Prof Xiren Cao, Electronic Computing and Engineering, Named IFAC Fellow
Prof Xiren Cao, Chair Professor in Electronic and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Center for Networking at HKUST, 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.
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