The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced the latest list of 2017 Newly Elevated Fellows. Prof. Jun Zhang from the School of Computer Science and Engineering of SCUT was selected as an IEEE Fellow. There are eighteen scientists from the mainland China who are newly selected as IEEE Fellows. Among whom, fifteen are from institutions of higher learning. Having two scientists recognized as the 2017 IEEE Fellows, SCUT is ranked third in China, following after Tsinghua University and Harbin Institute of Technology.
In recent years, SCUT pays very close attention to strengthen the ranks of high-caliber personnel, and adheres to bringing and training talents. Prof. Jun Zhang joined SCUT as a professional of high-level personnel in 2016. He specializes in computational intelligence and its applications and was honored as a Distinguished Professor of the Yangtze Scholars Program in 2012.
IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. There are more than 420,000 IEEE members in over 160 countries and regions. It is also a leading developer of international standards that underpin many of today's telecommunications, information technology, and power-generation products and services. As it stands today, the IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total voting Institute membership.
(Reported by the General Office of the CS school; modified slightly from the SCUT News Network)
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An Introduction to Professor Jun Zhang
Prof. Jun Zhang
Jun Zhang, the professor and doctoral supervisor of SCUT, is the Yangtze River Scholar (Distinguished Professor) awarded by the Ministry of Education of PRC, winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the Pearl River Scholar (Distinguished Professor) supported by Guangdong province. He has won the First Prize of Natural Science Award supported by the Ministry of Education, received the Gold Prize of the 20th National Exhibition of Invention, and become the leader of the sixth advanced team of the Guangdong Thousands-hundreds-tens Talent Project. He is the director of key lab of Machine Intelligence and Sensor Network of Ministry of Education, the director of key Laboratory of Software Technology of Education Department of Guangdong Province, a member of the 14th Review Experts' Team of Department of Information Sciences of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)., the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronic, the funding chair as well as the current chair of IEEE Guangzhou Subsection. Prof. Zhang's research interests include Computational Intelligence, Optimization and Logistics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Data Mining and so on. He is one of the most cited Chinese researches issued by Elsevier., and has published about 60 IEEE Transactions papers, 4 Essential Science Indicators (ESI) highly cited papers, and 1 paper selected as ESI top 0.1% hot papers. He has taken charge of a variety of projects including projects supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China, projects supported by the National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program) and so on.
