On February 9, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the list of additional academicians of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, and a total of 111 academicians and 22 foreign academicians were selected this time. At present, the total number of academicians of the American Academy of Engineering has reached 2388, and the number of international academicians has reached 310.
The Selected College is one of the highest professional honors awarded to engineers, and also recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research and practice, education, and those who have pioneered new and developing technical fields and made significant progress in engineering and professional fields.
This year, there are many figures in the shortlist that we are familiar with in the technology circle, including Tesla CEO, SpaceX CEO and CTO Elon Musk, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, Apple's vice president of hardware engineering Kathleen Bergeron and others elected as academicians of the National Academy of Engineering.
There are two chinese people, namely Dr. Zhang Hongjiang, chairman of Zhiyuan Research Institute, and Fang Daining, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Institute of Technology, who was elected as a foreign academician.
Silicon Valley Iron Man Elon Musk upgraded to "Horse Academician"
Musk must be no stranger to everyone, he not only has the name of "Silicon Valley Iron Man", but also is regarded as "a person living on hot search", in 2021 alone, he has accumulated 74 times on Weibo hot search.
No, after this list was released, a #Musk elected US National Academician # topic also quickly appeared on the hot search, especially attracted attention, but also added 1 to the number of times he appeared on the hot search.
Behind this hot search, many people also asked questions: Why can Musk, who only has a bachelor's degree, be elected as an academician of the National Academy of Engineering?
On the reasons for the selection, NAE wrote, "Musk has made breakthroughs in the design, engineering, manufacturing, and operation of reusable launch vehicles and sustainable transportation and energy systems." ”
In response, Elon Musk also quickly responded on Twitter in a simple and clear manner, "Very grateful! ”
This may be the low profile of the big guy.
The reason why Musk frequently appears on the hot search is only because many people think that he is a figure standing at the top of the outlet of capital and technology, and we can see a lot of labels on him. As the book "Iron Man of Silicon Valley: Elon Musk's Adventurous Life" commented, he is a dreamer, entrepreneur and industrialist with a unique style, and an entrepreneur with a unique vision and repeatedly pioneering new business models.
Or maybe it's because, whether it's network software, online banking, or the current technology boom in autopilot, artificial intelligence that benefits all mankind, implantable brain-computer interfaces, rockets that want to explore the moon and Mars, and hyperloop trains with new transportation concepts, we can all follow his footsteps.
Behind Musk's election as an academician, his proper use of strength highlights the success of SpaceX. SpaceX has achieved achievements that many national space agencies have not achieved. In May 2020, SpaceX became the first company in history to implement orbital-level manned spaceflight, and in November SpaceX Manned 1 sent the first four passengers to the International Space Station, marking the beginning of commercial spaceflight.
Today, SpaceX has the ability to manufacture, launch, recover, reuse launch vehicles, and can launch manned spacecraft and satellite systems into various orbits, which can be regarded as the world's premier private space enterprise.
Now Musk is not only the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, tesla CEO, product designer, founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, the richest person in the world, and can also be called "Academician Ma". congratulate!
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella
The CEO of another technology company was also elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and he is Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
Selected for advancing enterprise computing infrastructure as a cloud service and leading the way in socio-technical systems and practices.
For Nadella himself, some media have called him "Microsoft's number one person", because in June 2021, Microsoft's board of directors unanimously approved Nadella as the new chairman, which is also the first person in Microsoft to be both CEO and chairman in 20 years after Bill Gates resigned as CEO in 2000.
Under his leadership, the era of "Microsoft is Windows, Windows is Microsoft" in our eyes has long passed, and the current Microsoft has successfully transformed to the cloud and AI, and has become the only cloud service provider in the world covering IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
Not long ago, according to Microsoft's fiscal second quarter of fiscal 2022, Microsoft's fiscal second quarter revenue was $51.728 billion, an increase of 20% compared with $43.076 billion in the same period last year; net profit was $18.765 billion, an increase of 21% compared with the net profit of $15.463 billion in the same period last year. Revenue from Azure and other cloud services increased 46% year-over-year, slowing from previous growth but remaining strong.
