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Ying received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University.   During his graduate study at Cornell University, he received a scholarship from NASA to study the behavior of bubbles in multiphase, gas/liquid flows in microgravity environment.  He had a couple of opportunities to fly on a modified KC-135, aka the vomit comet, to test out some instruments.  Upon graduation, he began playing with sand as in silicon wafers in the semiconductor industry for 4 years.  Then he continued to play with sand as in proppants in the oil industry for the next 14 years.   He is now a chemical advisor with Oxy