Pan moved back to Beijing shortly after graduating in 2002 with a doctorate in systems engineering from Boston University.

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Boston-born son of accountant got engineering degree from Johns Hopkins, M.

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He studied engineering at Bunker Hill Community College just outside Boston, but had taken the year off to train as a boxer, sources told CNN.

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