Testimony of jeffrey s. Lehman vice chancellor of nyu shanghai

 

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I.    Faculty  Leadership  (continued)  

Fanghua  Lin  

Associate  Provost  

for  the  Quantitative  

Disciplines,    

Co-­‐Director  of  Math  

Institute  

Also  chaired  professor  at  NYU  NY.  Scholar  of  

mathematics.  Many  honors,  including  member  of  

American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences.  Teaches  Complex  

Variables  &  Partial  Differential  Equations  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

           

 

 

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II.    Senior  Faculty  

 

Jian  Chen  

Distinguished  

Global  Network  

Professor  

Former  chaired  professor  at  Cornell.  Scholar  of  Chinese  and  

cold  war  history.  Many  honors  including  Emmy  Award  and  

Nobel  Institute  Fellowship.  Four  books  and  more  than  50  

articles.  Teaches  20th-­‐Century  East  Asia-­‐U.S.  Relations  at  

NYU  Shanghai.  

Vladas  

Sidoravicius  

Professor  

Former  full  researcher  at  the  Institute  of  Pure  and  Applied  

Mathematics,  Rio  de  Janeiro,  Brazil.    Scholar  of  probability  

and  statistics.    Longstanding  research  partner  with  

colleagues  at  the  Courant  Institute  of  Mathematics.  Teaches  

Probability  and  Statistics  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Jiawei  Zhang  

Professor  

Also  tenured  professor  at  NYU  NY.  Scholar  of  data  science  

and  business  analytics.  More  than  30  published  articles.  

Teaches  Business  Analytics  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

John  Zhang  

Co-­‐Director,  

Computational  

Chemistry  Institute  

 

Also  professor  at  NYU  NY.  Scholar  of  protein  structure.  

Former  NSF  Presidential  Faculty  fellow  and  former  Sloan  

fellow.  31  published  articles.  Teaches  Math  for  Foundations  

of  Science  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Jun  Zhang  

Professor  

Also  professor  of  physics  and  mathematics  at  NYU  NY.  

Scholar  of  biomechanics  and  biophysics.  Research  

featured  in  Nature,  Physics  Today,  BBC  Radio,  ABC  

television.  Teaches  Foundations  of  Science  at  NYU  

Shanghai.  

Zheng  Zhang  

Professor  

Founded  Systems  Research  Group  at  Microsoft  Research  

Asia.  Scholar  of  data  science,  systems  analysis,  computer  

architecture.  More  than  45  publications  including  several  

best  paper  awards,  and  18  patents  (with  27  pending).      

Teaches  Computer  Science  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

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III.    Mid-­‐Career  Faculty  

 

Duane  Corpis   Associate  Professor   Former  assistant  professor  at  Cornell.  Scholar  of  European  

history.  Book  published  by  University  of  Virginia  Press.  

Teaches  Global  History  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Pierre  Landry   Associate  

Professor  

Former  associate  professor  at  University  of  Pittsburgh.  

Scholar  of  political  science.  Previously  taught  at  

Yale,  Peking  University,  University  of  Michigan.  Book  

published  by  Cambridge  University  Press.  Teaches  Political  

Science  and  Global  China  Studies  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Steven  Lehrer   Associate  Professor   Former  associate  professor  at  Queens  University,  Ontario.  

Scholar  of  Economics  and  Public  Policy.  19  published  

articles.  Several  editorial  boards.  Teaches  Economics  at  NYU  

Shanghai.  

Li  Li  

Associate  Professor   Former  associate  professor  at  Hong  Kong  University.  

Scholar  of  psychology  and  neural  science.    24  published  

articles;  9  external  grants.    Teaches  Introduction  to  

Neuroscience  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Todd  Meyers  

Associate  Professor   Former  assistant  professor  at  Wayne  State  University.    

Scholar  of  medical  anthropology.    Book  published  by  

University  of  Washington  Press.  12  peer-­‐reviewed  articles.  

