His research explores issues at the intersection of transnational bioscience entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, high-skilled immigration, business and society, and social and technical innovations in locations as diverse as China, Taiwan, and the United States.
A native of California, Jon Ying earned a B.A. from St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland, an M.T.S. from Harvard University, an M.I.L.R. and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was a U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow at National Taiwan University and a junior visiting scholar at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Prior to his academic career, Ying held a variety of HR positions at Amgen, General Mills, and Texas Instruments. He was also the founding assistant dean of students for Asian American affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he partnered with faculty and students to develop an academic program in Asian American studies that has grown to include 15 full-time and 8 affiliated faculty members.
Teaching
- Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
- Diversity and Inclusion as Strategic Advantage
- Ethical Leadership Through Literature
- China, Taiwan, and the Global Value Chain
- Global Corporate Social Responsibility
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, (Transnational
Bioscience Entrepreneurship), 2012
M.I.L.R.,
Cornell University, (International and Comparative
Employment Relations), 2001
M.T.S.,
Harvard University, (Religions of the World - China),
1994
B.A.,
St. John's College, Annapolis, (Philosophy and
Mathematics), 1990
Honors
2010
Kauffman Foundation Travel Stipend, 8th West Coast Research
Symposium on Tech. Entrepreneurship PhD Student
Workshop
2010 SSHRC of Canada Travel
Fellowship, 13th McGill Conference on International
Entrepreneurship
Doctoral Colloquium (declined)
2010 Sheth Foundation Travel
Grant, Academy of International Business Doctoral Student
Consortium
2010 – 11 Conference Travel Grant, Cornell University ILR
School
2009 – 10 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research
Abroad Fellowship (alternate candidate)
2008 – 09 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
(summer and academic year) – U.S. Dept. of Education
2008 – 09 C. V. Starr Fellowship – Cornell University East
Asia Program (declined)
2008; 2010 Hu Shih Memorial Research Grant – Cornell
University East Asia Program
2008 Ta-Chung & Ya-Chao Liu Memorial Scholarship
– Cornell University Graduate School
2007 – 10 Summer Fellowship – Cornell University ILR School
2007 – 09 Dissertation Research Grant – Cornell University
American Studies Program
2007 – 09 Graduate Fellowship – Cornell University Institute
for the Social Sciences
2005 Robert S. Hatfield Award for the Study of Ethics
in Business – Cornell University
1992 – 94 The Divinity School Scholarship – Harvard Divinity
School