40 Notable alumni of
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University is 836th in the world, 176th in Asia, and 18th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 40 notable alumni from Shanghai Jiao Tong University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Yao Ming
- Occupations
- autobiographerentrepreneurbasketball player
- Biography
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Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Yao was selected to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times, and was named to the All-NBA Team five times. During his final season, he was the tallest active player in the NBA, at 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in).
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Hu Yaobang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hu Yaobang was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary from 1982 to 1987. Hu joined the CCP in the 1930s, and rose to prominence as a comrade of Deng Xiaoping. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Hu was purged, recalled, and purged again by Mao Zedong. His tomb is in Gongqingcheng, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiujiang.
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Ma Long
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Ma Long is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked number 3 in Men’s Singles by the ITTF and the reigning Olympic singles champion. Widely regarded as the greatest table tennis player of all time, he is the first and only male player to complete a career Double Grand Slam as the Olympic gold medalist in men's singles in 2016 and 2020. He held the ranking of number 1 for a total of 64 months (and 34 consecutive months from March 2015), the most by any male in the history of table tennis. He is also champion in World Championships in men's singles in 2015, 2017 and 2019. His records led the International Table Tennis Federation to nickname him as "The Dictator" and "The Dragon" (derived from his name, Lóng, which represents the zodiac year of his birth). Since 2014, he has been the captain of the Chinese national table tennis men's team.
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Qian Xuesen
- Occupations
- university teacherastronautical engineerengineer
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Qian Xuesen was a Chinese aerospace engineer and cyberneticist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics.
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Li Xiannian
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- military personnelpoliticianrevolutionary
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Li Xiannian was a Chinese Communist military and political leader, president of the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1988 under paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and then chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1988 until his death. He was a full member of the Politburo from 1956 to 1987, and of its Standing Committee from 1977 to 1987.
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Ding Junhui
- Occupations
- snooker player
- Biography
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Ding Junhui is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the most successful Asian player in the history of the sport and widely regarded as the greatest Asian player of all time. Throughout his career, he has won 14 major ranking titles, including three UK Championships (2005, 2009, 2019). He has twice reached the final of the Masters, winning once in 2011. In 2016, he became the first Asian player to reach the final of the World Championship.
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Zhou Qi
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Zhou Qi is a Chinese professional basketball player for the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He has been a regular member of the China men's national basketball team since 2014, winning a gold team medal in the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship and the 2018 Asian Games.
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Xu Xin
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Xu Xin is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 103 as of May 2023 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). He first reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 in January 2013.
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James S.C. Chao
- Years
- 1927-.. (age 97)
- Occupations
- sailorentrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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James Si-Cheng Chao is a Chinese American businessman. He is the founder of the shipping company Foremost Group. He is also known to be the father of Elaine Chao, and father-in-law of United States Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Liu Guoliang
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Liu Guoliang is a retired Chinese table tennis player who has won all titles at major world tournaments including World Championships, World Cup and Olympic Games. He is the second man to achieve a career grand slam of three majors (Olympic Gold, World Cup, World Championships). He is considered by many to be one of the greatest players and coaches of all time. He has also played with Kong Linghui in doubles.
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Sun Yingsha
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Sun Yingsha is a Chinese professional table tennis player. She is the current world No. 1 in women's singles.
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Wang Liqin
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Wang Liqin is a retired Mainland Chinese table tennis player. He began playing at the age of 6 and was picked for the Chinese men's national squad in 1993 when he was only 15 years old. He holds three majors (3 World Championships). He has been ranked #1 by ITTF for 25 consecutive months, from September 2000 to September 2002, which is the second-longest period for being consecutive #1 of the world as of January 2011. At the end of 2013, Wang Liqin retired from the national team.
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Jenova Chen
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- video game designercomputer scientistvideo game directorartist
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Xinghan Chen, known professionally as Jenova Chen, is a Chinese video game designer. He is the designer of the award-winning games Cloud, Flow, Flower, and Journey, and is co-founder of Thatgamecompany.
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Andy Chan
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- politician
- Biography
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Andy Chan Ho-tin is a Hong Kong pro-independence political activist. He is a founding member and the convenor of the Hong Kong National Party, the first party to advocate for Hong Kong independence.
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Mao Yushi
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- economist
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Mao Yushi is a Chinese economist. Mao graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1950 and was labeled a 'rightist' in 1958. In 1986, Mao was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and in 1990, Mao was a senior lecturer at Queensland University.
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Yang Yuanqing
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- businesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Yang Yuanqing is a Chinese business executive and philanthropist who is the current chairman and CEO of Lenovo.
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Chen Zhu
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- university teacherinternational forum participantmolecular biologisthematologistpolitician
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Chen Zhu ForMemRS is a Chinese hematologist and molecular biologist who has served as president of the Red Cross Society of China since 2015.
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Lu Dingyi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lu Dingyi was a leader of the Chinese Communist Party. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China and before the Cultural Revolution, he was credited as one of the top officials in socialist culture.
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Xu Jiayu
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- swimmer
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Xu Jiayu is a Chinese competitive swimmer who specializes in the backstroke. He is the Olympic Silver medalist (2016 Rio de Janeiro) and twice consecutive world champion (2017 Budapest and 2019 Gwangju) in the 100 meters backstroke.
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Huang Yanpei
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- 1878-1965 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Huang Yanpei was a Chinese educator, writer, and politician. He was a founding pioneer of the China Democratic League and the China National Democratic Construction Association, which are among the eight legally recognised minor political parties in China under the Chinese Communist Party's united front.
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Yao Tongbin
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- aerospace engineerscientist
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Yao Tongbin was a Chinese scientist and one of China's foremost missile engineers. He was beaten to death during the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1999, he was posthumously awarded the Two Bombs, One Satellite Meritorious Award, and officially recognized as a "martyr" within China.
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Huang Xuhua
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- engineer
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Huang Xuhua is a Chinese mechanical engineer, and the second chief designer for the country's first generation of nuclear submarines (Type 091 and Type 092). He is director emeritus of the Wuhan-based 719 Research Institute (Nuclear Submarine Institute) of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, and is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. His name was classified until 1987.
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Wu Wenjun
- Enrolled in Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Studied in 1940
- Occupations
- historianhistorian of mathematicsmathematiciantopologist
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Wu Wenjun, also commonly known as Wu Wen-tsün, was a Chinese mathematician, historian, and writer. He was an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), best known for Wu class, Wu formula, and Wu's method of characteristic set.
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Zhang Jun
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- Olympic competitorbadminton playerbadminton coach
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Zhang Jun is a former male badminton player from the People's Republic of China. He is now a coach with the Chinese national team following his retirement from international play.
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Jiang Jianqing
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- bankerinternational forum participanteconomist
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Jiang Jianqing is the former Chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world's largest bank by assets and 2nd market value; he held the position from 2005 to 2016.
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Shen Xiaoming
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- politician
- Biography
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Shen Xiaoming is a Chinese politician who is currently the Communist Party secretary of Hunan.
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Jun Ye
- Enrolled in Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Studied applied physics
- Occupations
- researcherphysicist
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Jun Ye is a Chinese-American physicist at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado Boulder, working primarily in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics.
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Xia Peisu
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- computer scientistuniversity teacherengineer
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Xia Peisu or Pei-su Hsia was a Chinese computer scientist and educator known for her pioneering research in computer science and technology. The leading developer of Model 107, the nation's first domestically designed general-purpose electronic computer, she has been called the "Mother of Computer Science in China". She and her husband Yang Liming were both elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. In 2010, she was honoured with the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the China Computer Federation.
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T. Tony Cai
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- statisticianmathematician
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Tianwen Tony Cai is a Chinese statistician. He is the Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics and Vice Dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of Applied Math & Computational Science Graduate Group, and associate scholar at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. In 2008 Tony Cai was awarded the COPSS Presidents' Award.
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Hou Yingchao
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- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Hou Yingchao is a Chinese table tennis player who plays a chopping style.
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Min Gu
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- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistengineer
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Min Gu is a Chinese-Australian physicist who currently serves as the Executive Chancellor and Professor at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Previously he was Distinguished Professor and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship at RMIT University.
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Isaac Mao
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- writer
- Biography
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Isaac Mao is a Chinese software architect, and social media researcher. He is doing research in social learning and for developing the philosophy of Sharism.
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Hu Dunfu
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- 1886-1978 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Hu Dunfu was a Chinese mathematician and pioneer in higher education. He won a Qing government scholarship to study at Cornell University, and became the first dean of Tsinghua University at the age of 25. He was then briefly dean of Fudan University, before establishing Utopia University in 1912 and developing it into one of China's best private universities. He also served as head of the mathematics department of National Chiao Tung University and the first president of the Chinese Mathematical Society, which he co-founded in 1935.
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Guoping Feng
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- university teacherneuroscientist
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Guoping Feng is a Chinese-American neuroscientist. He is the Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute. He is most notable for studying the synaptic mechanisms underlying psychiatric disease. In addition to developing many genetic-based imaging tools for the study of molecular mechanisms in the brain, he has generated and characterized rodent models of obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and schizophrenia. Feng has also shown that some autism-like behaviors can be corrected in adult mice by manipulating the expression of the SHANK3 gene.
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Chu Chi-chan
- Enrolled in Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Studied in 1908
- Occupations
- artistpainter
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Zhu Qizhan was a Chinese artist known for merging the color concepts of Western art and the calligraphic brushwork of traditional Chinese painting into a personal style.
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Lan Jen Chu
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- physicist
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Lan Jen Chu was a noted electrical engineer and a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Chu is noted for his work on the fundamental limitations for small antennas, also known as Chu's limit.
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Zhang Zhongjun
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- scientist
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Zhang Zhongjun, also known as Tsun-Tsing Chang or T.T. Chang, was a Chinese electrical engineer and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Xiaodong Wang
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- teacher
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Xiaodong Wang is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and information theorist. He currently serves as a professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He earned a BS degree in electrical engineering and applied mathematics from Shanghai Jiaotong University, an MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, and a PhD from Princeton University in electrical engineering. He formerly served as assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University before he joined Columbia as an assistant professor in January 2002.
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Shang Kun
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- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Shang Kun is a Chinese table tennis player.
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Zhao Zihao
- Years
- 1997-.. (age 27)
- Occupations
- table tennis player
- Biography
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Zhao Zihao is a Chinese table tennis player. He is one of the top penhold players in the world today.
