On 22nd November, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) released the new list of IEEE Fellows. Professor Zhihui Zhan from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology was elected as IEEE Fellow.
IEEE was founded in 1963 and is an international society of electronic technology and information science engineers. It is also one of the largest professional technical societies in the world. Today, the number of overseas members has exceeded that of the United States, with over 400000 members in more than 160 countries and regions. IEEE Fellow is the highest level of membership of the society and the highest honor bestowed upon members by IEEE. It is recognized as an authoritative honor and important professional achievement in the academic and technological community. Elected IEEE Fellows are required to make significant contributions to the progress or application of engineering science & technology, and bring significant value to society. According to IEEE regulations, the number of elected members shall not exceed 0.1% of the total number of members in that year.
Link: Introduction to Prof. Zhan
Dr. Zhihui Zhan is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering who mainly focuses on research in artificial intelligence, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence, cloud computing, and big data. He is a principle investigator the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Chinese highly cited scholars in the computer science field of Elsevier, members of the artificial intelligence expert review team of the Ministry of Information Science of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the first batch of "young the Pearl River Scholars" in Guangdong Province, principle investigator of the Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in Guangdong Province, and Top-notch Young Talents in Science and Technology Innovation of Guangdong Special High-level Talents. Has won the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Youth Award, IEEE Institute of Computational Intelligence (CIS) Global Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and China Computer Society (CCF) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
His research results have received positive evaluations and application promotion from international peers. Reviewed as an "encouraging achievement" by Dorigo: founder of ant colony algorithm, Glover: founder of taboo search and winner of the von Neumann Theory Award, Pal: academician of the Indian National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, winner of the IEEE Fuzzy System Pioneer Award, Pedrycz: National Chief Professor of Canada, and several IEEE Fellows. Promoted by the IEEE Institute of Computational Intelligence as the "publishing focus of computational intelligence". Applied by scientists from the European Space Agency to optimize the design of mass spectrometer parameters for comet detectors. At the same time, his works have also been widely applied by domestic and foreign scholars in optimization problems in many fields such as biomedical, physical optics, chemical production, image processing, signal processing, etc., These promote the development of related fields.
