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Faculty & Speakers

05 Contributors

The people who teach the sixty days.

Visiting faculty and speakers, grouped by the discipline they bring. Affiliations and research areas verified from the program's speaker roster.

Kang L. Wang 王康隆

Lead Professor · UCLA Samueli (ECE / MSE) · Director, CQSE

Quantum materials and devices, spintronics, topological insulators. Academia Sinica Academician; honorary director, Asia University Quantum AI Research Center.

Kuan-Tsae Huang 黃光彩

Asia University · Chair Professor, Director, AI & Quantum Research Center

MIT PhD; former IBM Global Vice President; knowledge management; quantum-safe technology.

Hung-Rong Yen 顏宏融

China Medical University · Dean, College of Chinese Medicine

Chinese and integrative medicine, herbal medicine, acupuncture, evidence-based traditional medicine.

Quantum Science & Engineering

Mark Gyure

UCLA CQSE · Executive Director; Adjunct Professor, ECE

Solid-state quantum information processing; semiconductor quantum dots; quantum device architectures and simulation.

Mona Jarrahi

UCLA · Electrical & Computer Engineering

Terahertz and mm-wave electronics, optoelectronics, imaging; faculty director, UCLA Semiconductor Hub.

Richard Ross

UCLA · MQST & CQSE

Quantum science education and workforce; electron-spin qubit devices.

Marko Sokolich

UCLA ECE · HRL Laboratories

Compound semiconductors, high-speed transistor and process engineering, RF/microwave devices.

Yang Yang

UCLA · Materials Science & Engineering (Chair)

Functional electronic devices, solar cells, hybrid perovskites, organic semiconductors.

Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang

Caltech · Theoretical Physics

Quantum information and learning theory, quantum machine learning, complexity.

KS Huang 黃光旭

Program Chair Lecturer · Quantum & AI Foundations

Quantum optical computing, cellular image processing, computing and sensing.

Chih-Shiue Yan 顏志學

UPSUNS Diamond · CYAN Consulting (formerly Carnegie Institution) · Founder / Director

Single-crystal CVD/MPCVD diamond growth; diamond substrates and thermal / semiconductor materials.

Jie (Roger) Luo

Anyon Technologies · Co-Founder & CEO

Superconducting quantum computing; quantum processors and systems; hybrid quantum-classical and modular architectures.

Neuroscience & Brain

Gina Poe

UCLA · Director, Brain Research Institute

Sleep and memory consolidation; brain resilience; integrative biology and physiology.

C.Y. Daniel Lee

UCLA · Neurobehavioral Genetics / Psychiatry

Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease, neuroinflammation.

Yun Chiu

Caltech · Neurobiology (Prober Lab)

Systems neuroscience of sleep and arousal: how neuropeptides and neural circuits orchestrate behavior, studied with light-sheet microscopy.

Pharmacology, Biomarkers & Bioscience

Chris Holsinger

Stanford Medicine (OHNS) · Professor & Chief, Head & Neck Surgery

Head and neck surgical oncology; transoral robotic surgery (TORS) and minimally invasive surgery; surgical innovation and AI.

Hsian-Rong Tseng

UCLA · David Geffen School of Medicine

Liquid biopsy, NanoVelcro circulating-tumor-cell assays, nanotechnology diagnostics.

Li-Fan Lu

UC San Diego · Molecular Biology

Immunology, regulatory T-cells, immune tolerance, microRNAs in immune regulation.

Chun-Yen (Anita) Wu

Caltech · Chemistry (Hsieh-Wilson Lab)

Chemical glycobiology: bioorthogonal labeling chemistry for single-cell methods, and the synthesis of heparan sulfate.

Ka-Lok Ng 吳家樂

Asia University · Professor, Bioinformatics & Medical Engineering

Bioinformatics, systems biology, cancer genomics, and biological network analysis; convergent bioscience and biomedical innovation.

Digital Health & Data

Bijan Najafi

UCLA · David Geffen School of Medicine (CASIT)

Digital health, wearables, remote patient monitoring, data-driven care.

Yuan Tian

UCLA · ECE & Computer Science

AI security, data privacy, machine-learning security, privacy-preserving systems.

William Yu

UCLA · Anderson Forecast

Economic modeling and forecasting, time-series econometrics, data analytics.

Nikita Bedi

Stanford Medicine (OHNS) · Harvard · Clinical Research Coordinator & Applied ML Researcher

Clinical research, applied machine learning, multimodal AI, oncology and digital health.

Integrative & Chinese Medicine

Ka-Kit Hui

UCLA · Founder & Director, Center for East-West Medicine

Integrative East-West medicine, TCM integration, clinical pharmacology.

Greg Zimmerman

L.Ac. · Classical Chinese Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture

Classical Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, and pattern differentiation; clinical director at Retreat Acupuncture and doctoral researcher at China Medical University, Taiwan.

Industry & Public Sector

Hong-Zong Lin

PredictionProbe, Inc. · Founder & CTO

Uncertainty quantification, probabilistic technology, reliability-based optimization, predictive modeling.

Li-Wei Chou 周立偉

Director, Science & Technology Division, TECO in Los Angeles (NSTC)

Science and technology diplomacy, Taiwan–US academic collaboration, overseas S&T program coordination.

Program Coordination

Iris Yang 張雅軒

Program · Academic Advisor & Course Coordinator

Applied quantitative researcher and educator working on trustworthy machine learning, reproducible data science, biomedical evidence evaluation, and decision-oriented risk modeling.

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Doctoral researcher in Purdue University's Doctor of Technology (D.Tech.) program, with an A.L.M. in Data Science from Harvard Extension School and graduate study in financial engineering. She has taught statistics, data science, and information security at California State University, Los Angeles since 2012, and coordinates the 2026 Summer Biomedical Engineering and Quantum Technology Program at UCLA.

The delegation