NYU Shanghai is the intellectual home of some 200 of the world’s best scholars, researchers, teachers and mentors. Hailing from more than 20 countries and recruited from top institutions around the world, our faculty are leading experts in 25 disciplines from Mathematics to Computer Science to Psychology and Urban Design. Our faculty have been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and China's Chang Jiang Scholar Program and many other distinguished societies. Conducting research in state-of-the-art laboratories and in some 11 specialized research institutes and centers, members of the faculty regularly publish their findings in leading scholarly journals.
The university also draws on the faculty of the NYU Global Network who regularly spend semesters visiting and teaching in Shanghai.
Faculty
Meet Our Faculty
Faculty Spotlight: Teng Lu
As a philosopher, Teng Lu, from Hunan province, is particularly interested in epistemology (the theory of knowledge), and philosophy of mind—a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind and its relationship to the physical body.
Spotlight: Pierre Tarrès
Associate Professor of Mathematics Pierre Tarrès says he works well while he walks.
Professor and Colleagues Create a New Type of Quasicrystal
In research featured on the cover of Science magazine, Moon and his colleagues reported that a new kind of quasicrystal can be designed
