Chinese Americans elected to Academia Sinica

The Academia Sinica in Taipei elected seventeen new academicians on July 8. Eleven of them are Chinese Americans listed below:

Mathematics and Science

Yum-Tong Siu, 61, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

Van C. Mow, 65, Columbia University

Norden E. Huang, 67, Senior Fellow and Chief Scientist for Oceanography, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Evelyn Hu, 57, University of California, Santa Barbara

Kuo-Nan Liou, 60, University of California, Los Angeles

Life Science

Chung-I Wu, 50, University of Chicago

Robert K. Yu, 66, Professor and Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia

Kuan Wang, 59, National Institute of Health

Humanities and the Social Sciences

David Der-Wei Wang, 50, Ting Lung Professor, Columbia University

Yu Xie, 45, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor, University of Michigan

Andrew W. Lo, 44, Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance, Sloan School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology