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Not long ago, the 2021 AAAS Fellow List was released!
The shortlist includes 564 scientists, engineers or innovators from various scientific disciplines in recognition of their outstanding scientific and social achievements in their scientific careers.
The new AAAS Fellow includes distinguished individuals from a variety of scientific disciplines, including academic institutions, laboratories, hospitals or medical centers, museums, global corporations, non-profit organizations, research institutes, and government agencies.
Fellows are selected from 21 disciplines including agriculture, food and renewable resources, anthropology, astronomy, atmospheric and hydrosphere sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, education, engineering, geology and geography, history and philosophical sciences, industrial sciences, information computing and communication, linguistics and linguistic sciences, medical sciences, neuroscience, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, socio-economic and political sciences, statistics and other disciplines.
AI Technology Review selected 14 Chinese Fellow information from the fields of engineering, technology and engineering, information computing and communication, neuroscience, and statistics, including Rui Yong, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Lenovo Group, Song Hongjun, professor of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, and Feng Guoping, Professor Poitras of the McGovern Brain Research Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Yann LeCun, the "father of convolutional neural networks" and a Turing Award winner, was also selected as an AAAS Fellow in the field of information, computing and communication.
Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest comprehensive association of science and engineering and the largest non-profit international scientific and technological organization. There are 265 branches and 10 million members. Edison, the "World King of Inventions", Watson, the "Father of DNA", and many Nobel Laureates are AAAS Fellows. The AAAS Fellow is the highest honor the Society has given to its members.
From left to right, Irwin M. Jacobs, Ellen Ochoa, Steven Chu, Maria Mitchell, W.E.B DuBois, Thomas Edison
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is also the host and publisher of the internationally renowned journal Science. Founded in 1880 with a $10,000 investment from Edison, the journal is one of the most authoritative academic journals in the world.
Dr. Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the National Academy of Sciences and Executive Publisher of the Science series, said: "The American Academy of Sciences is proud to pay tribute to these people, who represent the forward thinking required for a scientific career, while also inspiring expectations for achieving future goals. ”
1 List of engineering fields
Jiarui Cheng, Purdue University
Jiarui Cheng, a professor at Purdue University's School of Industrial Engineering and School of Materials Engineering, leads the Scalable Micro and Nano Manufacturing Laboratory (SMNML) and received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in 2002.
His research interests include the synthesis and processing of advanced materials, particularly the scalable fabrication of 0D-3D micro/nanostructures, laser matter interactions, and the mechanical/physical enhancement of materials. Applications include energy transmission, conversion and storage, carrier-bearing, biomedical, electrical and optical equipment.
Jiarui Cheng is also a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), Associate Editor of the Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Journal of Manufacturing Process, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials Processing and Technology.
Xiaoping Hu, Riverside, University of California, Riverside
Xiaoping Hu, professor and chair of bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside, and director of the Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, received his Ph.D. in medical physics from the University of Chicago in 1988. He was a professor at the University of Minnesota, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Emory, and a Distinguished Imaging Scholar at the Georgia Research Consortium.
Xiaoping Hu has been involved in the development of magnetic resonance imaging for 40 years in biomedical applications, and has authored or co-authored 275 peer-reviewed journal articles that have been cited more than 20,000 times. He has done extensive and pioneering work on functional MRI (fMRI).
Xiaoping Hu served as Associate Editor of Medical Magnetic Resonance from 2005 to 2013 and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging from 1994 to 2004. He is currently an editor at Brain Connectivity, an associate editor of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He is also a fellow of the International Magnetic Resonance Society, a fellow of the IEEE, and a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.
Xiuling Li, University of Texas at Austin
Xiuling Li is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.A. from Peking University, Ph.D. from UCLA, and postdoctoral fellowships at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois.
Her research interests include electronics, photonics and quantum systems (EPQS), and electromagnetics and acoustics (EA), with a focus on nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices. Xiuling Li has published more than 160 journal papers, more than 20 patents, and more than 120 invited lectures worldwide.
She has opened up new avenues for research through the use of innovative epitaxial growth and nanofabrication methods, including metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) for III-N and Ga2O3, metal-assisted chemical vapor deposition (MacEtch), and strain-induced self-winding membranes (S-RuM) to address the ongoing need to reduce the size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) of microelectronic devices and other applications.
Xiuling Li has received the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Teacher Award, and the ONR Young Fellow Award. She is also a fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society (OSA), and the National Inventors College (NAI).
Ying Meng, University of California, San Diego
Ying Meng is a professor of nanoengineering and materials science at the University of California, San Diego, and a Zable Endowed Chair Professor of Energy Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Advanced Materials for Micro-Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Consortium in 2005 and has since served as a postdoctoral researcher and research scientist at MIT.
Together with the Energy Storage and Conversion Laboratory (LESC) team members, she focuses on the study of functional nano and micron-scale materials for energy storage and conversion, including the design, synthesis, processing, operational characterization of energy storage materials in advanced rechargeable batteries, new intercalation materials for sodium-ion batteries, and advanced flow batteries for large-scale storage in power grids.
