Meiyun Chang-Smith
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Mandarin Chinese Native or bilingual proficiency
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Taiwanese Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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German Professional working proficiency
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French Limited working proficiency
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Japanese Limited working proficiency
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Bio
LinkedIn User
I knew Dr Meiyun Chang-Smith since I was a PhD student at CCMS from 2007. She is a very nice person and helped me a lot during my PhD period. Meiyun was directly responsible for professional mentoring of the CCMS group members. All of us enjoyed the time in CCMS. As the Founding manager, Meiyun is incredibly generous with her time and expertise, which included everything from management experience to an understanding of the research endeavour. I would be happy to recommend her for any such related positions.
Chenghua Sun
I have known Meiyun for more than 10 years since I was a visiting PhD student in the University of Queensland. Meiyun is the Founding Manager of Centre for Computational Molecular Science (CCMS). She not only made essential contributions for the establishment of the centre, including formulating the centre culture, official website, optimizing the structure, but also actively managed the centre, helping the centre director on basic running, and strengthening the key collaborations with national and international links, which is really helpful for CCMS to be recognized internationally. In addition, Meiyun has played the key role in the training of early members (PhD students, postdocs, visitors, etc). CCMS has an excellent multiculture environment, which has benefited from Meiyun's personal experience. Her passion and professional service to CCMS helped all centre members. She is always the helper and friend to us. In brief, Meiyun is a professional manager. I would recommend Meiyun without any hesitation to manage any research centre.
LinkedIn User
I knew Dr Meiyun Chang-Smith since I was a PhD student at CCMS from 2007. She is a very nice person and helped me a lot during my PhD period. Meiyun was directly responsible for professional mentoring of the CCMS group members. All of us enjoyed the time in CCMS. As the Founding manager, Meiyun is incredibly generous with her time and expertise, which included everything from management experience to an understanding of the research endeavour. I would be happy to recommend her for any such related positions.
Chenghua Sun
I have known Meiyun for more than 10 years since I was a visiting PhD student in the University of Queensland. Meiyun is the Founding Manager of Centre for Computational Molecular Science (CCMS). She not only made essential contributions for the establishment of the centre, including formulating the centre culture, official website, optimizing the structure, but also actively managed the centre, helping the centre director on basic running, and strengthening the key collaborations with national and international links, which is really helpful for CCMS to be recognized internationally. In addition, Meiyun has played the key role in the training of early members (PhD students, postdocs, visitors, etc). CCMS has an excellent multiculture environment, which has benefited from Meiyun's personal experience. Her passion and professional service to CCMS helped all centre members. She is always the helper and friend to us. In brief, Meiyun is a professional manager. I would recommend Meiyun without any hesitation to manage any research centre.
LinkedIn User
I knew Dr Meiyun Chang-Smith since I was a PhD student at CCMS from 2007. She is a very nice person and helped me a lot during my PhD period. Meiyun was directly responsible for professional mentoring of the CCMS group members. All of us enjoyed the time in CCMS. As the Founding manager, Meiyun is incredibly generous with her time and expertise, which included everything from management experience to an understanding of the research endeavour. I would be happy to recommend her for any such related positions.
Chenghua Sun
I have known Meiyun for more than 10 years since I was a visiting PhD student in the University of Queensland. Meiyun is the Founding Manager of Centre for Computational Molecular Science (CCMS). She not only made essential contributions for the establishment of the centre, including formulating the centre culture, official website, optimizing the structure, but also actively managed the centre, helping the centre director on basic running, and strengthening the key collaborations with national and international links, which is really helpful for CCMS to be recognized internationally. In addition, Meiyun has played the key role in the training of early members (PhD students, postdocs, visitors, etc). CCMS has an excellent multiculture environment, which has benefited from Meiyun's personal experience. Her passion and professional service to CCMS helped all centre members. She is always the helper and friend to us. In brief, Meiyun is a professional manager. I would recommend Meiyun without any hesitation to manage any research centre.
