Dear AASF Community,
Thank you to those who were able to join us at our 2026 symposium.
This year, the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF) was proud to host our inaugural induction ceremony for 2026 Fellows. Thank you to Dean Arun Majumdar (inaugural Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University) for keynoting.
AASF is proud to announce the election of the following individuals as fellows for extraordinary contributions to scholarship, community, and leadership.
Jin-Yi Cai
Juris Hartmanis Professor of Computer Science, and Rajiv & Rita Batra Chair in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Gordon H. Chang
Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, Stanford University
Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
Ying (Alison) Cheng
Sweeney Family Collegiate Professor of Quantitative Psychology and Education, University of Notre Dame
Ed Huai-hsin Chi
Vice President of Research, Google DeepMind
Sung-Mo Steve Kang
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Jungsang Kim
Schiciano Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
Li Shi
Ernest Cockrell Sr. Chair Professor in Engineering, University of Texas, Austin
Guiling “Grace” Wang
Distinguished Professor of Data Science and founding director of the AI Center for Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Kang L Wang
Raytheon Chair Distinguished Professor, ECE, MSE, and Physics/Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang
Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Neuroscience M.D./Ph.D. Program, Princeton University
Junfeng Yang
Professor of Computer Science and co-Director of the Software Systems Lab, Columbia University
Chih-Kong Ken Yang
Inaugural Tatsuo Itoh Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA
Paul Chien-Ping Yang
Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
Lin Zhong
Joseph C. Tsai Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Min Zhou
Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Juhua Zhu
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aigen Investment Management, LP
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Sincerely,
Gisela P. Kusakawa
Executive Director
Asian American Scholar Forum