Teaches  Social  Science  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Brad  Weslake   Associate  Professor   Former  assistant  professor  at  University  of  Rochester.  

Scholar  of  philosophy  of  science.  Book  published  by  

Harvard  University  Press.  Member  of  American  

Philosophical  Association.  Teaches  Logic  and  Philosophy  of  

Science  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

 

 

 

 

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IV.  Junior  Faculty  

Xinying  Cai  

Assistant  

Professor  

Former  postdoc  at  Yale  and  Washington  University.  

Scholar  of  neural  science.  Recipient  of  Excellence  in  Neural  

Engineering  award.  Teaches  Neuroscience  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Nan  Cao  

Assistant  Professor   Former  researcher  at  IBM  Watson  Research  Center.    Scholar  

of  data  visualization.    Received  best  dissertation  award  at  

Hong  Kong  University  of  Science  and  Technology.    Teaches  

Data  Science  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Lixian  Cui  

Assistant  Professor   Former  postdoc  at  University  of  Toronto.    Scholar  of  child  

and  adolescent  emotional  development.    6  articles  

published  in  refereed  journals.    Teaches  Introduction  to  

Psychology  at  NYU  Shanghai.    

Jeffrey  Erlich  

Assistant  Professor   Former  postdoc  at  Princeton.  Scholar  of  neural  science.  

Work  has  appeared  in  Nature,  Neuron,  Frontiers  in  

Neuroscience  and  elsewhere.  Teaches  Neuroscience  at  NYU  

Shanghai.  

Gang  Fang  

Assistant  

Professor  

Former  postdoc  at  Yale  and  research  assistant  at  Hong  Kong  

University.  Scholar  of  molecular  biophysics.  Over  20  papers  

published.  Teaches  Biology  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Alexander  

Geppert  

Assistant  

Professor  

Former  professor  at  Free  University  of  Berlin.  

Scholar  of  astroculture.  Previous  fellowships  at  

Cambridge,  Harvard,  and  elsewhere.  Teaches  European  

history  at  NYU  Shanghai  and  at  NYU  NY  (joint  appointment)  

William  Glover   Assistant  Professor   Former  postdoc  at  Stanford.    Scholar  of  computational  

chemistry.    Over  20  papers  published  in  refereed  journals.  

Teaches  Chemistry  at  NYU  Shanghai.      

Celina  Hung  

Assistant  

Professor  

Former  postdoc  and  assistant  professor  at  UCLA.  Scholar  of  

comparative  ethnic  studies.  Teaches  Representing  Ethnicity  

in  China,  Masters  of  Asian  Cinema,  Gender  Sexuality  and  

Culture  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Andrea  Jones-­‐

Rooy  

Assistant  Professor   Former  postdoc  at  Carnegie  Mellon.  Scholar  of  international  

relations  and  complex  systems.  Teaches  International  

Relations  and  Political  Science  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Jung  Seog  

Kang  

Assistant  Professor   Former  research  scientist  and  postdoc  at  University  of  

Texas.  Scholar  of  systems  biology  and  cancer.  Holds  2  

patents.  Teaches  Biology  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Heather  Lee  

Assistant  Professor   Former  postdoc  at  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  

and  instructor  at  Free  University  of  Berlin.    Scholar  of  

migration  history.    Teaches  History  at  NYU  Shanghai.      

Xuan  Li  

Assistant  Professor   Former  researcher  at  German  Youth  Institute;  Ph.D.  from  

Cambridge  University.    Scholar  of  Chinese  family  relations.  

Teaches  Introduction  to  Psychology  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

Sukbin  Lin  

Assistant  Professor   Former  postdoc  at  University  of  Chicago.    Scholar  of  

computational  neural  science.    Paper  published  in  Nature  

Neural  Science.    Teaches  Neural  Science  at  NYU  Shanghai.  

 

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