2001-2002 CAFA Faculty Development Grants
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Sulin Ba -
Analysis and Experiment of an Online Bundle Voting Mechanism
Dr. Sulin Ba is an Assistant Profess or of Information Systems at
the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
Her research interests focus on the design of trust building
intermediaries that facilitate electronic market transactions. Her work
on the institutional setup to help small business survive and grow in
the digital economy has been used as the basis for testimony before the
Congressional House Committee on Small Business. She has published in
Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, and other
academic journals. Dr. Ba received her Ph.D. and Master's Degree in
Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin
and her B.A. in Library and Information Sciences from Zhongshan University
in China.
Jyan-Yu Austin Yang -
Sphingomyelin Hydrolysis and Regulation of Amyloid Turn-Over in
Alzheimer's Disease
Dr. Austin Yang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Pharmacy,
University of Southern California. His research interest is to study
the effect of amyloid peptides on neuronal cell death during the
course of Alzheimer's disease; and this project is currently supported
by both the National Institutes of Health and the Alzheimer's Association.
Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from University of
California, Irvine and his B.S. in Biology from National Taiwan
University. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychiatry, New York University for three years.
Yunxia Lisa Wang -
Development of Seismic Design Guidelines of Lifeline Infrastructures
Dr. Wang is an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Engineering,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her professional
interests are in the research of liquid- structure interaction on liquid
storage structures and in the design of buildings and bridges for
earthquake and wind loading. She worked in an engineering consulting
firm Boyle Engineering Corporation in Newport Beach. Dr. Wang received
her Ph.D. in Structural and Earthquake Engineering from University of
California, Irvine, M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from China Academy
of Railway Sciences, and B.S. in Civil Engineering from Southwest
Jiaotong University.