S. David Wu

Szu-yung David Wu is a Taiwanese-American educator who is the President of Baruch College of the City University of New York since 2020.^[1] He is the first Asian-American appointed to this position^[2] at a CUNY college.^[3] Previously he held the position of Provost and Executive Vice President of George Mason University.^[4][5]

S. David Wu
8th President of Baruch College
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2020
Preceded by	Mitchel B. Wallerstein
Provost and Executive Vice President of George Mason University
In office July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2020
Preceded by	Peter Stearns
Succeeded by	Mark R. Ginsberg
Personal details
Born	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 his BS from Tunghai University and his MS and PhD from Pennsylvania State University, both in industrial engineering.

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.^[6] He was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.    

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.^[3]