Prof Feng Tian focuses his research on machine learning, with particular interest in developing advanced approaches on representation learning and data clustering.

Thematically, his academic interests mostly center on the emergence of the Islamic movement and faith tradition in the historical context of the late antique Middle East. His recent research explores the questions of ideology, imperialism and propaganda in Byzantine, Sasanian, and early Islamic societies. In 2013, he was awarded a Mellon doctoral fellowship to join the research project The Qur?an Seminar, directed by Gabriel Said Reynolds at Notre Dame University. Tesei has a Ph.D.

His primary interest is in utilizing action research and other qualitative research methods to promote good teaching practices and further explore professional development. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include English for academic purposes and the teaching of writing. In general, he is strongly interested in promoting the learning of all foreign languages. He has served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Sichuan province and as a U.S Department of State English language fellow and specialist in Chengdu and Beijing.

His research interests focus on second language writing, translingual studies, and multimodal composition. His recent work has looked at how second language theories respond to increasingly diversified teaching and learning contexts and facilitate second language practice and pedagogy. He is particularly interested in studying second language writing practice and pedagogy from translingual perspectives.

His current research focus includes AI-assisted intelligent transportation systems, internet of vehicles, wireless sensor network, and mobile vehicular cloud/edge computing.

Sprague has an M.A. in teaching English as a second language from Pennsylvania State University, where he focused on second language writing and theories of second language acquisition. He served as an English language fellow sponsored by the U.S. State Department from 2015 to 2018. In that capacity, he traveled through China providing training in teaching methodologies. He has previously lived in Beijing, Chengdu, Shenyang and Kaifeng.

Her research lies at the intersection of comparative politics, behavioral economics and experimental psychology with a focus on civic engagement and democratic participation at the local level. Conceptually, she is interested in the psychological mechanisms of political learning. Empirically, she combines field experiments, lab experiments, and ethnographic fieldwork to identify how political efficacy interacts with extreme political skepticism during democratic consolidation.

His primary research interests focus on independent language learning, intercultural communication, language teaching, diglossia and the historical development of written Chinese vernaculars. Snow has a Ph.D in East Asian language and cultures from Indiana University. He has taught English at Nanjing University and, before joining Duke Kunshan, was director of the English Language Center at Shantou University.

Her research focus is the bio-inspired materials with advanced functions and performance. She is especially interested in sustainable applications, i.e. water harvesting, synthetic trees, special wettability. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include bio-inspired smart materials, analytic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. She has had papers published in leading academic journals including ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Materials Interfaces, Advanced Materials, and ACS Nano.

His primary field of research is second language writing test performance. For his M.A. dissertation, he carried out a research project entitled "An investigation into the factors that affect computer-based language writing test performance." Other research interests include how peer reviews and computer-assisted language learning can be used to enhance language teaching and learning. He is an experienced teacher of English for academic purposes (EAP) and other related subjects at the university level. He has taught English for more than 14 years in China, Turkey and the U.K.