The list of IEEE Fellows in 2020 was officially announced, and a total of 282 new fellows were added. More than 70 Chinese were elected, of which 37 were elected from China. The elected Chinese Fellows came from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and other institutions. Professor Hou Zhongsheng of our school is among them.
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Professor Hou Zhongsheng is the chief professor of our school, a fellow of the Chinese Society of Automation, and the founding director of the "Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization" professional committee. From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University in the United States.
Professor Hou independently and co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and 130 papers, published two academic monographs, and presided over the “major” international cooperation projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the “key” projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. There are 20 general projects of the National Science Foundation and other projects. Professor Hou's current research interests include data-driven control, model-free adaptive control, learning control and intelligent transportation systems.
Professor Hou has served as a committee member of more than 50 international and Chinese conferences, and has served as an associate editor and guest editor of several international and Chinese journals.
