Chen Du & Xisheng Chen

Chen Du was a PhD Candidate in the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics and Biochemistry PhD Program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2002. She has a Master's Degree in Biophysics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master's Degree in Radio Physics with the concentration of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She excelled in the Interpreting and Translation Studies Master's Program at Wake Forest University in fall 2016. She has schooled for 22 years and 10 months and engaged in nearly seven years of graduate studies including three years and eight months of PhD training in Biophysics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the State University of New York at Buffalo. She has published three English papers including two first authored papers in the field of NMR at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is a voting member of the American Translators Association, an expert member of the Translators Association of China, and a member of the American Literary Translators Association. In the United States and a few other Western countries, she has published, either independently or in cooperation with Mr. Xisheng Chen, 160+ pieces of English translations, poems, and essays in more than fifty literary journals.

Xisheng Chen is a Chinese American linguist, lexicologist, ESL grammarian, translator, and educator with over four decades of professional translation experience. He was the top scorer in English in the National College Entrance Examination of Jiangsu Province and earned both his BA and MA from Fudan University, Shanghai. He also holds a Mandarin Healthcare Interpreter Certificate from City College of San Francisco. His professional career has included work as a translator for Shanghai Television Station’s Evening English News Program, lecturer at Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China, and adjunct professor in the Departments of English and Social Sciences at Trine University (formerly Tri-State University) in Angola, Indiana. Over the course of his career, Chen has published numerous translations across a wide range of fields in newspapers and academic journals in China and internationally. He currently works at Tesla in Fremont, California and also as a freelance translator for JTG Inc., contributing to translation projects for the United States Department of Justice.