Ms. Meng has authored or co-authored 160 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Battery Division of the Electrochemical Society and a technical editor of the Journal of Power Sources. She has also received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2011), the UCSD Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Collaboration Award (2013), the BASF and Volkswagen Electrochemical Science Award (2014), the Electrochemistry Society CW Tobias Young Investigator Award (2016), the IUMRS-Singapore Young Scientist Research Award (2017), Finalist of the First Young Career Awards of the International Alliance for Energy Storage and Innovation (ICESI) (2018), the AcS Young Researcher award for Applied Materials and Interfaces of the American Chemical Society (2018) and the Blavatnik National Awards (2018).
Evelyn Ning-Yi Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Evelyn Ning-Yi Wang is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Evelyn Ning-Yi Wang teaches and researches in the field of heat and mass transfer at the micro/nanoscale. Her research projects combine basic research on micro/nanoscale heat and mass transfer processes with the development of novel engineered structures to create innovative solutions in thermal management, energy, and other fields.
She has published more than 180 archival journal papers in authoritative journals. Her work is considered the largest clean energy progress in Technology magazine in 2016, the 10 breakthrough technologies in Technology Review in 2017, and received the 2019 Energy Frontier Research Center Top Ten Award. She also received the 2011 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Fellow Award, the 2011 Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellow Award, the 2012 Naval Research Office Young Fellow Award, the 2012 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Fellow Award, the 2017 ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, and the 8th Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Award.
Huili Grace Xing, Cornell University
Huili Grace Xing is a Distinguished Professor at Cornell University, Associate Dean of the School of Engineering, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and The Department of Materials Science and Engineering, fellow of APS, AAAS and IEEE.
From 2004 to 2014, she worked at the University of Notre Dame. Previously, she received a bachelor's degree in physics from Peking University (1996), a master's degree in materials science from Lehigh University (1998) and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2003).
Her research focuses on the foundational work of next-generation electronic materials and devices, with a research focus on III-V type nitrides, 2-D crystals, and oxide semiconductors. Recent studies have been made on the development of multiferroic, magnetic and superconducting materials: growth, electronic and optoelectronic devices, especially the interaction between material properties and device development and high-performance devices, including RF/THz devices, tunneling field effect transistors, power electronics, DUV transmitters and memories.
She has received the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award, and the ISCS Young Scientist Award. She is a priest at APS. H Factor 70, Journal Articles 280+, Conference Articles 120+, including Nature, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Electronic Devices Letters, and IEDM, among others.
2 List of scientific and engineering fields
Zhang Xiaoming, Hong Kong Baptist University
Professor Zhang Xiaoming is currently the Deputy Director, Doctoral Supervisor and Professor of the Institute of Computational and Theoretical Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include machine learning, data science, computer vision, pattern recognition and optimization, and he is renowned for his new and inspiring research, and has been awarded a number of professional titles, including Fellow of the International Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the International Society of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), and is listed in the top 1% of the world's top scientists in the field of artificial intelligence and image processing published by Stanford University in 2021.
Up to now, Professor Zhang Xiaoming has published more than 250 papers in many authoritative academic journals and conferences, and actively participated in the work of many well-known academic institutions such as the Computer Association of the International Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
3 List of areas of information computing and communication
Rui Yong
Yong Rui is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group, a member of Lenovo Group's highest decision-making body (LEC), responsible for the planning and formulation of Lenovo Group's technology strategy and R&D direction, and leading the work of Lenovo Research Institute. Prior to joining Lenovo, Dr. Yong Rui spent 18 years at Microsoft as Executive Vice President of Microsoft Research Asia.
Yong Rui is a foreign fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (Academia Europaea), a fellow of the International Computer Association (ACM Fellow), a fellow of the International Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE Fellow), a fellow of the International Society of Pattern Recognition (IAPR Fellow), a fellow of the International Optical Engineering Society (SPIE Fellow), a fellow of the Chinese Computer Society (CCF Fellow) and a fellow of the Chinese Intelligence Society (CAAI Fellow).
He received the 2018 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, 2017 ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications (TOMM) Nicolas Georganas Best Paper Award, 2017 IEEE SMC Andrew P. Sage Best Paper Award, 2016 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2015 IEEE Trans. On Multimedia and 2007 ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award. Named a 2018 "Highly Cited Scientist" by Clarivate, a highly cited institution, and has been named one of the top three in elsevier's Most Cited Chinese Researchers computer discipline for three consecutive years.
4 List of neuroscience fields
Feng Guoping, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guoping Feng is a Professor at the McGovern Brain Institute in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a fellow of the National Academy of Humanities and Sciences. As an internationally renowned brain science expert, he is committed to the research of brain synapses, neural circuit function and the pathogenesis of mental diseases, and has greatly promoted the understanding of human mental illness in autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ADHD, and discovered the molecular targets of new drug development.
