Singaporean Faculty at US universities

This blog is still getting hits from readers who keyed in "Tracey Ho" (with "MIT" thrown in at times) on google and yahoo. If you don't know what I am talking about, see this and this.

It has got me thinking. She is definitely not the first Singaporean to get an academic appointment in a US university, nor will she be the last to do so. So, the question now becomes: How many Singaporean (or someone with extensive Singaporean roots) faculty are there teaching/researching in the US?

I obviously do not have the answer, but just to start the ball rolling, I will put those I know in the list below; I encourage readers to submit addenums/ point out errors that you see and I will edit this post accordingly.

Why: Every year, a number of Singaporean students decide to head to the US for graduate studies. Encounters with peers at a certain local research institute applying to the US universities showed that while 'hard' information about the universities' research (and the *USnews rankings*) is readily available online, 'soft' factors such as the local living conditions, congeniality among the various research groups in the school (an important factor that is most often overlooked by incoming grad students) are not easily forthcoming. So, in having this list, Singaporeans coming over here will have an additional resource in asking opinions about their fields of study and the school/city where they will spend the next 2 - 5 years of their graduate studies. What better advice than someone who shared your social/academic background and understand where you are coming from? They can also serve as some kind of model figure (*for those of you thinking of getting a faculty job here, ie quitters :P*)

This list is pathetic not exhaustive very short for now, and I look forward to expanding it.

List of current Singaporean faculty at US schools, broken down according to disciplines (Not exhaustive)

Business
Linda Y.C. Lim - Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business; Director of the Center for South East Asian Studies, University of Michigan (tip: L'oiseau rebelle)

Xuanming Su - Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Technology Management, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Teck-Hua Ho - William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing; Chair, Marketing Group; Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, UC Berkeley

Mawder Foo - Associate Professor, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado - Boulder

Noah Lim - Assistant Professor of Marketing, C T Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

Chemical Engineering
Simon Ng - Professor and Co-Director of Alternative Energy Technology Program, Wayne State University

Jackie Ying* - Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

Communications
Pauline Hope Cheong - Assistant Professor, SUNY - Buffalo

Economics
Bee-Yan Aw-Roberts - Professor of Economics, Penn State

Chih Ming Tan - Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts

Electrical Engineering
Changhuei Yang - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & BioEngineering, Caltech

Tracey Ho - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Caltech

English
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim - Professor of English, UCSB

Environmental Engineering
Kai Loon Chen - Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Geography
Jessie P. Poon - Professor, Director of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center, SUNY - Buffalo

Mathematics
Melvin Leok - Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Purdue University

Chek Beng Chua - Combinatorics & Optimization, Department of Mathematics, University of Waterloo**

Boon Wee Ong - Lecturer, Penn State Erie, Behrend College

Wei-Yin Loh - Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Mechanical Engineering
Kok-Meng Lee -
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

Chee Wei Wong - Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University

Plant Molecular Biology
Nam-Hai Chua - Andrew W. Mellon Professor, The Rockefeller University

Psychology
Michael Goh - Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota

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*Taiwanese, but did her secondary education in Singapore. Concurrent Executive Director of IBN.

**Canadian institution