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Bio-Sketch of Jun Wang

Jun Wang (S'89, M'90, SM'93, F'07) is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and

Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to this position, he held

various academic positions at Dalian University of Technology, Case Western Reserve

University, and the University of North Dakota. He also held various short-term visiting positions

at USAF Armstrong Laboratory (1995), RIKEN Brain Science Institute (2001), Universite

Catholique de Louvain (2001), Chinese Academy of Sciences (2002), Huazhong University of

Science and Technology (2006-2007), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2008-2011) as a

Changjiang Chair Professor. Since 2011, he has been serving as a National Thousand-Talent

Chair Professor at Dalian University of Technology on a part-time basis. He received a B.S.

degree in electrical engineering and an M.S. degree in systems engineering from Dalian

University of Technology, Dalian, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in systems engineering

from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His current research interests

include neural networks and their applications. He published 170 journal papers, 13 book

chapters, 10 edited books, and numerous conference papers in these areas. He is now the

Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and was an Associate Editor of the

journal and its predecessor for 11 years (2003-2013). He is also a member of the editorial board

of Neural Networks (2011-2014). He also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions

on Neural Networks (1999-2009) and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics -

Part C (2002-2005), as an editorial advisory board member of International Journal of Neural

Systems (2006-2013), as a guest editor of special issues of European Journal of Operational

Research (1996), International Journal of Neural Systems (2007), Neurocomputing (2008, 2014),

and the International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (2010, 2011). He was an organizer of several

international conferences such as the General Chair of the 13th International Conference on

Neural Information Processing (2006) and the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational

Intelligence, and a Program Chair of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and

Cybernetics. He is an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer (2010-

2012, 2014-2016) and served in many standing/technical committees such as the Board of

Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, the Presidency of Asia Pacific

Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), IEEE Fellow Committee and the Fellow and Awards

Committees of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and

International Association for Pattern Recognition, and a recipient of the Outstanding

Achievement Award (2011) from APNNA, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Outstanding Paper Award (2011) and Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2014) from the IEEE

Computational Intelligence Society, among other distinctions.