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SIG-MET Officers

Current (2025-2026)

OFFICERS

  • Houqiang YuChair, Cabinet Representative
    Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
    yuhq8@mail.sysu.edu.cn
  • Kai Li – Past Chair
    University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville TN, USA
    kli16@utk.edu
  • Lesego Makhafola – Chair Elect
    University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
    lesego.makhafola@up.ac.za
  • Chenwei Zhang – Secretary/Treasurer
    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    chwzhang@hku.hk
  • Zhichao Fang – Webmaster/Programming Chair
    Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
    fangz@ruc.edu.cn
  • Likun Cao – Communication Officer/Awards Chair
    Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA
    lkcao@purdue.edu
  • Dakota Murray – Outreach Officer/Academic Chair
    University of Albany, Albany NY, USA
    dakota.s.murray@gmail.com

LIAISONS

The name is followed by the type of liaison and the respective contact information of the individual. Thus, Individual Researcher Liaison means a liaison with the person and not with the entire institution indicated in the contact information.

  • Philippe Mongeon – Individual Researcher Liaison
    Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
    pmongeon [at] dal [dot] ca
  • Angela McGuire – Elsevier Liaison
    International Center for the Study of Research, Elsevier, Amsterdan, Netherlands
    a [dot] mcguire [at] elsevier [dot] com
  • Jiang Li – Individual Researcher Liaison
    Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
    lijiang [at] nju [dot] edu [dot] cn
  • Isabella Peters – Individual Researcher Liaison
    ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics; Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
    ipe [at] informatik [dot] uni-kiel [dot] de
  • Shenmeng Xu – Individual Researcher Liaison
    Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
    shenmeng.xu [at] vanderbilt [dot] edu

Past