Academia Sinica on Thursday announced its newly elected academicians and honorary academicians on the closing day of its convocation.
The institute held its biennial Convocation of Academicians from Monday to Thursday.
Newly elected academicians and honorary academicians were announced by Academia Sinica President James Liao (廖俊智) and conveners at a news conference after the closing of the convocation.
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This year, a total of 28 new academicians and two honorary academicians were elected, Academia Sinica said.
Newly elected academicians and honorary academicians are as follows:
Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Ching-lung Wang
Current position(s): Professor of Mathematics, National Taiwan University
Specialties: Algebraic Geometry, Differential Geometry
Tailen Hsing
Current position(s): Michael B. Woodroofe Collegiate Professor of Statistics at University of Michigan
Specialties: Extreme value theory, functional data analysis, time series, spatial data analysis
Cheng Chin
Current position(s): Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck institute and Enrico Fermi institute, University of Chicago
Specialties: Atomic Physics
Shang-cheng Hung
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Carbohydrate Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology
Chung-pei Ma
Current position(s): Judy Chandler Webb Chair Professor in Physical Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Specialties: Astrophysics and cosmology
Chen-tung Arthur Chen
Current position(s): Adjunct Chair Research Professor, Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University
Specialties: Oceanography, Global change, Ocean acidification
Nai-chang Yeh
Current position(s): Thomas W. Hogan Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Specialties: Experimental condensed matter physics; quantum materials; nanoscience; nanotechnology
Jaw-shen Tsai
Current position(s): Professor at Tokyo University of Science
Specialties: Low temperature solid state physics
Division of Engineering Sciences
Wei Shyy
Current position(s): Member, Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (Headquarters: Taipei) International Advisory Board
Specialties: Aerodynamics and Propulsion, Bio-inspired Flight, Multi-scale Computational Modeling and Design Optimization
Chen-hua Douglas Yu
Current position(s): Distinguished Fellow and R&D Vice President, TSMC
Specialties: Semiconductor processing and advanced packaging technologies
Chien-ping Lee
Current position(s): Lifetime Chair Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Specialties: Semiconductor devices and physics, Optoelectronics, Nano structures and physics
Tsu-jae King Liu
Current position(s): Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Dean of the College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Specialties: Semiconductor Technology
Lee-lueng Fu
Current position(s): JPL Fellow and Senior Research Scientist
Specialties: Physical oceanography, Radar remote sensing of the ocean
Yang Yang
Current position(s): UCLA Distinguished Professor, and The Carol and Lawrence Tannas Jr. Chair Professor
Specialties: Organic/perovskite materials and thin-film solar cells, metal oxide transistors
Jien-wei Yeh
Current position(s): Chair Professor of National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Director of High Entropy Materials Center, NTHU, Taiwan
Specialties: High-Entropy Alloys and Materials; Aluminum Alloys, Magnesium Alloys and Metal Matrix Composites; Coating Technology; Manufacturing Technology
David You Hong Pui
Current position(s): Regents Professor, University of Minnesota; and Director, Particle Technology Lab
Specialties: Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Science and Technology, Aerosol/Particle
Division of Life Sciences
Jeannie Tsun-huei Lee
Current position(s): Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Specialties: Epigenetics, RNA biology, X-chromosome inactivation
Ta-yuan Chang
Current position(s): Professor, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
Specialties: Regulation of Cholesterol Metabolism in Human Health and Diseases
Eric Jinsheng Huang
Current position(s): Professor & Vice Chair for Research Dept of Pathology, University of California San Francisco
Specialties: Neuroscience
Chang-hsien Yang
Current position(s): Chair Professor, Chung Hsing University
Specialties: Plant Molecular Developmental Biology, Orchid Biotechnology
Linda Ming-huei Liau
Current position(s): Professor & Chair of Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine
Specialties: Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, Cancer, Immunology, Immunotherapy
Yi-fang Tsay
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Plant Science, Plant Nutrition, Membrane Biology, Electrophysiology
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Tze-chien Wang
Current position(s): Professor Emeritus, College of Law, National Taiwan University; Privilege Justices of the Constitutional Court, Judicial Yuan
Specialties: Civil Law, Legal Methodology
Yen-hui Audrey Li
Current position(s): Professor of Linguistics, Linguistics Dept., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Specialties: Linguistics (syntactic studies and interfaces, applications studies)
Chih-ming Ka
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Historical Sociology, Development Study, Peasant Study, Industrial and Labor Relations.
Shin-kun Peng
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Regional Economics, International Trade
Rur-bin Yang
Current position(s): Jointly Appointed Chair Professor, National Tsinghua University Institute of Philosophy and Center for General Education
Specialties: Philosophy of Embodiment, Mythological Thought, Song-Ming Neo Confucianism, Daoist Philosophy
Carl K. Y. Shaw
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
Specialties: History of Political Thought
Elected Honorary Academicians:
Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Ronald E. Taam
Current position(s): Emeritus Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Specialties: High-Energy & Computational Astrophysics, Binary Star Evolution
Division of Engineering Sciences
John L. Anderson
Current position(s): President, National Academy of Engineering, Washington DC, USA
Specialties: Chemical Engineering, Engineering Sciences, Academic Administration
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