LinkedIn User
I knew Dr Meiyun Chang-Smith since I was a PhD student at CCMS from 2007. She is a very nice person and helped me a lot during my PhD period. Meiyun was directly responsible for professional mentoring of the CCMS group members. All of us enjoyed the time in CCMS. As the Founding manager, Meiyun is incredibly generous with her time and expertise, which included everything from management experience to an understanding of the research endeavour. I would be happy to recommend her for any such related positions.
Chenghua Sun
I have known Meiyun for more than 10 years since I was a visiting PhD student in the University of Queensland. Meiyun is the Founding Manager of Centre for Computational Molecular Science (CCMS). She not only made essential contributions for the establishment of the centre, including formulating the centre culture, official website, optimizing the structure, but also actively managed the centre, helping the centre director on basic running, and strengthening the key collaborations with national and international links, which is really helpful for CCMS to be recognized internationally. In addition, Meiyun has played the key role in the training of early members (PhD students, postdocs, visitors, etc). CCMS has an excellent multiculture environment, which has benefited from Meiyun's personal experience. Her passion and professional service to CCMS helped all centre members. She is always the helper and friend to us. In brief, Meiyun is a professional manager. I would recommend Meiyun without any hesitation to manage any research centre.
Credentials
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MBA Executive Testamur
AGSM @ UNSW Business SchoolJan, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
CSIRO ON Prime Program
CSIROJul, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Certificate of Participation - Global Listening Center's Joy of Giving Year 2017 - 2018
Global Listening CentreAug, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Japanese 3A Lower-Intermediate
UNSW GlobalJul, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Digital Branding and Engagement
edXDec, 2015- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Intersect
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Education and Outreach Manager
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Jan 2021 - Present
As with my previous senior managerial roles for graduate education and outreach at JINS/ORNL in the US, my current senior managerial role continues my vision and passion in advocating and facilitating open free access to inspirational collaborative graduate level coursework for HDR students and ECRs. I lead the establishment, coordination, and management of the inaugural graduate education program for full semester collaborative online teaching. Renowned professors and scientists are invited from across the research sector on the basis of expertise and reputation to contribute voluntarily into graduate-level courses. The curriculum designs support HDR students and ECRs working in the space between HPCD and various application domains. Show less
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CHELTech Pty Ltd
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Australia
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Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Operating Officer
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Nov 2017 - Present
CHELTech is a deep-tech IP startup that is commercializing innovative technology for highly efficient, economical production of hydrogen from water with inexpensive materials and zero emissions. Our platform technology has numerous other target applications in areas of catalysis, gas capture and storage. As COO of CHELTech, I have oversight and responsibility for most day-to-day operations and planning, including management of engagements with CHELTech's legal support; management of negotiations for licensing of its IP; management and planning for email and digital marketing; market scoping and business development. Show less
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Global Listening Centre
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United Kingdom
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Philanthropy
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1 - 100 Employee
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Academic Board Director
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Sep 2016 - Present
Global Listening Center is an international non-profit organization, which promotes the noble cause of listening across the planet and influences people and institutions to meet the urgent challenges of society.
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Head, Global Engagement
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May 2017 - Jul 2018
- Assist and Initiate global engagement strategies to enhance GLC’s international presence and broaden its international partnerships with institutions worldwide. - Contribute to GLC policy making, strategic development, and website contents development.
