2020 - 2021 AAEOY Award Ceremony
1:30pm - 4pm PDT, Sunday, July 18 2021
Hosted by CIE/USA – SF Bay Area Chapter
Welcome by the Master of Ceremonies
Opening Remark - AAEOY Chair, Raymond Y. Chen
Welcome Speech - Dr. William Perry
Presentation of Awards Part I
Asian American Executive of the Year
⮚ Mr. Steven Yahata, VP, The Boeing Company
⮚ Dr. Mukesh Khare, VP, IBM
⮚ Dr. Gurshaman Baweja, SVP/CIO, Texas Instruments
⮚ Ms. Jennifer Zhao, EVP/GM, AMS
Presentation of Awards Part II
Distinguished Leadership in Technology Award ⮚ Ms. Anne Chow, CEO, AT&T Business
Asian American Engineer of the Year
⮚ Dr. Zhi Li, AT&T
⮚ Dr. Shuqing Zeng, General Motors
⮚ Dr. Xingcheng Xiao, General Motors R&D Center
⮚ Dr. Bo Song, Sandia National Laboratories
⮚ Mr. Cao Nguyen, Naval Air Warfare Center
Presentation of Awards Part III
Keynote - Dr. Naveed Hussain, CTO, Boeing
Asian American Engineer of the Year
⮚ Mr. Morteza Safai, The Boeing Company
⮚ Mr. Pratik Gupta, IBM
⮚ Dr. Khanh Pham, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
⮚ Col. Danielle Ngo, Executive Officer, U.S. Army Inspector General Agency
Presentation of Awards Part IV
Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award
⮚ Mr. Jensen Huang, Founder, President and CEO, NVIDIA
Asian American Most Promising Engineer of the Year
⮚ Mr. Jacky-Vy Chau, The Boeing Company
⮚ Dr. Emad Aqad, DuPont Electronics & Imaging
⮚ Dr. Dong Ding, Idaho National Laboratory
⮚ Ms. Poonam Aggarwal, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division
⮚ Ms. Indu Shukla, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Closing Remark - Executive Committee Chair, Brian Pan
End of the Program