The Macau University of Science and Technology (M.U.S.T.) is proud to confer the 2022 Honorary Doctorate Degree upon 8 outstanding individuals in recognition of their outstanding achievements in their respective professions and valuable contributions to the well-being of society. They are (listed in no particular order): Andrew Michael Spence, Hao Ping, Robert S. Langer, Lou-Chuang Lee, Harry Shum, Wu Weishan, Chua Lam, and Zhonghe Zhou. The conferment ceremony will be held during the 2022/2023 Opening Ceremony and the M.U.S.T. 23rd Anniversary Ceremony in 2023.
The Macau University of Science and Technology (M.U.S.T.) is proud to confer the 2022 Honorary Doctorate Degree upon 8 outstanding individuals in recognition of their outstanding achievements in their respective professions and valuable contributions to the well-being of society. They are (listed in no particular order): Andrew Michael Spence, Hao Ping, Robert S. Langer, Lou-Chuang Lee, Harry Shum, Wu Weishan, Chua Lam, and Zhonghe Zhou. The conferment ceremony will be held during the 2022/2023 Opening Ceremony and the M.U.S.T. 23rd Anniversary Ceremony in 2023.
Andrew Michael Spence
Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel Prize laureate. He majored in Philosophy at Princeton University, pursued further studies at Oxford University, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1973 to 1975, he was an associate professor of Economics at Stanford University where later, in 1990, he became professor. From 1990 to 1999, he was the Philip H. Knight Professor of Management at Stanford University and was appointed Dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, becoming Emeritus in 2000. From 1975 to 1990, he was also Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University, where from 1984 to 1990 was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Andrew Michael Spence is a recipient of many awards and honours. In 1966, he studied as a Rhodes Scholar at the Magdalen College, Oxford University, and studied economics at Harvard University with the support of a Danforth Graduate Fellowship. In 1972, he received the David A. Wells Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation from Harvard University; in 1978, he was awarded the J. K. Galbraith Prize for Excellence in Teaching; in 1981, he received the John Bates Clark Medal for Contributions to Economic Research by the American Economic Association; and, together with George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Michael Spence is a co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.” He is the author of many articles and has published a few books, including “Market Signaling: Informational Transfer in Hiring and Related Screening Processes” and “The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World”.
Hao Ping
Professor HAO Ping is an internationally recognized writer and scholar with a successful career in Government and University administration. He is an Alternate Member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a Member of the National Committee of the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Since June 2022, Professor Ping has been appointed the Secretary of the CPC Peking University Committee and the Chair of the University Council. In 1997, he served as the Assistant President of Peking University and later, in 2001, as Vice President of Peking University. In 2005, Professor Hao became the President of Beijing Foreign Studies University. Later in 2009, he was appointed Vice Minister of Education, Executive Member of the CPC Leading Group of Ministry of Education, Chairperson of Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, and Executive Member of the Council of the Confucius Institute Headquarters. In 2013, he was elected as the President of the 37th session of the General Conference, UNESCO; the first-ever Chinese to hold this position. In December 2016, Professor Hao returned to Peking University and served as the Secretary of the CPC Peking University Committee and the Chair of the University Council of Peking University. From October 2018 to June 2022, he served as the President of Peking University. Professor Hao has published several academic papers and three books, which are Peking University and the Origins of Higher Education in China (1998, later translated in English, Russian, and Korean), Sun Yat-sen and America (2000, later translated in English) and John Leighton Stuart and China (2011).
Robert S. Langer
ger is one of 12 Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); being an Institute Professor is the highest honour that can be awarded to a faculty member. He holds 38 honorary doctorates, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern, and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. From 1999 to 2002, Dr. Langer served as Chairman of the FDA’s Science Board (its highest advisory board). He has written over 1,500 articles, which have been cited over 367,000 times; his h-index of 300 is the highest of any engineer in history and the 3rd highest of any individual in any field. His over 220 awards include both the United States National Medal of Science and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (he is one of 3 living individuals to have received both these honours), the Charles Stark Draper Prize (often called the Engineering Nobel Prize), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Albany Medical Center Prize, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Kyoto Prize, Wolf Prize for Chemistry, Millennium Technology Prize, Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society), Gairdner Prize, Hoover Medal, Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, and the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine. His patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 400 companies; he is a co-founder of a few companies including Moderna.
Lou-Chuang Lee
Professor Lou-Chuang Lee received his Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1975. Since 2017, Professor Lee has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of M.U.S.T. where he has given lectures to the “M.U.S.T. Great Masters Seminars”, and made important contributions to cultivating young teachers and students at the Space Science Institute of M.U.S.T. Professor Lee performed research and teaching at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland, University of Alaska, National Cheng Kung University, National Central University, and Academia Sinica. He served as Director of the National Space Program Office, the first President of the National Applied Research Laboratories, the President of National Central University, and the Minister of the National Science Council. Professor Lee has published more than 300 scientific papers as well as three academic monographs. He has received many awards, including the Fullbright Scholar Award, the Presidential Science Prize (the highest honour in science in Taiwan), and the Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize for Plasma Physics. Prof. Lee is an Academician of Academia Sinica (AS), elected member of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and elected foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). During his career, he developed several new theories to explain observed space phenomena. His major research achievements include: (a) proposing in 1976 that the interstellar medium has a Kolmogorov turbulence spectrum based on scintillation data, (b) the electron cyclotron maser theory for the generation of auroral kilometric radiation, (c) the multiple X-line reconnection (MXR) model for magnetic flux transfer events, (d) the formation mechanism of solar prominences, (e) a new mechanism for solar coronal heating, and (f) the discovery of "gigantic jets" in the Earth’s upper atmosphere.
