Today, the list of new academicians of the American Academy of Engineering in 2024 is announced! Nvidia's Huang was elected. In addition, there are many Chinese on the list. According to official reports, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering has elected 114 new academicians and 21 foreign academicians. This brings the total number of American members to 2,310 and the total number of foreign members to 332.
Being elected to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors bestowed upon an engineer.
The NAE recognizes individuals who have made "outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature, and who have pioneered new and developing technical areas, made significant advances in traditional engineering fields, or developed/implemented innovative approaches to engineering education."
Next, let’s take a look at who are these elected members?
New academician
Jen-Hsun Huang
Co-founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA Corporation.
Elected for driving the artificial intelligence revolution.
Jensen Huang founded Nvidia in 1993 and has served as president, CEO and board member since the company's inception.
He has been named the world's best CEO by Fortune, The Economist and Brand Finance, and one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people.
He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Huang Renxun is the only new academician without an academic background among the academicians elected this year, which shows that the academic community recognizes his achievements at NVIDIA.
The GPU and AI infrastructure provided by NVIDIA today are the prerequisite and guarantee for the further development of the AI industry and academia.
More importantly, AI technology is becoming the most promising tool in scientific research fields such as mathematics, materials science, and drug research and development.
The NVIDIA he founded and his 30 years of work at NVIDIA laid a solid foundation for the overall development of the future scientific community.
Chen,Jingguang
Professor Thayer Lindsley, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University.
Elected for the discovery of new catalysts and synchrotron technology that enabled the connection between catalytic and electrocatalytic mechanisms under reaction conditions.
His research has inspired fundamental research into catalysis and fuel cell processes, including exploring ways to reduce the use of platinum, a rare and expensive metal, in the catalytic process for producing hydrogen.
He joined Columbia University School of Engineering in 2012 from the University of Delaware. He is a co-founder and principal investigator of the Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Synchrotron Light Source.
In addition to serving on several professional committees, he is president of the North American Catalysis Society and serves as chairman of the Catalysis Division of the American Chemical Society.
He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Nanjing University, China, in 1982 and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1988.
Chen,ZhangxingJohn
Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Industrial Research Chair in Energy Simulation.
Elected for contributions to modeling and simulation techniques for hydrocarbon resource recovery.
Chen, Zhangxing received his PhD from Purdue University in 1991 and has more than 35 years of academic and industrial experience in oil and gas around the world.
Key research areas include:
Derivation of physical and mathematical models; upgrading from geological models to reservoir simulation models; development and research of high-order accurate numerical methods (such as finite volume, finite element); development and analysis of linear and nonlinear solvers (new preprocessors, solvers, parallelization techniques and solution schemes); verification and application; development of reservoir simulation software.
He has served as a professor and reservoir engineer at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Peking University, University of Minnesota, Texas A&M University, Mobil Oil Company, and Southern Methodist University (SMU).
He is the Gerald J. Ford Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and a Yangtze River Scholar.
His other important positions include director of the SMU Scientific Computing Center, director of the SMU Graduate School, director of the Center for Advanced Reservoir Modeling and Simulation at Peking University, and president of the Texas China Association for Science and Technology.
Cui,JingrongJean
Co-founder, President and CEO of Blossom Hill Therapeutics.
He was elected because of his contribution to the research and development of new anti-cancer drugs and solving medical needs.
Cui, JingrongJean has made significant contributions in oncology drug discovery and development.
As the scientific founder of TurningPoint, she focuses on solving the problem of drug resistance in targeted therapies and invented a unique macrocycle platform to systematically solve the problem of drug resistance. This novel strategy and approach has led to the development of three clinical compounds in the 6 years since the company was founded.
She and her crizotinib chemistry team at Pfizer were selected for the 38th National Inventor of the Year Award in 2011.
She is a two-time recipient of the Pfizer Global Research and Development Achievement Award (2006 and 2012) and the 2011 Pfizer Innovation Award. Dr. Cui is a recipient of the 2013 American Chemical Society (ACS) Chemistry Heroes Program for the discovery and development of crizotinib.
In 2021, she received the second Hero of Chemistry Award from ACS for the discovery and development of lorlatinib.
She graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, and received a doctorate from The Ohio State University.
Fan, Shanhui
Professor Joseph Hon Mai Goodman, School of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
Elected for proving that the "coldness of space" can become humanity's main source of energy compared to Earth.
His research interests are in fundamental studies of nanophotonic structures, especially photonic crystals and metamaterials, and the applications of these structures in energy and information technology applications.
He has published more than 600 refereed journal articles and holds more than 70 issued U.S. patents.
He has received the R.W. Wood Award, the Simons Physics Fellow Award, and the Vannevar Bush Professorial Fellowship. He is an IEEE, APS, Optica, and SPIE fellow.
He studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Science and Technology of China from 1988 to 1992, and received his PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997.
Fu,Rong
Director of the UCLA Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering.
Elected for contributions to methods for characterizing and predicting precipitation over land using satellite remote sensing.
Her research aims to understand the role of the atmospheric hydrological cycle and its interaction with the Earth's surface in determining Earth climate stability at global and regional scales, and to apply climate science to support regional decision-making.
The focus is on the mechanisms that control rainfall variability in the Amazon and Pan-American monsoon regions, and how global climate change, local vegetation and biomass burning, and ocean decadal changes have influenced recent rainfall changes and will influence rainfall and precipitation levels.
Her research is one of the first to show the active role of tropical rainforests in initiating the dry-to-wet season transition in the Amazon Basin and the importance of the Tibetan Plateau in determining the transport of water vapor to the global stratosphere.
Lau, KeiMay
Chair Professor of the School of Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Elected for his research in photonics and electronics in the field of silicon-based III-V semiconductors.
