A (partial) list of the friends, teachers, and students with whom I’ve regrettably lost contact: cellists from Starker’s studio, Princetonians (classical Chinese class-mates, weird people, my brother’s fake sister, my two graduate student “big sisters,” sleepless engineers, she who speaks tens of languages), fellow sufferers from the University of Chicago (mathematicians, linguists, doctors, computer scientists, historians, Japanese Language Table pals, old hall-mates from the International House, my only cello student ever), friends from my apartment in Hyde Park, from the Center for Human Growth in Bloomington, dear old math students, lost aikido students, Langley High School classmates, people from the 1991 Rhodes Scholar competition, a friend’s cousin, a friend from Metz whom I met in the NSF-Monbusho 2001 Summer Institute in Japan, never-forgotten pen pals, students whom I wrote recommendations for, etc….
- Avigail Arad
- Akari “Nintendo Warriors” Yamaguchi
- Karen Elder
- Marc Stein
- Alex Gurevich
- Nadya Kapranova
- Nathan Kross
- Linda Chen
- Misae Sawato
- Etsuyo Yuasa
- Mami Maeda
- Irene Kimbara
- Kelly Eder
- Ginny VanderJagt
- Evangelos Kobotis
- Kesara Borirakchanyavat
- Eleonore Woehrling
- Alexander Lau
- Dan Devroye
- Ugur Koc
- Jeremy Choy
- Deepam Rusia
- Raluca Mihaila
- Amanda Chau
- Aya Shimada
- Ari Sato
- Laura Nobel
- Kristi Schweiker
- Will Kim
- Kathryn Parsons
- Jack Quarles
- Simone Shaheen
- Sarah Priwer
- Luna Shyr
- Liss Palamkunnel
- Vivek Taparia
- Kate Walker
- Lance Windel
- Any of my dear Purdue engineers
- Tsai Shi-chun
- Lei Hsiang-Lin
- Kimberly Tanner
- Alex Thurman
- Akemi Iwanabe
- Daniel Kingsbury
- Richa Sharma
- Karen Liao
- Katsumi “Kevin” Takeda
- Noboru Tomonari
- Stephen Gray
- Andrei Draganescu
- Danny “Marat” McFadyen
- Sinam Al-Khafaji
- Linda Lavanigno
- Helene Courrier
- Makoto “Mak” Fukushima
- Yuzo Otsuka
- Shugo Hotta
- Lei Jin
- Ming Wen
- Helene Sroat
- Debbie Lehnsen
- Andrew Bordeman
- Vivian Tsui
- Lily Wong
- Garry Cooper
- Laurel Prokopow
- David Freeman
- Leslie Cooke
- Rahul Sukthankar
- Aron Bloch
- Domina Tsingos
- Eunjai Yu
- Wen-Hsin Chou
- Kathryn Parsons
- Maria Dans
- Haruko Wakabayashi
- Chee-Yun Kwon
- Xinyuan Dai
- Steve Wang
- Susan Chang
- Kimbra Smith
- and others….