Harry Shum
Harry Shum is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow for his contributions to computer vision and computer graphics. He received his Ph.D. in robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University and the founding chairman of the International Digital Economy Academy. In 1996, Dr. Shum joined Microsoft Research as a researcher based in Redmond, Washington. In 1998, he moved to Beijing as one of the founding members of Microsoft Research China (later renamed Microsoft Research Asia). There he began a nine-year tenure as a researcher, subsequently moving on to become a research manager, assistant managing director, and managing director of Microsoft Research Asia and a Distinguished Engineer. In 2017 and 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering of the United States and the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, respectively. Harry Shum was the Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research group. He was responsible for driving the company’s overall AI strategy and forward-looking research and development efforts spanning infrastructure, services, apps, and agents. He oversaw AI-focused product groups including Bing. He also led Microsoft Research, one of the world’s premier computer science research organizations, and its integration with the engineering teams across the company. Prior to his engineering leadership role at Bing and online services, he oversaw the research activities at Microsoft Research Asia and the lab’s collaborations with universities in the Asia Pacific region, and was responsible for the Internet Services Research Center, an applied research organization dedicated to advanced technology investment in search and advertising at Microsoft.
Wu Weishan
Wu Weishan is a professor of liberal arts and Ph.D. supervisor of Chinese philosophy, fine arts, and design art. He serves as a member of the 11th and 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and as a member of the Standing Committee of the 13th CPPCC, Director of the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), and Vice President of the Chinese Artists Association. He is also President of the Chinese Academy of Sculpture, member and Deputy Director of the Ethics Committee of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, President of the Chinese Urban Sculpture Artists Association, Deputy Director of the Art Education Committee of Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of the National Advisory Committee on Higher Education under the Ministry of Education, member of the National Textbook Committee, Deputy Director of the National Advisory Committee on Urban Sculpture Construction and Director of the Art Committee of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and member of “Four Batches of Talents and Cultural Masters” of National Publicity and Culture System. He was granted the title of “Goodwill Ambassador for sharing China stories” by the State Council Information Office from which he received a special government allowance. For his outstanding achievements and influence, Wu Weishan has been elected academician in many countries. In 2018, he was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Arts (Académie des Beaux-Arts) as the second Chinese artist who won the honour, next to Wu Guanzhong. His original concept of Xieyi (freehand) sculpture has exerted a positive influence on the world for it integrates traditional Chinese culture and contemporary art with world culture. He has created more than 600 works that have been exhibited in more than a dozen countries and regions, and many have been permanently collected by globally renowned museums and art institutes. He has published more than 30 books, catalogues, and theoretical essays in several languages.
Chua Lam
Mr. Chua Lam published his first article in Singapore’s Nanyang Business Daily when he was only 14 years old. At 16 years old, he left Singapore for Japan to study films; later, he worked for Shaw Brothers in Japan and travelled all over the world. In 1963, the then 22-year-old Chua Lam settled in Hong Kong and held the position of Production Manager in Shaw Brothers Ltd. A decade later, he became Vice President of Golden Harvest and produced a series of Jackie Chan films. Chua Lam has been a columnist writer for more than forty years. Starting from the 1980s, he’s published over 300 books of various types, including travel journals, prominent figures, food critics, jokes, and life philosophies, among which he became most recognized for his food critics articles. Along with Cha Leung-yung, Ni Kuang, and Wong Jim, Mr. Chua Lam is widely credited as one of Hong Kong’s Four Great Wits. In the mid-1990s, Mr. Chua Lam forayed into the food and beverage industry and introduced many popular products; in 2013, he launched his online store on the mainland, where the products have become widely popular. Chua Lam was a judge on the Japanese Fuji TV series Iron Chef. He’s also hosted a series of food TV programs, including Chua Lam Life is Fun, Chua’s Choice -World, Chua Lam Market Trotter, Chua’s Choice – Cuisines, Chua San Feast, and Chua Lam’s Happiness in Asia. In recent years, Chua Lam now self-produces Chua Lam Colorful World on his YouTube channel and collaborates with mainland audio-video platforms in taping the Chua Lam Life Is Fun TV series.
Zhonghe Zhou
Zhonghe Zhou is a vertebrate paleontologist. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science of the University of Science and Technology of China, and an adjunct professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University and Nanjing University. He serves as the associate editor-in-chief of the National Science Review and the editorial board member of Current Biology, PNAS Nexus, and Science China: Earth Science, among others. He is currently the chairman of the academic committee of the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology. He is currently a member of the standing committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), President of the China Science Writer Association, and editor-in-chief of journals such as Science Communication and Science Education, Popular Science Writing and Review, and Intellectual. He also serves as the chairman of the academic committee of the China Research Institute for Science Popularization. In 2000, he was elected a foreign associate by the National Academy of Sciences of the USA; in 2011, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; in 2015, a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences and the corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; and in 2019, the honorary member of the America Ornithological Society. In 1986, he graduated from the Department of Geology of Nanjing University and earned his master’s degree at the Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology of China, after which he was employed by the IVPP. In 1995, he went to the University of Kansas and was awarded his Ph.D. degree in 1999. That same year, he returned to IVPP and was awarded the “Hundred Talent Project” by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2000 and 2001, he was awarded the Distinguished Young Scientist Project and the Research Group Fund by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, respectively, and from 2008 to 2018 served as the Director of the IVPP. From 2014 to 2018e also served as President of the International Paleontological Association. He has made significant contributions to his field of work and much of his research has been published in journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, Proc R Soc B, and Current Biology.
