By Li Han
Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center
Three outstanding faculty were recruited recently. They are: Professor Wang Yuming in the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology, Professor Zhang Haiming in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and Professor Chang Pengfei in Tsinghua University’s Second Hospital.
(Professor Wang Yuming)
Professor Wang Yuming was born in January 1941. He is an expert in machine design theory and fluid sealing technology. Currently he is an academician in the Chinese Institute of Engineers. He graduated from Tsinghua University after a six year undergraduate course in 1965. Professor Wang conducts research and development in the application and industrialization of dangerous gas turbine machinery and measurement and control systems for non-contact dynamic sealing devices. As inventor and principal researcher, Professor Wang is well known for his ability to combine theory and practice. He has been able to make significant research breakthroughs in large-scale shaft seals and high speed turbo compressors for the petroleum and petrochemical industry. He has won ten national, provincial and ministry-class prizes, including two second class awards--one for national scientific and technical progress and the other for national technical invention. He has been awarded eight China invention patents and two U.S. patents.
(Professor Zhang Haiming)
Zhang Haiming has a PhD in Chinese language and literature from Beijing Normal University. He was Professor and PhD Supervisor in Beijing Normal University’s College of Chinese Language and Literature. In July 2007, Dr. Zhang moved as Professor to Tsinghua University’s School of Humanities. Dr. Zhang is an authority on Chinese classical literary theory, classical literature and comparative poetics. His works include Cross of Longitude and Latitude—A Concise Summary of Chinese Classical Literary Theories (1994), A Retrospective Study of 70 Years’ Research on Classical Literary Criticism (1997), The Realm of Mystery (1997), On Comparative Poetics, and History and Development of Chinese and Western Comparative Poetics. Among Dr. Zhang’s works, The Realm of Mystery won the Beijing Fifth Social Sciences Study Achievements Second Prize. Dr. Zhang directs or participates in various research projects including those under the National Eighth-Five Year Plan and Ninth Five Year Plan for the Young Scholars Foundation Program for Social Sciences Study and under the Ninth-Five Year Plan Program for the Ministry of Education.
(Dr. Chang Pengfei)
Dr. Chang Pengfei holds dual doctorates in Neurosurgery and Neuroscience. He received his MD degree from China’s Capital University of Medical Science in 1997 and his PhD from Denmark’s Aalborg University in 2002. Dr. Chang has specialized in Neurosurgery for 20 years. He was successively senior neurosurgeon at Dalian Medical University Hospital, Beijing Tiantan Hospital and Denmark’s ‘Aalborg Hospital. From 2003 to 2005, he completed postdoctoral research at UAMS in the USA and York University in Canada. In 2005, he returned to China as vice director and expert specialist in the department of Neurosurgery at Beijing Sanbo Neurosurgical Hospital. In 2007, he accepted an appointment in Tsinghua University’s Second Hospital as Expert Specialist and Vice Director in functional neurosurgery. Dr. Chang’s achievements in scientific medical research have received prizes and awards from state and provincial government. His professional publications include more than 40 papers and 20 abstracts in international and national journals. He is an invited reviewer for Clinical Neurophysiology and The Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. Professor Chang is a current member of the Association of Pain Medicine (under the Chinese Association of Medicine) and the Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Chang is a distinguished expert in functional neurosurgery, especially in the diagnosis and surgical management of epilepsy, intractable pain, movement disorders and psychotic refractory disorders.
