Liu Yunping

Ted W. Lieu, 劉雲平, was born on March 29, 1969 in Taipei. Lieu came to the US with his family and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.

After graduated from Stanford and Georgetown, Lieu clerked to Judge Thomas Tang of the 9th Circuit. A Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserves, Lieu served four years of active duty as a member of the JAG Corps. Lieu's political career includes Torrance City Councilman, State Assemblyman 2005-2010, and has served as a State Senator since 2011.

Senator Lieu authored a bill (SB-1172: Secual Orientation Change Efforts) in 2012 that bans such therapy including conversion therapy to minors. The bill passed both houses with substantial support, and was singed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in 2012.

In wake of the NSA scandal, Lieu introduced a bill that would bar California agencies and officials from cooperating with federal authorities seeking electronic records on a state resident without a warrant.

Huang Renxun

Huang Renxun (Jen-Hsun Huang, born 1963 in Taipei) was known as an engineer, a philanthroper and an entrepreneur.

Huang is the co-founder and CEO of graphics processing technology company Nvidia. Under Huang's leadership, Nvidia moved the graphics card into the center of computing drive chain and extended the company's touch to design of communication interfaces beyond graphics processing. Nvidia enabled supercomputers took top spots on the top500 charts with lower cost and higher energy efficiency.

Huang set up Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center at Stanford University with a $30 million gift. Huang was awarded an honorable doctoral degree from his alma mater Oregon State University in 2009.

In many ways, Huang reminds us of An Wang (1920-1990), a pioneer in personal computing and specialized in word processing.

Fu Ping

Fu Ping (傅苹, born 1958) has quite a life as of today. She was separated from her parents and sent to a labor camp at age 8, where she was gang raped at age 10 before she was released after another 8 years. Her undergraduate thesis made her an international acclaimed researcher and landed her in jail, for what was revealed by her study: killing of infants under the Chinese government's family planning project.

At age 25, and with no money at all, Fu started her life in the US in 1983, attending a range of schools, including University of New Mexico, University of San Diego, UCSD, UIUC. On her way, she started from a cleaning lady and waitress to support herself, to a member on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, along colleagues such as Yahoo's Jerry Yang.

Update: via Forbes website readers comments by njydj

China Story on Ping Fu is full of lies. I know Ping Fu and her family personally as we all grew up together in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Aerospace (NUAA).

1. She grew up in Shanghai until 1966…Nope, she grew up in Nanjing.
2. She was sent to children labor camp for 10 yrs when she was eight-year old from 1966. Ask her when and where about of such camp or any supporting document for it! She was among us who stayed on University campus. Young children such as her sister and myself were boarding at University kindergarten while parents sent away somewhere for “re-education”. Did she bring her four year-old sister to children labor camp?

   She said she was gang raped while trying to protect her four-year old little sister. I never heard of this although we grew up together.

3. She graduated from Suzhou university in either English or Chinese, at different occasions she told different stories. In fact she did not attend Suzhou Univ. She went to Nanjing Normal College. [Noted by The Seagull: Jiangsu Normal College changes its name to Suzhou University in 1982] How could she graduate with English major after 4 years of college but only knew three English words? Do you believe it? If anyone spent any time learning English back then, he/she must have learned “Long Live Chairman Mao”!
4. She was exiled by Chinese Government to the US because of her thesis on one child policy…NO, NO, NO. She came to the US through family ties. Her uncle (father’s brother) lived in the US and sponsored her.

Her father and my father worked together at the University since the '50s until they retired (both passed away). It is a shame seeing how she depicted the campus life where she grew up.

Ping Fu was also a “Red Guard” herself!

Forbes, wake up. Go to NUAA to hear the true story about Ping Fu!

Meng Xiaoli

Professor Xiao-Li Meng (born 1963), Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University. Meng is not only a scholar, but also an innovative educator on both undergraduate and graduate levels and an effective administrator as the head of the Statistics Department at Harvard.

Liu Hongwei

Goodwin Hon Liu (劉弘威,born 1970) was Dean of the Berkeley Law School.

Liu is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, after his nomination to a federal court was blocked by Senate Republican filibuster.

Although often heard with sharp opinions on controversial issues, Liu gained friendship and professional respect from many of the persons and institutions he criticized. His Berkeley colleague John Yoo and Director of the conservative Goldwater Institute, along many other conservative individuals and organizations, supported his nomination to the Ninth Circuit.

Li Yiyun

Li Yiyun, born 1972 in Beijing. Li graduated from Beijing University with a B.S. in Biology in 1996, then went to University of Iowa where she received a Master degree in Immunity in 2000, and an MFA in Literature.

Li was few Chinese writers to publish many works on New Yorker and The Paris Review. In 2007, she was named 21 best writers under 35 by Granta. In 2010, she was named 20 best authors under age 40 by New Yorker. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur 2010 Fellows. Li teaches at UC Davis.

Qian Lulu

Qian Lulu, a postdoc researcher at Caltech, published a first author journal paper on a most complex biochemical circuit ever created from scratch made with DNA-based devices.

Qian received BS from Southeast University in 2002 and a PhD from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2007, with her dissertation titled "Research on the application of DNA self-assembly on molecular computing and nano-technology".