title: Kenneth Dean (academic)
Peter E. Caines
Gregory Dudek
Masad Damha
National University of Singapore
Niky Kamran
Lydia White
Daniel Levitin
T. V. Paul
Wael Hallaq
sentences: Kenneth Dean (; born 1956) is the Raffles Professor in the Humanities at the National University of Singapore.
 Previously, he was the James McGill Professor and Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair of Chinese Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies of McGill University.
 Professor Dean received his B.A. in Chinese Studies from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Asian Studies from Stanford University.
Peter E. Caines, FRSC is a control theorist and James McGill Professor and Macdonald Chair in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which he joined in 1980.
Gregory Dudek is a chaired professor of computer science at McGill University, was the Director of the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines from 2004 to 2007, and is the current Director of the McGill University School of Computer Science.
 The son of poet Louis Dudek, he was made a Dawson Scholar of that university (an honorary title) and directs the mobile robotics laboratory there.
 He was awarded a James McGill chair in 2008.
 According to his biography, he has written over 250 refereed articles on computer vision and robotics as of 2015 , and is co-author (with Michael Jenkin)
Masad J. Damha is a Canadian academic and nucleic acid researcher.
 He is James McGill Professor of Chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is an autonomous research university in Singapore.
 Founded in 1905 as a medical college, it is the oldest institute of higher learning (IHL) in Singapore, as well as the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered.
 NUS is a comprehensive research university with an entrepreneurial dimension.
 NUS offers a wide range of disciplines, including the sciences, medicine and dentistry, design and environment, law, arts and social sciences, engineering, and music in both undergraduate and postgraduate education.
 It counts amongst its alumni four Prime Ministers or Presidents of Singapore and two Prime Ministers of Malaysia.
Niky Kamran (born May 22, 1959) is a Belgian and Canadian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis, differential geometry, and mathematical physics.
 He is a James McGill Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.
Lydia White is an English linguist and educator in the area of second language acquisition (SLA).
 She is the James McGill Professor of Linguistics and currently Associate Provost at McGill University.
 She received her BA in Moral Sciences and Psychology from Cambridge University in 1969 and PhD in linguistics from McGill University in 1980.
 She currently serves on the editing boards of the journals "Language Acquisition", "Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism", and "Second Language Research".
 Together with Harald Clahsen, she is also co-editor of the book series "Language Acquisition and Language Disorders".
Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer.
 He is James McGill Professor Emeritus of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with courtesy appointments in music theory, computer science, neurology and neurosurgery, and education.
 He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at The Minerva Schools at KGI, and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.
 From 2000 to 2017, he was Director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill.
 His TED talk has been viewed more than 8 million times.
 He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC).
 He has appeared frequently as a guest commentator on NPR and CBC.
Thazha Varkey Paul, M.Phil (Jawaharlal Nehru University), PhD (UCLA) is James McGill professor of International Relations in the department of Political Science at McGill University.
 He served as the President of the International Studies Association (ISA) during 2016–2017, and served as the founding director of the McGill University – Université de Montreal Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS).
 Paul has been a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California (2002–03), Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (1997–98), and a Visiting Affiliate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey (2002–2003).
Wael B. Hallaq is a scholar of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history.
 He is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies.
 After a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, he joined The McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies in 1985, to become an assistant professor in Islamic law.
 In 1994, he earned full professorship, and in 2005 became a James McGill Professor in Islamic law.

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 Kenneth Dean (; born 1956) is the Raffles Professor in the Humanities at the National University of Singapore.
 Previously, he was the James McGill Professor and Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair of Chinese Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies of McGill University.
 Professor Dean received his B.A. in Chinese Studies from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Asian Studies from Stanford University. 

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 Peter E. Caines, FRSC is a control theorist and James McGill Professor and Macdonald Chair in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which he joined in 1980. 

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 Masad J. Damha is a Canadian academic and nucleic acid researcher.
 He is James McGill Professor of Chemistry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. 

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 The National University of Singapore (NUS) is an autonomous research university in Singapore.
 Founded in 1905 as a medical college, it is the oldest institute of higher learning (IHL) in Singapore, as well as the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered.
 NUS is a comprehensive research university with an entrepreneurial dimension.
 NUS offers a wide range of disciplines, including the sciences, medicine and dentistry, design and environment, law, arts and social sciences, engineering, and music in both undergraduate and postgraduate education.
 It counts amongst its alumni four Prime Ministers or Presidents of Singapore and two Prime Ministers of Malaysia. 

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 Niky Kamran (born May 22, 1959) is a Belgian and Canadian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis, differential geometry, and mathematical physics.
 He is a James McGill Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University. 

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 Lydia White is an English linguist and educator in the area of second language acquisition (SLA).
 She is the James McGill Professor of Linguistics and currently Associate Provost at McGill University.
 She received her BA in Moral Sciences and Psychology from Cambridge University in 1969 and PhD in linguistics from McGill University in 1980.
 She currently serves on the editing boards of the journals "Language Acquisition", "Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism", and "Second Language Research".
 Together with Harald Clahsen, she is also co-editor of the book series "Language Acquisition and Language Disorders". 

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 Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC (born December 27, 1957) is an American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer.
 He is James McGill Professor Emeritus of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with courtesy appointments in music theory, computer science, neurology and neurosurgery, and education.
 He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at The Minerva Schools at KGI, and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.
 From 2000 to 2017, he was Director of the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill.
 His TED talk has been viewed more than 8 million times.
 He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC).
 He has appeared frequently as a guest commentator on NPR and CBC. 

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 Wael B. Hallaq is a scholar of Islamic law and Islamic intellectual history.
 He is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies.
 After a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, he joined The McGill University Institute of Islamic Studies in 1985, to become an assistant professor in Islamic law.
 In 1994, he earned full professorship, and in 2005 became a James McGill Professor in Islamic law. 

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Answer: National University of Singapore