Arlington, Virginia, USA July 11, 2008 Computer Science Faculty Evaluation and Development Maosong Sun Tsinghua University Arlington, Virginia, USA July 11, 2008

Case Study: Faculty Evaluation at CS Tsinghua Evaluated annually, one term three years: -- Publications -- Research funding -- Teaching (student evaluation) -- Awards -- Social service Question 1: How can we avoid short-term effect without losing the efficiency of research?

Case Study: Faculty Evaluation at CS Tsinghua Current evaluation: Mixture of all the factors Publication-oriented vs. Real things-oriented Updated idea: “Do things to the extreme” Question 2: How can we compare publications and real things in faculty evaluation? How can we encourage faculties to do the latter?

Case Study: Faculty Evaluation at CS Tsinghua “Do big things” -- Large scale: mixture of high-quality research and large-scale engineering -- Individual-based faculty evaluation -- Team-based faculty evaluation Question 3: How can we build a team-based faculty evaluation system, in addition to the Individual-based faculty evaluation?

Case Study: Faculty Development at CS Tsinghua Current strategic task of CS Tsinghua: recruit PhD graduates of the first rate US universities The state-of-arts: Prof. Zhang Xiaodong -- Advantages and constraints Welcome to Join CS Tsinghua! Question 4: How can we recruit talents from the US in the given constraints?

Thanks！