About SSP
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Education
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Jointly train students as future leaders with global perspective
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Host exchange faculty and students
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Facilitate the sharing of teaching materials
Co-Directors | Collaboration Board | Scientific Advisory Committee | Industry Advisory Board | Faculty Members | Staff
Our Collaboration Board consists of PKU and UCLA leaders. There are two co-directors, one from PKU and one from UCLA, who oversee JRI operations and report to the Collaboration Board. There is a Scientific Advisory Committee who recommends the research and education programs of JRI and reviews their progress. There are also Core JRI faculty members who execute core research programs and visiting JRI faculty, research staff, and students who conduct short-term visits and training through JRI.
Co-Directors
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Jason Cong Co-Director, Joint Research Institute in Science and Engineering by PKU and UCLA; Professor
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Xiaoming Li Co-Director, Joint Research Institute in Science and Engineering by PKU and UCLA; Professor
Collaboration Board
The collaboration board from UCLA is
The board from Peking University
Scientific Advisory Committee
The SAC from UCLA is
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Jason Cong, Department of Computer Science
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Vassilis Angelopoulos, Department of Earth and Space Sciences
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Frank Chang, Department of Electronical Engineering
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Jane P. Chang, Department of Chemical Engineering
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Shuo Lin, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
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Stanley Osher, Department of Mathematics
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Paul Weiss, Director, CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute)
The SAC from PKU is
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Xiaoming Li, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science
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Wen Gao, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science
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Ming Jiang, School of Mathematical Science
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Zuyin Pu, School of Earth and Space Sciences
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Zhuan Zhou, Institute of Molecular Medicine
Industry Advisory Board
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Chairman: Professor Huang Wei, Executive Deputy Governor, Xinjiang People's Government
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Executive Vice-Chairman: Mr. James Ding, Managing Director, AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc
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Charter Member: Mr. Robin Li Yanhong, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Baidu, Inc
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Charter Member: Mr. Li Zhengmao, Executive Vice President of China Mobile Communications Corporation
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Charter Member: Mr. Craig Ehrlich, Chairman and Founder Novare Technologies, Former Chairman GSM Association
Faculty Members
Staff
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Jason Cong, Professor, Computer Science Department
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Xiaoming Li, Professor, Co-Director, Joint Research Institute in Science and Engineering by PKU and UCLA; Professor
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Cecca Yunli Yang, PKU - Program Coordinator, JRI
Brief introduction to Peking University
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Founded in 1898, the first national comprehensive university in China
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5 faculties, 45 schools/departments, 271 institutes/centers
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Enrollment: 14,662 undergraduates, 16,666 graduates; Faculty & Staff: about 16,000
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55 Academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering
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Received about 1.04 billion RMB in natural, engineering and medical sciences in 2008
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One of the best Health Science Centers with 8 affiliated hospitals in China
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On the web at www.pku.edu.cn
Brief introduction to UCLA
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Founded in 1919, the biggest campus in UC system
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13 institutes and about 60 departments
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Enrollment:
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25,928 undergraduates,
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11,548 graduates;
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Faculty & Staff: about 28,000;
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For 2008, UCLA had more freshman applicants (55,409) than any other U.S. university.
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Highlights of faculty/graduate awards
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5 UCLA faculty members and four UCLA graduates are Nobel Laureates;
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9 UCLA faculty members have been awarded the National Medal of Science;
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9 MacArthur Fellow "Genius Grant" recipients;
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3 Pulitzer Prize winners
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Received more than $880 million in grants and contracts in FY 07 -08;
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Among top five universities in the nation in expenditures from grants and contracts in science, medicine and engineering
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One of the top three American hospitals and "the best Hospital in the West"
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On the web at www.ucla.edu
Published: Monday, February 6, 2023