Dan D. Yang
- January 11, 2024
- Educator
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Dan D. Yang Biography
| Birthday | Jun 13 |
| Birth Year | 1965 |
Dan D. Yang is one of the most popular and richest Educator who was born on June 13, 1965 in Nanjing, Shanghai, China.
Yang was married from 1990 to 2016, mother of 2 daughters born in 1995 and 2009 respectively. She divorced in 2016 after 26 years of marriage to Dr Zibin Lu, whom she met while studying in Paris, France.
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 and “crowned” by the industry insiders as the Queen of EDFA (Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier). Ultimately, one of her inventions a broadband source (BBS) became the standard equipment for component manufacturers as well as for optical sensor and medical tomography research. 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.
Dan D. Yang Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Educator |
| House | Living in own house. |
Dan D. Yang is one of the richest Educator from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dan D. Yang 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
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 forced to relocate 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 for China’s first satellite launch. Yang took a bachelor’s degree in physics at Nanjing University in 1982. She continued her post-graduate education in France winning one of the top state sponsored scholarships, at the Paris-Sud 11 University and earned her master’s and doctor degrees.
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In 2011, Forbes enlisted Yang as one of the Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs/Mompreneurs to Watch [1]
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Enkhbatyn Ranked on the list of most popular Educator. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Dan D. Yang celebrates birthday on June 13 of every year.
2013: EDDIE Award by CompuED Magazine as Best Early Learning Solution