Fall Issue, 2025

This is an electronic newsletter published online by the Department of Academic Personnel Administration to announce faculty academic administrative appointments effective April 8, 2025, unless otherwise specified, as well as new faculty members who have joined us or received joint appointments since April 8, 2025, and before September 30, 2025. This issue also features selected awards and honors received by faculty in recognition of their outstanding achievements in their respective fields over the past year. We extend our warmest welcome to colleagues newly on board and congratulate those who have received appointments. (Names under each section are listed alphabetically by the initial letter of the last name.)

INFORMATION HUB

Substantiation

  • Nan TANG 汤南
    Associate Professor, DSA
    (PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Substantiation and Promotion

  • Mingming FAN 范明明
    Associate Professor, CMA
    (PhD, University of Toronto)

  • Gareth John TYSON
    Associate Professor, IoT
    (PhD, Lancaster University)

New Faculty on Board

  • Omar COSTA HAMIDO
    Assistant Professor, CMA
    (PhD, University of California, Irvine)
    (Last affiliation: University of Coimbra)

  • Huayi DUAN 段华忆
    Assistant Professor, DSA
    (PhD, City University of Hong Kong)
    (Last affiliation: ETH Zurich)

  • Haiyun HE 何海韵
    Assistant Professor, IoT
    (PhD, National University of Singapore)
    (Last affiliation: Cornell University)

  • ANCA-SIMONA HORVATH
    Assistant Professor, CMA
    (PhD, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (RO))
    (Last affiliation: Aalborg University)

  • Zhiming HU 胡志明
    Assistant Professor, CMA
    (PhD, Peking University)
    (Last affiliation: University of Stuttgart)

  • Yue LI 李越
    Lecturer II, AI
    (PhD, The Queen's University Belfast)
    (Last affiliation: Mingge English Training School)

  • Nicolo MERENDINO
    Lecturer I, CMA
    (PhD, Università di Padova)
    (Last affiliation: Università di Padova)

  • Chengwei QIN 秦成伟
    Assistant Professor, AI
    (PhD, Nanyang Technological University)
    (Last affiliation: Nanyang Technological University)

  • Dr. Ingeborg REICHLE
    Professor, CMA
    (PhD, Humboldt University of Berlin)
    (Last affiliation: Joint Research Centre (JRC) / European Commission)

  • Yao SHU 舒瑶
    Assistant Professor, AI
    (PhD, The National University of Singapore)
    (Last affiliation: The Guangdong Lab of AI and Digital Economy (SZ))

  • Ningxin SU 苏宁馨
    Assistant Professor, IoT
    (PhD, University of Toronto)
    (Last affiliation: University of Toronto)

  • Jun XIA 夏俊
    Assistant Professor, DSA
    (PhD, Zhejiang University & Westlake University)
    (Last affiliation: Zhejiang University & Westlake University)

  • Jeffrey Xu YU 于旭
    Professor, DSA
    (PhD, University of Tsukuba)
    (Last affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Joint Appointment

  • Lei CHEN 陈雷
    Chair Professor
    DSA(Home) & AI(Joint)
    (PhD, University of Waterloo)

  • Yingcong CHEN 陈颖聪
    Assistant Professor
    AI(Home) & EMIA(Joint)
    (PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

  • Xiaowen CHU 褚晓文
    Professor
    DSA(Home) & AI(Joint)
    (PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

  • Pan HUI 许彬
    Chair Professor
    CMA(Home) & EMIA(Joint)
    (PhD, University of Cambridge)

  • Lei LI 李雷
    Assistant Professor
    DSA(Home) & EMIA(Joint)
    (PhD, The University of Queensland)

  • James Pei Man SHE 许丕文
    Associate Professor
    CMA(Home) & AMC(Joint)
    (PhD, University of Waterloo)

  • Fugee TSUNG 宗福季
    Chair Professor
    IEDA(Home) & DSA(Joint)
    (PhD, University of Michigan)

  • Wei WANG 王炜
    Professor
    DSA(Home) & EMIA(Joint)
    (PhD, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

  • Hui XIONG 熊辉
    Chair Professor
    AI(Home) & EMIA(Joint)
    (PhD, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

  • Kang ZHANG
    Professor
    CMA(Home) & EMIA(Joint)
    (PhD, University of Brighton)