S. David Wu | |
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President of Baruch College | |
Assumed office July 1, 2020 | |
Preceded by | Mitchel B. Wallerstein |
Provost and Executive Vice President of George Mason University | |
In office July 1,2014 –June 30,2020 | |
Preceded by | Peter Stearns |
Succeeded by | Mark R. Ginsberg |
Personal details | |
Born | Taiwan |
Education | Tunghai University (BS) Pennsylvania State University (MS,PhD) |
S. David Wu | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 吳思永 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 吴思永 | ||||||||||
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Szu-yung David Wu is a Taiwanese-American educator who is the President of Baruch College of the City University of New York since 2020. [1] He is the first Asian-American appointed to this position [2] at a CUNY college. [3] Previously he held the position of Provost and Executive Vice President of George Mason University. [4] [5]
Wu received his BS from Tunghai University and his MS and PhD from Pennsylvania State University,both in industrial engineering.
Wu served as Dean of the Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and held the Lee Iacocca endowed chair at Lehigh University,where the S. David Wu Endowed Scholarship was created in his honor in 2014. [6] He was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Wu has served on both national and international boards including the National Science Foundation and the Science Foundation of Ireland. He is a board member emeritus of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. [3]
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