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.)

SOCIETY HUB

New Faculty on Board

  • Sijia CHEN 陈思佳
    Assistant Professor, FTEC
    (PhD, University of Toronto)
    (Last affiliation: University of Toronto)

  • Rushi DAI 代茹诗
    Assistant Professor, UGOD
    (PhD, RWTH Aachen University)
    (Last affiliation: Hong Kong Center for Construction Robotics)

  • Jihao HONG 洪佶豪
    Assistant Professor, IPE
    (PhD, Boston University)
    (Last affiliation: Boston University)

  • Guohuibin LI 李国惠斌
    Assistant Professor, IPE
    (PhD, Arizona State University)
    (Last affiliation: Arizona State University)

  • Jiangong LIU 刘建功
    Assistant Professor, CNCC
    (PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
    (Last affiliation: Columbia University)

  • Jiaqi LU 芦佳琪
    Assistant Professor, CNCC
    (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    (Last affiliation: Boston University)

  • Xiang LU 吕想
    Assistant Professor, UGOD
    (PhD, New York University)
    (Last affiliation: Zhejiang University)

  • Lili MIAO 苗丽莉
    Assistant Professor, IPE
    (PhD, Indiana University)
    (Last affiliation: Indiana University)

  • Shi QIU 邱实
    Assistant Professor, FTEC
    (PhD, University of Illinois)
    (Last affiliation: University of Illinois)

  • Qianping REN 任前平
    Assistant Professor, IPE(Home) & CNCC(Joint)
    (PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz)
    (Last affiliation: University of California, Santa Cruz)

  • Yuqi SONG 宋雨琪
    Assistant Professor, CNCC
    (PhD, The University of Chicago)
    (Last affiliation: Harvard University)

  • Shuo SUN 孙朔
    Assistant Professor, FTEC
    (PhD, Nanyang Technological University)
    (Last affiliation: Nanyang Technological University)

  • Junxuan WANG 王俊轩
    Assistant Professor, FTEC
    (PhD, University of Warwick)
    (Last affiliation: University of Cambridge)

  • Wenjun WANG 王文军
    Assistant Professor, CNCC
    (PhD, University of Maryland)
    (Last affiliation: Agricultural Bank of China)

  • Xin WANG 王鑫
    Assistant Professor, IPE
    (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    (Last affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Liang ZHANG 张亮
    Assistant Professor, FTEC
    (PhD, Nanyang Technological University)
    (Last affiliation: HEC Paris)

Joint Appointment

  • Ye QI
    Chair Professor
    CNCC(Home) & PPOL(Joint)
    (PhD, The State University of New York and Syracuse University)