Entrepreneurs Forum@UCI

Featuring Fan-Gang Zeng, Ph.D.
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
UC Irvine

Location:  McDonnell Douglas Auditorium
Cost:  $15 at the door, if space available. Space is limited, so please RSVP early.
Complimentary lunch for UCI faculty and senior researchers who RSVP by May 9, 2007.
To RSVP, please contact:

Jayne Ruane
jayne.ruane@unx.uci.edu
949-824-5267

Debbie Nielsen
deborah.nielsen@unx.uci.edu
949-824-3425

The Entrepreneurs Forum at UC Irvine provides an intimate and informative setting for faculty and researchers who are interested in the entrepreneurial process. Each lunch features a faculty member from UC Irvine or within the UC System who will share their experiences and advice on the technology transfer process and starting companies. Faculty will have the opportunity to actively participate in a spirited Q&A session with each speaker.

About the Speaker:
Fan-Gang Zeng (S’88-M’91) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1982, the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Shanghai Institute of Physiology, Academia Sinica in 1985, and a Ph.D. degree in hearing science from Syracuse University, New York in 1990.

He worked at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles from 1990 to 1998. He held an adjunct associate professorship in electrical engineering at the University of Southern California from 1996 to 1998. He was a tenured faculty member in hearing and speech science, neuroscience and cognitive science at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1998 to 2000. He has been research director in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, and professor of anatomy and neurobiology, biomedical engineering, and cognitive sciences at the University of California, Irvine since 2000. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, 20 book chapters, and two books, including a volume on cochlear implants in “Springer Handbook of Auditory Research” (Springer-Verlag, New York). He holds eight patents and has given more than 100 invited presentations worldwide.

Zeng is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Association for Research in Otolaryngology, and Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. He has reviewed grants as a regular or ad hoc member for the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, British Welcome Trust, and The Royal National Institute for Deaf People. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Apherma Corporation, Sunnyvale, Calif. and Nurotron Biotech Inc., Irvine, Calif.

Upcoming Programs
The Technology Transfer:  Patenting and Licensing Your Inventions
Thursday, May 24
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Room 3008, Calit2 Building