Antony Cheung is one of the partners of Ivy Gate Learning Center. Antony was raised in Hong Kong, and attended Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts at the age of 14, after studying at La Salle College. He has always been a passionate math student and was the recipient of the Caltech Mathematics award in 2004.

Antony graduated from New York University Stern School of Business in 2009, where he majored in Finance and Accounting, and served as a financial analyst in New York and Hong Kong before joining Ivy Gate. In his spare time, he enjoys playing golf, tennis, and basketball.

Abel Lau is the head of the science and math department at Ivy Gate Learning Center. He majored in Environmental Science at Harvard University, where he focused on the chemistry of cloud formation, and graduated with a MS degree in 2010. While in graduate school, he served as an environmental science teaching fellow.

Prior to his academic ventures in the US, Abel earned high marks in the HKCEE and HKALE system. In his leisure time, he enjoys reading scientific literature and learning about the latest scientific discoveries. He also plays football and bass guitar.

Miya Dunets is the head of English department at Ivy Gate Learning Center. She is originally from California, and moved to Hong Kong from New York City in 2010. She graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2005, with a BA in biology, and also holds a MA in English and American literature from New York University (2010). In her MA thesis, Miya focused on twentieth-century American poetry and literature, as well as environmental literary criticism.

Miya has worked in the financial sector and in literary publishing, and is now working on nonprofit/philanthropic projects, with a focus on education and environmental advocacy. In her spare time, Miya enjoys writing music, traveling, cooking, and running.

Pariya Rojtanongchai is a law student at HKU, and a recent graduate from the University of Cambridge, where she read History. Before Cambridge, she attended Chinese International School (CIS), where she achieved 43 out of 45 points on the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.

In CIS, Pariya was an active participant in Model United Nations and attended conferences in both Beijing and Seoul. She was also involved in community service trips, including a Christina Noble Children’s Foundation trip to Mongolia and a Tabitha Foundation trip to Cambodia. Outside of school, Pariya was a regular helper at Po Leung Kuk and took part in dance shows. In university, she explored her passion for choreography and singing, while she spent her summer breaks working for publications such as Time Out Magazine Hong Kong and South China Morning Post.

Bonnie Poon Zahl is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where she also taught psychology and religion at the undergraduate level. Bonnie received her A.B. in psychology, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard College and has worked in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Bonnie was born and raised in Hong Kong and graduated from Island School.

Katherine Gaudyn is from the United States and is a recent graduate of Princeton University. While in college, she participated in a number of activities, which included acting as managing editor of the university’s foreign policy magazine. In her spare time, Katherine enjoys playing tennis, traveling, and reading biographies.

Lambert Yeung holds a Master of Science degree from Harvard University. He conducted research and co-authored papers on carbon nanotube and DNA-related subjects. He also researched on diamond defect as a magnetic field imager at Harvard University.

In his spare time, Lambert enjoys playing soccer, table tennis, basketball and watching movies.

David CY Li graduated from Cambridge University, where he studied Natural Sciences (Biology, Chemistry etc.) as an undergraduate. He went to primary school in Hong Kong and attended boarding school in England from year 7 to 13 (Form 1-7). Whilst at university, David was an active participant in a number of extra-curricular activities, too numerous to list. Academically, he was especially interested in evolutionary and population genetics, and various topics in Theoretical Biology.

In his spare time, David enjoys reading, exercising, sleeping, participating in various sports, and playing piano.