KeiMayLau is a semiconductor engineer whose research topics include high electron mobility transistors, light-emitting diodes, and laser diodes. She is Professor Fang and Director of the Photonics Technology Center in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
She joined HKUST in 2000. Envisioning the dawn of the solid-state lighting revolution, she founded the Photonics Technology Center to engage in research on LEDs and LED-based lighting and display technologies.
She is considered one of the leading Chinese teams in this area and is also widely recognized on the international stage. Her research work focuses on the transfer of innovative ideas to industry.
In 2001, she was named an IEEE Fellow "in recognition of her contributions to III-V compound semiconductor heterostructure materials and devices." In 2016, she was elected as an academician of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Liu, Chunqing
Senior R&D Researcher and Senior Manager at Honeywell GreenH2GrowthVectorGroup.
Elected for innovations in polymers and thin films enabling cost-effective production and use of natural gas and green hydrogen.
Liu,Chunqing is currently a senior R&D researcher and senior manager of Honeywell GreenH2GrowthVectorGroup. She is leading a multidisciplinary research team developing breakthrough water electrolysis technology to produce green hydrogen from water.
She received her PhD in polymer science and engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and served as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Liu,K.J.Ray（Liu Guorui）
Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of OriginAI.
Elected for his contributions to signal processing technology in the field of wireless sensing and communications.
Liu, K.J. Ray is the founder, former CEO, and current chairman and chief technology officer of Origin Wireless. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the National Academy of Inventors.
Origin Wireless is at the forefront of AI technology in wireless sensing and indoor tracking, and has won three CES Innovation Awards, including the 2021 CES Best Innovation Award and the 2017 CEATEC Award.
During his more than thirty-year educational career at the University of Maryland, College Park, he served as Distinguished University Professor and Christine Kim Distinguished Professor in Information Technology until his retirement.
During his research career, he made extensive contributions to the fields of signal processing and communications, mentoring more than 70 doctoral and postdoctoral students, 10 of whom received the honorary title of IEEE Fellow.
Wing, Jeannette M. (Zhou Yizhen)
Executive Vice President for Research, Columbia University.
Elected for his proposing and advocating computational thinking, as well as his contribution to formal methods and trustworthy computing.
Jeannette M. Wing is professor of computer science and executive vice president for research at Columbia University.
She has made important contributions in the areas of trustworthy artificial intelligence, security and privacy, specification and verification, concurrency and distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering.
She served as corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, where she was responsible for management of global research labs. He also taught in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, serving as department chair and academic associate dean of the School of Computer Science.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has received Distinguished Service Awards from ACM and the Computing Research Association, as well as an honorary doctorate from Linköping University in Sweden.
Prior to that, she earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in computer science from MIT.
Wu,TienH.（武天玉）
CEO of ASE Semiconductor.
Elected for promoting mass production technologies for sustainable electronics manufacturing and semiconductor packaging.
Dr. Wu Tianyu joined ASE Semiconductor in March 2000, and was appointed as the group chief operating officer and director in 2006, and as the CEO of Huidian Company in 2014. Huidian provides electronic OEM assembly and manufacturing services. Since 2003, he has served as CEO of ISELabs, a leading semiconductor engineering testing company based in Fremont, California, USA.
Before joining ASE, Dr. Wu worked at IBM and was responsible for various management positions in IBM's R&D, manufacturing and marketing businesses in North America, Asia and Europe. Dr. Wu holds 12 U.S. patents and has published more than 25 academic journal papers.
Dr. Wu Tianyu graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of National Taiwan University, and holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering and a doctorate in applied mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate in science from Binghamton University in New York, USA.
Xia,Z.Cedric
Distinguished Engineer and Director of Apple's Hardware Engineering Group.
Selected for application of advanced molding technologies in automotive and electronic products.
foreign academician
Huang,Yidong（黄翊东）
Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.
Selected for his research on optoelectronic devices and their application in industry.
Huang Yidong, deputy director of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University, Yangtze River Scholar, and national candidate for the New Century Talents Project.
He has been engaged in scientific research and personnel training in the field of optoelectronic devices for a long time. He served as the dean of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University and the dean of the Tianjin Institute of Electronic Information at Tsinghua University. He is one of the main founders of the electronic information course system at Tsinghua University. He is the founder of optoelectronic chip companies Huahuixin, Youguang Technology, and Optical Function Technology.
She invented the new structure of "one-eighth wavelength displacement distribution feedback", developed the anti-reflection DFB laser for optical communications, and won the NEC Research Merit Award twice. In the past two decades, she has focused on micro-nano structure optoelectronic devices and has undertaken key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, 973 projects, and many international projects. In cooperative projects, he led the research team to develop the world's first integrated optoelectronic chip with functions such as free electron radiation, real-time spectral imaging, dynamic orbital angular momentum radiation, quantum state generation and control; published more than 300 papers, cited thousands of times; applied for 182 patents (56 international patents).
He is currently a fellow of the Optical Society of America, executive director of the Optical Society of China, vice president of the China Electronics Education Society, vice president of the Higher Education Branch, and deputy editor-in-chief of ACS Photonics magazine.
Lin,Qinghuang
Director of LamResearch.
Selected for the application of electronic materials in the manufacture of integrated circuit products.
Qinghuang Lin has more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He is the senior technology development director of Lam Research in the United States. He is also a fellow of AAAS, ACS, MRS, and SPIE, and serves as the chairman of the PMSE branch of the American Chemical Society and a member of its executive committee.
Prior to that, he served as the director of the ASML US Technology Development Center, and served as a researcher, senior manager and IBM chief inventor at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Tsinghua University, his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin.
Su, Yu-Pen (苏玉本)
Consultant of the Chung-Sen Institute of Science in Taiwan.
Elected for his contributions in the field of rocket propulsion and related technologies.