Xun Fan

Information Sciences Institute & Computer Science Dept.

Viterbi School of Engeneering

University of Southern California

4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001

Marina del Rey, CA, 90292

(1) 310-448-8323

FAQ

How to pronounce your last name?

Well, yes my first name is difficult to pronounce in English (my advisor, John, spend a whole week to make it sounds OK...). But now I have a good way to help people pronounce it (thanks to one of my English teachers, Tracy, she figured this way out!), it sounds like pronouncing "shoe-in" in 500ms. Got it? Thanks!

Why don't you use an Engelish name?

Two reasons:

1. I would like to promote my Chinese name;

2. Before I came to US, I had an English name: John... Yes, here is the the problem, it's the same as John's... (who is John? John is the one who pays my salary... :-) I know John won't feel this bothers him, but as I didn't use English name much in China and in US I have the reason 1, I don't use that English name any more.

BTW, I recently have a new English name: Jason. But I haven't started to use it formally. Probably becasue of inertia.

How to write your name in Chineses?

The Chinese characters of my name is: 樊迅, where 樊 is the last name Fan, 迅 is the first name "shoe-in".

How old are you?

In Chinese Zodiac, I am a pig... (alright, this is not what I could control) In Zodiac, I am a Scorpio.

Thanks for reading, more FAQs will be added as they come out.