Asian American Scholar Forum Members
Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF) lifts up members in our membership community. This includes prominent scholars who are members of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with past and current university presidents, provosts, deans and associate deans, past and current department chairs, and center, institute and program directors.
Sarita V. Adve
Richard T. Cheng Professor, Director, IMMERSE, Center for Immersive Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Vikram S. Adve
Donald B. Gillies Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Sanjeev Arora
Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Members of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Zhenan Bao
Department Chair and K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering, and by courtesy, a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford University. Members of National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
M.C. Frank Chang
Distinguished Professor and Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles. Former president of Members of National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica
Moses Charikar
Donald E. Knuth professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Simons Investigator in theoretical computer science and ACM Fellow.
Bernard Chazelle
Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University. Members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and European Academy of Sciences.
Deming Chen
Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering; Director, Xilinx Center of Excellence Chief Scientist, C3SR Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gang Chen
Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Members of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academia Sinica.
Yan Chen
Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University
Janet Chen
Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Jennifer (Yingying) Chen
Professor and Chair of Department Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University.
Yiran Chen
John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University. Director of the NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging the Next-generation Networks (Athena). Fellow of AAAS/ACM/IEEE.
Zhi-Long Chen
Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science, and Professor of Operations Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park
Anne Anlin Cheng
Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Program of American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Committee on Film Studies, Princeton University.
Jing Chen
Janet Davison Rowley Distinguished Service Professor in Cancer Research Director, Cancer Metabolomics Research Center
Stephen Chou
Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Princeton University. Member of National Academy of Engineering
Jason Cong
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence, Director of Center for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing, Director of VLSI Architecture, Synthesis, and Technology (VAST) Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles. Member of National Academy of Engineering.
Yi Cui
Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, of Photon Science, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and Professor, by courtesy, of Chemistry, Stanford University. Member of National Academy of Sciences.
Guangbin Dong
Weldon G. Brown Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chemistry Department.
Jianmin Gao
Professor of Chemistry, Boston College.
Fan Graham
Professor Emerita of Mathematics, Professor Emerita of Computer Science Engineering, University of California, San Diego. Members of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academia Sinica.
Xiang-dong Edward Guo
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University.
Aarti Gupta
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Princeton.
Chuan He
John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the University of Chicago.
Josiah Hester
Associate Professor of Interactive Computing and Computer Science, Director, Ka Moamoa, Ubiquitous & Mobile Computing Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Evelyn Hu
Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Harvard University. Members of National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Academia Sinica.
Liangbing Hu
Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor; Director, Center for Materials Innovation, University of Maryland.
Hanchen Huang
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of UMass Dartmouth.
Yasheng Huang
Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, Faculty Director of Action Learning, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Steve Jiang
Barbara Crittenden Professor in Cancer Research; Vice Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology; Director, Division of Medical Physics and Engineering, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Ginger (Zhe) Jin
Professor of Economics, and ADVANCE Professor of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park
Peng Jin
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Human Genetics Chair, Department of Human Genetics Director, Emory Stephen T. Warren National Fragile X Research Center Department of Human Genetics Emory University School of Medicine
Yiguang Ju
Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director of the Program in Sustainable Energy, Princeton University.
Yibin Kang
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.
Steven Kivelson
Prabhu Goel Family Professor at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. Member of National Academy of Sciences.
Jim Kurose
Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Associate Chancellor for Partnerships and Innovation at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Member of National Academy of Engineering.
Hai “Helen” Li
Department Chair and Clare Boothe Luce Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke University. Fellow of ACM/IEEE.
Ju Li
Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kai Li
Paul M. Wythes and Marcia R. Wythes Professor in Computer Science, Princeton University. Member of National Academy of Engineering.
Teng Li
Keystone Professor, Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Sustainable Materials and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park.
Xiuling Li
Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Haifan Lin
Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology, Professor of Genetics, of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, and of Dermatology, Founding Director of Yale Stem Cell Center, Yale University. Members of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Hening Lin
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University.
Ming Lin
Barry Mersky and Capital One Endowed Professor, Distinguished University Professor, Former Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair, University of Maryland.
Xihong Lin
Professor of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of Program in Quantitative Genomics, Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Statistics, Harvard University, Members of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine.
