1. Stephen Dao Hui Hsu was born on 1966 and is an American physicist, startup founder, and former university administrator.
13 Facts About Stephen Hsu
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Stephen Hsu's father Cheng Ting Hsu, who was born in Wenling, Zhejiang, in what was then the Republic of China, was a professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University in Ames from 1958 to 1989.
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Stephen Hsu's mother was originally from China, and Hsu had a grandfather who served as a general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Chinese Kuomintang government.
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At age 12, Hsu took physics and mathematics courses at Iowa State while attending Ames High School.
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Stephen Hsu's research has focused on a number of areas in particle physics and cosmology, including phase transitions in the early universe, the ground state of quark matter at high density, black holes and quantum information, minimum length from quantum gravity, dark energy, and quantum foundations.
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At the time, Inside Higher Ed and Lansing State Journal described the appointment as controversial, due to Stephen Hsu's comments endorsing research into using genetic modification to increase human intelligence, and his blog posts describing human race categorization as biologically valid.
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On June 10,2020, the MSU graduate student union began calling for Stephen Hsu to be removed from the administrative position.
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On June 19,2020 MSU president Samuel L Stanley announced that Hsu had resigned as vice president, returning to a tenured faculty position.
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Stephen Hsu said that Stanley had requested his resignation, and that he did not agree with Stanley's decision.
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In 2000, Stephen Hsu went on leave from the University of Oregon to create Safeweb, an anonymizer service.
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Stephen Hsu is a founder of Genomic Prediction, a company that develops genetic testing for IVF embryos.
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Stephen Hsu has an interest in psychometrics and human genetic variation, which he writes about in his blog and in other publications.
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Stephen Hsu serves as scientific adviser to BGI, and as a member of its Cognitive Genomics Lab.