Fall 2007 Program Faculty
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The faculty listed below have taught in the Peking University - Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program during the Fall 2007 semester.
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Dong Chen
Assistant Professor of Economics, Peking University
ECON 120: "Introduction to Chinese Economy"
Professor Dong received his BA in Economics from Chongquing University, and his MA in Economics from the University of Victoria in Canada. He recently received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Peking University. He specializes in industrial organization, applied econometrics, and Chinese economy.
Xing Wang Deng
Professor of Department of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology, Yale University
MCDB 470: "Tutorial, Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology"
MCDB 475: "Directed Research, Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology"
Xing Wang Deng received his Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California at Berkeley. His research centers on plant genetics and agro-biotechnology. He is an author of over 100 research papers and Director of Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology. Professor Deng is a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award and the Kumho Science International Award. He also has served as advisory board member for several professional organizations and associate editor for multiple scientific journals.
T.P. Ma
Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University
EENG 235a and 236b: "Special Projects, Beida-Yale Joint Research Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology"
T.P. Ma is Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of Applied Physics at Yale University, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Yale Center for Microelectronics. He is also a Co-Director of the Peking-Yale Joint Research Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. His research and teaching at Yale have focused on various aspects of semiconductor science and technology. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, and Tianjin University, and Honorary Guest Professorship at Peking University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a life member of the American Physical Society, among numerous memberships of other professional organizations.
Ding Ning
Vice Dean and Professor, School of Arts, Peking University
HSAR 352a: "Chinese Art: Symbolism and Philosophy of Life"
Dr. Ding Ning is the Vice Dean and Professor at the School of Arts, Peking University. He teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and lectures overseas. In 1993, he was awarded a fellowship from the British Council and did one year post-doctoral research at the Dept. of Art History & Theory, University of Essex, UK. He went to Harvard University as a Senior Visiting Scholar under the auspices of the Ministry of Education in 1998. His main publications include Dimensions of Reception (1990); Psychology of Visual Art (1994); Dimension of Duration: Toward a Philosophy of Art History (1997); Depth of Art (1999); Fifteen Lectures on History of Western Art (2003); and Spectrum of Images: Toward a Cultural Dimension of Visual Arts (2005).
Maria Piñango
Associate Professor, Linguistics, Yale University
LING 117/LING 517/PSYC 137: Psycholinguistics
LING 231/LING 631/PSYC 331: Neurolinguistics
Professor Piñango specializes in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, subfields of Cognitive Science that lie at the interface of linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, computer science and philosophy. She is a faculty member of Yale's Linguistics, Psychology and Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. She came to Yale in 1999 after earning a Ph.D. from Brandeis University (Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science). Her research is on the neurological and computational implications of the implementation of language as a cognitive capacity with special emphasis on the syntax-conceptual system interface. To this end she capitalizes on evidence from lesion studies (off and on-line), neuroimaging and real-time comprehension from a cross-linguistic approach (e.g., English, Spanish, Dutch & German). Her work includes investigations on anaphora resolution, argument structure, coercion and complex predication. She is a Humboldt fellow (Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Germany), and with Heike Wiese (Germanic Linguistics, University of Potsdam) she directs the Language-CS Group, an international (multi-lab) group that brings together researchers around the world dedicated to the study of the interface between the language and the conceptual systems.
Tan Shaohua
Peking University
CPSC 170: "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence"
Professor Tan Shaohua received his Ph.D from Leuven University. Currently, he is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His research areas include intelligent and multimedia systems. He has attended many international research conferences as a member or chairman. Some of his published papers include Complementarity and Equivalence Relationships Between Convex Fuzzy Systems with Symmetry Restrictions and Wavelets, Fuzzy pyramid-based invariant object recognition, Pattern Recognition, and The Min-Max Function Differentiation and Training of Fuzzy Neuralnetwork.
Stephen C. Stearns
Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
E & EB 181: "Key Issues in Evolution"
E & EB 122a: "Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
Professor Stearns specializes in life history evolution, which links the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, in evolutionary medicine, and in evolutionary functional genomics. He came to Yale in 2000 from the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he had been professor of zoology since 1983 and held several administrative posts. His books include "Evolution, an introduction" (Oxford, 2000) with Rolf Hoekstra, "Watching, from the Edge of Extinction" (Yale, 1999) with his wife Beverly Peterson Stearns, "The Evolution of Life Histories" (Oxford, 1992), and two edited volumes, "Evolution in health and disease" (Oxford, 1998) and "The Evolution of Sex and its Consequences." A 1967 graduate of Yale College, Stearns earned a M.S. from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Professor Stearns founded and has served as president of both the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Tropical Biology Association and was founding editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. He has been a vice president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Xuan Ya
Lecturer, International College for Chinese Language Studies, Peking University,
CHNS 115a: "Elementary Modern Chinese"
CHNS 130a: "Intermediate Modern Chinese"
CHNS 150a: "Advanced Modern Chinese I"
Xuan Ya received two Masters of Art; one in Clinical Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and one in Modern Chinese Literature at Peking University. She did her undergraduate work in Chinese language and literature at Shandong University. In addition to her nearly twenty years of teaching Chinese as a foreign language at Peking University, she has also taught Chinese at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. She spent two months at Yale observing all levels of Chinese language classes.
