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CASPAF CONFERENCE 2012
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CASPAF CONFERENCE 2012
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
 
Edwin H. Moore,
PhD 艾德摩爾博士
President of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida (ICUF)
"Advancing Science- Advancing Life- Linking Two Countries in Looking to the
Future"
Ed H. Moore, Ph.D., has been the President of the Independent Colleges
and Universities of Florida, a Tallahassee based association of 31
private, not for profit colleges and universities since 2003. He also serves
as the Executive Di rector of the Higher Education Facilities Finance
Authority in Florida and as Chief Executive Officer of the Florida
Independent College Fund, a non-profit organization.
Prior to his current roles at ICUF he served as Staff Director for the
Florida House of Representatives Policy Committee while concurrently serving
as Staff Director of the Select Committee on Medical Liability Insurance,
the Select Committee on Worker's Compensation and the House Public Security
Coordi nating Committee. He also served as the House point staff person for
disaster preparedness, continuing operations planning (COOP) and continuity
of government (COG) planning.
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Guey-Shin Chang,
PhD 張桂祥博士
Director General National Space Organization, the National Applied Research
Laboratories, Taiwan, Republic of China
"Taiwan's Space Program - Now and Beyond"
Dr. Guey-Shin Chang is Director
General, National Space Organization (NSPO), National Applied Research
Laboratories (NARL) in Taiwan. He is responsible for managing and directing
the Taiwan’s space program. He earned his BS degree in Civil Engineering
from National Central University (Taiwan) in 1981. He received MS and Ph.D.
degrees both in Engineering Mechanics of the University of Alabama in 1987
and 1991 respectively. Dr. Chang has over 20 years of leadership, management
and technical experience in systems engineering and program management for
the space programs. He was elected as the Academician of International
Academy of Astronautics (IAA) in 2011.
After his back to Taiwan in 1992, Dr. Chang was recruited by NSPO as a
systems engineer for the Taiwan’s space program. In 1997, he was promoted as
Director of Systems Engineering Division of NSPO. In 1999, Dr. Chang took
over the position of Director of Ground System Division at NSPO. When NARL
was established in 2003, Dr. Chang was promoted as Director of Business
Development Division, responsible for promoting and integrating the NARL’s
research capabilities among eleven laboratories. In 2008, Dr. Chang was
appointed as Deputy Director General of NSPO responsible for supervising the
NSPO’s developing satellite programs. He also served as Program Director of
FORMOSAT-5 to develop the first indigenous high-resolution remote sensing
satellite of Taiwan. In April of 2010, Dr. Chang was appointed as Director
General of NSPO by NARL with expectation of leading NSPO toward the new era
of Taiwan’s space program.
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SPEAKERS |
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Pei-Feng
Hsu, PhD 許培鋒博士
Professor, Asst Vice President for
International Programs Head of Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace
Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology
Pei-feng Hsu (Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1991) joined
Florida Tech in 1993 as an assistant professor. He became the
department head in 2007. He received MS degree from State University
of New York at Buffalo in 1985 and BS from National Taiwan University.
All degrees are in Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Hsu's research interests include micro-scale radiation transport
with applications to semiconductor manufacturing; ultra-fast
light pulse scattering processes with applications to optical imaging
and remote sensing, radiation heat transfer in combustion and
energy conversion systems, and numerical models for radiative
transport equation and Maxwell's equations for steady and transient
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Mark Wiese
Chief, Flight Projects Branch, Launch Services Program Business Office
at NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL
Mark D. Wiese is a member of NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP), at
the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Wiese serves as the Chief for
the Flight Project Support Source Branch of the LSP Business Office.
In this role Wiese is responsible for budget planning & execution, and
technical contract management for the launch vehicle fleet that
enables the integration and launch of NASA’s future scientific and
exploration spacecraft.
Wiese joined NASA in 2003 as a Mission Assurance Manager for the LSP,
responsible for leading the S&MA efforts for NASA’s Atlas V
certification, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, and Pluto New
Horizons mission. |
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Jayanta Kapat, PhD
Lockheed Martin Professor in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace
Engineering Dept., University of Central Florida
Doctor Kapat's research interest includes Miniaturization of
engineering systems (Associate Director of MES Initiative),
micro-scale fluidics, heat transfer and related sensors with
application to MEMS; aerodynamics and heat transfer for gas turbines
and other turbo-machineries; transition and turbulence and associated
effects on droplet evaporation and transport augmentation; flow and
transport in different material processing techniques.
Jayanta received his Sc. D. in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. in
1991, M. S. in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University in
1988 and B. Tec (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), 1984 |
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Chieh-San Cheng, PhD
程捷三博士
Founder and President of Global Science & Technology, Inc. in
Washington, DC area.
