Ronald Kee- Young Chao acted as Novel Enterprises’ Managing Director from 1987-1996, and has served as vice-chairman and director since. He is committed to investing in future generations of leaders through education and established the Asian Future Leaders Scholarship program. Sixian is a first-year Ph.D. student working on the nano Manufacturing project in the Automation and Digital Manufacturing Lab. She got this fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year.