About
General Education Faculty
Bio
I am a scholar of science, technology, and society. My world began in my mother's office at the Zhengzhou Railway College. Nowadays, Zhengzhou is a Chinese municipality of 20 million. Competition in everything is fierce. No one is special. My mother, a communication engineer and college teacher, has been my world, and her job—the extreme work of staying up all night to be on solo shifts in her early twenties, charged with the responsibility of watching over a whole roomful of machines. That was my model. I went to a Chinese style experimental school designed for training children to compete in International Mathematic Olympiad, where selected pupils were given advanced learning materials to see if they could figure out some ways to understand them. The materials back then were too advanced for me, and I think for many of us. But the sense of deficiency was what had driven most of us to success.
From China, I went to get a PhD from Duke University. During my doctoral studies, I served as academic coach at Duke-Kunshan University for two years and taught hybrid courses during COVID at New York University-Shanghai for NYU global campus courses. I was later appointed postdoctoral associate and lecturer at Yale University, and then Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Degree & Academic Institution:
- Ph.D. Communication and Media Studies
Duke University
Courses Taught:
- APP 203 - How to “be creative” in Partnership with Computation & Machine Learning
Bio
I am a scholar of science, technology, and society. My world began in my mother's office at the Zhengzhou Railway College. Nowadays, Zhengzhou is a Chinese municipality of 20 million. Competition in everything is fierce. No one is special. My mother, a communication engineer and college teacher, has been my world, and her job—the extreme work of staying up all night to be on solo shifts in her early twenties, charged with the responsibility of watching over a whole roomful of machines. That was my model. I went to a Chinese style experimental school designed for training children to compete in International Mathematic Olympiad, where selected pupils were given advanced learning materials to see if they could figure out some ways to understand them. The materials back then were too advanced for me, and I think for many of us. But the sense of deficiency was what had driven most of us to success.
From China, I went to get a PhD from Duke University. During my doctoral studies, I served as academic coach at Duke-Kunshan University for two years and taught hybrid courses during COVID at New York University-Shanghai for NYU global campus courses. I was later appointed postdoctoral associate and lecturer at Yale University, and then Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Degree & Academic Institution:
- Ph.D. Communication and Media Studies
Duke University
Courses Taught:
- APP 203 - How to “be creative” in Partnership with Computation & Machine Learning