Charles Andrew "Charley" Kang

Hello there. I am a third year student enrolled in the Engineering Physics program at U.C. Berkeley, from which I expect to graduate in 2009. For those unfamiliar with the Engineering Physics program, a short description of it is available at http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/engsci/ep.html. It is comparable to an Applied Physics program.

Last summer I worked as a software engineering intern at Lockheed. My main project was to create test procedures for the flight software acceptance test for two solar physics instruments, HMI and AIA. It was a good experience.

My parents were born in mainland China and grew up on the island of Taiwan, having fled there with their Nationalist (Kuomintang) parents. They came to the United States about 35 years ago as graduate students and stayed, thanks to the Hart-Celler Immigration Act. I was born here, and am greatly blessed.

Religion-wise, I am fairly conservative Protestant. I tend to like to find unity around the most important parts of the faith, gently contend for important but secondary issues, and ignore silly debates. I am part of two churches: a non-denominated Chinese church with a loosely Baptist theology, where I was baptized; and an independent, vaguely emerging-type church formerly affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America, which I became part of after moving to Berkeley for school. I am also involved with the inter-denominational campus group InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.

Academic interests: computation, earth science, history, optics.

Personal interests: gum, integrity, movies, radio, rock, social justice, walking.

Visit the web site of Yaron Greif, a friend at Stanford.

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Note: I am not the Charles Kang who posts photographs on Flickr. I am also not the author of "Goodbye, Zebedee."

Updated August 21, 2007.