Stanford University scholars released a list of the World's Top 2% Scientists 2020 and seven UIC scholars were selected. Among them, four are from computer science. Prof Jia Weijia and Prof Wang Qing-Guo entered both lists of career-long impact and single year impact. In addition, Prof Wang Tian and Prof Yu Hongnian entered the single year impact list.

Jia Weijia

Prof Jia Weijia, chair professor (Artificial Intelligence, 5G Internet of Things, Edge Computing), obtained his Doctorate of Science from the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons, Belgium. He has served as the Zhiyuan Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the Chair Professor of the University of Macau and the Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City. Prof Jia Weijia is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a distinguished member of the China Computer Federation (CCF).

Prof Jia has a high reputation in areas such as cyberspace entity object sensing, AI and big data, next-generation networking and communications. He also has participated in projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, as well as presiding over many Hong Kong and Macao science funds and applied R&D funds.

Wang Qing-Guo

Prof Wang Qing-Guo, chair professor, was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National University of Singapore from 1992 to 2015. He was a Distinguished Professor at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa from 2015 to 2020. Prof Wang holds an A-rating from the National Research Foundation of South Africa and is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. His research lies in Automation/AI, focusing on modelling, estimation, prediction, control, and optimisation.

Prof Wang has published seven research monographs and 350 technical papers in international journals, receiving nearly 19,000 citations with an h-index of 75 and i10-Index of 229. He was presented with the award of the most cited article of the top control journalAutomaticain 2006-2010. In addition, he was on the Thomson Reuters list of the highly-cited researchers 2013 in Engineering (1 out of 250 worldwide). Prof Wang currently serves as the Executive Associate Editor of theInternational Society of AutomationJournal and has supervised about 30 postdoctoral research fellows, about 40 PhD students and about 30 Master students.

Wang Tian

Prof Wang Tian obtained his Doctorate in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong and is one of the first scholars to study edge computing in China. His research covers a wide range of topics, including the Internet of Things, Edge Computing, and Mobile Computing. Prof. Wang was supported by the "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Talent Project" and Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Fujian Province. He was the chair of the China Computer Federation (CCF) Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum (Xiamen) from 2018-2019 and is currently a member of the CCF Internet of Things Technical Committee, CCF Pervasive Computing Technical Committee, and CCF Network and Data Communications Technical Committee.

Prof Wang Tian has published more than 200 papers in high-level journals and international conferences, including 20 IEEE/ACM Transactions papers, six CCF A papers, three ESI HOT papers, and two ESI HIGHLY cited papers (As the First Author). He has 27 patents and has managed three National Natural Science Projects and four provincial projects.

Yu Hongnian

Prof Yu Hongnian's research interests include Robotics and intelligent control; Applied Artificial intelligence, data analysis, data sciences with applications in digital healthcare and manufacturing systems; Applications of emerging technology, such as RFID, wireless technology, and manufacturing systems.

In recent years, Prof Yu has presided over and participated in more than 40 large-scale scientific research projects of the European Union fund, the engineering and physical sciences research council (UK), the royal society research fund (UK), and the higher education innovation fund (UK), etc. The projects worth more than 10 million British pounds and involve topics such as the combined adaptive and robust method of real-time control, the control theory of discrete event dynamic system, intelligent automation, calculation and manufacturing. In addition, Prof Yu has supervised about ten postdoctoral research fellows, about 20 PhD students and about 20 Master students.

From MPRO

Reporter: Xia Meng

Editors: Samuel Burgess, Deen He, Covee Wang