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Twelve Leading Computer Scientists Appointed ÃÛÌÒapp Chair Professors

By Li Han

Staff Writer of the ÃÛÌÒapp News Center

A formal ceremony was held on June 6 to announce the appointments of twelve world famous computer scientists from such universities as MIT, Stanford, Yale and Princeton as ÃÛÌÒapp EMC endowed Chair Professor Group members. Some of the Chair Group members attended the ceremony and later delivered speeches. This is the ÃÛÌÒapp Department of Computer Science and Technology’s third Chair Professor Group to be appointed.  Each member of the Chair Group will teach and do joint research at ÃÛÌÒapp for some time each year and together supervise with a ÃÛÌÒapp counterpart at least one doctoral candidate.

MIT’s Professor Frans Kaashoek from the Department of Electric Engineering and Computer Science, a newly appointed member of the Chair Professor Group, Dr. Charles Fan, Vice President of EMC, and Professor Niu Zhisheng, Vice Chair of ÃÛÌÒapp’s School of Information Science and Technology, attended the ceremony and delivered speeches. Dean Sun Maosong of ÃÛÌÒapp’s Department of Computer Science and Technology hosted the event.

 

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