To enhance education quality and promote academic innovation, the City University of Macau (CityU) actively recruits academic elites from internationally renowned universities every year. Recently, CityU held an orientation for new academic staff, welcoming a new batch of nearly 80 faculty members to join the university’s teaching and research endeavors. This includes outstanding young scholars and internationally renowned senior scholars, whose addition injects new vitality into the university’s development and enhances the level and academic strength.
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The new batch of academic staff possess outstanding academic qualifications, an international perspective, and rich teaching and research experience. Their research areas cover a wide range, including artificial intelligence, finance, business, applied linguistics. They have also played important roles and led in multiple national-level research projects. These academics have studied and gathered extensive working experiences at prestigious universities both domestically and internationally, such as Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, the University of Edinburgh, King’s College London, Technical University of Munich, Nanyang Technological University, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Sydney, Carnegie Mellon University, and Aalto University.
Many of these academic staff are top experts in their respective fields. In the fields of big data and artificial intelligence, Prof. Zhu Tianqing, associate dean of the Faculty of Data Science (FDS), is a senior scholar in data privacy and security, artificial intelligence, and cyber security, and has received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Prof. Gu Jia is a senior scholar in electrical and electronic engineering and has served as vice president of the Advanced Technology Institute of Suzhou; and has taken on projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology’s key technologies R & D program. Prof. Sun Xin has extensive teaching and research experience in the field of artificial intelligence both domestically and abroad; and has led provincial-level and national-level projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
In the field of finance and business, Prof. José Paulo Afonso Esperança, associate dean of the Faculty of Business (FOB), has many years of experience in economics; and had previously served as dean of the Business School at the ISCTE Business School of the University Institute of Lisbon and vice president of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) of Portugal; he has extensive teaching and institutional management experience. Prof. Cai Shun is a senior scholar in areas such as e-commerce, social commerce, as well as supply chain and innovation, and serves as the associate editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Information Systems. Prof. Xie Dejun has many years of experience in applied finance and economics; and had previously served as the coordinator of the master’s degree program in finance and mathematics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, with his teaching and research achievements being highly recognized.
In the field of humanities and social sciences, Prof. Huang Guowen, associate dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), is a functional linguist, ecolinguist, and applied linguist. He is also a one of the distinguished professors of the “Changjiang Scholars Program” appointed by the Ministry of Education. Prof. Chan Ngon Fung is an expert in ancient and contemporary literature and history of calligraphy and painting; His monographs have won national-level awards for outstanding achievements in humanities and social sciences, making significant contributions to the literary community. Prof. Stanley Zhang Haomin is a senior scholar specialized in psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, as well as language and cognition. He serves as an editor and reviewer for multiple SSCI and SCI journals.
In the field of urban development, Prof. Han Haoying is currently the chief expert of the Sino-Canada Culture and Arts Foundation and the associate editor of the international journal – Journal of Urban Management. He has received multiple academic awards both domestically and internationally and has led multiple projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and provincial-level departments.
In the field of music and arts, Prof. Dai Dingcheng previously served as dean of the Music College at Shanghai Normal University and has made significant contributions to local music studies and higher education in Macao. He has been awarded the Medal of Merit – Culture by the Macao SAR Government in 2013.
In the field of health, Prof. Sun Pei is an expert in the areas of health and psychology and serves as an editor for international journals such as Frontiers in Psychology and Brain Informatics. Previously, he taught at the Department of Psychology at Tsinghua University.
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With the joining of the new batch of academics, CityU will provide valuable opportunities for students to engage with international cutting-edge academic developments and research achievements, as well as create a more challenging and innovative learning environment for future talents. Their joining will also enrich the faculty team and empower innovation and advancement in academia.
Looking ahead, CityU will continue to shoulder its social responsibility and educational mission of “Serving Macao, Integrating into the Greater Bay Area”. It will further strengthen exchanges and connectivity with renowned universities both domestically and internationally, forming a more comprehensive, broader, and multi-level international education hub, and making contributions to talent cultivation in Macao, the Greater Bay Area, and the country.
