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Vice President Chin-shing Huang 

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Education 
1983 Ph.D., History, Harvard University 
1975 M.A., History, National Taiwan University 

Introduction 
　　Dr. Chin-shing Huang was appointed as Vice President of Academia Sinica on September 1, 2016. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1983, and launched his career at Academia Sinica’s Institute of History and Philology (IHP) shortly thereafter. Dr. Huang started out as an Associate Research Fellow (1983-1990) at IHP, and was later promoted to the ranks of Research Fellow (1990-2008) and Distinguished Research Fellow (2008-2020). He is currently a Corresponding Research Fellow of IHP. His areas of interest include Chinese intellectual history, historiography, and religious culture, and he has been a pioneer in the study of temples dedicated to Confucius. Dr. Huang was elected as Academician of Academia Sinica in 2008, and has earned numerous awards from the National Science Council and Information Office of Executive Yuan. In addition, Dr. Huang was a Senior Fulbright Scholar from 1994 to 1995.

　　Dr. Huang served as Director of the Institute of History and Philology from 2009 to 2016, as well as in other important administrative posts at Academia Sinica. Additionally, he also served as an Advisory Board Member of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (2000-2016), Adjunct Chair Professor at Taipei Medical University (2012-2018), and Adjunct Professor at National Taiwan University (1984-2010). Currently, Dr. Huang serves as the Board Member of Directors of the Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, Fulbright Taiwan (2017-); Chair Professor at National Chengchi University (2018-); Board Member of Directors of Cultural Tech Alliance, Taiwan (2018-); Board Member of Directors of Center for Chinese Studies, Ministry of Education (2020-); Member of the Advisory Committee, European Region, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCKF) (2016-) and Adviser to the Board of Directors of CCKF (2022-).

 

Vice President Mei-Yin Chou 

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Education 
1986 Ph.D., Physics,University of California, Berkeley 
1983 M.S., Physics, University of California, Berkeley 

Introduction 
　　Dr. Mei-Yin Chou works in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics, with her research focusing on the electronic properties of novel materials of fundamental and technological interest. In the past few decades, she has established herself as one of the leading figures in first-principles electronic-structure calculations. Dr. Chou received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986. After working for Exxon Research and Engineering Company in New Jersey as a postdoctoral fellow, she accepted a faculty position at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989, earning promotion to Associate Professor in 1993 and to Professor in 1998. In addition, she served as the ADVANCE Professor of Science at Georgia Tech from 2002-2006, and Chair of the School of Physics from 2005-2010. She became the Director and a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences at Academia Sinica in January 2011, and an Adjunct Professor at National Taiwan University in August of the same year.

　　Dr. Chou was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship from 1990 to 1992, the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship from 1990 to 1995, and the Presidential Young Investigator Award from National Science Foundation from 1991 to 1996. In addition, she was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002, the Taiwan Outstanding Woman Scientist Award in 2013, Academician of Academia Sinica in 2014, and Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2019. Dr. Chou has organized several important international conferences in the U.S. as well as in Taiwan, and has served on the editorial board of the UK journal Reports on Progress in Physics since 2008. She was also elected to serve as an officer in the Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society (APS), first as Secretary/Treasurer and later as Chair of the Division in 2008. For a summary of her research achievements, please refer to the following website.

 

Vice President Tang K. Tang

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Education
1984-1988, MPh/PhD, Human Genetics, Yale University
 

Introduction
　　Dr. Tang K. Tang received his doctoral degree in human genetics from Yale University, and then entered the Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University as a postdoctoral researcher. In 1989, he was recruited back to the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica as an Associate Research Fellow, and later promoted to the positions of Research Fellow and Distinguished Research Fellow. His research interest is to explore the biogenesis and function of centrosomes/centrioles and cilia in cells, and their association with brain development and neurodevelopmental disorder (human microcephaly). His laboratory is the world’s first lab to isolate the centrosome/centriole gene (CPAP), determine the functional domains of CPAP protein, and decipher the initial role of Myosin-Va in ciliogenesis.

　　Dr. Tang was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica in 2022, and has earned numerous awards, including The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society Member, National Science and Technology Council Outstanding Research Award, Ministry of Education Academic Award, Wang Ming-Ning Outstanding Research Award, and Academia Sinica Investigator Award. Dr. Tang has served as the convener of the Taiwan International Graduate Program (Molecular Medicine), the deputy director of Institute of Biomedical Sciences, the deputy executive secretary and executive secretary of the Central Academic Advisory Committee, Academia Sinica, and the director of the Consultant Office of the Ministry of Education.