Professor Chaofen Sun has been teaching Chinese linguistics and Classical Chinese and coordinating of the Chinese language program at Stanford since 1991. His specializations include morpho-syntax, history of Chinese, Chinese as a Second Language, etc. He has been publishing books and articles on the Chinese word-order change, numeral classifier constructions, and the morpho-syntactic changes of various Chinese constructions

Andy is a native of Idaho, he was raised in the western United States, attended college at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in New York and sailed as a maritime officer before commencing his study of China at Stanford University. At Stanford he completed an M.A. in East Asian Studies, an M.A. in Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Asian Languages. He is an IUP having studied at the program in Taipei during the 1973-75 academic years Andy has had more than 25 years working experience in China starting in 1980. He served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University, a position he held from 2012 through 2015. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Asia Information Associates Limited and its wholly-owned consulting subsidiary in China - Shanghai AIAL Information Consulting Company Limited. AIAL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Baker & McKenzie LLC, provided legal and regulatory consulting, corporate services, and translation services to the Firm’s clients.

Sun Yimu first joined IUP as a Chinese Language instructor in 2005, She was a visiting instructor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of Virginia during the 2011-2012 academic year.

Zhu Weiwei first joined IUP in 2010 and is currently a MA candidate in Information Science and E-Goverment at Renmin University of China.