Before co-founding Global Science & Technology, a 250-person company
with annual revenues of more than $43M, Mr. Cheng worked for a number
of aerospace and technology companies that provided technical services
to NASA, NOAA, and DoD. He subsequently developed a working knowledge
of many aspects of the space technology industry, and in 1991, founded
Global Science & Technology with the intention of providing a
stimulating work environment within a family-friendly company. Mr.
Cheng's open-door policy and commitment to honesty and integrity has
made Global Science & Technology unique, successful, an strong. The
company retains a highly specialized workforce of scientists,
engineers, and technologists, and has a unique set of capabilities in
applied science and research, geospatial standards and services,
advanced communication engineering, and specialized information
technology.
Mr. Cheng has a Master's degree in Technical Management from Johns
Hopkins University and another in Meteorology from the University of
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Chiang Shih, PhD 史強博士
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering FAMU & FSU College of
Engineering, Florida State University.
Dr. Chiang Shih is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department,
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree from
the Aerospace Engineering Department at University of Southern
California in 1988 and joined the Department immediately. He has
served as the Chair of the program between 2002 and 2011 working on
the advancements of its educational and research programs. Under his
leadership, the program has established a strong undergraduate program
integrating academic preparation and professional development,
showcased by the two-semester senior capstone design course with
external sponsorship and multidisciplinary collaborations. Despite
its relatively short history, the program has also established an
exemplary graduate program highlighted by its relatively high ranking
(26 in S-ranking) in the most recent NRC doctoral program ranking
among all ME programs. He was also responsible for the coordination
of the Aeropropulsion, Mechatronics and Energy (AME) Center including
the design and construction of the $23M, 60,000 s.f. multidisciplinary
research building and the assembly of an esteemed group of researchers
to form the core group of the center of which he also serves as the
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Vincent Hsu, MD
Medical Director of Continuing Medical Education at FH
Dr. Vincent Hsu is the Director for Continuing Medical Education and
Assistant Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Florida
Hospital. A graduate from the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, he
completed fellowship in Infectious Disease at USC and Public Health at
UCLA. He was an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks and SARS epidemic, in
addition to other public health research. His areas of interests include
preventing hospital infections and educating physicians to promote patient
safety.
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Cheryl Oh, MD
Board Certified in Family Practice, Longwood Family Health.
"My grandfather was a Chinese immigrant in Indonesia where I was born
and raised. After high school I came to California to pursue College
education, went to Loma Linda University Medical school and moved to
Florida to attend Family Medicine Residency in 1992. I will have been
in practice 18yrs by July of this year. women care and sleep
medicine are my interests." |
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Carol Ma, MD
Board
Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, Florida
Heart Group.
Dr. Carol Ma was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Satellite
Beach, FL. She received her undergraduate degree from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated from the University of
Florida Medical School in Gainesville, FL. She completed her internal
medicine training at the University of Maryland Medical Center in
Baltimore, Maryland and her cardiology fellowship at the University of
Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical System. She is board certified in
Internal Medicine, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, and
Cardiovascular Disease. She has a special interest in women’s health,
cardiovascular disease prevention, and valvular heart disease. She is
an invasive non-interventional cardiologist at Florida Heart Group and
a Fellow of American College of Cardiology. |
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Gary G. King,
B.S., D.C.
Chiropractic National
Board certified in Parts I, II, III, IV, Physiological Therapeutics
and Acupuncture
Dr. King was born and raised in Long Island, New York. He completed
his Bachelor’s degree in Human Biology at Stony Brook University in
New York. While completing his undergraduate studies, he worked as a
research microbiologist at the Stony Brook Health Sciences Center.
This experience led to a job as a Quality Assurance Technician and
microbiologist at a pharmaceutical company for nearly 3 years before
he decided to enter Chiropractic School. He graduated in 1999 from
Life University with a Doctorate degree in Chiropractic and has been
in private practice ever since. Dr. King has had additional
post-graduate training in treating musculoskeletal disorders of the
extremities. He is Chiropractic National Board certified in Parts I,
II, III, IV, Physiological Therapeutics and Acupuncture. Dr. King is
also certified by the Florida Board of Chiropractic Medicine (CH 8970)
and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical Acupuncture. |
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Puxiao Cen,
MD, FACC 岑瀑嘯醫師
Cardiologist
Dr. Puxiao Cen is an
Invasive Cardiologist of Florida Hospital and Florida Heart Group
since 2001. Dr. Cen earned her medical degree at Sun Yat-sen
University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, completed Internal
Medicine residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, and
Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at Temple University Hospital in
Philadelphia.
She is Board Certified in Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Cardiology
and Adult Echocardiography, and was elected a Fellow of the American
College of Cardiology in 2003. Dr. Cen served as the Clinical
Instructor at the Temple University Hospital Department of Medicine
from July 1998 to June 2001, and is currently an Assistant Professor
of Medicine at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.
In her spare time, Dr. Cen enjoys reading, painting, and calligraphy.
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