Session & Panelist
Richie Lou
Richie is an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, where he serves C-suite and senior executive clients of pharma and biotech companies on topics such as drug commercial strategy, pricing & access, and healthcare reform. He leads the firm’s research on direct-to-patient drug channels.
Prior to McKinsey, Richie was a consultant at Deloitte Consulting, venture fellow at Idea Farm Ventures, and graduated from Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the international case team, president of Wharton China Business Society, and head of a consulting club. In his free time, Richie loves playing tennis, following soccer and Formula 1, and exploring new restaurants in and around New York City.
Richie is also part of the McKinsey’s New York Office campus recruiting team and formerly for Deloitte’s. He will be participating in a career and recruiting panel.
Richard Niu
Richard is an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley with three certifications issued by FINRA, a government organization which oversees U.S. broker-dealers. He attended the University of California, Berkeley; during his time there, Richard worked as an education volunteer at the Cal Berkeley Habitat for Humanity as well as a volunteer for the Berkeley Project, a community service organization focused on improving the environment of Berkeley. He will be presenting a session on the topic of job hunting.
Clara Wang
Clara Wang grew up in Harvard, Massachusetts and received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. She studied Government, Public Policy, and Quantitative Social Sciences and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with High Honors in Government. After graduating from college, Clara worked as an Applied Data Scientist at Civis Analytics for two years, working on the healthcare and political teams. She then pursued a Master's degree at Peking University through the Yenching Academy program, studying economics and management. While completing her Master's degree, Clara interned at the Brookings Institution and worked as a data scientist on the Biden campaign in 2020. She then spent time working at a tech media start-up, Protocol, where she wrote data-driven articles and built client-facing data products. She is currently a data scientist at a large technology company.
Karly Hou
Karly studies computer science and mathematics at Harvard. She is passionate about accessible education, sustainable innovations, and public health, and is curently building for equitable education as the founder and executive director of the Wave Learning Festival. She is also an engineering fellow at Kleiner Parkins as well as a Harvard Social Impact Fellow and Harvard Tech Fellow. In her free time, Karly is a photography enthusiast and explores many genres of fine arts.
Annie Lu
Annie is the CEO and Co-Founder of H2Ok Innovations, an IoT operating system for industrials and infrastructure. She is an entrepreneur in cleantech, and is passionate about innovating to make the world a more sustainable and efficient place by targeting society’s most foundational sectors–– including manufacturing, supply chain, and digital infrastructure. H2Ok Innovations works with leading Fortune 500 customer enterprises from Unilever, to Coca-Cola Company, Cargill, Ecolab, to one of the world’s largest tech companies scaled across their global hyperscale data centers, and is backed by leading investors including Construct Capital, 2048 VC, Flybridge Capital, and more. Annie is on the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Annie is personally passionate about supporting female founders and women in STEM. In her free time, she is actively engaged in Greentown Labs’ women founders community, sits on the leadership within the Technology Committee of Infrastructure Masons (leading industry association in digital infrastructure), is an advocate for the Girl Up Foundation, and is a professional mentor for the Strong Women Strong Girls organization. Annie is also previously 2019 Miss Massachusetts Teen USA, advocating for women’s empowerment and gender equality.
Annie studied Economics and Computer Science at Harvard University. Outside of her work, she enjoys competing in scholarship pageants and Formula 1.
David Lu
As Co-Founder and CTO of H2Ok Innovations, David is an entrepreneur and rising leader in the cleantech space. In his work, he thinks deeply about the future of foundational industries such as infrastructure, manufacturing, and supply chains and the application of digital technologies in these spaces for sustainable operations. For his work, he is recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 lister.
