Min Zhou, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies and Director of the Asia Pacific Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was the Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in US-China Relations and Communications (2009-2024) and the founding chair of the Department of Asian American Studies (2001-2005). She is an academician of the American Academy of Sciences of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her main research areas are in migration & development, race and ethnicity, Chinese diaspora, and the sociology of Asia and Asian America, and she has published widely in these areas, including the award-winning book The Asian American Achievement Paradox (with Lee, 2015), The Rise of the New Second Generation (with Bankston, 2016), Contemporary Chinese Diasporas (ed., 2017), and Beyond Economic Migration: Historical Social, and Political Factors in U.S. Immigration (eds., with Mahmud, 2023). She was the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Career Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on International Migration and the 2020 Contribution to the Field Award of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America. She was on the 2024 Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List in the subfield of sociology.