Jia Yan's research focus is Chinese linguistics and teachers' professional development. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include integrating poetry into CSL teaching, Chinese for beginners and bilingual learning. Yan taught Chinese in Korea through the Confucius Institute in 2017. She served in the Duke Study in China program in Beijing and taught business Chinese courses at the University of International Business and Economics from 2018 to 2019.

His research interests are mathematical modeling of mixing in fluids, investigating the properties of solutions to some types of fluid mechanics equations and studying the time-fractional differential equations. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include mathematical foundations and advanced courses in pure math. Xu has a B.Sc. in mathematics (honors) from Zhejiang University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

His research interests are machine learning and data-driven model for diseases, multiscale modeling of complex fluids, homogenization theory, and numerical analysis. Xu has a B.Sc. in mathematics (honors) from Ocean University of China and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology China. From 2013 to 2017, he held postdoctoral positions at the National University of Singapore, the University of Notre Dame, the University of California, Riverside, and the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Canada.

Xu has an M.A. in teaching Chinese as a foreign language from Beijing Normal University. From 2007 to 2011, she was a Chinese lecturer at Princeton University. She served as the Beijing language director before becoming Shanghai language director for the Alliance of Global Education. She has extensive experience in clearly defining and maintaining superior language instruction and working closely with students.

Lin's research centers at the interface of polymer synthetic chemistry and electrochemical energy storage, where she dedicates herself to seeking creative solutions in response to the challenges in new energy economy and future technological revolution.

Her research focus is the intersection among religion, gender, urbanization, public good, ethnicity, and charisma. She is especially interested in how people cross religious, ethnic, rural-urban and other boundaries. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include ethnography of China, ethnicity and diversity, and urbanization and changing religious landscapes. She is the editor (with Robert Weller) of "It Happens Among People: Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth" (Berghahn 2019) and the co-author (with Robert Weller, C.

His research focus is in plant physiological and ecological responses to environmental change. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include integrated science, biology and environmental science, especially lifecycle analysis and systems thinking. He has directed environmental science research centers and academic programs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Oregon State University and North Carolina State University. He also worked in research administration at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Winner has B.A. and M.A.

His research is in mathematical physics, at the intersection of geometry and astrophysics. In particular, he is interested in general relativity, its modifications and applications, such as mathematical properties of gravitational lensing.

His teaching interests center on growth mindset, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, curriculum development and design, and learner assessment in the classroom. He believes the classroom is a place where students should be encouraged to be risk-takers, develop strategies that lead to autonomous learning and become empowered in their individual pursuits toward achieving success. He started his teaching career in schools in Canada and Japan, and spent nearly 20 years in South Korea, where he lectured at Korea University, Masan University and Changwon University.