IEEE/CSS Beijing Chapter was founded in 1991, initiated and led by Prof. Jiachi Yang, a late member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He became the first chairman of the chapter (1991-1994). The successive chairmen of the chapter are Prof. Jianqin Mao from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1995-2006), Prof. Daizhan Cheng from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, 2006-2008) and Prof. Yiguang Hong from AMSS, CAS (2008-2012). Currently, Dr. Qingshan Jia from Tsinghua University is elected as the fifth chairman of the chapter and Dr. Yu Kang from University of Science and Technology of China and Dr. Yanlong Zhao from AMSS, CAS become the vice-chairmen.
In 1991 when the chapter was founded, there were only 12 people elected as IEEE members. Since then, the number of IEEE members in the chapter grew fast, which has reached 180. Up to now, we have had 4 IEEE Fellows who are Prof. Han-Fu Chen, Prof. Lei Guo, Prof. Daizhan Cheng, and Prof. Xiaohong Guan, about 24% people in the chapter are senior members of IEEE and 15% are student members of IEEE.
The chapter organizes 4-6 academic activities including the "IEEE Distinguished Lecturer" in each year and since 1998 at least two conferences including IEEE World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA) and Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference (CIAC), have been co-sponsored by the chapter. The chapter offers Young Author Best Paper Prize to encourage and reward the original and prominent research from young Chinese scholars, and since 1998 the prize has been awarded in WCICA and CIAC.
Beijing Chapter won the Outstanding Chapter Award of IEEE/CSS in 1995.
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| Prof. Jiachi Yang | Prof. Han-Fu Chen | Prof. Lei Guo |