S. David Wu

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wu.

The native form of this personal name is Wu Szu-yung. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Szu-yung David Wu is a Taiwanese-American engineer, currently serving as 8th president of Baruch College at the City University of New York since July 2020.^[1] He served as provost of George Mason University from 2014 to 2020.^[2][3]

S. David Wu
8th President of Baruch College
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2020
Preceded by	Mitchel B. Wallerstein
Provost of George Mason University
In office July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2020
Preceded by	Peter Stearns
Succeeded by	Mark R. Ginsberg
Personal details
Born	Wu Szu-yung Taiwan
Education	Tunghai University (BS) Pennsylvania State University (MS, PhD)

S. David Wu
Traditional Chinese	吳思永
Simplified Chinese	吴思永
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wú SīYǒng Bopomofo ㄨˊㄙㄩㄥˇ Wade–Giles Wu2 Ssu-Yung3

Education

Wu received a BS from Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan, and a MS and a PhD in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Wu served as Dean of the Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and held the Lee Iacocca endowed chair at Lehigh University, where the S. David Wu Endowed Scholarship was created in his honor in 2014.^[4]

Wu has served on both national and international boards including the National Science Foundation and the Science Foundation of Ireland. He is a board member emeritus of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.^[5]