnology
Interest Group.
Victoria
organized many
seminars and
conferences.
She invited
guest speakers
such as
Bristol-Myers
Squibb Vice
President,
Pfizer Clinical
Medical
Director,
Boehringer
Ingelheim
President and
CEO, CuraGen
Medical
Director, Bayer
Senior Vice
President, and
Merck President
Emeritus to
speak at Yale
University.
In addition,
Victoria worked
as a Deal Flow
Analysis Member
and visited
Emisphere
Technologies
where as a team,
they developed
strategies to
improve the
marketing,
distribution,
and sales of the
insulin oral
vaccine. After
receiving her
Ph.D. from
Cornell, she
presented her
research to
various
pharmaceutical
companies and
research centers
such as Sanofi-Aventis,
Bayer, Johnson &
Johnson,
Boehringer
Ingelheim, and
Cornell Medical
School/Memorial
Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center.
Later she worked
as a Senior
Scientist in
Optical
Bioscience and
did research in
the field of
photodynamic
therapy (PDT)
while working
part time
teaching
Molecular and
Cellular Biology
at Pace
University and
General
Chemistry at
Queensborough
Community
College.
In 2006, she
worked as a full
time tenure
track Assistant
Professor at New
York City
College of
Technology in
Brooklyn, NY.
She is currently
teaching Anatomy
and Physiology
to students
pursuing degrees
in nursing,
dentistry,
optometry,
radiology,
medicine, and
graduate school.
Victoria collaborates with other research faculty at College of
Staten Island
with the focus
of delivering
cancer drugs via
new polymers as
a way to enhance
chemotherapy and
the treatment of
cancer.
Hongbing
Zhang,
Ph.D. (University
of Chicago), is
an Assistant
Professor of
Chinese Studies
teaching Chinese
language and
literature in
the Department
of Foreign
Languages and
Literatures and
Asian Studies
Program at the
City College,
CUNY. Before
coming to the
City College, he
taught at
Northwestern
University. His
scholarly
interests
include modern
Chinese
literature and
culture, travel
writing,
modernity and
the nation,
globalization
and cultural
production. His
publications
have appeared in
"Journal of
Modern
Literature in
Chinese" and
"Language and
Literature." He
is currently
working on a
project studying
travel, space
and cultural
transformations
in the late 19th
and early 20th
century China.
Xiaodang
Zhang has
been an
Assistant
Professor in the
department of
Social Sciences
at York College
since Fall 2006.
Hailing from
Beijing, China,
Dr. Zhang has
been a resident
of New York for
almost twenty
years – and
refers to
herself as a New
Yorker. She
received a
Masters degree
in Women's
Studies from the
CUNY Graduate
Center, and a
Ph.D. in
Sociology from
Columbia
University.
Dr.. Zhang’s
teaching and
research
interests
include labor
relations,
organization,
and gender. She
is currently
exploring the
possibilities of
studying
immigrant
entrepreneurship
in New York
City.
