To continue to build a larger and stronger teaching team, the City University of Macau has been recruiting academic talent globally. As the new academic year begins, we have new academic staff joining, enlarging the number of academic staff members by 30%. They have become our new teaching and research force and are committed to talent cultivation and development of the University.
In recent years, CityU Macau has been striving to develop itself into a metropolitan university with “integration of diversified cultures, excellent liberal education and featured humanities programs”. It recruits outstanding talent globally and cultivates young scholars. Most of the new members of our academic team graduated from a world renowned university, have a good academic background and excellent research ability.
Prof Lixian Jin, the new Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, is a renowned scholar and expert in the areas of Linguistics and Pedagogy. She received her Ph.D. degree in Linguistics and Pedagogy from the University of Leicester and has worked at De Montfort University (Director of Centre for Intercultural Research in Communication and Learning), the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (Head of School of English). Prof Jin has abundant experience in teaching and research on linguistics. She have led and participated in more than 40 funded international research projects and published over 200 academic books and articles. Prof Jin is currently an Executive editorial board member for International Journal of Language & Communication disorders, Editor-in-Chief of a number of academic journals of applied linguistics, a reviewer/evaluator of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council and other institutions. She has been invited to be a keynote speaker and give lectures around the world and participated in the compilation of teaching materials for college English.
Prof Yi Mu, the new Associate Dean of the Faculty of Data Science, received his Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University. He was a Professor, the Head of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering and the Director of Centre for Computer and Information Security Research at the University of Wollongong. Prof Mu’s major research areas include cryptography, cybersecurity, data security and privacy, and Quantum information science etc. He has been the editor and editor-in-chief of a number of renowned international journals and has served as a member of program committee or program chair at a number of renowned international conferences, such as ACM CCS, ESORICS, ACM AsiaCCS etc.
Most of the academic staff members who join CityU Macau this academic years are from internationally renowned universities, such as the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Tokyo, King's College London, University of Queensland and University of Sydney etc. They will teach at the Faculty of Business, Faculty of Finance, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of International Tourism and Management, Faculty of Data Science and Faculty of Innovation and Design etc.
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