Foundational industries range from the food processing plants where our dinner comes from to the data centers that power our internet. Unfortunately, because this work happens behind the scenes, they are often not in the spotlight for innovation, while also being one of the key contributors to emissions, pollution, and users of natural resources. Furthermore, with a majority of the workforce that operates these sectors reaching retirement age in the coming decade, there is a critical need to think through sustainable operations in these industries on two fronts, environmental sustainability, and workforce sustainability. At H2Ok Innovations, David leads the engineering team, working closely with customers ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to develop and deploy Industry 4.0 technologies for data-driven real-time operation optimization to reduce resource usage, product loss, and the digitization of knowledge for technology-assisted workflows.
David has a deep passion for entrepreneurship, team building, and customer-centric problem solving. He will share about how he went from hacking together proof of concepts and pitch competitions while in college, to building a 20 million-dollar startup after graduation. Knowing the urgency of critical challenges like climate change, he aims to use entrepreneurship as a vehicle to expedite the sustained rollout and adoption of innovation into the real world. He hopes to inspire and pave the way for more Asian American representation in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Prior to founding H2Ok Innovations, David worked in a variety of industries from chemical manufacturing to aerospace engineering, data analysis for water tech, and more. David holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and computer science from Brown University.
Kathy Chen
Kathy grew up in northern New Jersey and received her B.S. from the University of Michigan in Biomolecular Science. During her undergraduate time, Kathy worked in various lab settings and performed wet bench research in the fields of immunology, pathology, and epigenetics. Her research experiences also include developmental stem cell research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Following her time at the University of Michigan, Kathy pursued a Masters of Public Health at Columbia University with a focus on environmental epidemiology. Throughout her time, Kathy has worked to translate science into practice through work at organizations including the United Nations and the Natural Resources Defense Council. She currently works as a health sciences consultant at a boutique life sciences consulting firm.
Clara Wang
Clara Wang grew up in Harvard, Massachusetts and received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. She studied Government, Public Policy, and Quantitative Social Sciences and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with High Honors in Government. After graduating from college, Clara worked as an Applied Data Scientist at Civis Analytics for two years, working on the healthcare and political teams. She then pursued a Master's degree at Peking University through the Yenching Academy program, studying economics and management. While completing her Master's degree, Clara interned at the Brookings Institution and worked as a data scientist on the Biden campaign in 2020. She then spent time working at a tech media start-up, Protocol, where she wrote data-driven articles and built client-facing data products. She is currently a data scientist at a large technology company.
Harrison Liu
Harrison was born in North Carolina but moved to China when he was four. He spent most of his time in Beijing, attending the Yew Chung International School in the Chaoyang district. During high school, Harrison transferred to St. Andrew’s College, a Canadian all-boys boarding school north of Toronto. He enjoyed immersing himself in the local culture, picking up a love for hockey, country music, and Tim Hortons. When senior year came around, he knew it was time to return to his roots. So, he decided to attend The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his parents first immigrated for graduate school. With a naturally curious mind, he completed his Bachelor of Science in 2021 with a Biology major and a Chemistry minor.
After graduating college, Harrison shipped up to Boston, where he worked at a biotechnology startup. After a year of growth and contemplation, he realized his calling in healthcare. Saying goodbye to the city and friends he had grown to love, he moved back to North Carolina to pursue clinically relevant research opportunities. In the fall of 2022, he started at a cancer research lab down the road from his Alma mater, at a small college with a mediocre basketball program called Duke University.
Outside of work, Harrison is focused on applying to medical schools where he hopes to enroll in an MD/PhD program. He is excited to finish his applications this fall so he can focus on his dream of becoming a semi-professional pickleball player again.
Willy Xiao
Willy is currently an Engineering Manager at Envoy. As the Head of Engineering at a startup, he previously built a team which was acquired in August of 2022. Before that he was a Software Engineering Tech Lead at Facebook and studied Computer Science & Statistics at Harvard. One of Willy’s most fulfilling experiences was serving as a Youth Lead for the 2019 World Scout Jamboree, which was a 12-day, 50,000+ person in West Virginia with attendees from over 150 countries. He learned a lot about organizational leadership and strategy in his time there. In his free time, Willy and his sister Karen are having deeper conversations with their parents and working to preserve the oral histories of their family, talk to him if you’re interested!
Vincent Zhou
Vincent Zhou is a Team USA figure skater, two-time Olympian, and 2022 Olympic medalist. He was the youngest American Olympian in 2018 and the first person to land the Quadruple Lutz in Olympic history. Vincent is a 2-time World medalist, 14-time major ISU medalist, Skate America champion, Junior World champion, Junior Grand Prix & Grand Prix Finalist, Four Continents medalist, 6-time US National Senior medalist, and 3-time US National champion.
Vincent performs at figure skating shows for charity and instructs US Figure Skating national development camps. He serves on the US Figure Skating Singles Development & Technical Committee as well as the Athlete Advisory Committee. He is an athlete representative at the US Olympic & Paralympic Training Center. He is an invited speaker by numerous organizations nationwide and has been personally honored by the United States President at the White House. He is also a recipient of the AAPI Excellence Award by California legislature and has been recognized on NBC for AAPI Heritage Month.
Vincent studies Economics at Brown University. His parents both graduated from Tsinghua University, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering. Vincent’s older sister is a national-level diver who graduated from MIT and is currently pursuing a PhD in neuroscience at Stanford.
In his spare time, Vincent loves writing poetry, bouldering, mountaineering, and listening to electronic music. You can find him on Instagram @govincentzhou and @tears__in__rain.
Rachel Zhang
Rachel Zhang grew up in West Lafayette, IN and attended the University of Michigan, where she studied biomedical engineering and pre-med with a minor in music. While at Michigan, Rachel performed with the Michigan Marching Band as their 57th Drum Major, the first ever woman of color to do so. This role involved teaching 400 members marching techniques, performing in front of 100k+ fans for every game, and liaising as the band's figurehead to alumni, donors, and fans. During her gap year before attending medical school, Rachel will be working as a paraprofessional/research assistant at an institute for children with brain injuries/disorders.
Alex Chen
Alex is an incoming freshman at the University of Pennsylvania studying business and computer science under the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology. Alex has worked as the Growth Manager of 2.5 Intelligence, a blockchain startup with a pre-seed valuation of $25 million. He has received international recognition for his critical essays—including a Scholastic Gold Medal and Third Prize in Economics from the John Locke Global Essay Competition. During high school he was also heavily involved in Model UN, mathematics, and Asian American advocacy. In his career, Alex wants to work on technologies to foster democratization and economic development.
Alex's current interests include maching learning and rationality. He also enjoys working out, running, and playing table tennis.
Perryn Chang
Perryn is a rising freshman studying mathematics and economics at Yale University who was admitted as a Yale Engineering and Science Scholar with a likely letter. He is a strong proponent of using mathematical ideas to drive economic theory and policy decisions. In high school, Perryn has competed in the USA Math Olympiad four times, achieved a perfect score on the AMC12, and produced research on coding theory through the Stanford University Math Camp. He was also a semifinalist in the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition and a founding leader of his school's investing club. In his free time, Perryn enjoys chess, running, and playing poker.
Megan He
Megan He, a Michigan native, is a PhD student in atmospheric chemistry modeling at Harvard University. Her research focus is on air quality, which she first became aware of after seeing the smog in Beijing as a child. Megan is also very interested in the intersection of science and policy – she studied both environmental engineering and global affairs at Yale University and completed her Masters degree in public policy as part of the Churchill Scholarship at the University of Cambridge. She will be presenting a panel on academics.
Ellen Pan
Ellen is an 18-year-old multilingual writer and illustrator who has published five picture books, several of which she has also translated into Chinese and English. Many of her titles have achieved the bestseller status in their respective New Releases categories on Amazon, and one title is preparing to be published by the Beijing Education Press in China. Throughout her high school years, Ellen has consistently won national writing awards in the Scholastic Art & Writing contest. She will be attending Harvard this fall.