Communications of the ACM
Booming China Lures Key Professors Home From U.s.
Professor Yigong Shi walked away from a top research position in the United States to become the dean of life sciences at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University in 2008.
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When Weiping Li came from China in 1982 to study engineering at Stanford University, he didn't plan to stay long. But after earning his Ph.D., he found that the best opportunities were in the United States, and he was pleased to land a job as a professor of electrical engineering at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
He became a U.S. citizen and raised a family. But earlier this year, he left the U.S. to work in a country where the economy is booming and universities are investing in the future: his native China.
Recruited under a Chinese government program called the "Thousand Talents," Li was named dean of the prestigious information science division of the University of Science and Technology of China. As an incentive, the university gave him a 2,000-square-foot house and a tax-free relocation payment of nearly $150,000.
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