Andrea J. Liu
Hepburn Professor of Physics, Director of the Center for Soft and Living Matter. Members of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jun Liu
Washington Research Foundation Innovation Chair in Clean Energy, Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Campbell Chair Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Director of the Innovation Center for the Battery500 Consortium.
Jun S. Liu
Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Harvard University.
Shan-Lu Liu
Professor of Microbiology, Director of Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Program, Infectious Disease Institute, Ohio State University.
Shan Lu
Professor of Computer Science, University of Chicago. Chair of ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems.
Liqun Luo
Ann and Bill Swindells Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor, By Courtesy, of Neurobiology, Stanford University. Members of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Peter X. Ma
Richard H Kingery Endowed Collegiate Professor of Dentistry, Professor of Dentistry, Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan.
Peter F. Michelson
The Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Arvind Mithal
Charles W. And Jennifer C. Johnson Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and members of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ken Ono
STEM Advisor to the Provost & Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics, University of Virginia. Former Vice President of the American Mathematical Society.
Santa J. Ono
President of the University of Michigan. Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Dr. Shin-Shem Steven Pei
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston.
Calton Pu
Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software College of Computing, Georgia Tech. Director, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems.
Xiao-Liang Qi
Professor of Physics, Stanford University.
Li Qiao
Professor of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Professor, By Courtesy, of the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University.
Jianmin Qu
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stevens Institute of Technology.
Bing Ren
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego.
Zhiyong Jason Ren
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University.
H. Sebastian Seung
Evnin Professor in Neuroscience. Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience, Princeton University.
Yang Shao-Horn
W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Principal Investigator of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Member of National Academy of Engineering.
Weisong Shi
Professor and Chair, IEEE Fellow Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Delaware.
Jaswinder P. Singh
Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Societal Change and co-director of Center for the Decentralization of Power through Blockchain Technology, Princeton University
Jeffery Snyder
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.
Gurindar S. Sohi
John P. Morgridge Professor, E. David Cronon Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Members of National Academy of Engineering and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dawn Song
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, co-Director of Berkeley Center on Responsible Decentralized Intelligence, University of California at Berkeley.
Hongjun Song
Perelman Professor of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Duxin Sun
Associate Dean for Research, College of Pharmacy, Charles Walgreen Jr. Professor of Pharmacy, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Michigan.
Zhigang Suo
Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials, Harvard University. Members of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
William Tang
Principal Research Physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Former Chief Scientist and Head of Theory Department, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.
Olga Troyanskaya
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Genomic Institute, Princeton University. Deputy director for Genomics, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute.
Meng Wang
Professor of Huffington Center on Aging, Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, Co-Director of the Genetics and Genomics Graduate Program, Robert C. Fyfe Endowed Chair on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine. Member of National Academy of Sciences.
Ting Wang
Inaugural Sanford C. and Karen P. Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Xiao-Fan Wang
Donald and Elizabeth Cooke Professor of Cancer Research, School of Medicine, professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Professor of Cell Biology, Duke University, Member of the Duke Cancer Institute.
Xiao-Jing Wang
Global Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Physics, Co-Director of the Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, New York University.
Yinhai Wang
Professor in transportation engineering and the founding director of the Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory (STAR Lab) at the University of Washington.
Xiao-Gang Wen
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Member of National Academy of Sciences.
Li Wu
Professor, Endowed Department Chair Department of Microbiology and Immunology Carver College of Medicine The University of Iowa
Min Wu
Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland. President-Elect, IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Xiaoxing Xi
Laura H. Carnell Professor of Physics and former Chair of Physics Department, Temple University.
Jeff (Zhihong) Xia
Arthur and Gladys Pancoe Professor of Mathematics, Northwestern University.
Chengshan Xiao
Chandler Weaver Professor, Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lehigh University. Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Yu Xie
Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and PIIRS, Princeton University. Members of National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Chenke Xu
Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Chenyang Xu
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University.
Jihui Yang
Kyocera Professor in Material Science and Engineering and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Washington.
Vigor Yang
Regents Professor, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. Members of National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica.
Jun Zhang
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Area Chair, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Statistics (by courtesy), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Shou-Wu Zhang
Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Xiaodong Zhang
Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering, Computer Science Department, Ohio State University.
Yuanhui Zhang
Founder Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Xuanhe Zhao
Professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering, MIT.
Yuanyuan Zhou
Qualcomm Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego.