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name	English name	Category	born	age	undergraduate	graduate
錢煦	Shu Chien	Scientist	Beijing	1931	Beijing University	Columbia
蔡少棠	Leon O. Chua	Scientist	Philippines	1936	Mapúa Institute of Technology	UIUC
吳仙標	Shien Biau "S.B." Woo	Scholar, Politician	Shanghai	1937	Georgetown College	Washington University
陳卓光	Denny Chin	Judge	Hong Kong	1954	Princeton University	Fordham University
傅苹	Ping Fu	Entrepreneur	Nanjing	1958	Suzhou University, University of New Mexico, University of San Diego, UCSD
李翊云	Liu Hongwei	Writer	Beijing	1962	Beijing University	University of Iowa
孟晓犁	Xiao-Li Meng	Scholar	Shanghai	1963	Fudan University	Harvard University
黃仁勳	Jen-Hsun Huang	Entrepreneur	Taipei	1963	Oregon State University	Stanford University
劉雲平	Ted W. Lieu	Politician	Taipei	1969	Stanford University	Georgetown University
劉弘威	Goodwin Hon Liu	Judge	Augusta, GA	1970	Stanford University	Yale Law School
孙雯	Linda Sun	Politician	China	1984	Columbia University	Columbia University
钱璐璐	Lulu Qian	Scientist	China		Southeast University	Shanghai Jaiotong University

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).