He graduated from Zhejiang Medical University in 1982. He obtained a master's degree from Shanghai Second Medical University in 1986. He studied for his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1989 to 1995. From 1995 to 2000, he studied at the University of Washington under the famous biologist Josh Sanes, and engaged in postdoctoral research. He was hired by Duke University in 2000 and was an assistant professor and tenured associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Duke University.
Currently, Professor Feng serves as a scientific advisor to several government research institutions and research foundations, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Neuroscience Society, and the John Merck Foundation, and has received several scientific honors, including the McKnight Award for Research on Neurological Disorders of the Brain, the Brain Research Foundation's Science Innovation Award, and the Hartwell Personal Biomedical Award.
Hongjun Song, University of Pennsylvania
Hongjun Song, currently a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, is committed to making transformative discoveries to reveal the unexpected dynamics and plasticity of the neuronal epigenome, as well as its function under physiological and pathological conditions. In response to urgent global health problems, his team promptly identified the pathogenesis, mechanisms, and treatments of Zika virus infection.
In 1992, Song Hongjun graduated from the Department of Biology of Peking University with a bachelor's degree, and graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in 1995 under the supervision of Professor Pu Muming. Later, he transferred to the University of California, San Diego with his supervisor Pu Muming to complete his doctoral work. In 1998, Song Hongjun did postdoctoral research with two Howard researchers at the Sack Institute of Biology in California, USA, and in 2002, he entered the Institute of Cell Engineering at Hopkins University School of Medicine with his wife Ming Guoli, and served as an assistant professor of neurology and neuroscience.
At present, the two have co-signed more than 100 research papers published in international authoritative academic journals such as Cell, PNAS, Nat Neurosci and so on (pubmed retrieval data).
Huaxi Xu, Chongqing Medical University
Huaxi Xu is currently a Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Dean of the Institute of Brain Science and Brain Diseases at Chongqing Medical University, and AAAS Fellow. His research interests revolve around neuromolecular and cell biology related to brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, neural signal transduction, synaptic toxicity, and neuroimmune function.
He received his Ph.D. from the Einstein School of Medicine in 1993, did postdoctoral research under Nobel Laureate Professor Greenengard from 1994 to 1998, was an assistant professor at Rockefeller University from 1998 to 2003, and was a professor at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Institute of Medicine, director of the Department/Program of Neuroscience, and Jeanne & Gary Herberger Chair Professor from 2003 to 2019.
At present, Xu Huaxi is one of the authoritative experts in international Alzheimer's disease research, published more than 180 papers in international academic journals (SCI), served as an independent PI for more than 23 years, presided over tens of millions of dollars of scientific research funding projects, in the past two years, he has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China's major research program integration projects and key projects, and the chief scientist of the major project of scientific and technological innovation 2030 - "Brain Science and Brain-like Research" (brain aging mechanism and regulation research).
Bing Ye, University of Michigan
Ye Bing, currently a Bowten Baker Chair Professor and Tenured Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Life Sciences, is mainly engaged in the research of neurodevelopmental biology, and has made outstanding achievements in the gene regulation of neuronal axon and dendritic development. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and did postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Over the years, Ye Bing has presided over and participated in more than 20 NIH projects in the United States, and published more than 30 research papers in international first-class academic journals such as Cell and Neuron. He has been awarded the Pew Scholar of the American biomedical community and the Path to Independence of the National Institutes of Health. He is also a member of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Institutes of Health, the Natural Science Foundation of the United States and other fund projects, and a reviewer of internationally renowned academic journals such as Nature, Neuron, PNAS, Current Biology, Cell Reports, PLOS Biology, and eLife.
5 List of statistical fields
Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania
Mingyao Li is the Director of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania's Gene Therapy Program, with research interests in statistical genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology. The central theme of her current research is to use statistical and computational methods to understand cellular heterogeneity in human disease-related tissues to characterize gene expression diversity in different cell types, to study patterns of cell state transitions and crosstalk of various cells using data generated by single-cell transcriptomics studies, and to translate these findings into clinical applications. Collaborative research includes genetic studies of cardiometabolic diseases and eye diseases.
He received his Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan in 2005 and joined the School of Biostatistics in 2006.
She is also a faculty member in the Genomics and Computational Biology (GCB) graduate program and holds a second-level position in the Department of Statistics at the Wharton School.
Annie Qu, University of California, Irvine
Annie Qu, currently a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Irvine, Ph.D. in Statistics, IMS and ASA Fellow. The main research direction is to solve the basic problems related to unstructured large-scale data, develop cutting-edge statistical methods and theoretical text sendiment analysis of machine learning, automatic labeling and summary, recommendation systems, tensor imaging data and complex heterogeneous network data analysis, and algorithms for extracting basic information from a large amount of high-dimensional data.
Her work has had a profound impact on many fields, including biomedical research, genomic research, public health research, and social and political science. Prior to joining UC Irvine, she was a founding professor of statistics in data science and director of the Illinois Office of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was awarded the Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar by las College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was awarded the National Science Foundation Career Award from 2004-2009.
Finally, congratulations to all AAAS fellows!
Full list link:
https://www.aaas.org/page/2021-fellows