News Network News In 2020, the list of IEEE Fellows was officially announced, with a total of 282 new Fellows. More than 70 Chinese were elected, including 37 from China, and the elected China Fellow came from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and other institutions. Hou Zhongsheng, a professor at the Institute of Automation, was among them.

　　The full name of IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an international society of electronic technology and information science engineers, which was founded on January 1, 1963. Headquartered in new york, USA. IEEE has more than 420,000 members in more than 160 countries around the world, of which more than 50% are from outside the United States. IEEE Fellow is the highest-ranking member of the Institute, the highest honor awarded by IEEE to members, and the authoritative honor and important professional achievement recognized by academic and scientific circles. Every year, IEEE peer experts select members with senior or life grades, and the selected members need to make significant contributions to the progress or application of engineering science and technology and bring great value to society. The number of elected members shall not exceed 1‰ of the total number of IEEE members in that year. Due to the small number of IEEE Fellow elected each year, the elected scientists are basically outstanding scientists who have made important achievements in the fields of science and engineering technology.

　　Hou Zhongsheng is the chief professor of our school, a fellow of China Automation Society, and the founding director of the professional committee of "Data-driven Control, Learning and Optimization". From 2002 to 2003, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University. Professor Hou independently and co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and 130 papers, published two academic monographs, and presided over 20 major international cooperation projects, key projects, general projects and other projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. His current research interests include data-driven control, model-free adaptive control, learning control and intelligent transportation system.

　　Hou Zhongsheng has served as a committee member of more than 50 international and Chinese conferences, and served as deputy editor and guest editor of some international and Chinese periodicals.