China News Service, May 20. According to Hong Kong Sing Tao.com, the Board of Trustees of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology") today (20th) appointed Professor Ye Yuru as the next president of HKUST, succeeding Shi who left in October this year. Wei became the principal.

  Ye Yuchen met with teachers, students and alumni online this afternoon. When she introduced her vision, she mentioned that she has served HKUST for the past 29 years and has deep feelings for the university. The next few years will be a critical juncture for HKUST's development of "2.0". Can lead HKUST to seize opportunities in the Greater Bay Area.

She also mentioned that if she becomes the first female president of HKUST since its founding, she hopes to use her own experience to encourage women to aim high.

Ye Yuru met with teachers, students and alumni online on the 20th.

Image source: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology website.

  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology President Selection Committee recommended to the Board of Trustees earlier that Ye Yuru, the former vice-president, will be the president, replacing Shi Wei, who left in October.

Ye Yuru joined the University of Science and Technology after returning to Hong Kong from the United States in 1993. She served as the head of the Department of Biochemistry and the Dean of the Faculty of Science, etc., and just stepped down as the Vice President (Research and Development) last month.

  According to reports, Ye Yuru will become the first female president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since the founding of the school. It is also the first female president of eight universities in Hong Kong after the predecessor of the Hong Kong Institute of Education Xu Meide.

She joined HKUST in 1993 and has been steadily promoted since then, first as Head of the Department of Biochemistry in 2000, to Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2011, and then as Vice-President (Research and Development) in 2016 1 to last month.

  Ye Yuru is currently a professor of life sciences at HKUST Morningside. She has made remarkable academic achievements and has promoted the development of local and international neuroscience fields. She has made important breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, and has also actively promoted international policies in related fields. develop.