His research focuses on the determinants and impacts of Chinese economic engagement abroad. More specifically, he researches the political and economic determinants of China's development finance and investment flows in the developing world, and how these in turn affect development. At Duke Kunshan, he teaches in the fields of international development and international political economy. His academic work has been published in Energy Policy and Resources Policy, and he has contributed to multiple World Bank reports as a consultant.

His research focus is at the intersection of environmental management, environmental engineering, and sustainability science. He is especially interested in how we can sustainably transition our approaches to water management (e.g., reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enabling resource recovery, improving water security). His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include water, energy and sustainability. Lam has a B.Eng. in chemical and environmental engineering (with a minor in liberal studies), an M.Phil.

Selina Lai-Henderson's scholarship is at the heart of transnational American Studies, where she locates works of American literature in twentieth-century China and in translation. The author of Mark Twain in China (Stanford UP, 2015), Lai-Henderson's current book-in-progress interrogates complex shifts of Afro-Asian discourses across the literary and cultural landscape of late Qing China through the Maoist era.

Kwok's research lies at the intersection among neuroscience, behavior, and psychology. He is head of the Laboratory of Phylo-Cognition and his research team studies the neural bases of episodic memory, metacognition, and other related higher cognitive processes in the primate species. Elucidation of such intricate brain/mind/behavior relationships is attained by armamentaria of methods including multimodal neuroimaging, in vivo electrophysiology, neuromodulatory methods, state-of-the-art behavioral paradigms and computational techniques.

Her research focuses on interface between nanophotonics and biophotonics to gain a better understanding of the processes involved to manipulate nanometer-sized particles using light fields which contribute to the development of new techniques for single-molecule level detection and analysis.

He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral fellowship research at the Genetics department of Harvard Medical School. He has been an associate professor since 2015, working with teaching and research at Tianjin University. His main research focus has been investigating genome integrity and epigenetic modulation of DNA damage repair, both of which are hallmarks of cancers, using eukaryotic model systems including C. elegans (worms) and human cells.

Eunyu Kim's principal research interest is understanding how plants cope with environmental stresses to improve crop resilience and develop better crops. She has mainly focused on regulating stress-responsive mechanisms and their potential application in Arabidopsis, rice and hot pepper. These studies were published in high-impact journals and generated numerous international patents. She has obtained three research grants as a principal investigator in South Korea and China. Kim got her Ph.D. at Yonsei University in South Korea.

Kappes' research focuses on chromatin biology, epigenetics and tumor biology. He is especially interested in how the unique chromatin-associated oncogene DEK, a long-standing interest in the laboratory, participates in and regulates these processes. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include molecular biology, cell biology, epigenetics and biochemistry. He has authored over 30 papers relating to DEK biology, some of which appeared in leading academic journals including PNAS, Genes & Development and Nature Communications.

Yiu Wing Kam's major area of research activity is on the study of the adaptive immune response in patients (focusing on IgG class switching and epitope identification). He is also interested in studying the virus-host interaction, findings from which will contribute to biomarker identification and immunotherapy development. In addition, he hopes to draw on his research knowledge to develop better vaccine candidates against infectious diseases (particularly epitope-specific antibodies and epitope specificity at single amino acid level).