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University of Tennessee
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Associate Director for Education, UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences (JINS)
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2011 - 2014
I co-organized, coordinated and launched the cyber-enabled collaborative graduate education initiative in neutron science, conceiving a specific operational model and raising two international distance courses: Neutron Scattering in Quantum Condensed Matter Physics in the fall semester of 2012 and Neutrons in Soft Matter Science in the fall semester of 2013. Collectively, these two courses integrated contributions from leading specialists in neutron scattering across the US and internationally, making comprehensive graduate level lectures available live to the international neutron scattering and related science communities. My coordinating role involved handling all aspects of outreach to the university stakeholders within the US and internationally; collaborative planning of the course content with key co-organizing professors; engaging and negotiating with prospective professorial contributors; interacting and coordinating with IT staff; hosting the live online lectures using the Adobe Connect conferencing platform; editing of recordings and production of flash video files for subsequent web streaming; as well as designing promotional material and websites. I was also majorly involved in organization of several neutron scattering workshops for novices organized from JINS. Online Video Lectures: http://neutrons.ornl.gov/neutrons-videos Show less
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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United States
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Education Manager, Neutron Sciences Directorate
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2011 - 2014
In my dual role as the Education Manager at Neutron Sciences Directorate at ORNL, I formulated a strategic white paper for educational outreach activities; analysed neutron user data and synthesized information contributing towards high level reports and conference calls for the Department Of Energy program managers; collaborated in the writing of outreach articles; participated in the running of the neutron summer schools for graduate students across the US; provided the original design of the new educational webpage and its contents on the directorate's website. I coordinated a new interdisciplinary research forum highlighting outstanding research at the interface between nanomaterials and neutron sciences. Show less
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The University of Queensland
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland Brain Institute (QBI)
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Feb 2009 - Jun 2011
Extending my earlier language acquisition studies at ANU, I carried out independent postdoctoral research at the QBI, designing fMRI experiments using Picture Naming tasks to study brain activation patterns associated with Chinese-English bilinguals, contributing to an understanding of processing in languages with different orthographies. - Underwent fMRI facility training sessions. - Published journal papers, book chapters, and one book. - Presented invited lectures and conference talks. - Developed grant proposals bridging language and brain sciences. - Served as a reveiwer for Journal of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (2010) - Engaging internal and external stakeholders. - Project development and management. Show less
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The Australian National University
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Australia
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Visiting Fellow, School of Language Studies
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May 2005 - Apr 2009
As Visiting Fellow at the School of Language Studies, I conducted longitudinal studies into mono-lingual first language acquisition and bilingual double first language acquisitions, built a spoken Mandarin Chinese corpus, performed data analysis and wrote several sole authorship journal papers, and prepared for the publication of a book. I also presented internationally invited lectures and conference talks (Host: Dr Louise Jansen). As Visiting Fellow at the School of Language Studies, I conducted longitudinal studies into mono-lingual first language acquisition and bilingual double first language acquisitions, built a spoken Mandarin Chinese corpus, performed data analysis and wrote several sole authorship journal papers, and prepared for the publication of a book. I also presented internationally invited lectures and conference talks (Host: Dr Louise Jansen).
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University of Hamburg
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Germany
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Research Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Visiting Scholar, Collaborative Research Centre on Multilingualism
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Apr 2007 - Jan 2008
Host: Professor Jürgen M. Meisel Host: Professor Jürgen M. Meisel
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The University of Queensland
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Founding Manager, Centre for Computational Molecular Science
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2003 - 2005
This position as the founding manager involved advice and assistance in all aspects of strategic planning, outreach and operations. Key responsibilities include: - Strategic and operational planning. - Project management. - Managing relationships with UQ internal and centre external stakeholders. - Local, national and international engagement and liaison. - Developed the centre’s international partnership programs in Asia, e.g., co-supervised PhD students and scholars exchange. - Developed PR material; coordinated centre web site development. - Development and implementation of centre internal administrative procedure. - Centre research personnel inductions and management. - Supervision of centre administrative staff. - PhD Students and staff development. - Coordination and facilitation of a major ARC research network proposal (ca. 120 CIs). - Design and oversight of renovated and purpose-built space for the centre. Show less
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Education
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2017 - 2021
AGSM @ UNSW Business School
Master of Business Administration - MBA (Executive) -
2019 - 2019
ESSEC Business School
Master of Business Administration - MBA, International Exchange -
2018 - 2018
University of Cologne
Master of Business Administration - MBA, International Exchange -
1997 - 2004
The Australian National University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics (First Language Acquisition) -
1994 - 1996
The University of Queensland
Master of Arts (M.A.), Applied Linguistics
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