Recently, Academician Hesham A. Rakha, Academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, Adjunct Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of the Sustainable Transportation Research Center at Virginia Tech, joined the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as AAIA).
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Career
Hesham A. Rakha received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering with honors from Cairo University in Egypt and his master's and doctoral degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Queen's University, Canada. He is currently a professor in Virginia Tech's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and director of the Center for Sustainable Transportation at the Virginia Tech Institute of Transportation.
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Major contribution
Academician Rakha's research focuses on the optimization, modeling, and evaluation of large-scale transportation systems. He works on optimizing transportation system operations, including vehicle routes, developing various network and traffic signal control algorithms, developing highway control strategies (speed coordination and ramp metering), and optimizing vehicle movement [lateral and longitudinal control of connected automated vehicles (CAVs)] to improve their efficiency and reduce their energy consumption while ensuring their safety.
Academician Rakha has published 126 peer-reviewed journal articles, 140 book chapters, and 3 peer-reviewed conference publications. In addition, he received the Virginia Tech Dean's Distinguished New Professor Award (2002), the College of Engineering Faculty Award (2004-2006), and the Dean's Award for Research Excellence (2007). In 2018, he received the Most Cited Paper Award from the International Journal of Transport Science and Technology (IJTST) and won first place in the IEEE ITSC 2020 UAS4T competition.
Academician Rakha is also a member of the editorial board of Transport Express: International Journal of Transport Research, IET Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and International Journal of Transport Science and Technology, and is an associate editor of IEEE Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning and Operations.
Public number: President Yin of artificial intelligence
The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association was incorporated in Hong Kong in 2021. The Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA) is an academic, non-profit, non-governmental organization voluntarily formed by 1288 academicians around the world. Fellowships of the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA) come from Stanford University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other universities, as well as from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Alibaba, Huawei, The world's top scientists in AI-related fields for high-tech companies such as JD.com.
The Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA) includes academicians of various countries (such as academicians of the American Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Singapore Academy of Engineering, etc.), IEEE Fellows, ACM Fellows, AAAI Fellows, and AAAI Fellows. IAPR Fellow, etc.
After statistical analysis of the data on the official website of the global mainstream artificial intelligence society, it is found that compared with the international artificial intelligence organizations at the same level, the number and quality of academicians of the Asia-Pacific Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA) are far ahead.
Saihua Yin, currently the president of the Education Branch of the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence, holds a master's degree from Jinan University, an EMBA from City University of Hong Kong, a science and technology management scholar at Southern University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The Education Branch of the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence is a social organization based on the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (AAIA), a world-class organization. The Education Branch of the Asia-Pacific Society for Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as the branch) gathers top scientists, educators, entrepreneurs and other high-quality talent resources in AI-related fields around the world, adheres to the concept of "popularizing AI education and linking world elites", and is committed to promoting the popularization of AI education in the world, linking education, industry and finance, integrating social resources, and promoting the deep integration of the three worlds.
Taking the top academician resources of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Society as its advantage, the Education Branch provides precise services for scholars, entrepreneurs, scientific and technological practitioners, educators, individuals, etc. related to the field of artificial intelligence, empowers comprehensive services such as education training and certification, project development, new engineering construction (university cooperation, talent training and laboratory construction, etc.), consulting and marketing, research and study tours, science and technology competitions, etc., actively develops industry members, and creates a world-class international artificial intelligence society organization.