| Number of teaching staff (as of 31.12.2009) | 1,462 |
| Nobel laureates | 4 |
| Fields Medalist | 1 |
| Wolf Prize Laureate in Mathematics | 1 |
| Turing Award winner | 1 |
| IEEE Fellows | 26 |
| Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering | 8 |
| Foreign Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | 4 |
| Academicians of Academia Sinica | 8 |
| Winners of the State Natural Science Award | 12 |
| Awardees of the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship and the Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship | 14 |
| Fellows of the American Physical Society | 5 |
| Fellows of the Econometric Society | 2 |
| Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery | 4 |
| Member of the US National Academy of Engineering | 1 |
| Winners of the Cheung Kong Achievement Awards (for 3 consecutive years since 2005) |
3 |
| Winners of the Ministry of Education Outstanding Scienitific Research Output Award | 2 |
