THE TEAM
Who We Are
The leadership consists of professionals from various academic backgrounds and experiences in STEM majors. As a collective, we contribute their versatile expertise to educate and challenge students to improve their programming and critical thinking skills.
Ph.D. in Computer Science and MS in Electrical Engineering, IEEE senior member.
Dr. Meng is an experienced and passionate educator who seeks to train middle and high school students to innovate with STEM. His students have won dozens of top awards at the most prestigious national and international science competitions, including ISEF, STS, ACM Cutler-Bell Prize, Davidson Fellowship, and HackMIT.
DR. GEORGE MENG (Founder, Principal, Instructor)
PhD in Computer Science, Senior Lecturer at University of Texas in Dallas .
Dr. Feng is an expert of education with rich teaching experience and profound research accomplishments. Her teaching and research interests include computer vision, multimedia retrieval, data mining, pattern recognition, machine learning and computer games.
DR. SUNNY FENG
(Instructor)
MS in Software Engineering and Statistics, CIE 2021 SECC event chair.
Mr.Tang is a passionate engineer who seeks to promote STEM to K - 12 students. Currently work as Principal engineer lead in automotive company. He has multi-year industry experience in system automation/design, software design and knowledge of IoT devices. He has successfully chaired 2021 DFW-CIE SECC Event (Student Engineering and Creativity Competition), and continue servicing as co-chair for 2022.
XINCHENG TANG
(Instructor)
Statistics, CS at Harvard
John has helped teach courses in MIT App Inventor since 2020, when the pandemic forced students to work online. He graduated as valedictorian from Plano West Senior HS and was a 2x ISEF Finalist and Coca-Cola Scholar. A good chunk of his high school experience centered on building educational initiatives like the Association for Young Scientists and Innovators (aysi.org) and CASH Club Corp (cashclubcorp.info), and he is proud to help the next generation of young engineers build world-changing ideas. Currently, he is exploring entrepreneurship at Harvard, and he has won awards at programs like HackMIT and the Harvard President's Innovation Challenge.
MR. JOHN RHO
(Instructor)
Dr, Zhujun Li graduated from Nankai University. She came to U.S. through the prestigious CUSPEA (China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application, 李政道奖学金) program and pursued her Ph.D. in computational physics at Virginia Tech. She then worked as an assistant professor at Christopher Newport University and Jefferson National Lab. After moving to Dallas with her family, Dr. Li worked at various telecommunication companies as a senior software engineer for various cutting-edge projects. However, her passion for teaching eventually led her back to academia, and she has been a professor at Dallas College ever since 2003.
MS in Computer Science, UT Dallas
Sean has accumulated 25 years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer in Nortel, EDS and HP. He is fluent in C, C++, Java, C# and Unix, along with web administration and web design. In terms of teaching experience, he has taught Geometry, Algebra II, SAT Math in DMCLS, CIE-USA Math Camp and for the UCLA Extension Department.
DR. ZHUJUN LI
(Instructor)
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SEAN ZHAO
(Instructor)
MA in School Psychology, Tufts University
Katherine (Kat) Su chiefly studied psychology during her undergraduate and graduate years. She is currently a Postgraduate Research Associate at the play2PREVENT lab at Yale University's School of Medicine and a Co-Chair in the Social Justice department for the Asian Network at Yale. Kat is passionate about contributing to niche, interdisciplinary projects that utilize psychology to bolster health equity, critical thinking in youth populations, social justice, and serve as helpful outputs of information for the general public's use.
MS. KATHERINE SU
(Senior Administrator)
Rithvik Ganesh is a current freshman at MIT studying Computer Science. He was previously a co-director and lecturer at AYSI (Association for Young Scientists and Innovators), where he helped organize and instruct programming workshops/classes for students across Texas. Additionally, Rithvik has been active in scientific research on Alzheimer's disease, and is a Kathryn and Ashley H. Priddy Young Scientist Award Winner.
RITHVIK GANESH
(Instructor)
Computer science at Purdue
Annie has been tutoring and teaching students since 2020. She graduated as a valedictorian from Lynbrook High in 2022. During high school, she interned at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory where she explored machine learning through Blender and Python. She is currently studying computer science and management at Purdue University.