Members

73 Prominent Asian American Scholars from 30 Universities

There are currently 73 prominent scholars from over 30 universities in support of advancing Asian American Scholar Forum’s mission. Among the members, 25 of whom are national academy members (National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, or American Academy of Arts and Sciences), 8 are past and current university presidents, provosts, deans and associate deans, 15 past and current department chairs, and 25 are center, institute and program directors.

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.

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, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academia Sinica.

Zhilong Chen

Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science and Professor of Operations Management, University of Maryland.

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.

Xuemei Chen

Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell & Molecular Biology, University of California, Riverside. Member of National Academy of Sciences.

Yiran Chen

Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University.

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.

Stephen Chou

Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell & Molecular Biology, University of California, Riverside. Member of National Academy of Sciences.

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.

Xiang-Dong Fu

Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego.

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.

Chuan He

John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the University of Chicago.

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

Dean of the College of Engineering. Lupe Murchison Foundation chair professor, mechanical and industrial engineering, University of North Texas.

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 at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the ADVANCE Professor of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. University of Maryland.

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.

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.

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, Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics, Professor of Statistics, Harvard University. Member of 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

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.

Steven Pei

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston.

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 Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stevens Institute of Technology.

Bing Ren

Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California at San Diego.

Jason (Zhiyong) Ren

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University.

H. Sebastian Seung

President at Samsung Electronics & Head of Samsung Research and 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, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware.

Jeffery Snyder

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.

Jaswinder P. Singh

Professor of Computer Science and co-director of Center for the Decentralization of Power through Blockchain Technology, Princeton University.

Gurindar S. Sohi, Vilas Research Professor

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.

Hongjun Song

Perelman Professor of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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.

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.

Xiao-Fan Wang

Donald and Elizabeth Cooke Professor of Cancer Research, School of Medicine, Duke University. Foreign member of Chinese Academy of Science.

Xiao-Jing Wang

Global Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Physics, Co-Director of the Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, New York University.

Xiao-Gang Wen

Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Member of National Academy of Sciences.

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.

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.

Yuanyuan Zhou

Qualcomm Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego.