S hanghai Jiao Tong University always adheres to its fine traditions of laying emphasis on the development of its faculty. In the light of this tradition, the build-up of qualified faculty has been on the prior list of its strategic development plan. Practical measures have been adopted to streamline the organizational structure and improve the overall quality of its faculty. Shanghai Jiao Tong University boasts not only conscientious, diligent senior professors with profound academic accomplishments, but also a number of innovative youth-middle aged academic leaders who stand on the front edge of the discipline together with those outstanding and energetic young teachers.

Till the end of 2004, the faculty number of SJTU has amounted to more than 2800, with 635 professors, 891 associate professors, of which 15 are members of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 are members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 568 are PhD supervisors. A good number of young teachers of talents also emerge, among whom there are 31 specially-employed professors of the "Cheung Kong Scholars Program ", 33 obtainers of the Training Funds for Excellent Persons sponsored by the Ministry of Education, and 11 awardees of the Award of University Teachers. And 50% of the faculty in SJTU has a Doctor's degree.

The excellent representatives of these young talents are as follows: Ni Jun, an expert in machinery and automation, is one of the first specially-employed professors of the "Cheung Kong Scholars Program ". He has been awarded "American State Superior Young Machinery Engineer Reward" and "American President Professor Reward" and is a professor in charge of "Wu Xianming Machinery Research Center" in Michigan University and "Industry and Studies Joint Research Center". Professor Zhang Wenjun is the general team leader of the National HDTV Project. He is one of the first group Cheung Kong Scholars in Shanghai