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"TOP University is here" Editor's Note: On August 25, at the closing ceremony of IJCAI 2023, the IJCAI Executive Committee announced that Professor Zhou Zhihua, a foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Professor of Nanjing University, was elected as the new Council of the International Federation of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI Trustee) Chairman .
"TOP University is here" editor's note: On August 25, at the closing ceremony of IJCAI 2023 in Macau, the IJCAI Executive Committee announced that Professor Zhou Zhihua, a foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Nanjing University, was elected as the new director of the International Federation of Artificial Intelligence Chairman of the IJCAI Trustee .
Zhou Zhihua is the first mainland Chinese scholar to serve as IJCAI President
Zhou Zhihua is the first scholar in mainland China to hold this position (IJCAI President) . Prior to this, Professor Yang Qiang of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology served as Chairman of the IJCAI Council (2017-2019).
In 2017, at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) held in Melbourne, Australia, Professor Zhou Zhihua of Nanjing University was elected as the chairman of the program committee of IJCAI 2021. He is the first scholar from mainland China to hold this position. The next year, Zhou Zhihua was elected as a member of the IJCAI Board of Directors for a five-year term (2018-2023).
Currently, there are three Chinese people on the IJCAI board of directors, namely Professor Zhou Zhihua of Nanjing University, Professor Zhang Chengqi of the University of Technology Sydney, and Professor Guo Tianyou of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology .
Personal profile of Academician Zhou Zhihua
Zhou Zhihua is currently a member of the Academic Committee of Nanjing University, dean of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, executive deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of New Computer Software Technologies, and director of the Institute of Machine Learning and Data Mining (LAMDA). Foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences, American Computer Society (ACM), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), International Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), International Society for Engineering and Technology ( He is a fellow (Fellow) of IET/IEE), China Computer Federation (CCF), China Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) and other societies. Deputy director of the Computer Science Teaching Steering Committee of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, member of the Science and Technology Supervision Expert Advisory Committee of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, artificial intelligence industry consultant of the Nanjing Municipal Government, vice chairman of the 11th Jiangsu Provincial Youth Federation, 10th, 11th and 12th Jiangsu Province Member of the CPPCC, member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee, etc.
He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Nanjing University in June 1996, June 1998 and December 2000 respectively . He has been teaching at the school since January 2001, and was promoted to associate professor in 2002. In 2003, he won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and was subsequently appointed as a professor. In 2004, he was qualified as a doctoral supervisor. In 2006, he was selected as a Yangtze River Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education.
Mainly engaged in research work in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and other fields. He has presided over a number of scientific research projects and published "Machine Learning" (2016), "Machine Learning Theoretical Guide" (2020), "Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms" (2012), "Evolutionary Learning: Advances in Theories and Algorithms" (2019) ), has published more than 200 papers in first-class international journals and top international conferences in this field, and has been cited more than 80,000 times in Google Scholar . Obtained more than 20 invention patents. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Springer LNAI series, consultant of AI Magazine, editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Computer Science, Computer Science and Exploration, deputy editor-in-chief of Chinese Science: Information Science and other journals, and associate editor / of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IEEE TPAMI, ACM TKDD and other journals. Editorial Board Member.
As the first completer, he won two second-class National Natural Science Awards (2013, 2020), three first-class Natural Science Awards from the Ministry of Education (2005, 2011, 2019), and the IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2019). , the first CCF-ACM Artificial Intelligence Award (2020), CCF King's Choice Award (2017), Asia Machine Learning Outstanding Contribution Award (2019), Asia-Pacific Data Mining Outstanding Contribution Award (2016), IEEE Data Mining Outstanding Service Award (2016), IEEE Society for Computational Intelligence Outstanding Youth Achievement Award (2013), China Youth Science and Technology Award (2006), Fok Ying-tung Young Teacher First Prize (2010), Microsoft Professor Award (2006), China Software Talent Award (2002), National Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2003), National Candidate for the New Century Talent Project (2009), Top Ten Outstanding Youths of Jiangsu Province (2004), China IT Ten Years Outstanding Youth (2008), State Council Government Special Allowance (2006), etc., more than ten Won the international paper/competition award for the second time.
It has trained more than 20 doctoral students and more than 30 master's students. The students have won 1 national excellent doctorate, 9 excellent doctorates from the Computer Society of China, 3 excellent doctorates from the China Artificial Intelligence Society, and 8 excellent doctorates/masters from Jiangsu Province ; The postgraduate courses taught were rated as outstanding graduate courses in Jiangsu Province, and the undergraduate courses were rated as "good courses" for undergraduate graduates of the Computer Science Department of Nanjing University; won the first prize of the first National Textbook Construction Award for National Excellent Textbooks (Higher Education Category) (2021), the first College Computer Major Outstanding Teacher Award (2018), etc.