One of China's oldest and most prestigious universities, celebrated across engineering, computing and AI, the sciences, medicine, naval architecture, economics, and the humanities.
24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President and Academician (CAS), Professor of Chemistry
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
As president and an organic chemist, he built chiral catalysts that industry now uses to make medicines more cleanly.
Chair Professor of Physics and Academician (CAS), former President
School of Physics and Astronomy
His laser-plasma physics turned tabletop experiments into windows on the physics of stars and fusion.
University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences
KoGuan School of Law
He bridges the sociology of law with computational law, asking how justice should work in an age of AI.
Professor of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
His work in reinforcement learning and generative models trains agents that learn to act, not just to predict.
Academician (CAE), Professor of Materials Science
School of Materials Science and Engineering
His lightweight magnesium and rare-earth alloys made metals stronger and greener, and even usable as dissolving medical implants.
Distinguished Professor, Director of Plant Biotechnology Research Center
School of Agriculture and Biology
He engineered the sweet wormwood plant to yield more artemisinin, helping the world fight malaria from the field up.
Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Humanities
School of Humanities
He brought world literature and translation studies into a genuine dialogue between China and the West.
Chair Professor of Mathematics, Director of the Institute of Natural Sciences
School of Mathematical Sciences and Institute of Natural Sciences
His fast, physics-aware algorithms let computers simulate everything from rarefied gases to quantum systems.
Honorary Professor and Founding Director, John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science
John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science
A Turing laureate who chose to teach undergraduates in Shanghai, he has quietly reshaped how computer science is taught in China.
Academician (CAE), Professor of Mechanical Engineering, former President
School of Mechanical Engineering
His thin-sheet forming and auto-body manufacturing research helped put a homegrown auto industry on the road.
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
His chiral catalysts build single-handed molecules with the precision that modern medicine needs.
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities
His philosophical work explores value, ethics, and meaning for a rapidly modernizing society.
Professor, Institute of Natural Sciences
School of Mathematical Sciences and Institute of Natural Sciences
He uses mathematics to decode how neurons compute, linking brain science with machine intelligence.
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
His research on industrial organization and innovation helped make Antai one of China's leading business schools.
Academician (CAE), Chancellor of the School of Medicine, Professor of Ophthalmology
Department of Ophthalmology, Ninth People's Hospital
As an eye surgeon and dean, he built navigation systems that make delicate orbital and ocular-tumor surgery safer.
Academician (CAE), Distinguished Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
He advanced oral and maxillofacial surgery in China, restoring faces and futures for patients with head and neck tumors.
Academician (CAE), Professor of Endocrinology, President of Ruijin Hospital
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism
His work on endocrine and metabolic disease reshaped how China screens for and treats diabetes and hormonal disorders.
Academician (CAE), Professor of Hematology
Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Ruijin Hospital
With her colleagues she helped turn a once-deadly leukemia into one of the most curable, using arsenic and retinoic acid.
Academician (CAE), Professor, Director of the Shanghai Diabetes Institute
Department of Endocrinology, Sixth People's Hospital
Her decades of research made early diabetes screening and care reachable for millions of people across China.
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
His speech recognition and dialogue research gave voice technology a more natural, human ear.
Chair Professor, Dean of the School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering
Department of Automation
His work on networked control and industrial cyber-physical systems helps factories and undersea networks think for themselves.
Academician (CAS), Chair Professor of Microbiology
Department of Microbiology
His discovery of DNA phosphorothioate modification opened a whole new chapter in how we read the chemistry of life.
Professor of Marine Structures
Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
A scholar of marine structures, studying how ships and offshore platforms withstand ice loads and the roughest seas.
Professor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Researching ocean and offshore engineering, contributing to the design of the ships and structures that work far out at sea.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.