Dan D. Yang

Dan D. Yang, PhD, is the founder of Rullingnet Corp. and inventor of VINCI,^[1] a new category of learning systems by converging developmental science, technology and early childhood education.

Early Life

Born Dan Dan meaning very red in Chinese by her father who was classified as a black sheep during the Culture Revolution in China, Yang was the first grand child of an entrepreneurial family of 6 sons and 2 daughters; her grandfather owned a boat factory and operated a transport business on the imperial canal which connects north and south China, but were relocated to rural China during the Culture Revolution. Her father tested airplane motors initially but self-taught and grew to lead the operations of a joint venture between his factory and Japanese motorcycle maker Suzuki. Her mother was a technician at a state-owned factory which produced electronic tubes. Yang took a bachelor's degree in physics at Nanjing University in 1982.^[2] She continued her post-graduate education in France winning one of the top state sponsored scholarships, at the Paris-Sud 11 University^{[3][not in citation given]} and earned her master's and doctor degrees.

In 2000, she made a $1 million dollar donation^[4] to Nanjing University for the construction of a student center. It was the largest donation ever given to the university until 2005. she named the activity center after her late father and has also established a scholarship in his name. ^[2]

Career

In 1991, Yang began her career teaching Optics and Photonics at the École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers in Paris, a historic school built by Napoleon that was mainly used for adult education programs. She immigrated to Canada, in 1993, and worked at MPB Technology on long distance fiber optic networking. In 1996, she started her first company, AFC Technologies, in Hull which is now part of the Gatineau municipality in National Capital Region (Canada). During her time with AFC Technologies, she received five patents on the subject. Yang is credited with inventing a L-band amplifier and bringing it to market ahead of others between 1997 and 1999. ^[5] Ultimately, one of her inventions a broadband source (BBS) became the standard equipment for component manufacturers ^[6]as well as for optical sensor ^[7]and medical tomography research ^[8][9]. In addition, Nortel employed another one of her inventions, which allowed doubling the signal traffic in a fiber—a technology still used for long distance or wide area telephony and data transport. AFC Technologies was acquired by JDSU in 1999.

Yang then attended Stanford University's executive training program in 2000, while starting up her second venture, Dowslake Microsystems.

Entrepreneurial Experience

Yang has founded 2 startups in optical networking, supporting voice and data traffics worldwide. She also made international acquisitions in Germany, China and Hong Kong while investing in other technology startups covering wireless, biotech, computing and other technology areas. Rullingnet Corporation, the company behind VINCI, is the first of her startups related to consumer and to children.

She has written articles on mobile revolution and telecom investing and been the subject of other industry articles.^[10]

Family

Yang is married since 1990, mother of 2 daughters born in 1995 and 2009 respectively. She met her husband, Zibin Lu, also a PhD. in Electrical Engineering, during her time living in Paris.</ref>

Awards

Photonics Circle of Excellence 1998 ^[11]

Mecuriades 1999 Young Entrepreneur of the year ^[12]

Secured patents

• PAT. NO. 6,198,571 Computerized intelligent optical amplifier for multi-channel optical networks
• PAT. NO. 6,104,527 High efficiency bandwidth doubled and gain flattened silica fiber amplifier
• PAT. NO. 6,091,743 Bandwidth broadened and power enhanced low coherence fiberoptic light source
• PAT. NO. 7,092,640 Method of simple control and management of reconfigurable fiber optic devices
• PAT. NO. 7,068,423 Low cost flexible automated optical power management
• PAT. NO. 6,823,219 Universal optical control and management platform
• PAT. NO. 6,804,464 Flexible and low cost wavelength management for optical networking
• PAT. NO. 6,697,190 Flexible and fast electronic control of optical devices
• PAT. NO. 6,484,958 Patch cord caddy
• PAT. NO. 6,215,584 Input independent tilt free actively gain flattened broadband amplifier
• PAT. NO. 6,172,995 High power broadband source with stable and equalized spectrum output

References

1. ^ Background of VINCI
2. ^ ^{a b} Nanjing University Retrieved 18 January 2011
3. ^ Paris-Sud University
4. ^ Nanjing University
5. ^ "Dan Yang's Next Big POP" [1]
6. ^ "Bragg Grating Fabrication" [2]
7. ^ "" [3]
8. ^ "In vivo video rate optical coherence tomography"[4]
9. ^ Optical Coherence Tomography: Principles and Applications by Mark E. Brezinski ISBN-13: 978-0-12-133570-0
10. ^ "Mobile Revolution and Telecom Investing" [5] North America, 2008.
11. ^ "Circle of Excellence" [6]
12. ^ "Mecuriades 1999" [7]

Persondata
Name	Yang, Dan D.
Alternative names	Yang, Dandan
Short description	Founder of Rullingnet Corp.
Date of birth	June 13th 1965
Place of birth	China
Date of death
Place of death