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Academia Sinica held its biennial Convocation of Academicians from July 6 to July 9. Newly elected Academicians and Honorary Academicians were announced by President Chen Chien-Jen and Conveners for the Convocation of Academicians in the press conference after the closing of the Convocation on July 9. This year, a total of 19 new Academicians and 3 Honorary Academicians were elected.

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)

Wen-Ching Winnie Li
Current position(s): Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Pennsylvania                                                State University
Specialties: modular forms, number theory, spectral graph theory

Dung-Hai Lee
Current position(s): University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Physics
Specialties: Theoretical condensed matter physics

Kuo-Fong Ma
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute of                                            Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Observational Seismology, Earthquake Physics, Waveform                                         Simulation and Modeling,Seismic Hazard Assessment

Yu-Ju Chen
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry,                                                 Academia Sinica
Specialties: Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry

Anne Chao
Current position(s): College of Science Emerita Chair Professor, National Tsing                                          Hua University
Specialties: Ecological statistics, Biodiversity data analysis, Statistical inference

Division of Engineering Sciences(6)

Shien-Yang Wu
Current position(s): TSMC Senior Vice President, Research & Development /                                              Technology Development
Specialties: Semiconductor CMOS technology and Device Integration

Hsing-Wen Sung
Current position(s): Distinguished Chair Professor, National Tsing Hua                                                        University
Specialties: Biomaterials, Drug/Gene Delivery, Tissue Engineering

Edward Yi Chang
Current position(s): Lifetime Chair Professor, Department of Materials Science                                      and Engineering,National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Specialties: Compound Semiconductor Materials and Device Engineering

Tei-Wei Kuo
Current position(s): CTO, Delta Electronics, Inc.
Specialties: Flash-Memory Storage Systems, Non-Volatile Memory Systems, Embedded Systems

Jenq-Shan Guo
Current position(s): Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung
University and Tamkang University
Specialties: Aerospace Propulsion, Power, and System engineering

Peter Kaehuei Liaw
Current position(s): Professor, Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence University of                                               Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), USA
Specialties: High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs), Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs), and                                  Materials;Mechanical Behavior; Fatigue and Fracture; Life                                         Prediction and Nondestructive Evaluation

Division of Life Sciences (4)

Alice Yen-Ping Ting
Current position(s): Professor of Genetics, Biology, and by courtesy, Chemistry,                                       Stanford University
Specialties: Chemical biology, Biochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Molecular and                           Cellular Biology

Ching-Hwa Sung
Current position(s): Betty Neuwirth Lee and Chilly Professor in Stem Cell                                                     Research Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in                                           Ophthalmology, Department ofOphthalmology, Cell                                                   Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York,                                         USA.
Specialties: Cell Biology, Vision Research, Neuroscience

Tai-ping Sun
Current position(s): John Carlisle Kilgo Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke                                      University
Specialties: Plant Molecular Genetics

Ruey-Hwa Chen
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Biological                                                 Chemistry, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Protein ubiquitination, Cell signaling, Cancer biology, Cell biology
 

Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (4)

Hsiao-t’i Li
Current position(s): Chair Professor, Graduate Institute of History, National                                               Central University
Specialties: Social, Cultural, Intellectual and Urban history of modern and Ming-                        Qing China

Chien-Liang Lee
Current position(s): Distinguished Research Professor, Institutum                                                                Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Environmental Law,                                     Technology Law, Legal Methodology

Sher-shiueh Li
Current position(s): Retired Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese                                      Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica
Specialties: Interdisciplinary studies on literature and religion; Sino-Western                                          literary relations; Translation History in Classical China;                                                 Modern Chinese literature

Kuan-chung Huang
Current position(s): Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology,                                       Academia Sinica
Specialties: History

Elected Honorary Academicians: 

Division of Engineering Sciences(1)

Evelyn N. Wang
Current position(s): Vice President for Energy and Climate and Ford Professor                                           of Engineering, MIT
Specialties: Heat Transfer, Micro/Nanoscale Thermal Sciences, Energy, Water

Division of Life Sciences (6)
Alice Yat-Pak Cheung
Current position(s): Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts,                                                  Amherst, MA, USA
Specialties: Plant reproduction biology and signal transduction mechanisms

Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (6)
Rey Chow
Current position(s): Professor of Literature and Andrew W. Mellon                                                                Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Duke University
Specialties: Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies