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John Jengshyong Tsai, Ph.D.
Dr. John Tsai was born in
Taiwan, Republic of China, where he received his B.S. degree in
physics and chemistry from National Taiwan Normal University,
Taipei. He received his M.S. degree in physics from College of
William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, and his Ph.D. in ocean
physics from University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Subsequently, Dr. Tsai also earned a Master of Business
Administration degree from Florida International University,
Miami.
Dr. Tsai is the publisher and
the chief editor of the Overseas Chinese News, a biweekly Chinese
community newspaper which he established in 1990. Previously, he
established the Integrated Technology International, Inc., a
computer system integration company, in 1986 and served as its
president until 1990. Since 1994, he has also been a board member
of the Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine, Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida, which is an accredited master’s degree institution in
traditional Chinese and oriental medicine.
For twenty-four years (1977 to
2001), Dr. Tsai was a research physicist at the Ocean Acoustics
Division of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological
Laboratory, which is under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce, and served as
principal or co-principal investigator in several projects. He
became the first scientist in 1985 to study and observe the large
amplitude internal soliton waves in Sulu Sea, the Philippines,
using the acoustic remote sensing technique. During his
professional career, Dr. Tsai published more than fifty journal
articles, research reports, and one technical memorandum.
Currently, he is a member of the Acoustical Society of America,
the American Geophysical Union, the Asian American Journalists
Association, and the Chinese American Press Institute.
Over the years, Dr. Tsai has
been involved in numerous community and professional
organizations and activities. He is presently the President of
Chinese American Press Institute. He has served as the Chairman
of the Miami-Kaoshiung Sister Cities committee since 2000. He is
a member of the Miami-Dade County Asian Pacific Rim/Taipei County
Sister Cities committee since 1999. He is also a Board member of
the Miami-Dade County Asian-American Advisory Board, of which he
was the First Vice-Chairman in 1998. Dr. Tsai also served as a
Board member of the “Many Voice: One Community” since its
establishment in 1997 and as its Treasurer since 2000, and
actively participated in the Study Circle of civil rights agenda.
Since the formation of the Chinese Federation of Florida, an
umbrella organization of fifteen Chinese organizations in Florida
with more than one thousand members, Dr. Tsai was its Executive
Secretary (1994-95), Vice President (1996-97), President
(1998-99), and a Council member (since 2000). Previously, he was
a Board member of the Organization of Chinese Americans, South
Florida Chapter, and served as its President in 1996. In
addition, he was also involved in various promotional and
religious activities of the Chinese Baptist Church of Miami.
Dr. Tsai is a recipient of
numerous awards and honors. He received a “21st
Century Award for Achievement” from the International
Biographical Center, Cambridge, England in 2001. In 1999, he
received “Outstanding People of the 20th Century,” and
“International Man of Millennium” awards from the same
organization. In 2000, he was honored by “Proclamation of Tenth
Anniversary Overseas Chinese News Day,” and “Proclamation of the
Year of Dragon and Tenth Anniversary of Overseas Chinese News
Day” by the mayors of city of Hialeah and city of North Miami
Beach, Florida. The mayor of the city of Hialeah also honored him
in 1998 by “Proclamation of Chinese Federation of Florida’s
President Dr. John J. Tsai Day.” Dr. Tsai was appointed a Deputy
Governor by the American Biographical Institute Research
Association, Raleigh, North Carolina, from which he also had
received an “Outstanding People of the 20th Century”
award in 1999. The Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission of the
Republic of China made him an “Overseas Chinese Affairs Advisor
in Florida” in 1999. While he worked at the Atlantic
Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Dr. Tsai won several
“Certificate of Performance Award” (1989, 1992, and 1993) from
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and a
Distinguished Authorship Award in 1986 from NOAA’s Environmental
Research Laboratories, Boulder, Colorado. In 1986, he also
received an Annual Award for an Outstanding Paper from John
Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory.
Dr. Tsai and his wife Losi live
in Miami, Florida. Their son David is a graduate student at
Stanford University, and their daughter Jenny attends Wellesley
College. Contact address: P.O. Box 430810, Miami, FL 33243.
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