China's leading university for science and engineering, a global powerhouse in computer science and AI, physics, chemistry, and mathematics, home to the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center and Yao's IIIS.
24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President
Office of the President
A condensed-matter physicist and Chinese Academy of Sciences academician who became president in December 2023, he steers Tsinghua's global partnerships while keeping the university rooted in fundamental science.
Vice President and Provost
Office of the Provost
As provost he quietly holds the academic core of the university together, balancing the interests of every school so that teaching and research can thrive.
Dean of Schwarzman College and Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor
Schwarzman College and Institute for AI International Governance
He built a home at Tsinghua where young leaders from around the world learn to govern technology wisely, and his work on AI international governance is generous, careful, and forward-looking.
Professor and Dean
School of Life Sciences
He pushed cryo-EM to resolve some of the smallest proteins ever imaged at near-atomic resolution, and leads the School of Life Sciences with the same patient precision.
Professor and HHMI International Research Scholar
School of Life Sciences
His maps of how the epigenome resets at the very start of life have opened a whole window on early development, and he mentors a new generation of Chinese biologists with real warmth.
Professor and Vice Dean
School of Medicine
He has spent his career chasing an HIV vaccine and, when the pandemic came, found powerful neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, turning deep virology into real hope for patients.
WeBank Chair Professor
Department of Computer Science and Technology
He built AMiner, seen by millions of researchers, and helped lead China's open large-model efforts, sharing his tools freely so others can build on them.
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Technology
His careful work on probabilistic machine learning, adversarial robustness, and diffusion models has quietly shaped how a generation thinks about trustworthy AI.
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Technology
He founded THUNLP and gave Chinese-language computing a rigorous scientific foundation, then made its open-source models freely available to the whole community.
Dean and Professor
Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
The only Chinese Turing Award laureate came home to found the IIIS and the Yao Class, and has personally cultivated a generation of world-class computer scientists in China.
Assistant Professor
Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences
Working at the meeting point of economics and computer science, she studies how to value data and information fairly, bringing fresh rigor and a distinctive voice to the young IIIS faculty.
Yao Qizhi Chair Professor
Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences and Center for Quantum Information
His DLCZ scheme for long-distance quantum communication is a cornerstone of the field, and he gave up a chair at Michigan to build ion-trap quantum computing full-time at Tsinghua.
Professor
Department of Physics
A Chinese Academy of Sciences academician, his first-principles theory of low-dimensional quantum materials underpins many of the experiments that made Tsinghua physics famous.
Professor
Department of Chemistry
A CAS academician known for supramolecular assembly and single-molecule force spectroscopy, he has served the chemistry community as an editor and teacher with unusual generosity.
Chair Professor and Director
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center
A Fields Medalist whose Calabi-Yau manifolds reshaped both geometry and string theory, he now devotes himself full-time to building a great mathematics center for the next generation in China.
C. N. Yang Professor
Institute for Advanced Study
She stunned the world by breaking MD5 and SHA-1, then turned that insight into the SM3 standard now protecting China's financial and power systems, a rare mind who both breaks and builds.
Professor Emeritus and former President, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Physics
A condensed-matter physicist who led Tsinghua as president for nine years, he then founded its Institute for Advanced Study, choosing to nurture fundamental science rather than rest on his titles.
Dean and Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor
Department of Economics
He studies the real institutions behind China's growth with honesty and care, and leads the School of Economics and Management as a scholar first.
Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Founding dean of the Schwarzman program and a patient explainer of the Chinese economy to the world, he has bridged scholarship and public understanding for three decades.
Professor and Dean
Department of Architecture
He designed the soaring Big Air Shougang ski-jump venue for the Beijing 2022 Games and leads the School of Architecture in the humane tradition of designing for people and place.
Professor
School of Materials Science and Engineering
A CAS academician whose work on multiferroics and solid electrolytes points toward safer batteries and new devices, he has served materials science globally as a leading editor and mentor.
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
An academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, his composite-structure and bridge research keeps real buildings and spans standing safely, earning him the Mao Yisheng Bridge Award.
Professor
School of Law
He has pioneered computational and AI-assisted approaches to law at Tsinghua, working to make justice more accessible while thinking hard about doing it responsibly.
Changjiang Distinguished Professor
Department of Chinese Language and Literature and Department of History
His multi-volume history of modern Chinese thought is a landmark of humanistic scholarship, and as a longtime editor he kept a serious intellectual conversation alive for a whole country.
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