Mengchu Zhou

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.

For Contributions to Petri nets and their applications to computer-integrated systems.

MengChu Zhou (S'88-M'90-SM'93) received the Ph.D. degree in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, in 1990, and is currently a Professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Director of Discrete-Event Systems Laboratory. He is interested in computer-integrated robotic systems, disassembly automation, Petri nets, Internet-based manufacturing, wireless network security, and intelligent control. He has more than 170 publications including four books, 40 journal papers, and 10 book chapters. Dr. Zhou was the recipient of the National Science Foundation¡¦s Research Initiation Award, the CIM University-LEAD Award by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Perlis Research Award, the Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, the Asian American Achievement Award by Asian American Heritage Council of New Jersey, and the Leadership Award by the Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA. He has been an editor of the International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems since 1996. [ for more information ]