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Macao Polytechnic Institute’s Recent Appointments of Scholars as Leaders of Academic Units
| Recent days have witnessed the appointments of several scholars by the Macao Polytechnic Institute as leaders for its academic units. These appointments are lending strong evidence to MPI's long-term commitments towards its guiding principle of 'operating the institute by scholars'. |
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Among these, Dr. Tse Tan Sim was recently appointed as Director for the School of Public Administration. Dr. Tse had obtained a Bachelor degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), a Master from Universidade Aberta Internacional Da Ásia (Macau),and earned her Ph.D. from Hull University from the U.K. Currently, she is also a visiting scholar at the UCLA School of Henry Samueli Engineering and Applied Science, and a research fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the UK, with previous service as a deputy executive committee member of the Macao Innovation and Invention Association (MIIA). Dr. Tse has been teaching at MPI since 1990, serving as program coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in computing between 2005 and 2016, and has spearheaded many joint partnership programs in teaching and research between MPI and other world-leading universities such as UCLA. Under her leadership, MPI's BSc in computing program successfully achieved the higher education academic accreditation granted by the IET from the UK in 2011, which has become an applauding success case for other local higher educational institutes to follow similar procedures. Dr. Tse has also conducted rigorous research projects in such areas as urban environment sensing and monitoring systems, social communication network analysis, as well as casino gaming systems and has published widely in international journals and conferences. Her research endeavors and achievements have thus helped pave an internationally solid platform for MPI students and fellow teachers to conduct research, academic exchanges and further studies.
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Director for the School of Public Administration,
Dr. Tse Tan Sim |
Sub-director of the School of Language and Translation,
Han Lili |
Newly appointed as the sub-director of the School of Language and Translation,Han Lili had obtained a Bachelor degree from Peking University, a Master from the University of Macau, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Portuguese linguistics and culture at the University of Lisbon. Previously,Ms. Han had worked as an intern at the European Commission's Joint Interpreting and Conference Service,where she had subsequently became an instructor for its Chinese-Portuguese interpreting courses. So far, she has published many academic papers on translation and cultural issues in journals and conferences in Macau, mainland China and Brazil etcetera. Overall, she has accumulated substantial teaching experience and research expertise in Chinese-Portuguese translation and interpretation. |
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The newly appointed Head of the Social, Economic and Public Policy Research Centre, Dr. Huang Huang, had obtained his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. from Peking University. Previously,Dr. Huang had served as an executive committee member of China's Policy Science Research Association, a fellow of Peking University's Political Development and Government Management Research Center, a guest research associate and reviewer for the journal of 'Chinese Public Administration', an editorial board member of 'E-Government' and 'Smart City Magazine', a deputy section chief of Information Work Office affiliated with the State Administration Bureau of Press and Publication, an Assistant Director of Huimin Development Branch of China Information Association, a member of China's Experts Database, a Deputy Secretary of China Information Outcomes Evaluation Panel, a principal lecturer of Peking University's core undergraduate program of 'Public Policy Analysis'. Dr. Huang's research interests include policy science, e-government, Big Data analysis and social modeling etc. He has published over 30 academic papers in 'Journal of Management Sciences in China', 'Chinese Public Administration', 'China Soft Science Magazine', 'Journal of Peking University', 'E-Government', as well as many monographs and edited or translated volumes. So far, Dr. Huang has secured over 20 research grant projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and other central ministry and state departments, as well as the Bureau of Telecommunication of Macau.
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Head of the Social, Economic and Public Policy Research Centre,
Dr. Huang Huang |
| Since the handover of the Macau SAR, MPI has steadfastly upheld its guiding principle of 'Student-Centered and Scholar-Operated', firmly sticking to this principle as the standard of quality assurance for its curriculum design and pedagogical innovation. Given this, it should come as no surprise for MPI to become the very first tertiary educational institute in Asia to be fully accredited by an international academic accreditation authority, i.e., the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education in the UK. |