The Faculty Advisory Board of The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong works with faculty across campus to plan academic events and ongoing programs around three broad and intersecting themes:
- Business, Economics and Policy
- Culture, Society and the Arts
- Science, Medicine and Public Health
For faculty and researchers who wish to utilize the campus in Hong Kong and its services, please also see Call For Proposals, Facilities & Services for more information on funding support and practical matters such as travel, visas, and hotels. Please contact the campus staff if you have any questions.
For past and upcoming conferences, events, and workshops at the campus, please view Academic Proposals from past years and Upcoming Events.
Ka Yee Lee
Professor of Chemistry and Vice Provost for Research
Chairperson of the Faculty Advisory Board of The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong
Ka Yee Lee has been Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago since 1998, and currently serves as Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Lee conducts research on lung surfactant, a complex mixture of lipids and proteins that assists the breathing process. Other projects aim to elucidate the membrane disruptive mechanism of antimicrobial peptides, the effects of cholesterol on membrane structure and assembly, the role of lipids in immunological response, as well as the mechanism of membrane sealing by polymers.
Lee has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Other honors include research fellowships from the Alfred Sloan Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Biophysical Society's Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award, and "40 Under 40" recognition from Crain's Chicago Business.
Chang-tai Hsieh
Faculty Advisory Board Member
Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics And PCL Faculty Scholar
Chang-Tai Hsieh conducts research on growth and development. Hsieh has published several papers in top economic journals, including “The Life-Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico,” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics; "Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India," in the Quarterly Journal of Economics; "Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity," in the American Economic Review; "Can Free Entry be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry," in the Journal of Political Economy; and "What Explains the Industrial Revolution in East Asia? Evidence from the Factor Markets," in the American Economic Review.
Hsieh has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis, as well as the World Bank's Development Economics Group and the Economic Planning Agency in Japan. He is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, and a member of the Steering Group of the International Growth Center in London.
He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, an Elected Member of Academia Sinica, and the recipient of the Sun Ye-Fang award for research on the Chinese economy.
Randall S. Kroszner
Faculty Advisory Board Member
Wallman Family Professor of Accounting and Deputy Dean of the Part-Time MBA Program
Randall S. Kroszner is Deputy Dean for Executive Programs and Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics. Dr. Kroszner served as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2009. He chaired the committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Institutions and the committee on Consumer and Community Affairs. In these capacities, he took a leading role in developing responses to the financial crisis and in undertaking new initiatives to improve consumer protection and disclosure, including rules related to home mortgages and credit cards. He represented the Federal Reserve Board on the Financial Stability Forum (now called the Financial Stability Board), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Central Bank Governors of the American Continent and was a director of NeighborWorks America. Dr. Kroszner chaired the working party of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), composed of deputy central bank governors and finance ministers, on Policies for the Promotion of Better International Payments Equilibrium. As a member of the Fed Board, he was also a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee.
Dali Yang
Faculty Advisory Board Member
William C. Reavis Professor of Political Science
Senior Advisor to the President and the Provost (Global Initiatives)
Steering Committee Chair for the UChicago Center in Beijing
One of the leading scholars on China’s political economy, Professor Yang’s current research is focused on the politics of China’s development, particularly risk regulation and governance, and state-society relations. Dali L. Yang received his Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University and joined the University of Chicago faculty as a Professor of Political Science in 1992. He is the founding Director and Chair of the Faculty Steering Committee for the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, and has previously served as Chairman of the Political Science Department, Director of The Center for East Asian Studies, and Director of the Committee on International Relations of the University of Chicago, as well as Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore and founding Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Chicago.
