Prof. Huijun Gao, our IES Vice-President for Workshop Activities is the recipient of the IEEE 2023 Norbert Wiener Award!

The IEEE Norbert Wiener Award is to recognize significant contributions to research in systems science and engineering, human-machine systems, and/or cybernetics. It is regarded as the highest award in the field of cybernetics and is among the top technical achievement awards offered by the IEEE SMC Society.

Congratulations to him!

Huijun Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Prof. Huijun Gao (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in control science and engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he carried out his post-doctoral research at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Since 2004, he has been with the Harbin Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Chair Professor and the Director of the Research Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems. His research interests include intelligent and robust control, robotics, mechatronics, and their engineering applications. Prof. Gao is a member of the Academia Europaea. He is/was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and an Associate Editor of Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He is the Vice-President of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is the recipient of IEEE Norbert Wiener Award and IEEE Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award. He has been an ESI Highly Cited Researcher since 2014.

To learn more about the IEEE Norbert Wiener Award: https://www.ieeesmc.org/about-smcs/awards/norbert-wiener-award/