# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shih-choon-fong
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:03:53.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shih-choon-fong"
name: "Shih Choon Fong"
slug: "shih-choon-fong"
description: "Shih Choon Fong is a Singaporean college administrator and fracture mechanics expert who served as the founding president of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) between 2008 and 2013. Prior joining KAUST as its founding president, he was the president of the National University of Singapore (NUS) for nine years and has been widely acknowledged for creating the university's research-intensive focus with an entrepreneurial dimension, as well as for NUS' elevated global reputation. Drawing from his experiences abroad, Shih institutionalised a performance- and market-based evaluation and compensation system for academics."
tagline: "President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shih_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.22
  momentum:             0.9397590361445783
  historical:           4.616344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shih_Choon_Fong"
    title: "Shih Choon Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "شن تشون فونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "شن تشون فونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shih_Choon_Fong"
    title: "Shih Choon Fong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%BD%E6%98%A5%E9%A3%8E"
    title: "施春风"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4118042"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump