25 Notable alumni of
University of Science and Technology of China
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The University of Science and Technology of China is 1039th in the world, 218th in Asia, and 19th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from the University of Science and Technology of China sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Guo Moruo
- Occupations
- translatorpoliticianpoethistorianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Guo Moruo, courtesy name Dingtang, was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official.
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Jiankui He
- Enrolled in the University of Science and Technology of China
- 2002-2006 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- biomedical engineergeneticistbiologistphysicist
- Biography
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He Jiankui is a Chinese biophysicist. He was named as the inaugural director of the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Wuchang Technical College, a private undergraduate college in Wuhan, in September 2023. Before January 2019, He served as associate professor at the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Earning a PhD from Rice University in Texas on protein evolution, including that of CRISPR, He learned gene-editing techniques (CRISPR/Cas9) as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in California.
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Fang Zhouzi
- Enrolled in the University of Science and Technology of China
- 1985-1990 graduated with Bachelor of Science in biology
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Fang Shimin, better known by his pen name Fang Zhouzi (Chinese: 方舟子; pinyin: Fāng Zhōuzǐ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Png Chiu-chú; born 28 September 1967), is a Chinese popular science writer who is primarily known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China. President and co-director of New Threads (simplified Chinese: 新语丝; traditional Chinese: 新語絲; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sin-gí-si), a publication and website that promotes Chinese culture to the general public, Fang's aggressive campaign against allegations of academic fraud has been hotly debated; while Fang's works have appeared in many Chinese publications, various Chinese scholars have accused him of vigilantism and of using populist rhetoric in academic research.
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Wang Yang
- Occupations
- politician
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Wang Yang is a Chinese retired politician who served as the chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 2018 to 2023. He was also the fourth-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2017 to 2022.
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Fang Lizhi
- Occupations
- university teacherastrophysicisthuman rights activistphysicist
- Biography
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Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Fang was considered as one of the leaders of the New Enlightenment in the 1980s. Because of his activism, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party in January 1987. For his work, Fang was a recipient of the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1989, given each year. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980, but his position was revoked after 1989.
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Yang Yuanqing
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
- 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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Pan Jianwei
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Pan Jianwei is a Chinese academic administrator and quantum physicist. He is a university administrator and professor of physics at the University of Science and Technology of China. Pan is known for his work in the field of quantum entanglement, quantum information and quantum computers. In 2017, he was named one of Nature's 10, which labelled him "Father of Quantum". He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China. He also serves as one of the Vice Chairman of Jiusan Society.
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Yan Jiaqi
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
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Yan Jiaqi is a Chinese political scientist and dissident.
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Yu Yang
- Occupations
- badminton player
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Yu Yang is a retired Chinese badminton player specializing in doubles. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, three time World Champion and four time Asian Champion. Yu was part of the China winning team in four Sudirman Cup, three Uber Cup, two Asian Games, and in a Asia Team Championships.
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Xiao-Gang Wen
- Occupations
- physicisttheoretical physicist
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Xiao-Gang Wen is a Chinese-American physicist. He is a Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His expertise is in condensed matter theory in strongly correlated electronic systems. In Oct. 2016, he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.
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Ya-Qin Zhang
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Ya-Qin Zhang is a Chinese-American scientist, technologist and business executive. He is currently a Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and the founding Dean of the Tsinghua institute for AI Industry Research (AIR).
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Xiao Qiang
- Occupations
- human rights activisttheoretical physicistphysicistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Xiao Qiang is the Director and Research Scientist of the Counter-Power Lab, an interdisciplinary faculty-student research group focusing on digital rights and internet freedom, based in the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley and is funded by the US Department of State. He also serves as the director of the China Internet Project at Berkeley. Xiao is an adjunct professor at the School of Information and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual news website.
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Yi Cui
- Born in
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China - Enrolled in the University of Science and Technology of China
- In 1998 graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemistry
- Occupations
- university teacheracademicscientistdiscussion moderator
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Yi Cui is a Chinese-American scientist specializing in the fields of nanotechnology, materials science, sustainable energy, and chemistry. Cui is Fortinet Founders Professor at Stanford University, where he also serves as a professor of materials science and engineering and of energy science and engineering. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in the fields of materials science, environment and ecology, engineering, and chemistry as of 2023. From 2020 to 2023, Cui was the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and since 2023 he has served as the inaugural faculty director of the Sustainability Accelerator in the Doerr School of Sustainability.
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Nie Chenxi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nie Chenxi is a Chinese politician who served as director and Party branch secretary of National Radio and Television Administration from 2018 to 2022 and deputy head of Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. He served as a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Weinan E
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Weinan E is a Chinese mathematician. He is known for his pathbreaking work in applied mathematics and machine learning. His academic contributions include novel mathematical and computational results in stochastic differential equations; design of efficient algorithms to compute multiscale and multiphysics problems, particularly those arising in fluid dynamics and chemistry; and pioneering work on the application of deep learning techniques to scientific computing. In addition, he has worked on multiscale modeling and the study of rare events.
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Hao Wu
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- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- film directorfilm editorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Hao Wu is a Chinese American film director, producer and writer living in New York. Wu was also a blogger known as Tian Yi. He is otherwise best known for his feature-length documentary, People's Republic of Desire, winner of the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2018 South by Southwest, All in My Family, a Netflix Original Documentary, and 76 Days, about the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. In 2021, Wu won a Peabody Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for 76 Days.
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Song Sun
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- 1987-.. (age 38)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Sun Song is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns geometry and topology. A Sloan Research Fellow, he was a professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley from 2018 until 2023. In 2019, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. As of 2024, Sun is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (IASM), Zhejiang University.
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Chuan He
- Occupations
- researcherbiochemistgeneticist
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Chuan He is a Chinese-American chemical biologist. He currently serves as the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is best known for his work in discovering and deciphering reversible RNA methylation in post-transcriptional gene expression regulation. He was awarded the 2023 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his work in discovering and deciphering reversible RNA methylation in post-transcriptional gene expression regulation in addition to his contributions to the invention of TAB-seq, a biochemical method that can map 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) at base-resolution genome-wide, as well as hmC-Seal, a method that covalently labels 5hmC for its detection and profiling.
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Younan Xia
- Enrolled in the University of Science and Technology of China
- 1982-1987 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- engineerchemistresearcher
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Younan Xia is a Chinese-American chemist, materials scientist, and bioengineer. He is the Brock Family Chair and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, with joint appointments in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Zhang Wenyu
- Occupations
- physicist
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Zhang Wenyu was a Chinese physicist who served as director of the Institute of High Energy Physics from 1973 to 1984. He was one of the founders of cosmic ray research and high energy experimental physics in China. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Guo Guangcan
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- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Guo Guangcan is a Chinese physicist. He is a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Peking University (PKU). He works on quantum information, quantum communication and quantum optic. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences.
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Chao Tang
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Tang Chao is a Chair Professor of Physics and Systems Biology at Peking University.
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Wang Zhizhen
- Occupations
- biophysicistresearcher
- Biography
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Wang Zhizhen, also known as Chih-Chen Wang, is a Chinese biophysicist and professor at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She also served as Vice Chairperson of the 11th and 12th Central Committee of the Jiusan Society and Vice Chairperson of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Wei Xiong
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Enrolled in the University of Science and Technology of China
- Studied in 1993
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Wei Xiong (Chinese: 熊伟; pinyin: Xióng Weǐ, is a Chinese economist currently the John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He also serves as the Academic Dean of School of Management and Economics, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
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Xie Xincheng
- Occupations
- physicist
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Xincheng Xie is a Chinese condensed matter physicist and academic administrator. He is a professor at Peking University and the president of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).