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Newly elected Academicians and Honorary Academicians were announced by President James C. Liao and Conveners for the Convocation of Academicians in the press conference after the closing of the Convocation on July 7. This year, a total of 19 new Academicians and 3 Honorary Academicians were elected.

Academician Kenneth K. Wu, spokesman of the Convocation of Academicians, said the election was a prudent and rigorous process, which took many rounds of detailed discussion and review over a few days. The subject of Academicians’ nationality will be handled with the utmost respect towards the candidates and in compliance with the law.

Academician Wu further pointed out that newly elected Academicians announced today are all with ROC citizenship. A total of 5 candidates have successfully passed the election process but their nationalities are to be confirmed. They include 1 in the Division of Life Sciences, 2 in the Division of Engineering Sciences, and 2 in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. With respect to nationality law, Academia Sinica is not in charge of rendering the final determination. The nationalities of the elected candidates have to be confirmed to be lawful before their election can be announced and the certificates conferred.

Newly elected Academicians and Honorary Academicians are as follows. (Names have been listed by stroke order of Chinese surname)

Elected Academicians:

Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (5)
Jane-Ling Wang
Current position(s): Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis
Specialties: Theoretical Statistics, Survival Analysis, Functional Data Analysis, Joint Modeling of Survival and Longitudinal Data

Mu-Tao Wang 
Current position(s): Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University
Specialties: Geometric Analysis and General Relativity

Li-Chyong Chen 
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow (CCMS, NTU) & Director (AI-Mat, NTU)& Professor (Phys. NTU)
Specialties: Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science, Nano, Optoelectronics, Energy

Liu Chen 
Current position(s): Emeritus Professor at Above Scale and Research Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine. 
Specialties: Plasma Physics and Space Physics

Jen-Chieh Peng 
Current position(s): Professor of Physics, University of Illinois  
Specialties: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Antiquark Structure in Nucleons and Nuclei, Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrino Physics

Division of Engineering Sciences(5)
Kai-Nan An 
Current position(s): John and Posy Krehbiel Professor Emeritus, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Specialties: Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Orthopedics, Rehabilitation 

Shin-Tson Wu 
Current position(s): Trustee Chair Professor, University of Central Florida
Specialties: Display Science and Technology 

Chung-Chieh (Jay) Kuo 
Current position(s): University of Southern California, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and William H. Hogue Professorship 
Specialties: Multimedia Computing and Data Science and Engineering

Tze-chiang (T.C.) Chen
Current position(s): IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Fellow, Vice President of Strategy, Science and Technology, IBM Research 
Specialties: Semiconductor Technology Research and Development

Yu-Pen Su 
Current position(s): Consultant, National Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST) 
Specialties: Aerospace propulsion, power, and system engineering

Division of Life Sciences (6)
Huey-Kang Sytwu 
Current position(s): Vice President, National Health Research Institutes/Distinguished Investigator, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, NHRI
Specialties: Immunopathogenic mechanism of autoimmune diseases, Genetic manipulation on mouse embryo, Translational medicine

Joseph Ching-Ming Wu 
Current position(s): Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Simon H. Stertzer Professor of Medicine & Radiology
Specialties: Cardiovascular Diseases, Stem Cells, Genetics, Precision Medicine, Drug Discovery

Jaung-Geng Lin 
Current position(s): Chair Professor at the China Medical University, Taiwan.
Specialties: Traditional Chinese medicine; acupuncture and moxibustion, Chinese medicine

Hui-Kuan Lin 
Current position(s): Anderson Professor for Cancer Research, Director of Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence, Director of Signaling and Biotechnology Program at Wake Forest School of Medicine
Specialties: Cancer, Signaling, Cell Metabolism

Ming-Che Shih 
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica 
Specialties: Plant Molecular Physiology, Genomics, Agricultural Biotechnology

Tang K. Tang 
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica 
Specialties: Molecular and Cellular Biology/Human Genetics

Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (3)
Yiting Li
Current position(s): Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University
Specialties: Monetary Theory, Banking and Financial Markets, Macroeconomics

LEE, Fong-mao 
Current position(s): Adjunct Research Follow at Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica/Emeritus Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University 
Specialties: Taoist Culture, Taoist Literature, Chinese Religions 

Wen-chin Ouyang
Current position(s): Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS, University of London
Specialties: Arabic literature, Comparative Literature, World Literature 
 

Elected Honorary Academicians: 

Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (1)
Edward Carroll Stone
Current position(s): David Morrisroe Professor of Physics; Vice Provost for Special Projects，California Institute of Technology
Specialties: Space Physics 

Division of Life Sciences (1)
Tasuku Honjo
Current position(s): Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study
Specialties: Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy

Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (1)
Arthur Kleinman
Current position(s): Esther and Sidney Rabb professor of Anthropology, Department of   Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Science, Harvard University.
Specialties: Medical Anthropology、Cultural Psychiatry、Global & Local Healthcare、Social Suffering、Modernization of Chinese Medical Institutions、Taiwanese Folk Healing.