Kimberly Kay Hoang
Faculty Advisory Board Member
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director of Global Studies
Kimberly Kay Hoang’s research interests center on sociology of gender, globalization, economic sociology, and qualitative methods. A central focus of her work is to understand the gendered dynamics of deal brokering in Southeast Asia’s emerging markets.She is the author of, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work (2015) published by the University of California Press. This monograph examines the mutual construction of masculinities, financial deal-making, and transnational political-economic identities. Her ethnography takes an in-depth and often personal look at both sex workers and their clients to show how high finance and benevolent giving are intertwined with intimacy in Vietnam's informal economy. Dealing in Desire is the winner of seven distinguished book awards from the American Sociological Association, the National Women Studies Association, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Kenneth Pomeranz
Faculty Advisory Board Member
Chair of the History Department
University Professor of Modern Chinese History and in the College
UChicago Center in Beijing Steering Committee Member
Kenneth Pomeranz is Chair of the History Department and Professor of Modern Chinese History. Most of his research is in social, economic, and environmental history, though he has also worked on state formation, imperialism, religion, gender, and other topics. His publications include The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, which won the John K. Fairbank Prize from the AHA, and shared the World History Association book prize; The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853‑1937 , which also won the Fairbank Prize; The World that Trade Created , and a collection of his essays, recently published in France. He a former President of the American Historical Association as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other sources. His current projects include a history of Chinese political economy from the seventeenth century to the present, and a book called Why Is China So Big? which tries to explain, from various perspectives, how and why contemporary China's huge land mass and population have wound up forming a single political unit.
Haun Saussy
Faculty Advisory Board Member
University Professor of Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Professor Haun Saussy joined the University of Chicago faculty in 2011. He received his B.A. (Greek and Comparative Literature) from Duke University and his M.Phil and Ph.D from Yale (Comparative Literature); between undergraduate and graduate schools, he studied linguistics and Chinese in Paris. He has previously taught at UCLA, Stanford, Yale, the City University of Hong Kong, the Université de Paris-III, and the University of Otago (New Zealand). He was president (2009-2011) of the American Comparative Literature Association. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Faculty Advisory Boards for two new initiatives at the University of Chicago: the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society and the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, as well as of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.
Judith Zeitlin
Faculty Advisory Board Member
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College
Judith Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College. Her research concentrates on Ming-Qing literary and cultural history, with specialties in drama and the classical tale. Her publications include "Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale" and "Shared Dreams: The Story of the Three Wives' Commentary on The Peony Pavilion." She is currently working on a book on ghosts and the Chinese literary imagination, and her research interests also include gender and sexuality and the intersection of literature and medicine, particularly the case history.
Michael J. Franklin
Faculty Advisory Board Member
Liew Family Chair of Computer Science
Senior Advisor to Provost on Computation and Data Science
Chairman, Department of Computer Science
Michael J. Franklin is the inaugural holder of the Liew Family Chair of Computer Science. An authority on databases, data analytics, data management and distributed systems, he also serves as senior advisor to the provost on computation and data science.
Franklin most recently was the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently is an Adjunct Professor. He co-founded and directs Berkeley’s Algorithms, Machines and People Laboratory (AMPLab), a leading academic big data analytics research center, The AMPLab won a National Science Foundation CISE "Expeditions in Computing" award, which was announced as part of the White House Big Data Research initiative in March 2012, and has received support from over 30 industrial sponsors. AMPLab has created industry-changing open source Big Data software including Apache Spark and BDAS, the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack. At Berkeley he also served as an executive committee member for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, a campus-wide initiative to advance data science environments.
An energetic entrepreneur in addition to his academic work, Franklin founded and became chief technology officer of Truviso, a data analytics company acquired by Cisco Systems. He serves on the technical advisory boards of various data-driven technology companies and organizations.
Franklin is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a two-time recipient of the ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) “Test of Time” award. His many other honors include the outstanding advisor award from Berkeley’s Computer Science Graduate Student Association. He received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1993, a Master of Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1986, and the B.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1983.
Scott Stern, MD
Faculty Advisory Board Member
Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Junior Clerkship Program in Medicine
Department of Medicine
General Internal Medicine
Dr. Scott Stern, MD, is an Internal Medicine specialist in Chicago, Illinois. He attended and graduated from University Of Illinois At Chicago Health Science Center in 1984, having over 34 years of diverse experience, especially in Internal Medicine. He is affiliated with many hospitals including The University of Chicago Medical Center. Dr. Scott Stern also cooperates with other doctors and physicians in medical groups including The University of Chicago Medical Center, University Of Chicago.