Hong Yang
Dr. Hong Yang is the director at the University of Minnesota China Center and serves as adviser to U of M President, administrators, faculty, and staff. He also advised Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and local businesses, as well as other universities and individuals establishing partnerships and exchanges with China.
Yang created and leads the Mingda Institute for Leadership Training at U of M, and assists with the China Center Corporate Partnerships with Minnesota business community. He also assisted in establishing the first four endowment funds of up to $1 million at the China Center, and creating the “Bob & Kim Griffin Building U.S.-China Bridges Lecture” series with a $500,000 endowment fund. He has published over 60 scientific peer review papers, invited articles, and book chapters in studies of chemical bonding in thin film semiconductor and electronic materials and catalytic processes on transition metals. He was a VIP delegate in former Minnesota Governor Ventura’s June 2002 trip China. Dr. Yang was also the China Program Coordinator at North Carolina State University from 1990 to 2000, while serving as a chemistry professor.
Yang received his B.S. in China and his Ph.D. in chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.