Dr. Ching-Kuan Liu, the President of KMU, holds professorship in Neurology. His areas of interests intersect dementia, clinical neuropsychology, and behavioral neurology. He graduated from Kaohsiung Medical University (then Kaohsiung Medical College) with distinguished record in 1982, and received his residency training at Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital between 1982-1986. He received a Master’s degree during his residency training in 1986, and became a lecturer of Neurology in the same year. To further his clinical training, he studied in the neuro-behavior program in UCLA from 1988 to 1990 while working as a lecturer, and completed a fellowship in clinical Neurophysiology in 1990. In 1992, he received his Ph.D. and became Associate Professor of Neurology in Kaohsiung Medical University. He was a Visiting Associate Professor of Neurology in Reed Neurological Research Center, followed by a visiting scholarship in UCLA School of Medicine in 1995. He was promoted to full Professorship in Neurology, and became the chairman in 2000. He was the Dean of Division in Info Tech from 2002 to 2006, the vice-superintendent of Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital from 2006 to 2009, the Superintendent of Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital from 2009 to 2012. With the professional and administrative experiences, he held positions in various prestigious professional societies. In 2006 and 2007, he was elected as the president of Taiwan Dementia Society and Taiwan Neurology Society and appointed as the Delegate of WFN(World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies) of Taiwan since 2012. President Liu is not only a highly respected scholar in Neurology, but also a strong academic leader. Under his leadership, he knits closer ties with several sister schools, such as Harvard Medical University, Universität zu Köln, and Keio University.

Victor (Vic) M. H. Borden, Ph.D. is Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the Project Director for the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and senior advisor to the Executive Vice President for University Academic Affairs. Previously, Dr. Borden served as the Associate Vice President for University Planning, Institutional Research and Accountability at Indiana University (2005-2010), and in senior institutional research positions at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI, 1992-2005), George Mason University (1987-1992), and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1984-1987). Dr. Borden's general area of scholarship is on the assessment of organizational and performance within higher education institutions. Within this general area, he has pursued four themes: student progress and performance; organizational performance assessment and accountability; diversity and equity within higher education; and organizational learning and development as a framework for institutional research. Dr. Borden has published over 100 articles and book chapters, secured over $1 million in research grants and contracts, consulted with over 20 institutions and organizations, internationally, served on more than a dozen national and regional research advisory panels, delivered over 40 workshops and seminars and delivered more than 150 keynote, peer-reviewed and invited presentations throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Dr. Borden was a Fulbright Specialist in South Africa and is an active contributor to several professional associations, most notably, the Association for Institutional Research, of which he is a Past President.

Dr. Ying-Yao Cheng became the 7th President of National Sun Yat-sen University on August 1, 2016. Dr. Cheng is a Professor of the Education Graduate Institute and received his Doctoral Degree in Education at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Dr. Cheng has both academic and administrative experiences as the Director of the Education Institute (1998-2001), Dean of Social Sciences College (2001-2003, 2008-2009), Vice President for Student Affairs (2004-2005), Dean of Center for General Education (2009-2010), and Senior Vice President of Administration (2010-2013). Dr. Cheng led the Education Bureau of the Kaohsiung City Government as the Director-General from 2003-2004 and again from 2006-2008. Dr. Cheng’s professional interests are educational psychology, creative thinking and teaching, educational administration and organizational management, and educational measurement and assessment.

Ning Wang, Ph.D., is the Director of Institutional Research at the University of California, San Francisco. She chairs UCSF’s committee on Educational Data Warehouse and Analytics, and the campus Self-Service Business Intelligence workgroup. Her philosophy of Institutional Research as a platform of discovery and consensus building is leading IR at UCSF to the center of institutional decision-making, management and planning. Dr. Wang has strong technical background in collecting and curating institutional data, and she specializes in data visualization that emphasizes balanced aesthetics and functionality.