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.

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).

His research focus includes number theory, combinatorics, symbolic computation, and probability. He is mainly interested in using symbolic computation and experimental mathematics to study topics in analytic number theory and combinatorics. He has published papers in leading academic journals including the Journal of Number Theory and the Journal of Symbolic Computation. Jiu has a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from the Beijing Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Tulane University, New Orleans.

Her research focuses on late imperial/early modern (16th to 19th century) Chinese literature, exploring how literati and gentry women reconciled the relationship between self and the world and constructed identities through their writings of sensory experiences. She is especially interested in the representations of senses in underrepresented genres like?tanci?(plucking rhymes),?xiaopin?(vignette), and?yiyu?(reminiscent words). Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include advanced-level Chinese language, classical Chinese, early modern Chinese literature, and Jiangnan culture. Ji has a B.A.

His research focuses on understanding quantum nature of light and matter and developing ways to harness them for next generation quantum technologies including quantum computing. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include integrated science and advanced physics. Hwang has a B.Sc. and a Ph.D in physics from Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Ulm University, Germany.