20th Anniversary Feature Series

  

Professor Andre Brown

Professor Andre Brown

Former Vice President of Academic Affairs, XJTLU


It wasn’t a question of whether XJTLU would be successful. It was how successful

After arriving from the University of Liverpool to take up the role of Vice President of Academic Affairs in 2014, Professor Andre Brown was tasked with helping turn XJTLU into a genuine research university.

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Professor Sarah Dixon

Professor Sarah Dixon

Founding Dean of International Business School Suzhou


The chance to create something new: The beginnings of IBSS

Professor Sarah Dixon likens the founding of XJTLU’s International Business School Suzhou in 2013 to starting a business, and explains why her time at XJTLU was her “best job ever”.

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Professor Eddy Fang

Professor Eddy Fang

Dean of International Business School Suzhou


After growing with IBSS, Dean Eddy Fang is asking what comes next

Professor Eddy Fang has been at IBSS since its founding. With the international foundation firmly established, he reflects on where the School will go next.

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Professor Jingming Guo

Professor Jingming Guo

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, XJTLU


Professor Jingming Guo: Reimagining how mathematics is taught

Having taught mathematics at XJTLU for fifteen and a half years, Professor Jingming Guo turned abstract concepts into stories students could truly grasp, and made the young university's math classroom "the most glorious chapter" of his nearly five-decade teaching career.

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Ruijiao Li

Ruijiao Li

Co-founder of Amy Robotics and XJTLU alumnus


Step out and see the world: The journey of a geek

Ruijiao Li, a former BSc Information and Computing Science student, shares his story of entrepreneurship inspired by trying new things, following his curiosity and stepping out into the world.

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Professor Konstantinos Papadikis

Professor Konstantinos Papadikis

Associate Vice President for Education


Teaching in the age of AI: ‘Humans are what matter’

Professor Konstantinos Papadikis has spent fifteen years watching XJTLU grow from a handful of buildings into a multi-campus university. He has also spent those years watching something more troubling take shape: A generation of students slowly outsourcing their thinking. As the university's Associate Vice President for Education, he is now doing something about it, rethinking curricula, redefining assessment, and making the case that in the age of AI, the most important thing a university can teach is what it means to be human.

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Professor Jionglong Su

Professor Jionglong Su

Professor at the School of AI and Advanced Computing, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Entrepreneur College (Taicang); Director of the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Education and Research and Development Institute


From chromosomes to construction: Professor Jionglong Su on interdisciplinarity

For Professor Jionglong Su, the true value of interdisciplinarity isn’t merely bringing people from various disciplines together – it’s about tackling a problem from all angles.

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Shuai Wang

Shuai Wang

Associate R&D Director at Crystal Pharmatech (Suzhou) and PhD student at XJTLU Wisdom Lake Academy of Pharmacy


Patients can’t carry a fridge around: research meets the real world

While working at Crystal Pharmatech, Shuai Wang was inspired to pursue a PhD by a long-standing challenge in the industry. This allowed her to tackle the problem from both the academic and industry perspective.

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Professor Minzhu Yang

Professor Minzhu Yang

Former Vice President of XJTLU


‘No way back’: Professor Minzhu Yang on the ‘tough battles’ he fought at XJTLU

Professor Yang joined XJTLU when the University was only two years old. Reflecting on the milestone of XJTLU’s 20th anniversary, Professor Yang says XJTLU’s development has far exceeded his expectations.

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