Louie Liu (Chairman and President)

Graduated from Tsinghua in 1884, Louie is the oldest Tsinghua alum alive in the Silicon Valley (sorry, it was 1984). Working as a venture capitalist, he is among the handful non-engineer Tsinghua graduates in the Silicon Valley and he sometime feels disgraced about it. Nonetheless, his firm has invested in companies where many Tsinghua alumni work, including Netscreen, AboveNet Communications, CenterRun, Everypath, Netlogic Micro, Reflectivity, WIDCOMM. He claims that he does not remember what was his favorite way of killing time in Tsinghua, nor does he remember his favorite hangout place there (we suspect that he was a nerd and he simply did not have one). As for something he always wanted to do in Tsinghua but never had chance to, he said was to run the Beijing marathon (do you believe it?), but nowadays he is making up for it by running 12 miles a week.  

Yufei Qian (Vice President of Social Events)

Yufei graduated from Tsinghua in 1994 after spending undergrad years in the Electronic Engineering dept. At Tsinghua, he spent many hours in practicing clarinet, as he fought hard to survive the brass band (Jun1 Yue4 Dui4) with his limited musical talent. In winter, he would go to his favorite skating place, an un-named lake in nearby Peking University, peeking at those PKU girls while skating (Way to go, man). He further concluded that most of them were way over-rated (as we have always suspected), at least as shown in the winter. During the summer time, he wanted to be at the center when people singing with guitar, but always ended up being the only one left when the music ended.

Haiyang Song (Vice President of Professional Events)

Haiyan is vice president of engineering of Omniva where she oversees product innovation and technology development.  Previously, Haiyan held executive level

positions at Allegis, Ketera Technologies, Escalate and Informix. Haiyan started her career at Informix and has since spearheaded enterprise software development in trusted DBMS, system management, e-commerce and secure messaging in various companies (we think she is also qualified for a Zhe Xie Wei Yuan in China).

Haiyan did her undergraduate studies in Tsinghua majoring in Computer science and engineering, class 83. Haiyan was chairman of the Foreign language association in her senior year (early sign of a Zhe Xie Wei Yuan candidate). She remembers fondly the time she had to escape from the 2nd floor window in order to avoid the crowd who were chasing her for tickets to a very popular event the association put on (come on, nobody really believes that). One of the things Haiyan wanted to do but never got a chance to was to get a treat in Tsinghua's cafeteria for the athletes (sure, we all know what was really going on in that place).  Her favorite hang out place was the under ground cafeteria for yogurt and dim sum after an evening in the 3rd classroom building.

Yue Yang (Vice President of Professional Events)

Yue got his BS in Physics in1991 and M.Eng. in Applied Physics in 1994. After getting an MSEE from Stanford in 1996, he worked at Synopsys, Magma, and Q Design Automation, which was later acquired by Cadence. In former life, I did research on linear particle accelerator physics and engineering in Tsinghua (gosh, is he a nerd or what).

Things he liked at Tsinghua included military training and working at the machine shop (yap, he is a nerd!). Class of 1986 was one of the only two classes that had to go through military training on real military bases in remote rural areas, and the experience was fun (ya, right). He also remembers that 100 students of his department spent a month moving a big pile of dirt to 100 ft away under the Beijing Sun in summer (was that a punishment for failing an exam?).

He said that he learned from Tsinghua the importance of willingness to take responsibility, team work, social conscience, and being pragmatic and down-to-earth (like we said, he is a nerd).

Frank Zhang (Vice President of Social Events)

Frank graduated in 93 from the Department of Automation. He said what gets him excited in life is physical exercise. His favorite way of killing time in Tsinghua was playing cards and his favorite hangout place in tsinghua was library (we don’t blame you, even though we feel sorry for you). One thing that he always wanted to do but never had chance to was driving a car (not even a san lun che? Poor guy). And he wanted to share his good wish with all friends from Tsinghua (we love you, man).

Lian Zhang (Vice President of Network Development)

Tsinghua was her first graduate school after graduating from Beijing Institute of Technology in 1994 (we didn’t know there are girls at that school). She went on to attend Stanford. She likes playing music, sports, photography, and traveling around the world, which also happened to be the things she always wanted to do in Tsinghua.  She is currently working at a start-up company in Palo Alto (is it going public anytime soon?).

Herbert Zheng (Vice President of Organization Development)

Herbert entered Tsinghua as class of 1992. He claims that while in Tsinghua, he was always excited by "things unknown and beyond". His favorite way of killing time was napping in classes and libraries. His favorite hangout place in Tsinghua was the trail outside the north gate along the creek, leading to the railway tracks (can you find it?). His unfinished business at Tsinghua was to share his secret feeling with the person he had a crush on (we don’t want to hear that either).