Derong Liu#

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 1994, Advisor: Anthony N. Michel, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
• M.S., Automatic Control Theory and Applications, 1987, Advisor: Zhengming Ye, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1982, Senior Design Advisor: Qingsheng Chen, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China (formerly, East China Institute of Technology)

• 2022.07 - present: Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
• 2017.01 - 2022.06: Professor, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
• 2008.08 - 2016.12: Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• 2006.08 - present: Full professor (tenured), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• 2002.08 - 2006.08: Associate professor (tenured), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• 1999.08 - 2002.08: Assistant professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• 1995.08 - 1999.08: Assistant professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
• 1993.10 - 1995.08: Staff fellow, General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan, USA
• 1987.07 - 1990.08: Instructor, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• 1982.08 - 1984.08: Product design engineer, China North Industries Corporation, Jilin, China

• Neural networks and computational intelligence
• Reinforcement learning
• Intelligent control and information processing
• Modeling and control of complex industrial processes
• Adaptive dynamic programming

• 2021 Member, Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
• 2019 Hsue-Shen Tsien paper award, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
• 2018 Dennis Gabor award, International Neural Network Society (INNS)
• 2018 Andrew P. Sage best Transactions paper award, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society
• 2018 Outstanding paper award, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• 2017 First class natural science prize, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA)
• 2016 Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
• 2016 Distinguished lecturer, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• 2014 Outstanding achievement award, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA)
• 2013 Fellow, International Neural Network Society (INNS)
• 2012 Distinguished lecturer, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• 2010 Fellow, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA)
• 2008 Overseas outstanding young scholar award, National Natural Science Foundation of China
• 2006 University scholar, University of Illinois
• 2005 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• 1999 Faculty early career development award (CAREER award), National Science Foundation of USA
• 1997 Harvey N. Davis distinguished teaching award, Stevens Institute of Technology
• 1990 Michael J. Birck fellowship in electrical engineering, University of Notre Dame

• 2021-2023: Chair, IFAC Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) paper prize committee
• 2019-present: Editor, series on deep learning neural networks, World Scientific
• 2019-present: Chair, IEEE Guangzhou Section
• 2018: President, Asia Pacific Neural Network Society
• 2017-present: Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Control Engineering (in Chinese)
• 2017: General chair, 24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Guangzhou, China
• 2016-present: Governing board member, Asia Pacific Neural Network Society
• 2016: Vice President for conferences, Asia Pacific Neural Network Society
• 2016: General chair,12th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Guilin, China
• 2015-2017: AdCom member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• 2014-present: Editor-in-Chief, Artificial Intelligence Review
• 2014-present: Deputy Editor-in-Chief, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
• 2014-2017: Member of the Council, International Federation of Automatic Control
• 2014: General chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Beijing, China
• 2013-2020: Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Acta Automatica Sinica (in Chinese)
• 2012-2014: Chair, Beijing chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• 2011-present: Executive Director, Chinese Association of Automation
• 2011-2015: Governing board member, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly
• 2010-2015: Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• 2010-2012: Board of governors, International Neural Network Society
• 2008: Program chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Hong Kong
• 2006-2008: AdCom member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• 2005-2008: Chair, Chicago chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

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