Our Faculty

The professors at our institution are internationally diverse, all holding doctoral degrees with extensive academic and teaching experience.They not only provide up-to-date insights from the industry, but also prioritize building meaningful relationships with students—impacting lives through their own.

Enze Liao

Director of the Master of Clinical Counselling Program
  • Director of Psychology at Raffles University Malaysia and Director of Enlight Counselling Charity
  • Ph.D. in Counseling, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
  • Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
  • Diploma in Psychoanalysis from ORI, USA

Weikang Huang

Advisor of the Master of Clinical Counseling Program
  • Licensed Clinical Psychologist in California, USA
  • Specialist in the field of family relationships, neuroscience, gender, addiction and trauma
  • He has served as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, an attending psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco Public Hospital, a supervisor of the crisis clinic at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, and a distinguished professor at Trinity Western University
  • Curriculum Advisor, School of Sociology and Psychology & Mental Health Education Center, Southwest Minzu University, Sichuan, China
  • He is the author of “Gender Confidence, Healthier Children” and “Born to Die”

Seth Scott

Visiting Professor
  • He is currently an associate professor at the School of Psychological Studies at Columbia International University (CIU).
  • Member of the American Association of Psychological Counseling
  • Ph.D. in Counseling Education, Walden University, USA
  • Master of Counseling, Vanguard University, USA
  • Boston University, PhD

Sui Lin

Visiting Professor
  • Licensed Counselor, Stony Brook University (a campus of the State University of New York), USA
  • Project Advisor, Mental Health Research project for Chinese communities, Duke Medical School, Durham, NC
  • Earned certificates from Harvard University in:
    School Psychology Counseling for Children and Adolescents (K-12)
    Borderline Personality Disorder Counseling
    Anxiety Assessment and Treatment
  • Earned certificates from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in:
    Psychological First Aid (PFA) Crisis Intervention
    Major Depression Counseling
    Dementia Care
  • He received a certificate in music therapy, counseling and mental health and emotion management from Yale University
  • Earned certificates from Duke University School of Medicine in:
    Music and Biology (Neuroscience)
    Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Certification

Yuying Chen

Visiting Professor
  • Director of Shanghai Living Water Psychological Counseling Center, Doctor of Clinical Psychology of East China Normal University
  • Certified therapist, supervisor and trainer of EFT International Society, head of training and certification institutions in China
  • Registered supervisor of the Clinical and Counseling Psychology Professionals Registration System of the Chinese Psychological Society
  • Publications: Exploring Emotional Distress: EFT-based Integrative Psychotherapy, Our Path as Counselors

Liqiang Xu

Visiting Professor
  • Psychiatrist and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
  • Doctor of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China
  • Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, Tongji University, China
  • Top 300 Outstanding Psychiatrists in the United States
  • He has published 4 monographs and more than 130 academic journal articles

Rubin Lu

Visiting Professor
  • Chief physician of Beijing Yining Hospital, China
  • Professor and attending physician of the Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University School of Medicine, Taiwan, China
  • Texas Psychiatric Research Center, USA, studies psychopharmacology
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA
  • Received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Psychiatry in Taiwan, China
  • Specialties: Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Biomedical Psychiatry, Molecular Genetics
  • He has published 18 monographs and nearly 400 professional journal papers
  • In the course of more than 50 years of medical practice, he has always adhered to the combination of clinical, doctoral research, teaching and psychotherapy, and has been a psychiatric clinical and drug expert, with a total of more than 350,000 visits so far

Linghui Wang

Visiting Professor
  • Doctor of Ministry in Marriage and Family Counseling, Denver Seminary, USA
  • More than 30 years of cross-cultural experience and more than 20 years of caring experience
  • He has been a counselor for many years at the Galilee Growth Consultation Center in Taiwan and The Well International in Thailand
  • Counseling psychologist in Taiwan, China
  • Certified Trainer of the Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis (T-JTA)
  • Areas of Expertise: Family Systems, Psychological Assessment, Multicultural Counseling, etc.
  • Co-author: “Walking with You, Working with You”

Ciqian Liu

Visiting Professor
  • Licensed Doctor of Psychology in the State of California, USA
  • He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fuller School of Psychology
  • He has worked in a geriatric psychotherapy clinic for marriage and family therapy and participated in radio programs
  • Currently doing psychiatric autism assessment at the Adolescent Crisis Center, teaching at Columbia International University Graduate School, serving a non-profit organization (NAMI).
  • With a specialization in psychiatry, he is an expert in autism diagnosis, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

XinYang Sun

Visiting Professor
  • He is a licensed psychiatrist in China and holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Regen University
  • He has 17 years of clinical experience, especially in the evaluation and treatment of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addiction, trauma and sexuality.
  • Licensed Psychological Counselor and Group Counselor in China and Registered Addiction Therapist in Canada
  • In 2021, he founded the “Muxile” psychological training platform, and so far has conducted nearly 1,000 hours of training on parenting skills, communication skills, and popular science knowledge of common mental and psychological problems among adolescents and adults.

