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Woo Chia-wei
Chia-Wei Woo (吳家瑋, pinyin: Wú Jiāwěi), CBE, GBS, JP, was the Founding President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His work included raising funding and recruiting outstanding faculty for the university. With Chung Sze Yuen, Woo created an institution, including a top ranked Business School, known as the (HKUST Business School ). The school's MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programs have been consistently ranked as Asia's top programs, and in the World Top 50 MBA programs by the ''Financial Times'' of London.〔(Financial Times'' of London ratings )〕 Woo retired in 2001 after 13 years of service and remains President Emeritus as well as University Professor Emeritus.
==Education & academia==
Born in Shanghai in 1937, he received his secondary education from Pui Ching Middle School in Hong Kong and went to the US in 1955, where he acquired his BS degree in Physics/Mathematics at Georgetown College in Kentucky, and his MA degree in Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He went on to pursue his PhD at Washington University in St. Louis under Eugene Feenberg.〔http://physics.wustl.edu/nd/docs/feenbergBio.pdf〕 Later, he taught at Northwestern University and at the University of Illinois, served as Northwestern's chairman, Physics and Astronomy Department, then as Provost, Revelle College, U.C. San Diego (where he had pursued post-doctoral work). In 1983, at the age of 45, he became President of San Francisco State University, the first Chinese American to head a major university in the United States.〔(San Francisco State University website )〕
Since 1964, Prof. Woo has published 120 papers and books in various fields of physics, particularly in quantum many-body theory, statistical mechanics, liquid crystals, low temperature physics, and surface physics. Under his supervision, 25 doctoral students and postdoctoral staff completed their thesis and research work. Some of his notable students include Sudip Chakravarty who is a professor of Physics at University of California, Los Angeles.
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