Dr. Alan Y. Cheng serves as Senior Supervising Superintendent of High Schools and District 79, where he oversees high school leadership development and performance across New York City Public Schools. He works in close partnership with the Offices of Academics and Instruction, Student Pathways, Policy and Evaluation, Enrollment, District Planning, and New School Development and Design to ensure coherence, rigor, and equitable access to opportunity for high school students citywide.

With nearly two decades of experience in New York City Public Schools, as a teacher, principal, deputy superintendent, and superintendent, Dr. Cheng has centered his leadership on strengthening instructional quality and expanding postsecondary pathways aligned with evolving graduation expectations, college, careers, and engaged civic life. Most recently, he led a citywide district of 51 high schools across all five boroughs. Under his leadership, these schools expanded support for multilingual learners and students with disabilities, broadened access to early college credit and paid work-based learning, and helped students earn college credit and paid experience that reduce the cost of postsecondary education.

Dr. Cheng holds an Ed.D. in Urban Education Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University, as well as graduate degrees from Teachers College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.