Haining Li

Visiting Professor
  • Ph.D. in Applied Psychology, Beijing Normal University
  • Registered Lecturer in Psychology in an educational institution in Singapore
  • Head of International Intimate Tours Singapore, Certified Trainer
  • Senior Counsellor and Supervisor of Singapore Psychological Counselling Centre
  • Senior Lecturer at ACC Counselling Training Institute, Singapore
  • Supervisor of the Master of Counselling in Counselling at Monash University, Australia
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Dao Farming College (Department of Chinese Language), Singapore
  • He has served in many hospitals and education departments in Singapore, and has been active in mental health columns in major media, with more than 20 years of clinical counseling experience.

Li Qu

Visiting Professor
  • Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Former Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Founder of the Olive Tree Centre in Singapore

Jie Chen

MBA Program Director / Visiting Professor of Marketing

• Practice as a business partner
• Ph.D. in Consumer Behavior, Purdue University, USA
• Master of Business Administration, Nankai University
• Specializes in behavioral science, quantitative market analysis, and digital marketing in marketing, and has published several academic papers in authoritative academic journals
• 20 years of experience in face-to-face and online teaching

Guohua Huang

Adjunct Professor of Human Resource Management

• Currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Human Resource Management Programme at Hong Kong Baptist University, teaching in the Department of Management, Marketing and Consulting Systems
• Ph.D. in Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Research interests in organizational behavior and human resource management

Jianwei He

Adjunct Professor of Finance

• He is currently an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance, Durham University, UK
• Master of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Master of International Economics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, China
• Taught at Massey University, New Zealand, where he focused on the impact of investor sentiment on stock market anomaly mispricing
• He has published several academic papers in international authoritative academic journals, and won the Best Paper Award at the 2011 IEFA International Conference and the 2008 SFM Annual Meeting

Li Sun

Adjunct Professor of Management

• He is currently an associate professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, USA
• Ph.D. in Global Strategic Management, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
• Master of Marketing, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• He has conducted in-depth research on entrepreneurship, strategic management, international enterprises and corporate innovation, and has published 61 academic articles, 15 of which are ranked among the top research journals in the world by the Financial Times, and many of his books have won international awards. He is also the author of 14 independent books
• He has 11 years of experience in management, consulting and entrepreneurship of multinational companies, and has served as an executive director of a listed company in China

Liang Shao

Adjunct Professor of Finance

• Currently teaching at the Department of Accounting and Finance, Radford University, USA
• Ph.D. in International Business, University of South Carolina, USA
• Master of International Economics, Peking University
• Taught at Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Toledo
• With nearly 10 years of teaching experience in financial strategy of multinational corporations, he teaches courses in investment, corporate finance and international finance to undergraduates, graduate students and working managers

Gang Wang

Adjunct Professor of Business Information Systems

• He is currently a professor in the Department of Business Information Technology at the Pamplin School of Business at Virginia Tech
• Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, USA
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Management and Engineering, Tianjin University
• Published more than 110 academic papers in the areas of big data and knowledge mining, web and social media analysis, etc
• Teaching direction is mainly information system management and development

Kun Wang

Adjunct Professor of Accounting

• He is currently a professor of accounting at Texas Southern University
• Ph.D. in Accounting, Texas A&M University, USA
• Master of Accounting, Beijing Technology and Business University
• Former teacher at the University of International Business and Economics, Chinese Certified Public Accountant, accounting qualification trainer, with more than 20 years of scientific research and teaching experience

Xinghao Yan

Adjunct Professor of Project Operations and Supply Chain Management

• He is currently an associate professor at the University of Toledo Business School
• Ph.D. in Quantitative Methods and Management Science, School of Management, Purdue University, USA
• Master of Automatic Control, Nankai University
• Former Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey School of Business
• His main research direction is supply chain management. His research results have been published in many top international and authoritative academic journals, and he has more than 20 years of teaching experience

Jieen Chen

Visiting Professor
  • Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the University of Tübingen, Germany, specializing in computational photography
  • Master of Science from the University of Jena, Germany
  • Bachelor of Science from Shandong University
    He is currently working as a software engineer and technical consultant
  • His research interests focus on the field of artificial intelligence

Youru Lin

Visiting Professor
  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, USA
  • He served as the director of the MSCS master’s degree at Charleston Southern University, and founded the cybersecurity-related department of Charleston Southern University
  • He specializes in computer network communications, encryption technology and network security
  • He has 20 years of experience in face-to-face and online teaching

Cong Zhang

Visiting Professor
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Software from Chongqing University
  • His research interests include belief networks and uncertainty reasoning
  • Senior Software Systems Analyst
  • Senior English translator

Zhemin Cai

Visiting Professor
  • Ph.D., National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, China
  • He used to be the director of the Department of Information and Communication and the director of the Information Technology R&D Center of Kunshan University of Science and Technology
  • His areas of expertise include: network-based information systems, database systems, image processing technology, UNIX system management, digital integrated circuit design, computer architecture and hardware, etc