Zhou Zhihua, 51 years old, and Liu Yunhao, 53 years old, have been elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Just now, Liu Yunhao from Tsinghua University and Zhou Zhihua from Nanjing University were officially elected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The list of newly elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025 has been announced!
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has elected 73 academicians and 27 foreign academicians.
In the field of computer science, Professor Liu Yunhao from Tsinghua University was officially elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In the field of artificial intelligence, Professor Zhou Zhihua from Nanjing University was officially elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Liu Yunhao
Liu Yunhao was born in November 1971 and is now 53 years old.
He obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University in 1995 and a master's degree in literature from the School of Advanced Translation at Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1997.
Subsequently, he obtained a master's degree and a doctor's degree in engineering from the Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University in the United States in 2003 and 2004 respectively.
He has held the following positions:
Deputy Director and Party Branch Secretary of the Postal Electronics Office of the Ministry of Information Industry;
Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate School of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;
Special Researcher at the State Key Laboratory of Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University;
Director of the Key Laboratory of Information System Security of the Ministry of Education;
Director of the Institute of Trusted Networks and Systems at Tsinghua University;
Dean of the School of Software at Tsinghua University.
In 2011, he was selected as one of the first batch of National Young Thousand Talents, National Outstanding Youth, and Changjiang Scholars. In November 2014, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow; in December 2015, he was elected as an ACM Fellow.
Liu Yunhao obtained all the honors of National Young Thousand Talents, National Outstanding Youth, and Changjiang Scholars within one year.
Some people praised him for completing in just one year what many people might not achieve in a lifetime in scientific research.
The youngest section chief in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, but left politics for academia
After reading his resume, you will surely wonder how there can be such an outstanding person?
Liu Yunhao is 193 cm tall. In the early 1990s, he studied at the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University and obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering.
During his college years, he was a national - level volleyball player and a member of the Beijing team. He also represented Beijing and won the second place in the national competition.
During his college years, he also wrote historical novels and founded a startup company. It is said that the company's annual turnover exceeded ten million at that time.
After graduating from undergraduate studies, he gave up the opportunity to pursue postgraduate studies at Tsinghua University and chose to apply to the School of Advanced Translation at Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he obtained a master's degree in literature.
Surprisingly, after graduating from Beijing Foreign Studies University, he chose to enter politics. He became the youngest section chief in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications at that time before he was 30 years old.
At the age of 30, Liu Yunhao suddenly realized that scientific research was the most suitable career for him.
At the age of 30, he chose to go abroad to study at Michigan State University in the United States. He obtained a master's and a doctor's degree in computer science in just over three years.
He prepared for and took the TOFEL and GRE in less than 20 days and obtained a master's and a doctor's degree from Michigan State University in three years and nine months.
Moreover, his doctoral dissertation won an excellent award at Michigan State University, and he became the second - fastest graduate in the history of the department.
After graduating with a doctorate, he taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for several years and then returned to Tsinghua University as a professor. He was selected as one of the first batch of National Young Thousand Talents, National Outstanding Youth, Changjiang Scholars, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Fellow. In 2011, he won the second - class award of the National Natural Science Award as the first - completing person.
The earliest scholar in China to formally define the Internet of Things
In addition, he is the earliest scholar in China to formally define the Internet of Things.
In 2011, he published the textbook "Introduction to the Internet of Things", which was well - received by industry insiders as the first monograph in the field of the Internet of Things.
Liu Yunhao has long been engaged in the research of computer networks and systems.
He established the theory of localizability of Internet of Things nodes, designed and implemented the world's first non - ranging positioning system LANDMARC based on radio frequency identification technology (RFID).
He proposed an embodied navigation method system based on the Internet of Things, deployed the world's first Internet of Things system for underground coal mines, and won the Best Innovation and Research Award in Hong Kong.
He established the theory and technology system for the scalability of the Internet of Things, developed the world's largest self - organizing Internet of Things system GreenOrbs at that time, and won the Test of Time Award at the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys).
Due to his contributions in the field of the Internet of Things, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow. He is the first Chinese scholar to receive the ACM President's Award.
As the first - completing person, he won the second - class award of the National Natural Science Award, the first - class award of the Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, the first - class award of the Technological Invention of the Ministry of Education, the first - class award of the Natural Science of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and the Wang Xuan Award of the China Computer Federation.
Zhou Zhihua
Zhou Zhihua was born in November 1973 and is now 51 years old.
He was admitted to the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing University in 1992 and obtained a bachelor's, a master's, and a doctor's degree in June 1996, June 1998, and December 2000 respectively.
He graduated from undergraduate studies at the age of 23 and spent only two years each on his master's and doctor's degrees.
In January 2001, Zhou Zhihua chose to stay at Nanjing University as a faculty member. In March 2002, he was promoted to associate professor ahead of schedule.
After winning the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund in 2003, he was appointed as a professor in November of the same year and obtained the qualification of a doctoral supervisor in April 2004.
In 2009, he was selected as a national candidate for the New Century Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talent Project; in 2017, he was elected as an academician of the European Academy of Sciences; in 2018, he served as the Director of the Department of Computer Science and the Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Nanjing University.
Before being promoted to the vice - president of the university, he served as the Executive Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, the Director of the Institute of Machine Learning and Data Mining (LAMDA), and the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Teaching and Research Section.
Abundant academic achievements and a Grand Slam of Fellowships
Zhou Zhihua is mainly engaged in research in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and pattern recognition.
His book "Machine Learning" is regarded as a classic introductory reading for AI. It covers the basic concepts and algorithms in the field of machine learning and is affectionately called the "Watermelon Book" by everyone.
In August 2023, Professor Zhou Zhihua from Nanjing University was elected as the President of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Trustee.
He is the first mainland Chinese scholar to hold the position of IJCAI President since the founding of the IJCAl Conference in 1969.
Before that, in 2017, he was elected as the Chair of the Program Committee of IJCAI 2021, also the first mainland Chinese scholar to hold this position.
In 2018, he was elected as a member of the IJCAI Council for a five - year term (2018 - 2023).
In 2019, he and a famous professor from the University of Michigan served as the Chairs of the Program Committee of the AAAI 2019 Conference. He is the first scholar from a country outside of the United States and Europe to hold this position since the founding of the conference in 1980.
It is worth mentioning that in 2016, he was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Together with his previous Fellowships of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), he has become the first Chinese "Grand Slam" Fellow in the five major mainstream international societies related to artificial intelligence.
In July 2019, Professor Cecilia Metra, the President of the IEEE Computer Society, presented the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award to Professor Zhou Zhihua, the Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence and the Director of the Department of Computer Science at Nanjing University.
In the field of AI and its teaching, his achievements are remarkable.
The First - ever "Microsoft Scholar Award" (1999)
The Fifth - Session National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2003)
China Youth Science and Technology Award (2006)
Microsoft Young Professor Award (2006)
First - Class Award of the Fok Ying - Tung Young Teachers Award (2010)
IET/IEE Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (2010)
ACM Distinguished Scientist (2013)
CCF Fellow of the China Computer Federation (2013)
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Young Achiever Award (2013)
IEEE Data Mining Outstanding Service Award (2016)
Academician of the European Academy of Sciences (2017)
CCF Wang Xuan Award (2017)
Asian Machine Learning Excellence Award (2019)
The First - ever CCF - ACM Artificial Intelligence Award (2020)
In addition to teaching at Nanjing University, Zhou Zhihua also serves as a part - time professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and