This year, City University of Macau (CityU) has recruited nearly 80 academic talents from around the world, bringing new energy to teaching enhancement, talent cultivation, and research innovation. Their joining will further strengthen the University’s international, high-level faculty team and enhance educational quality and academic standards.
CityU recently held a two-day orientation for new academic staff at the Ho Yin Convention Centre, Taipa campus, bringing together university leaders and department heads. The orientation provided a platform for exchange and resource sharing, helping new members integrate into campus culture, discover the diverse resources available across departments, and build connections with colleagues, thereby supporting the University’s high‑quality development.
On the first day, the new academic staff gathered in a pleasant atmosphere to learn about the University while getting to know one another. Rector Jun Liu extended a warm welcome to all new faculty. He delved into the University’s development journey, vision and mission, and shared his earnest expectations in line with the University’s overall development strategy. Rector Liu noted that, facing new opportunities arising under the national “15th Five-Year Plan” and Macao’s “3rd Five-Year Plan”, CityU will align with Macao’s development positioning as “one centre, one platform, one base”, upload the “integration of education, technology, and talent”, continue optimizing its disciplinary structure, advance research translation and applications, take root in Hengqin‑Macao and integrate into the Greater Bay Area’s sci-tech innovation, and strive to build a comprehensive university with excellence. He encouraged all new academic staff to remain true to education and research, pursue interdisciplinary innovation and international academic exchange, shoulder social responsibility, and use their expertise to support Macao’s industrial diversification and the high‑quality integration of Hengqin and Macao, charting a new chapter in the University development.
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During the orientation, CityU also organized cultural experience activities to help new faculty integrate into Macao, taking participants on visits to the Educational Patriotic Base for Youth, the Commemorative Gallery of the Macao Basic Law and distinctive museums, offering an immersive experience of Macao’s urban heritage and sense of national belonging.
This year's cohort of new faculty is highly diverse in background and teaching experience, including internationally renowned scholars as well as young academic talents. They bring rich academic backgrounds and research experience across different fields, with research areas aligned with frontier disciplinary development and social and industrial needs. These areas include artificial intelligence and robotics, computing system security and privacy computing, health sciences and bioinformatics, sustainable finance, smart tourism, the economic impact of large language models, AI in education, human-computer interaction, educational data science, urban and rural planning technology and science, and global governance, promoting interdisciplinary innovation and development. In addition, they have study, teaching, and research experience at renowned institutions at home and abroad, such as the University of Oxford, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), King's College London, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Fudan University, and possess outstanding research and teaching capabilities.
Going forward, CityU will continue to recruit global talent, strengthen its international high-caliber faculty team, and enhance its disciplinary development and research innovation, contributing to the advancement of higher education in Macao and the nation.
