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REUNION YEAR 1991 After 12 years living on the East Coast, Chang Hee Kim has moved back to the Los Angeles area to join a biotech startup in


genetic testing, DxTerity Diagnostics.


1998 David Bunde was named Junior Scientist of the Year by the Quad City Engineering and Science Council (QCESC) at its 49th Annual


National Engineers Week Banquet held Feb. 24. The QCESC numbers 325 local engineering and technical societies with a total membership of 5,000 engineers and scientists. David, an assistant professor of com- puter science at Knox College in Galesburg since 2006, has strength- ened that program with his innovative teaching in parallel computing and his involvement with Knox students in undergraduate research. He also served as a coach for a FIRST Lego Robotics team in Galesburg. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery. He lives in Galesburg with his wife, Jennifer, and young son, Douglas.


Joey, Emily and Natalie Hsieh


1994 Marie Kao-Hsieh and Matt Hsieh welcomed their third child, Emily An-Wen on January 29. Emily arrived 10 weeks pre-


mature at three pounds and spent seven weeks in the NICU. She is now thriving and enjoys playing with her two older siblings, Nata- lie, 9, and Joey, 5. All are grateful for God’s grace and the advance- ment of modern medicine.


1997 First New York Securitis, a global multi-strategy trading firm, appointed Charles Katz, a partner and head of com-


modities trading, to the newly created Trader Management Committee, which is designed to oversee trading operations and manage the firm’s risk. Charles joined the firm in 2004. Previously, he traded energy derivatives at TXU Energy Trading in Dallas, Texas. He received his MBA and MChE from Rice University.


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REUNION YEAR


2001 Richard Trinh and wife, Kendall, welcomed a baby girl, Remy Sue Trinh, on December 7, 2010. This is Richard’s first child and


Kendall’s third.


2004 Mark Nelson began work at ITU Copenhagen (Denmark) in January as assistant professor in their Center for Computer Games


Research. He says, “I’ve been a Georgia Tech Ph.D. student for the past six years and for the last three years of that co-posted as a visiting researcher at UC Santa Cruz’s Expressive Intelligence Studio. I also have publications and a blog at www.kmjn.org.


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