S B received his Ph D in physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1964. He was a Professor of Physics and a trustee of the University of Delaware. He was the founding president and chief negotiator of the Faculty Bargaining Unit at that University.

S B was elected Lt. Governor of Delaware in 1985, the highest elected state office in the continental USA held by an Asian American at the time. He later was an Institute Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and a life-size picture of him is on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D C.

S B was the national president of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) in 1991. He is a founding member and the Immediate Past President of 80-20 Initiative.