President and Vice-Presidents

Zhou Ji, specialized in mechanical engineering

Zhou ji, born on August 26, 1946 in Hubei Province, graduated from Tsinghua University in 1970 and received PhD degree from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984. He is a professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Dr. Zhou successively served the posts as President of HUST, Director-General of the Hubei Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Mayor of Wuhan city, and Minister of Education. He was elected Member of CAE in 1999.
During his professional career, Dr. Zhou was actively involved in research and development of Optimal Design, Computer Aided Design, and Numerical Control technology. He advanced the algorithm of direct interpolation for NC machining and the algorithm of monotonism analysis for optimization. He and his team developed a series of NC equipments and software packages on mechanical CAD, which has been widely used in various industries like machinery, aeronautics, astronautics and energy. Dr. Zhou has got 11 books and over 200 papers published and was honored several times with the State Award for Science and Technology Progress.

Pan Yunhe, specialized in computer science

Pan Yunhe, born on November 4, 1946 in Zhejiang Province, graduated from Tongji University in 1970, received Master degree from Zhejiang University in 1981. He is a professor of computer science at Zhejiang University. Since 1995 he has been serving as President of Zhejiang University. He is currently a member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in China, Chairman of the Chinese Association of Image and Graphics, Vice Chairman of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Vice Chairman of Chinese Association of Mechanical Engineering. He was elected Member of CAE in 1997 and Vice-President of CAE in June 2006.
Prof. Pan is one of the pioneers in the fields of ICAD and Computer Arts in China. He has introduced AI into computer graphics and CAD technology, proposed the models of synthetic reasoning and imagery thinking and successfully developed several new practical ICAD/CAM systems, including the ICAD System for Art Pattern Creation. Ha also has made remarkable achievements in the fields of Virtual Reality, digital library and the techniques of Computer-Aided Product Innovation.
He has won 12 national, provincial and ministerial scientific and technological progress awards, published over 300 papers and 6 monographs and textbooks.

Xu Rigan, specialized in reproductive biology

Xu Rigan, born on August 24, 1940 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, graduated from the Department of Biology of Inner Mongolia University in 1965 and received Ph. D. in 1984. He was elected Member of CAE in 1995 and Vice President in June 2006.
Prof. Xu Rigan served as the President of Inner Mongolia University (2003-2006) and Vice-chairman of China Association for Science & Technology. He is a member of the Science & Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education of China and the expert group of 863 High-tech Program of China. Now he is a member of Chinese People s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Director of the Academic Division and member of the presidium of Chinese Academy of Engineering, member of the discipline evaluation group of the Committee of Academic Degree of the State Council and Vice-chairman of the Chinese Society of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Sciences.
Prof. Xu Rigan has engaged in the research on embryo transfer since early 1970s. During his advanced study in Japan from 1982-1984, he succeeded in the research of the external fertilization of goats & sheep and the cultivation of the first IVF goat in the world, which was a world significant breakthrough. After he came back to China, he has been continuing his research mainly on embryo engineering and technique based on IVF calf and lamb, and in 1989 he bred the first batch of IVF lambs and calves in China. As project director, he has been in charge of four projects under 863 High-tech Program as well as the IVF Calf Technology Industrialization Project . He proposed a series of comprehensive techniques facilitated the large-scale production of test-tube calves and lamb embryos and set up corresponding experimental bases and published more than 20 papers and books.
Prof. Xu Rigan has been awarded the Second Grade National Prize for Progress in Science & Technology, the Second Grade Hong Kong Ho Leung Ho Lee Science & Technology Advancement Prize, the State May 1 Labor Medal, and many other prizes.

Xie Kechang, specialized in coal chemical engineering

Professor Xie KeChang was born on October 5, 1946 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. In 1968, he graduated from Tianjin University. By 1981, he completed his postgraduate study with a Master s Degree of Science in Taiyuan Institute of Technology. From 1983 to 1985, he furthered his study as a visiting scholar at University of South Carolina, U.S.A. Between 1998 and 1999, he was engaged in doctoral dissertations at Shinshu University of Japan and was honored with a Ph.D. of Engineering in energy.
Professor Xie has acted as the chairman of the academic degree evaluation of Taiyuan University of Technology. From 1997 through the present, he has been holding the positions as the member of the Standing Committee of NPC, the Vice-chairman of the Central Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, the Vice Director of the Standing Committees of Shanxi Province, the Vice-chairman of China Association for Science and Technology, the Vice director of Science and Technology department in Ministry of Education, China. From 1995 to 2010 he served as the President of Taiyuan University of Technology.
With a long-term involvement in fundamental researches, technological development, teaching and strategy in coal chemical engineering, Prof. Xie has acquired important achievements in the aspect of the relationship between coal structure and its reactivity and its adjustment, and the de-sulphurization agent s development and their application according to the coal gasification rule. He serves successively as the chief scientist of 973 projects twice, and currently in charge of the project titled Basic researches on the polygeneration application of the syngas from the combination of gasified and pyrolyzed coal gas . As the chief researcher, he is honored with one second prize of National Natural Science Award, one second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, seven first prizes at provincial level; 25 authorized patents of invention and 5 published books. He has successively won the following awards: Middle-aged and Young Experts with Remarkable Achievements Nationwide in 1990, National Outstanding Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars in 1996, National Talents with Professional and Technical Expertise in 2002, Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in 2008 and National Advance Group with Professional and technical Expertise in 2009.
Prof. Xie was elected Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Fan Daiming, specialized in gastroenterology

Professor Fan Daiming was born in Chongqing on November 7, 1953. He was elected Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2001 and vice president of CAE in 2010. Professor Fan is also president of Fourth Military Medical University, and Director of State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology.
Professor Fan is now the president of Chinese Society of Gastroenterology, vice president of Chinese Anti-Cancer Association, council member and chairman of International Affairs Committee of Asian Pacific Association of Gastroenterology, awardee of Chang Jiang Scholars Program, a chief scientist of National Basic Research Program of China (973 Project). He will be the president of World Congress of Gastroenterology and Asian Pacific Digestive Week to be held in Shanghai in 2013.
Professor Fan has a long-standing interest in both the clinical and basic research of digestive diseases, and has achieved a grand success especially in the study of gastric cancer. He has obtained a lot of national grants, including National Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Project), National Basic Research Program of China (973 Project) and Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation, etc. Professor Fan has won the first, second and third-class prizes of National Science and Technology Progress Awards respectively, a third-class prize of National Technology Invention Awards. As an editor-in-chief he has authored 11 books on gastroenterology and oncology. As a first or corresponding author he has published more than two hundred papers in Nat Clin Pract Oncol, Lancet, Ann Intern Med, Hepatology, Gut, Plos Genet, Faseb J, Clin Cancer Res, J Biol Chem, etc. He has become the Editor, Chief Editor or Deputy Chief Editor of 6 international medical journals.