National University of Singapore University Professor
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The title of University Professor is an honor bestowed upon a very small number of its tenured faculty members at the National University of Singapore
(NUS) who rendered outstanding leadership and service to NUS and the wider community. The University Professor title was first handed out in 2000. Presently, there are only three University Professors in NUS.
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered....
(NUS) who rendered outstanding leadership and service to NUS and the wider community. The University Professor title was first handed out in 2000. Presently, there are only three University Professors in NUS.
Present National University of Singapore University Professors
- Chong Chi TatChong Chi TatChong Chi Tat is University Professor and the Head of the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore . He is also the chairman of Asia Research Institute at NUS...
, Renowned mathematician in recursion/computability theory
- Deputy Vice Chancellor, Deputy President and Provost of the National University of Singapore from 1996 to 2004.
- Lim PinLim PinProfessor Lim Pin is the longest serving appointee with 19 years of service as Vice Chancellor at the National University of Singapore . Professor Lim began his career at the University of Singapore in 1966 as lecturer and was later promoted to Professor, heading the Department of Medicine...
, Longest serving Vice Chancellor
- First University Professor, with the Outstanding Service Award for 19 years of dedicated and inspiring stewardship as Vice Chancellor, during which time the foundations of NUS as a leading Asia Pacific university were laid.
- Wang GungwuWang GungwuWang Gungwu, CBE is an academic who has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, although he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China, because it is inaccurate and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat". He was born in...
, Eminent historian of China and Southeast Asia
- Chairman of the East Asian Institute and Chairman of the Managing Board of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public PolicyLee Kuan Yew School of Public PolicyThe Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is a school of the National University of Singapore . It was established in 1992 as the Master of Public Policy Programme under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of National University of Singapore in collaboration with the Kennedy School of Government...
, National University of Singapore; Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.