Jane Yang has over 25 years of experience in pension investment, private equity investment, projects financing, corporate strategic pl anning and enterprise risk management, and through volunteering, non-profit organization’s operation. Analytics savvy with interpersonal, managerial, and negotiation skills, she has both buy and sell side experience with Wilshire Associates, Goldman Sachs, the World Bank, the Columbia Energy Group, CEE, Abacus Partners, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and currently, U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). 

At PBGC, Jane works as the Pension Valuation Specialist focusing on the valuation of hard-to-value assets in the PBGC-trusteed pension plans. She was also in the PBGC Leadership Pilot Program for special agency-wide projects formulating strategy and policy. 

Beside her regular work, Jane has been a long-time community service volunteer - she currently serves on the Board of Chinese Culture and Community Service Center (CCACC). CCACC has 42 years of community service history with CCACC Healthcare, CCACC Academy, Home Care, Adult DayCare, CCACC Sport, and CCACC Art Gallery. Jane was actively involved at the Federal Asian Pacific American Council (FAPAC) and was elected as the VP of Finance to serve the FAPAC community. She volunteered at Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM) at the Board’s Finance and Audit Committee. Jane served as the President of CTUAAA (her alma mater) Washington DC Chapter and still serves as the President of NCTU-DC chapter. She was the Treasurer at the Thomas Jefferson High School Partnership Fund. She volunteered teaching Taichi for health in various communities for over 10 years. She was an Odyssey of the Mind (OM) MD-DC state judge, and an official at the OM World Finals. She was a Parent Connector at MIT. Fun fact: Jane is passionate in helping honeybee and Monarch butterfly. She also volunteers at her church choir. 

Jane holds the charter of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). She is a Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP). She successfully completed the Wharton Executive Development Program. Jane earned her Bachelor of Science in Transportation Engineering and Management Science from National Chiao Tung University, and an MBA from University of California, Riverside. She was awarded the Honorary Citizen of the City of Riverside, California. 

Jane is looking forward to contributing to the mission and various program initiatives of CAPA. 

Dr. Chun-Hung Chen received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University and became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He has spent his entire career in university since then. Dr. Chen is currently a Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Operation Research at George Mason University. Between 2011-2014, he was also a professor at National Taiwan University in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering. In addition, he was named as a chaired professor at Peking University in China in 2011.

Dr. Chen is best known as the father of the Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (OCBA) method, which can dramatically enhance the sampling efficiency for simulation-based decision making for stochastic systems. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IIE Transactions, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling, and Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering. He is an author of two books, including a best seller: Stochastic Simulation Optimization: An Optimal Computing Budget Allocation. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Sophia Tong has over 30 years’ experience in leadership and management.  She was the first female general manager in IBM Taiwan, had been assigned to Tokyo for six months  and Beijing China for four years to gain international experience.  She had won several global leadership and outstanding sales execution awards.  In 2009, she was recruited by Test Rite International Corp.as CEO to lead more than 6000 employees to transform her retail and wholesale businesses globally for 11 years and won quite a few government awards. Before she moved to US in June 2023, she was the CEO of Hung Tai Group which is a conglomerate in Taiwan engaged in Construction, Securities, Insurance, office rental and Telecom industries.  

Sophia was voluntarily devoted to mentoring the next generation startups in Taiwan.  She served as a mentor in AAMA (Asia America Multi-Technology Association) since 2011.  She also founded Wowan On Board Academy in 2020 to support young generation female leaders’ development.  In public service, she was the board member of III(Institute for Information Industry) for three terms (2009-2015) and was in advisory board of Graduate Institute Management of National Central University(2014-2017).  

Sophia graduated from Foreign Literature and Language Department of National University and participated in the Global CEO program jointly hosted by Harvard Business School, IESE and CEIBS.  She took various training courses in IBM including Senior Leadership Development program in IBM headquarter, Business Leadership Management program & Client Relationship Certification Program in Harvard campus, one month management program of Asia Institute of Management in the Philippines, etc.  

Currently, Sophia is an honorable board member of Women On Board Association in Taiwan and independent board members of two public companies.  

Sophia is looking forward to contributing to the mission of CAPA DC.

Dr. Yu-Ting Weng works at FDA as a Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) statistical reviewer to review biosimilar investigation new drug application and biologics license applications primarily towards the CMC assessment.

At the same time, he assists chemists or pharmacists with new drug application consultation and proposes new statistical methods for analytical biosimilarity and CMC related topics. He received a Ph.D. in Biostatistics (2014) and a Master of Applied Statistics (2010) from University of Pittsburgh.

Additionally, he serves as a journal reviewer for Statistics in Medicine, Pharmaceutical Statistics, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research.

Terry Hsiao is an entrepreneur, advisor, professor, and investor known for his extensive experience in cloud software, mobile apps, wireless networks, and fintech. He has founded multiple companies within the mobile ecosystem, some of which were later acquired by Sybase, Verifone, and Kaleyra. Notably, he played a prominent role in Kaleyra's public listing on the NYSE in November 2019.

In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, Terry has been involved in academia, creating and teaching courses in New Ventures and Entrepreneurship at Marymount University and the George Washington University for four years. He is recognized for his ability to turn innovative ideas into successful businesses, emphasizing innovation and scalable growth.

Terry Hsiao has also been active in the entrepreneurial community in Taiwan, where he launched a program in March 2023 to teach key startup concepts directly to entrepreneurs. He serves as an advisor to the Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at National Taiwan University. Furthermore, he has contributed to the Virginia Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship as a Governor appointee and serves on several nonprofit boards.

He holds a BSEE Honors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University and an SM in Management of Technology from MIT Sloan School of Management. In his spare time Terry enjoys traveling, basketball and golf.

