COM Alumni Lingfei Wu Received NSF CAREER Award

2 Mar 2023 (Thu)  ·  Association News  ·  Official report ›

Congratulations to Dr. Lingfei Wu on winning a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award in the U.S. Lingfei received his PhD in Communication from CityU in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Zhu.

Upon graduation, he worked at several leading institutions in the U.S., including the University of Chicago, Santa Fe Institute, and Arizona State University, before joining the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor of Information Science in 2019. He has published computational social science studies in Nature, PNAS, and other world-leading journals.

The highly competitive NSF CAREER Award, granted to nearly 500 faculty each year across all disciplines, supports early-career faculty who demonstrate the potential to serve as academic role models and leaders in research and education nationwide.

This five-year award will support Wu's investigation of team collaboration mechanisms underlying the production of millions of scholarly and educational documents over the past century.