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".

Cai Shaotang

Cai Shaotang (Leon O. Chua), a Chinese minority, grew up in Philippines and move to the States to earn a PhD from UIUC in 1964. Currently Dr. Chua is an IEEE fellow and a professor at UC Berkeley.

Chua is deemed the 'father' of nonlinear circuit theory. He pioneered this field with his PhD dissertation 'Nonlinear Network Analysis -- The Parametric Approach'. More recently, he was chased with spotlight for his invention of 'memristor', a circuit element formulated and named by Chua in a 1971 paper 'Memristor -- The Missing Circuit Element'. 40 years later, HP discovered a pragmatic technique to mass produce memristor by accident.

The potential of this 'fourth element (after resister, capacitor and inductor)' is thunderous and endless. Memristor promises not only greater capacity but also lower energy. Leon Chua could be the next Chinese for the Nobel prize.

Chua's eldest daughter Amy caught media attention not too long ago with her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in which she advocate for strict parenting guidance, aka, raising children the Chinese way.

Qian Xu

Qian Xu (Shu Chien), born 1931 in Beijing, is one of the two living figures holding titles of academician of all four American academies: National Academy of Science (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). In addition, Qian is academician of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan and the Chinese Academy of Sciences of the mainland China.

Qian studied in Beijing University before obtaining a M.D. from Taiwan University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. At the age of 79, Qian is still active in research. He is the president of the Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).