Dr. Ching Tung is a visiting chair professor at College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University. His specialties are medical imaging technology and drug development.  

• Yushan Fellow, Ministry of Education, Taiwan 

• Fellow of AIMBE and AAAS 

• Professor and Alexander R. Margulis Professor, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University (Retired)

• Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

• PhD, Chemistry, Rutgers University

• BS, Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University

Dr. Yeh-Fong Chen is a supervisory mathematical statistician of the Division of Biometrics IX in the Office of Biostatistics at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Previously, she had been a team leader for four years at the Division of Hematology Products (DHP) and for another four years at the Division of Gastroenterology and Inborn Error Products (DGIEP). She joined the FDA in 2000 immediately after graduating with a PhD in Statistics from the University of Iowa. She has had years of experience in reviewing drug applications for DHP, DGIEP, the Division of Psychiatry Products (DPP), and the Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products (DCRP). In addition to conducting IND/NDA reviews, she devotes herself to research and collaborates with statistical and clinical colleagues both at FDA and in academia. Her main research interests focus on missing data, multi-regional clinical trials, and enrichment designs for handling high placebo response rates. Additionally, she has had experience in organizing sessions for different conferences (e.g., DIA, ENAR, ICSA, DISS, and ASA Biopharmaceutical section Regulatory-Industry Statistics workshop). 

Apart from her statistical-related activities, she is a member of White Oak Toastmaster club, a Chinese school teacher at Chinese Bible Church of Maryland, and a board member at Chinese Culture and Community Service Center, Inc. at Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Vicky Huang had a 30-year career in software development, with leadership roles at Nasdaq, Thomson Reuters, and Citigroup.  She earned her MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a MA in Economics from National Taiwan University. In her spare time Vicky enjoys dancing, traveling and pickleball.

Community Services:

• 僑務促進委員 (2018-present) (Associate Adviser of the Overseas Community Affairs Council)

• 顧問/會長 (2020-present) : 大華府區北一女校友會 (BEINU Alumnae Association of Greater Washington Area)

• 理事 (2023-present)：世華工商婦女企管協會 (Global Federation of Chinese Business Women of Baltimore Chapter)

• 顧問/校長/教務長 （2008-2018） 華府中文學校 (Washington School of Chinese Language and Culture)

• President, Contemporary Technology, Inc.  

CTI provided computer and Information Systems support to a wide variety of private companies and government agencies.  The Company was one of the Recipients of the “US Government Agencies CIO Organizations Award” for outstanding achievements in Y2K projects (for the White House and the Small Business Administration).

• Head, Computer Science Division, Creative Associates International, Inc. 

CAII Provided support to private and Government clients including HHS, DOD and USAID.

• Senior Computer Scientist and Manager for numerous private companies, government agencies and Non-Profits.

Leader and major contributor in projects such as a Congressional Mandated Study in evaluating and auditing all computer systems in NCI. Also provided pivoted support for the development of the automated Pennsylvania State’s Welfare Systems, among many others. 

• Rho Psi Society: President, Vice President and Board Member. 

• Assistant professor, Mathematics, Syracuse University.

• PH.D, Mathematics, Wayne State University.

• PH.D, Information Systems, Syracuse University.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND ROLE

Mr. Wang has over 30 years of professional experience in the following areas:  business process analysis, software development and implementation, modeling, database design, product lifecycle support, mortgage product quality control / quality assurance, credit loss management and mitigation, and default / non-performing loan inventory control.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University Of Maryland, College Park, 1990

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1982

• Register Financial Planner (RFP), Kaplan College, 2002

Dr. Woei-jyh (Adam) Lee received BSE degree from the National Taiwan University, MS degree from the Courant Institute at New York University, and PhD degree from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMD). He worked on distributed objects and fault tolerance at the AT&T Labs - Research in 1997. He focused on network software and management at the Bell Laboratories Research from 1998 to 2000. He visited the University of Southern California specializing in continuous media streaming and multimedia networking from 2002 to 2003.

He contributed in protein domain parsing and boundary prediction at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2004 to 2005. He was a fellow focusing on human genetics and genomics at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH from 2009 to 2012. He became a special volunteer working on computational modeling for cancer progression and metastatic at the NCI, NIH from 2012 to 2013. He was also affiliated with the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at UMD.

He is currently a faculty of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at UMD since 2012. His research interests include information integration, data management and mining, literature-based discovery, performance simulation and evaluation, bioinformatics and computational biology, human genomics and genetics, and cancer biology. He has two US Patents and is a member of the ISCB, the IAENG, and the CAPA.

Dr. Jan-Shiang (Jesse) Taur currently serves as a staff fellow at Office of Generic Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Taur is responsible for assessing the bioequivalence portion of Abbreviated New Drug Application. Before joining the federal government in 2014, Dr. Taur is a scientist at Eisai Inc. responsible for characterizing the profiles of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics for drug candidates.

Dr. Taur earned his bachelor degree from the National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan, ROC). He earned his MS in statistics and his PhD degree in pharmaceutical sciences from Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR).

Charlie Pan received his MS degree in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University and MS degree in Computer Science from University of Minnesota. He currently is the president of the National Taiwan University Alumni Chorus in DC 華府台大校友合唱團.

He is also the web master for the following organizations:

• Chinese-American Professionals Association (CAPA) 華府國建聯誼會

• BEINU Alumnae Association of Greater Washington Area 大華府區北一女校友會

• Washingtion School of Chinese Language and Culture (WSCLC) 華府中文學校

• WMACS  大華府地區中文學校聯誼會

• NTUAC-DC 華府台大校友合唱團

• Hakka Association in Washington Metropolitan Area (HAWMA) 大華府區客家同鄉會

• Millennial Global Youth (MGY) Foundation 臺頑千禧青少年基金會