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Dr. Fei-Yue Wang named recipient of the Norbert Wiener

Award for 2014

Citation: For fundamental contributions to and innovations in

the theory and application of intelligent control and management for

complex systems.

Over the last three decades, Dr. Fei-Yue Wang has made

fundamental contributions to and innovations in the theory

and applications of intelligent control and management for complex systems, especially

through his pioneering research and leadership in social computing, parallel systems, and

knowledge automation. Dr. Wang has a distinguished international record of

accomplishments in the research and practice of intelligent control, intelligent robotic

systems, computation social systems, cyber-physical social systems, intelligent vehicles,

and intelligent transportation systems within North America and China, leading research

through design and prototyping, product development, and commercialization at multinational

corporations, national research institutes, R&D labs, universities, and entrepreneurial

startups. His technical contributions include concept formation, algorithm development,

systems architecture, and systems integration.

After receiving postgraduate degrees from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China)

and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York, USA) in Mechanics, Computer, and

Systems Engineering, Dr. Wang worked as an instructor in Zhejiang University, a research

assistant and associate at the NASA/RPI Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space

Exploration (CIRSS) and the New York Center for Manufacturing Productivity and Technology

Transfer from 1984 to 1900. In 1990, Dr. Wang joined the University of Arizona and became a

Professor and Director of the Robotics and Automation Lab (RAL) and Program in Advanced

Research for Complex Systems (PARCS), where he found and co-found several labs

including Computer Integrated Manufacturing Lab, Manufacturing and Flexible Automation

Lab, Dynamics and Control Lab, Real-Time Embedded Systems Lab, Advanced Mining

Robotic Systems Lab, and Advanced Traffic and Logistics Algorithms and Systems (ATLAS).

In 1999, he found the Intelligent Control and Systems Engineering Center at the Chinese

Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, under the support of the "Outstanding Oversea

Chinese Talents Program" and "Hundred Talents Program", and in 2002, was appointed as

the Director of the CAS Key Lab for Complex Systems and Intelligence Science. From 2006

to 2010, he was Vice President for research, education, and academic exchanges at the

Institute of Automation, CAS. Since 2005, he is the Dean of the School of Software

Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University. In 2011, he become the State Specially Appointed

Expert and was appointed as the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Management and

Control for Complex Systems as well as the Director of the Research Center for

Computational Experiments and Parallel Systems Technology at the National University of

Defense Technology. In 2013, he found the Qingdao Academy of Intelligent Industries (QAII)

for research and development of social computing, parallel systems, and knowledge

automation, under the support of CAS and Qingdao Metropolitan Government.

Dr. Wang was Principal Investigator and Project Manager for over $1 Billion research projects

in intelligent systems and applications. He has published over 20 books and 300 journal

papers in applied mathematics, mechanics, robotics, control, cybernetics, security,

intelligence, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, knowledge automation, complex systems,

and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). During 1990s, he pioneered research in

Coordination of Intelligent Machines, Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) for

Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Linguistic Dynamic Systems (LDS) for

computational intelligence, Application Specific Operating Systems (ASOS) for real-time

embedded systems, and Agent-based Control (ABC) for Networked Systems. Since 2000, he

initiated and led research effort in parallel systems, social computing, knowledge automation,

and ACP (Artificial Societies + Computational Experiments + Parallel Execution) based

computational methods for complex and social systems. Dr. Wang received the National

Prize in Natural Sciences of China in 2007 for his work in intelligent control and applications.

He also received IEEE ITS Outstanding Application and ITS Outstanding Research Awards in

2009 and 2011, respectively, and ASME MESA Award for research and application in

mechatronic and embedded systems.

Dr. Wang was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Control

and Systems from 1995 to 2000, the Series on Intelligent Control and Intelligent Automation

from 1996 to 2004, and IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine from 2006 to

2008, and the EiC of IEEE Intelligent Systems from 2009 to 2012 and IEEE Trans on ITS

from 2009 to 2015, and is the EiC of Acta Automatica Sinica (in Chinese) since 2011, and

Journal of Command and Control (in Chinese) since 2013. Since 1997, he has served as

General or Program Chair of more than 20 IEEE, INFORMS, ACM, ASME conferences. He

was a member of IEEE SMC AdCom/BoG from 2001 to 2004, the President of IEEE ITS

Society from 2005 to 2007, Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST, USA) in

2005, and the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation from 2007-2008. Currently, he is

the Vice President and Secretary General of Chinese Association of Automation (2008 -

2017).

Dr. Wang is member of Sigma Xi, an Outstanding Scientist of ACM, and an elected Fellow of

IEEE, INCOSE, IFAC, ASME, and AAAS.