1. Mung Chiang is a Chinese-American electrical engineer and academic administrator who has been serving as the current and 13th president of Purdue University since January 2023.
13 Facts About Mung Chiang
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Mung Chiang is the youngest president of a top-50 American university in recent history, taking office at age 45.
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Mung Chiang is credited with 25 US patents, many of which have been adopted and utilized by the communications and networking industry.
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Mung Chiang was born on February 2,1977, in Tianjin, China.
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In 1988, when Mung Chiang was 11 years old, his family went to Hong Kong to live with his grandmother.
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Mung Chiang re-took the fifth grade of primary school at Tak Sun School, a full-time Catholic school for boys, and taught himself Cantonese, Traditional Chinese, and English.
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Mung Chiang was one of the four students of Queen's College that year who attained 10 A's in the exam.
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At Stanford, Mung Chiang received a Bachelor of Science with double major in electrical engineering and mathematics in 1999, a Master of Science in electrical engineering in 2000, and a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering in 2003.
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Mung Chiang became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2004, an associate professor with tenure in 2008, a professor in 2011, and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2013.
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Mung Chiang received the 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award at the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Mung Chiang assumed office on July 1,2017, as the John A Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University.
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Mung Chiang was simultaneously appointed the Roscoe H George Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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On June 10,2022, the Purdue University Board of Trustees announced its unanimous election of Mung Chiang to become the university's 13th president on January 1,2023.