Dan Yang (Founder of VINCI)

Personal introduction

Dr. Dan Yang has two daughters. The eldest daughter is proficient in painting, mathematics and writing. She was admitted to MIT at the age of 16. The youngest daughter became the first beneficiary of VINCI (Fan Qi). She has completed the math and science courses in the third level of VINCI (Fan Qi). She can count in three languages ​​at the age of three.

Early life

Yang Dan is the first grandfather of his grandfather’s eight children. His grandfather once owned ships and shipyards on the Wuxi Canal. After liberation, he was convicted of being a rightist and his family Was sent to rural reconstruction in northern Jiangsu. Yang's father, Yang Yaoliang, used to test aircraft motors at the 511 plant in Nanjing, and later became the master dispatcher of Jincheng motorcycles by self-taught. His mother, Wang Xiumei, had tested electron tubes at the 772 plant in Nanjing and participated in China's first satellite project. Yang Dan was born before the Cultural Revolution, so he was renamed "Zhiqi" to "Dandan" by his father wearing a black five-category hat to express his red heart.

In 1982, he was admitted to the Department of Physics of Nanjing University. In 1986, he was admitted to the Department of Physics of Tongji University in Shanghai and won the qualification to study in France. In 1991, he received a Ph.D.

Work experience

In 1991, Yang Dan became the youngest teacher at the National Higher Art and Vocational College in Paris, France. In 1993, he immigrated to Canada and worked as a scientist at MPBTechnology, studying long-distance optical fiber networks. Technology. In 1996, she founded her first company, AFCTechnologies, in Ottawa. During this period, she had five US patent inventions, including the world's first L-band optical amplifier, and was honored as the "Queen of Optical Amplifier" by the industry. Her other invention, "Broadband Light Source" (BBS), has not only become a standard measuring instrument for device manufacturers, but also used as a light source for light sensors and a light source for medical non-destructive testing. At the same time, Nortel also used her dual-band optical amplifier invention to successfully develop a system that increased the optical transmission efficiency by 100%. AFCTechnologies was acquired by JDSU in 1999.

Dan Yang studied the ExecutiveMBA program at Stanford University in 2000, and at the same time founded her second company, Dove Communications, dedicated to the software and hardware integration of optical network systems, and obtained 6 US patents.

In 2006, he acquired the German listed company Pandatel AG and served as CEO.

Tongwang Technology was established in 2010 with the purpose of using information technology to provide parents and teachers with tools for early childhood education.

In addition to being a corporate leader and inventor, Dr. Yang Dan is also involved in technology investment. He is a partner of venture capital Dowslake Ventures and a limited partner of StormVentures and eGardenVentures.

In 2011, Yang was selected as one of the Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs/MompreneurstoWatch by Forbes Magazine.

In January 2013, the Hong Kong Economic Daily published a full-page report after the collapse of the English "South China Morning Post" in September 2012, with a full-page report of "Legendary-Fiber Opticians in Business, Training Talented Children" Interview with Dr. Yang Dan.

Academic experience

She once published articles in the industry

In 2000, Yang Dan donated one million US dollars to her alma mater Nanjing University Build a student activity center, setting a record of personal donations in the school after 1949. In 2002, the "Yaoliang Elite Scholarship" was established at Nanjing University, providing nearly 10 outstanding students with 10,000 yuan each year, which became the school's highest scholarship and bursary at that time.

Family

In 1990, he married Dr. Lv Zibin in electrical engineering in Paris. They have two daughters. They were born in Montreal and Ottawa, Canada in 1995 and 2009. The eldest daughter was admitted to the Department of Architecture at MIT in 2012.

Awards

• Optical Elite PhotonicsCircleofExcellence1998

• Young Entrepreneur of the YearMecuriades1999YoungEntrepreneuroftheyear

• 2013 Consumer Electronics Show Innovation Award ConsumerElectronicsShow2013InnovationAwardHonoreeforVINCICurriculumthelearningprogramsfortoddler,preschoolandkindergarten

Patents

Including applied and published U.S. patents :

• PAT.NO.13,684,424COMPUTERIZEDTEACHINGANDLEARNINGDIAGNOSISTOOL

• PAT.NO.13,726,311COMPUTER-ASSISTEDLEARNINGSTRUCTUREFORVERYYOUNGCHILDREN

• PAT.NO.13,164,982METHODSFORRECORDINGANDDETERMININGACHILD'SDEVELOPMENTALSITUATIONTHROUGHUSEOFASOFTWAREAPPLICATIONFORMOBILEDEVICES

• PAT.NO.13,091,354MULTIPLEUSEEDUCATION>ENTERliTAINMENT OULTIPLEUSEEDUCATION>ENTERliTAINMENTO

NO.12,908,390METHODANDSYSTEMFORTOUCHSCREENBASEDSOFTWAREGAMEAPPLICATIONSFORINFANTUSERS(inExamination)

• PAT.NO.12,908,390TOUCH-SCREENBASEDINTERACTIVEGAMESFORINFANTSANDTODDLERS(inExamination) 29,381,313HANDLEFORATOUCHSCREENCOMPUTINGD EVICE(allowed,notpublished)

• PAT.NO.6,198,571Computerizedintelligentopticalamplifierformulti-channelopticalnetworks

• PAT.NO.6,104,527Highefficiencybandwidthdoubledandgainflattenedsilicafiberamplifier

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• PAT.NO.6,091,743Bandwidthbroadenedandpowerenhancedlowcoherencefiberopticlightsource

• PAT.NO.7,092,640Methodofsimplecontrolandmanagementofreconfigurablefiberopticdevices

• p>PAT.NO.7,068,423Lowcostflexibleautomatedopticalpowermanagement

• PAT.NO.6,823,219Universalopticalcontrolandmanagementplatform

• PAT.NO.6,804,464Flexibleandlowcostwavelengthmanagementforopticalnetworking

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• PAT.NO.6,697,190Flexibleandfastelectroniccontrolofopticaldevices

• PAT.NO.6,484,958Patchcordcaddy

• PAT.NO.6,215,584Inputindependenttiltfreeactivelygainflattenedbroadbandamplifier

• PAT.NO.6,172,995Highpowerbroadbandsourcewithstableandequalizedspectrumoutpu

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