Derong Liu - Biography#

Derong Liu received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from East China Institute of Technology (now Nanjing University of Science and Technology), Nanjing, China, in 1982, the M.S. degree in automatic control theory and applications from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, in 1994. Dr. Liu was a Product Design Engineer with China North Industries Corporation, Jilin, China, from 1982 to 1984. He was an Instructor with the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, from 1987 to 1990. He was a Staff Fellow with General Motors Research and Development Center, from 1993 to 1995. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, from 1995 to 1999. He joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1999, and became a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science in 2006. He was selected for the "100 Talents Program" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008, and he served as the Associate Director of The State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems at the Institute of Automation, from 2010 to 2016. He is now a Full Professor with the School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology. He has published 19 books and 260 papers in international journals.

Dr. Liu was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, from 2010 to 2015. He was elected twice AdCom member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2015 and in 2006, respectively. He has been Distinguished Lecturer twice with IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2012 and in 2016, respectively. He served as the President of Asia Pacific Neural Network Society in 2018, and he served as a Member of the Council of International Federation of Automatic Control from 2014 to 2017. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence Review and the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He also serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernectics and Neural Computing and Applications. He was the General Chair of 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, the General Chair of 2016 World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, and the General Chair of 2017 International Conference on Neural Information Processing. He received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999, the University Scholar Award from University of Illinois from 2006 to 2009, the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2008, and the Outstanding Achievement Award from Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly in 2014. He received the International Neural Network Society's Gabor Award in 2018; the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2018; the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2018; and the IEEE/CCA J. Automatica Sinica Hsue-Shen Tsien Paper Award in 2019. He was a plenary/keynote speaker at 30 international conferences. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the International Neural Network Society, a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, and a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).