People

Yu Lizhong: A Founding Chancellor for Our Times
“It’s not important that people remember me.... It is much more important to…

Amy DeCillis '20: Bridging Cultures and Building Shanghai Dreams
"I realized I was learning so much more outside the classroom in Shanghai…

Graduate Student Spotlight: James Yang Zhi, M.A. ’20
James Yang Zhi, M.A. ‘20 founded his own English education company while…

Graduate Student Spotlight: Jiyoung Kim, M.S. ’20
This summer, Kim takes up a new job as a global supply management analyst for…

Alexander Bogdanowicz '20: Everything Is an Opening, a Shattering of Expectations
“I would choose the word ‘open’ to summarize my four years at NYU Shanghai.”

Guan ChengHe: Reimagining Cities with Big Data
Professor Guan ChengHe in the park in front of the Academic Building to discuss…

Audrey Samuel '20: A Global Citizen Finding Ways to Give Back
"I’ve built a connection with these places and want to find a way to give…

A Two-Month Race: Supplying the Frontlines of a Pandemic
When she graduated as part of the first class of NYU Shanghai graduates in May…

Tim Wu Guangyu '20: From Century Avenue to Huaihua City to the UN
After discovering his true passions—for data science, and for tackling…

Graduate Student Spotlight: Dai Weiduo, M.S. '20
Now an institutional sales specialist at Orient Futures in Shanghai, Dai says…

He Ziqing '20: Embracing Uncertainty to Follow Her Passions
"This kind of global experience I got at NYU Shanghai really makes me…

Violet Spotlight: Sibling Edition
Meet Zainab Haider ’19 and her younger brother Syed Ali Haider ’24