Congratulations to Academician Satya Nadella!
Dr. Hongjiang Zhang, Chairman of Zhiyuan Research Institute, was elected as an overseas academician of the National Academy of Engineering
Dr. Hongjiang Zhang, who has been committed to the field of multimedia and artificial intelligence research in the world, is the "founding father" of computer video retrieval research.
For his outstanding technical contributions and leadership in the field of multimedia computing, Dr. Zhang Hongjiang was elected as an overseas academician.
Previously, Dr. Hongjiang Zhang was one of the founders of Microsoft Research Asia, where he served as Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group and President of Microsoft Asia Engineering Institute.
Since October 2011, Dr. Hongjiang Zhang has served as CEO and Executive Director of Kingsoft and CEO of Kingsoft Cloud. He is also a director of Cheetah Mobile, Thunderbolt Limited and 21Vianet Data Centre Limited.
On April 20, 2017, Dr. Zhang Hongjiang joined Source Code Capital as Venture Partner. In May of the following year, he became a senior advisor to Carlyle Investment Group. In 2018, he became the chairman of the Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. He is currently the non-executive chairman and independent director of AAC Technologies, an independent director of Xiaopeng Motors and Huami Technology, and an outstanding visiting professor of the Intelligent Industry Research Institute (AIR) of Tsinghua University.
Dr. Zhang is also a dual fellow of the International Computer Society (ACM) and the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Association (IEEE). For his pioneering contributions to multimedia research, Dr. Zhang received the 2010 IEEE Technical Achievement Award and the 2012 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award.
As a researcher in media computing, especially video and image analysis, search and browsing, Dr. Zhang Hongjiang has published four books, published nearly 400 academic papers, and holds nearly 200 international patents, making him one of the scientists with the highest impact factor in the international computer field.
Congratulations to Academician Zhang Hongjiang!
Fang Daining, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Institute of Technology
Due to his contribution to the mechanics of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic materials under extreme conditions and the lightweight multifunctional structure, Fang Daining, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice president of Beijing Institute of Technology, was elected as an overseas academician.
Academician Fang Daining is an expert in the field of materials and structural mechanics in China, mainly engaged in the study of mechanical theory, calculation and experimental methods of advanced materials and structures under the multi-field coupling of force electromagnetic heat. It expands the macro-microscopic deformation and fracture theory of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic materials, and is applied in finite element analysis and device design; develops the multi-field multi-field computational mechanics method and design preparation method of lightweight and multifunctional composite material force electromagnetic heat, and applies the prepared lightweight multi-functional materials and structures to the construction of national defense equipment; develops advanced material force electromagnetic heat multi-field multi-field multi-axis loading and testing technology and experimental methods, and transforms the basic research results into more than ten kinds of scientific instruments with independent intellectual property rights, and has been popularized and applied.
Congratulations to Academician Fang Daining!
List of other partial academicians
- Brian M. Argrow, Professor and Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder
Reason for selection: Contribute to a drone system capable of penetrating severe storms and play a leading role in applying them to scientific observation.
- Richard G. Baraniuk, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Reasons for selection: The development and wide dissemination of open educational resources, as well as the fundamental contribution to compression sensing.
- Kathleen Bergeron, apple's vice president of hardware engineering
Reason for selection: In recognition of his contributions and leadership in the invention of innovative design and the realization of engineered products.
- McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, USA, is Jian Cao
Reason for selection: Played a leading role in the creation and manufacture of flexible sheet forming systems.
- Davies, John, B.A. in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics, Imperial College London
Why: Its contribution to computer technology has improved education and health care, stimulated the economy, and enriched the lives of people in less developed countries.
- Karlin, Anna, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington
Reason for selection: Design and analysis of stochastic algorithms and their outstanding contributions to computer systems and the Internet.
- Kezunovic, Mladen, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University and Eugene E. Webb Professor
Reasons for selection: Contributed to the automated analysis of power system faults and played a leading role in relay protection education.
- Levoy, Marc, Professor Emeritus of Stanford University and Vice President and Researcher at Adobe
Reason for selection: Contributions to computer graphics and digital photography.
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