His research is at the intersection of performance and history, with a primary expertise in kunqu, a classical form of song drama associated with the Kunshan and Suzhou area. He is particularly interested in the relationship between culture and its written or audiovisual record, together with the controls and contingencies to which the record and archives are subject.

Huang has a B.S (2007) in Electrical Engineering at Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, an M.S. (2010) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. (2014) in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan University in 2021, he was an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University (2014-2021). His research focus is the intersection among Active Health, Internet-of-Things, Machine Learning and Informatics, Motion and Physiological Signal Sensing.

His research interest is in understanding, predicting and eventually controlling the collective behavior of sand grains (i.e., granular materials) by means of lab experiments and computer simulations, in order to shed light on widespread applications such as space exploration, powder-based additive manufacturing (3D printing), landslide and earthquake triggering, dune migration and transport. He is also interested in the acoustical design of opera theatres. Huang has a B.Sc. in electronic engineering and a Ph.D. in physical acoustics from Nanjing University.

Jan Hua-Henning is a historian of technology and risk. He writes about topics ranging from the history of emergency services and urban infrastructure to the history of race and disease. His current research focuses on how technology helps reveal who and what societies have deemed worthy of protection. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include the history and philosophy of science and technology, the global history of risk, and German and U.S.

As a critical applied linguist working in global higher-education institutions that have an English medium of instruction, her main research interests lie in translingual practice, cultures of learning, and culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, as well as the interplay of discourses that circulate in these domains. From 2015 to 2017, she was the founding academic director of the American Language Institute at NYU Shanghai and oversaw the expansion of the Institute into the NYU School of Professional Studies.

A filmmaker and film historian, his main interest is the complex relationship between local traditions and global phenomena. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include screenwriting, documentary film and moving image production. His 20 years of professional experience span the United States, Japan and Hong Kong, and he has sold two feature-length screenplays to production companies. His work has received international film awards, including at the Hot Docs Documentary Festival, and has been shown on PBS in the U.S. Henderson has an M.F.A.

His research focuses on the nature of human agency and action, which he investigates from various systematic and historical vantage points including the philosophy of action, metaphysics, epistemology and ethics; the history of analytic philosophy, especially Anscombe; classical Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle; and classical Chinese philosophy.

Her research interests include power, religion, sectarianism, and gender in the Middle East. She has written about Muslim-Christian relations in contemporary Egypt, and her current research examines how the 2011 Egyptian Arab Uprisings have affected the sectarian relations from an intersectional approach, or the consideration of class, gender, and geography. Trained as an ethnographer, she has conducted field research in Cairo, Egypt, from 2006.