HKUST’s Chair Professor in Electronic and Computer Engineering Xiren Cao has been named a fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), making him the first-ever Hong Kong scholar to become an IFAC Fellow since the Federation’s inception in 1957.
According to the Assessment Committee, Prof Cao was conferred this exceptional honor for his “contributions to the analysis of discrete event systems, stochastic learning and optimization theory, and their application.”
IFAC is an international professional organization consisting of 48 national member organizations (NMOs), which include most industrialized countries; China and Hong Kong are two of the NMOs. This year, only 16 fellowships were conferred including two Mainland scholars and one Hong Kong scholar. Prof Cao will deliver a plenary presentation at IFAC’s 17th triennial World Congress at Seoul, Korea, in July 2008.
Prof Cao joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1993. He earned his PhD and BS degrees respectively from Harvard University and the University of Science and Technology of China.
Prof Cao is the Director of the Center for Networking at HKUST. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Tsinghua University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Maryland at College park, University of Notre Dame, University of Science and Technology of China, and AT & T Labs, etc.
Prof Cao owns three patents in data and telecommunications. His current research areas include discrete event dynamic systems, stochastic learning and optimization theory, performance analysis of communication systems, signal processing, and financial engineering.
Based in Laxenburg, Austria, IFAC was founded to promote the theory and application of the science and technology of control in all areas, including engineering control, physical control, biological control, social control and economic control. Among the 76 IFAC Fellows worldwide, six are of Chinese origin including Prof Cao.
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